About Our Church

The life of the Church is the presence of God.  The people who know Him congregate together for worship and spiritual fellowship and ministry.

Our congregation, First Baptist Church of Matawan, NJ, has white-haired "Senior Citizens," and the youngest of the young.  We have teens growing in faith and growing up.  Young adults, marrieds, singles, and middle-agers round out our population in the pews.

We have people who sing loud, laugh heartily, and extend a sympathetic hand to those stressed with the pressures of daily living.  

Our congregation is a people of warm hearts.  We believe in loving one another.  We believe in working together, and in reaching out to others.  We believe in forgiving each other, and in trying to be like Jesus to one another.  We believe in growing together in our faith.

Because we are such a congregation, we can see God at work in our midst.  We have a well-filled church each Sunday.  We can keep a pastor (37 years and counting).  We have a young people's group that is bonding and serving.  We have individuals who stretch themselves, and open up their lives to others.  We have people studying the Word of God together.  We have people touching the world through Mission Giving.  We have people who realized that, as one old-time preacher was famous for saying, Christianity is about "making bad people good" and are striving to allow God to make us into the kind of people He wants each one of us to be.  That happens through our personal faith in our savior, Jesus.

That's what our church is like.  That's what all churches that are doing it right are like.

Let us magnify the Lord together.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.  (Psalm 34:3 KJV)