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Welcome to the web site for New St. John Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana where we are excited and enthusiastic about the Kingdom of God. Our primary mission at NSJBC is to serve the body of Christ. God has blessed us with this media so that we might broaden our outreach and make available to Christians in the metropolitan Baton Rouge area and beyond, information and resources that will help them in their spiritual growth God has done and is continuing to do wonderful things at New St. John Baptist Church. Whenever you are in the Baton Rouge area we hope you will find the time to come and share in our worship service. If you live in the Baton Rouge area and are in search of a church home, you will find us with arms outstretched to welcome you into our family. Yours because of Calvary,
NSJBC THEME FOR 2012
Mission StatementThe mission of New St. John Baptist Church ministries is to bring persons into a saving and redemptive relationship as disciples of Jesus Christ. As one body in Christ, we covenant together to worship the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, to evangelize the lost, to teach and edify the Body of Christ. Walking together in Christian love, we strive to reach people and to help them build vital relationships with God. As we live by Christ's example, we empower others to carry out the commands of God. We seek only to be God's servants as agents of healing and wholeness in a wounded and fragmented world.
Announcements
CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES Mylan Bernard Williams Chamberlain Brianna Scott
Please visit, call, send cards and/or flowers to our members who are hospitalized, confined to home or in nursing facilities, or have lost a loved one. Contact the church office if you need information. Please continue to pray for our bereaved families who have recently lost loved ones.
Love vs Obligation A house is a house is a house-until love comes through the door, that is. And love intuitively goes around sprinkling that special extra that transforms a house into a very special home for very special people: your family. Money, of course, can build a charming house, but only love can furnish it with a feeling of home. Duty can pack an adequate sack lunch, but love may decide to tuck a little love note inside. Money can provide a television set, but love controls it and cares enough to say no and take the guff that comes with it. Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs (even to teenagers!). Obligation can cook a meal, but love embellishes the table with a potted ivy trailing around slender candles. Duty writes many letters, but love tucks a joke or a picture or a fresh stick of gum inside. Compulsion keeps a sparkling house. But love and prayer stand a better chance of producing a happy family. Duty gets offended quickly if it isn't appreciated. But love learns to laugh a lot and to work for the sheer joy of doing it. Obligation can pour a glass milk, but quite often love will add a little chocolate.
~ Author Unknown ~
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