| Battery Park Baptist Church |
About Us!
| "God Reigns" and "Jesus Saves" |
| As I was asked to work on writing something about who we were as a church. I thought, in a very whiney voice, “Can’t somebody else do this?” . Then I realized, I was only ‘thinking’ to myself and I was certainly not going to put up with my own whining so I got to thinking. |
| Who are we? Well, I can tell you ‘who’s we are.’ That’s so “sermon-y” though. Well then, I looked at several other church’s web sites and after reading their “About Us” pages, I thought to myself – “I don’t know anything about them!” If I am looking to visit a church and am looking on the internet, I want to learn something. |
| What I quickly learned is that I learn more about a church by looking at their “links” page than anything else on the entire web site. Who are they affiliated with? What magazines do they link to? What national and state organizations? Etc. But that still doesn't let me know what to expect when I go to visit so I have only learned a little about what they believe. Who are they really? Are those pictures really church folk or are they models from some church web site magazine if such a thing exists? |
| Well after looking at what I didn’t learn from the others, I want to tell you what you’ll get from us and what to expect and who we are. Here goes. If you come to visit and this is an incorrect description, I apologize. Either you or we were having a bad day. Give us another chance. |
| ABOUT US |
| Battery Park Baptist Church is an old fellowship. The church was started as a mission of Smithfield Baptist Church in 1899. We, as a church have had many ups and downs just like every other church. We’re happy to learn from them and thank God for seeing us through them. Through it all, we have remained faithful to God’s call to the community of Battery Park and beyond. |
| We are a small family church. An average Sunday morning worship may find anywhere between 25 to 40 worshippers. We do not strive to be a mega-church. We strive to serve God. We still sing hymns and we sing them out of a hymnal unless you are Baptist enough to know them by heart. We have nothing against projectors. We just don’t use one. We still read from the Bible. We have extras in the pews if you forget yours. We still pray. We have seen the mighty hand of God move in ways that cannot be explained in other ways. We pray because we believe in a God that hears and works. And we still love the one true God. We love Him because He first loved us and gave Himself for us. We still have Sunday school. Many churches think that Sunday school is a “dead dinosaur, we don’t. |
| Each Sunday morning God's people gather in the church Sanctuary to worship Him for what He has done, to magnify His name in spirit and truth, to rejoice, to praise the One who died for us. We would love to have you join us. We'll welcome you in to our family as one of us - with love and grace just as He welcomed us. |
| If I had to sum it all up in one sentence, this is how I would describe Battery Park Baptist Church - "A faithful family of believers joining to worship and serve a gracious and merciful Savior". What a great place to be! OK that’s technically 2 sentences but who’s counting. Thanks for reading – Pastor Alan |
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