Resources of Best Grove Missionary Baptist Church

 

Youth Ministry

Our youth ministry exists to TELL children and young adults about our Savior, to BEFRIEND them as Christians and help them DEVELOP their faith, challenge them to TOUCH the lives of those they meet and PRAISE God in everything they do.  Our Vision is to send practicing Christians into the community to proclaim Christ.  Our immediate goal is to get our youth involved in community, cultural, educational, and spiritual functions and activities.  Our long term goal is to get these same youths back in the church to study God's Word and learn to become Christian leaders in our church and community. 

The Youth Ministry meets every third Tuesday night at 7:00 PM.  All youth and adults are invited to attend and participate.  The Youth Ministry Officers positions are held by our youths with adult advisors in order to teach them responsibility and leadership skills

Christian Education

 

Sunday School – meets every Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m.  During these sessions, we discuss pre-determined lessons following the Baptists tradition.  The Sunday School currently consist of 1 youth class, 1 young adult class and 3 adult classes. 

Bible Study – meets every Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and every Wednesday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  During each session, we discuss Scripture and its application in life.  During Bible study, we also study Church polity and doctrine

Spiritual Formation – meets every forth Saturday from 8:30 to 10:00.  As a group, we read a different book each year, discuss its meanings and implications in our quest for spiritual formation.  Spiritual formation is a process whereby one grows closer to Christ and helps us gain power to live life as Jesus taught and modeled it.  Spiritual formation is a means of developing or growing toward the life God graciously offers.  Spiritual formation allows us to do what we cannot do by willpower alone but realize that God is indeed sovereign and His children are totally dependent on Him mentally, physically, and spiritually; and seek God’s presence in their daily lives.  So practices such as reading Scripture and praying are important not because they prove how spiritual we are but because God can use them to lead us into the kingdom life He offers.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  Mark 12:30

Vacation Bible School – meet the second week of June every year with meals from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and class fro different age groups, including adults from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

Fellowships

 

Laymen’s League – meets every second Saturday at 8:00 a.m. for breakfast and fellowship for males of all ages.  The Laymen’s League is the organization of men in Best Grove Missionary Baptist Church.  It is the channel through which laymen make their best and most effective contribution to the work of the church.  It is an effort by saved men to reach unsaved men for God, for Christ and for this church.  The Laymen’s League is a movement of Christian men to Christianize the community in which they live.  The league is a training center and a service agency for growing Baptist men.  The vision of the Laymen’s League is to have all eligible men as active members.  To set a Christian example for the youth of our church and community and to continue and expand our annual projects and outreach programs. 

Women of Faith - meets every third Saturday at 9:00 a.m. for breakfast and fellowship.  The Women of Faith is the organization of women in Best Grove Missionary Baptist Church.  It is the channel through which women make their best and most effective contribution to the work of the church.  It is an effort by saved women to reach unsaved women for God, for Christ and for this church.  The Women of Faith is a movement of Christian women to Christianize the community in which they live.  The fellowship is a training center and a service agency for growing Baptist women.  The vision of the Women of Faith is to have all eligible women as active members.  To set a Christian example for the youth of our church and community and to continue and expand our annual projects and outreach programs. 

 

Missionary Circle

 

Missionary activities consist of personal evangelism, corporate evangelism and special mission projects.  Mission action is ministering and witnessing to persons with special needs or circumstances who are not members of the church.  Personal evangelism is a Christian sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with a person or persons and to lead them to a confession of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  Corporate evangelism is the church proclaiming the gospel to its community through special events, projects and activities.  Special mission projects are organized efforts to witness and minister to persons outside the church community. 

Involvement in mission is:

Living one’s faith daily

Personal experience in witness and ministry

Giving and praying to support persons involved in missions

  

Benevolent Ministry

 

The Benevolence Ministry serves the church by assisting our members and community with needs: the unemployed, housing catastrophe, temporarily disabled, hospitalized, unexpected expenses, and other circumstances.  Monetary assistance will be given as approved by the church.

  

Clergy Living In Faith and Fellowship (CLIFF)

 

Started in 1991, CLIFF organized as a non profit group of clergypersons with an original charter so that an “alternative voice and vision of the gospel could be heard in the Goldsboro/Wayne County communities.”  Reaching across racial and denominational lines, interested clergy have met monthly for dialogue on critical issues affecting our community.

Past issues CLIFF has sought to address include: educational inequities, ‘at risk’ children, economic empowerment, and racial polarization.  Addressing the racial divide in the community, there was a Martin Luther King, Jr. program sponsored in 1997.

Originally hosting the weekly Lenten Services each spring, CLIFF has added new ecumenical worship opportunities with both a Thanksgiving Service, and weekly pre-Christmas Advent Devotions.  There is an annual Community Appreciation Event for service organizations such as the hospital, the schools, the police and Fire Departments.  With continued efforts to call the Christian community to awareness and appreciation for diverse worship styles, Ecumenical Sunday is observed with a voluntary pulpit exchange each January.

  

Music Ministry

 

Laymen’s Chorus

Sanctuary Choir -

Senior Choir -

Youth Choir –

 

 

Partnership Programs

 

Goldsboro High School -

Tommy Road Elementary School -

Education Summit -

Career Day -