About Us
This is the “Year of Focus” Let me put it this way, we see ourselves riding a Tremendous Wave. This church will go wherever that wave is taking us. God created the wave, we didn't. Our job, our ministry is not to know the destination before us. Instead, our Joy is to ride the wave through 2012 and beyond as God reveals His will and purpose along the way. What a trip!
The Year of Focus has four unfolding “seasons,” each prompting us to grow in a particular grace from the Lord:
(1) Gratitude
- To understand and to rejoice gratefully in who we are and who we are
called to become - by God’s gracious and loving desire and design.
(2) Healing - To rejoice gratefully in the realization of God’s unfailingly steadfast and forgiving love - revealed in Christ crucified.
(3) Call
- To respond enthusiastically to Christ’s call to join him in building
up the Kingdom of truth, justice, and love, and peace on earth.
(4) Co-laboring - To live and to work willingly as the hands ,feet ,and hearts, of the risen Lord living and working to his Glory.
We
want to make it easy for you to participate in this Year of Focus.
Please give serious consideration to joining us in this very important
experience for our spiritual growth and development. I am convinced that
God is calling us to this Year of Focus in order to help us deepen our
collective union of minds and hearts for the sake of service to others.
Let us be continually mindful of one another throughout the Year,
holding each other in the Highest Esteem while Praising the GOD of our
Being.
-Pastor Southall
We believe in the doctrine of the Baptist church, which includes, Mission, Evangelism, Empowerment and Enrichment of the saints. [more]
First Emanuel Baptist Church Mission Statement: --> The Mission of the First Emanuel Baptist Church is to engage the lost and edify the saints, by pointing them to Christ through Evangelism, Empowerment and Enrichment thro... [more]