About Us: The Church Ordinances

In two ordinances: Baptism by immersion and administered whenever there is one or more candidate(s) on the First Sunday at the 10:55 AM service and the Lord's Supper administered on first Sundays at the 8:00 AM, 10:55 AM, Candlelight Service and the Maundy Thursday services. After the Sunday morning services, ordained ministers and/or ordained Deacons administer the Lord's Supper to members who are sick and/or shut-in.

The bread and wine are symbols of the broken body and the shed blood of Jesus Christ. As symbols, their redemptive power lies in our remembrance of and participation in God's efficacious act.

"In baptism, a person signifies repentance toward God, trust in God's mercy and surrender to God's will. As the baptism of Jesus was a public acknowledgement of His submission to the Father's will, so is the Christian's baptism a public acknowledgement of submission to the judgment and will of God. This repentance and faith are expressed to God, but the act takes place in the presence of the church and the world. While baptism is mankind's response, it is closely related to the grace of God ... for only because God has acted in Christ is there a basis for our responding to Him". (A Baptist Manual of Polity and Practice, Maring and Hudson, p. 130).

"Baptism is a decisive, once-for-all event, which marks the entrance into a new life in Christ. The Lord's Supper is intended to be repeated frequently and symbolizes the sustaining of that life by Christ. One denotes the beginning of a new relationship and the other - the maintaining of a vital relationship between Christ and the church . . . . The elements of bread and wine point to the body and blood of Christ. As visible symbols which reinforce the gospel preached in words, they remind Christians of the incarnation, of which the high points were death, burial, resurrection, and exaltation". (A Baptist Manual of Polity and Practice, by Maring and Hudson, Pp. 136-138).