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KEEP IN PAYER AND IN MIND

  

We ask your remembrance in special prayer that the Lord encamp His angels around: our sick, shut-in, traveling; the bereaved, our young people at home and away, families who may struggle in this time of global crisis, His angels for peace and protection of family members on military duty; and for all of those who have said “Pray for me!”

HAVE BLESSED WEEK IN THE LORD!

About Our Church

OUR VISION STATEMENT

New Jerusalem Baptist Church seeks to make disciples in every household in and around the Chapel Oaks community and support home and foreign missions in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the entire world.

Who We Are

Many faces, one faith.  We are a diverse group of believers – ministers, musicians, social workers, teachers, doctors, bankers, public servants, business owners, parents  – united by our shared faith in a loving GOD. 

Our Mission

New Jerusalem Baptist Church takes its inspiration from Ezekiel 34:16 “I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed. . ."

We are an integral part of the Chapels Oaks, MD community, lighting the way to eternal life through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Our weekly Worship, Sunday School, Bible Study and Prayer Service are instruments of that light.

Roster of Church Officers

Thomas J. Henderson ...........………………………..……………………….   Pastor

Robert P. Campbell ……………............……………..........Assistant to the Pastor
                                                                                       Chairman, Trustee Board                                        
Walter I. White ………………………………….............. Chairman, Deacon Board

Anthony Harris ................................... Chairman, Building Upkeep Committee

Dana Green ……………………………………………......................... Church Clerk 

Jordana White.    ...........………………………………………   Financial Secretary

Barbara Henderson ………………………….......... Chairman, Deaconess Board

Clinton Wike …………………..........……………………..……..    Minister of Music

Readings

Thought of the Week Sunday, January 17, 2021

Are you confused and disenchanted because you feel God has not answered your prayers? You are right when you say, He did promise to give us the desires of our heart, but let’s be real about His promise and not take that promise out of context. But we need to understand, our fleshly nature can sometimes cloud our mind with sinful desires and make it hard to see that what we ask for may be far out of line with WHAT WE NEED AND THAT WHICH IS FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE!


Yes, He promised to give us the desires of our hearts but He also warned us against misguided desires. As wise believers, we are to let the Father guide and direct our yearnings and making changes as necessary to be obedient to the will and

ways of the Father! What is your responsibility when it comes to claiming promises from God?


According to Psalm 37, to receive God’s promises and His best for us, we are to delight ourselves in the Lord, rejoicing in Him and desiring to walk in obedience to His command. We must give the Lord first place in our life before we can claim the promises of God. We must commit our ways to His ways and allow Him to change our desires so that they are compatible with His will and way. Most importantly, we must put our trust in Him for God is merciful, all-knowing, kind, and generous. We must believe that we can trust and rest in Him to meet our needs, hopes, and dreams as they conform to His will and be willing to wait on Him! Only when you fully surrender to Him will you experience God’s best for your life.


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Responsive Covenant Service

 MINISTER: By what common and gracious experience do we enter into spiritual fellowship and covenant relations with God and with one another?  


CONGREGATION:  Having been led, as we believe, by the spirit of God, to receive the  Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and on the profession of our faith,  having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of  the Holy Ghost, we do now in the presence of God, angels and this  assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with  one another, as one body in Christ  


MINISTER: What is the great bond of our union with God and each other?  


CONGREGATION: We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love.  


MINISTER: What are our great privileges and duties as members of the New Jerusalem Baptist Church?  


CONGREGATION: To strive for the advancement of this Church in knowledge,  holiness, and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to  sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines.  


MINISTER: What vows do we gladly make as stewards of that which God has entrusted to us?           '  


CONGREGATION: To contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel throughout all nations.  


MINISTER: For the sake of our homes and our loved ones, what gracious task do we humbly assume?  


CONGREGATION: We also engage to maintain family and secret devotions;  to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of  our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be  just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in  our deportment; to avoid @ tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger; to  abstain from the sale and use of intoxicating drink as a beverage, and  to be zealous in our efforts to advance the Kingdom of our Saviour.  


MINISTER:  Since one is our master, even Christ, and all we are brethren, by what  fraternal ministries are we to strengthen each other and adorn the  teachings of our Lord and Saviour?  


CONGREGATION: We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember each other in prayer; to aid each other in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, and mindful of the rules of our Saviour, to seek it without delay. 


MINISTER: Upon removing from the Washington, D.C. area, what solemn pledge do we make?  


CONGREGATION: We moreover engage that, when we remove from this  place, we will as soon as possible unite with some other church  where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of  God's word.  


MINISTER and CONGREGATION: Humbly  confessing our past sins, we pray for grace and strength to keep these,  our holy vows, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord, and the edification  of His Church.  


MINISTER: And now unto Him, who brought again from the dead, Our Lord Jesus, be Power and Glory forever, Amen.    

As Baptists We Believe

 1. BAPTISTS believe in one God, the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit- three persons, yet one God.  


2.  BAPTISTS believe in the deity and the humanity of Jesus Christ, who is  none other than God the Son manifest in the flesh, and in whom all  the fullness of the Godhead dwells forever.  


3. BAPTISTS believe  that Jesus Christ is the one only Head of the Church; that all believers  are equally priests unto God; that ordination, while it recognizes  position, bestows no power; that the local church is independent and  sovereign.  


4. BAPTISTS believe that all men are sinners needing a  Saviour; that salvation is only and altogether through simple faith in  Jesus Christ, who died for our sins-faith always accompanied by works  meet for repentance, and that without such faith there can be no  salvation here or hereafter.  


5. BAPTISTS believe in unbroken  conscious existence after death determined by life before death: in the  personal second coming of Christ to judge the world; in the resurrection  of the body which for those who die in the Lord shall be like Christ's  glorious body; in the eternal weal of the saved and the eternal woe of  the lost. 


 II. What Baptists Stand For 


1.  BAPTISTS stand for the Bible. It is their law, their creed, and their  final authority in all matters relating to faith and practice.  


2. BAPTISTS stand for regeneration or "the birth from above" as a basis of church membership.  


3.  BAPTISTS stand for believer's baptism, the immersion of the believer in  water in obedience to Christ's command in the name of the Father,  and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, as a symbol of the death to the  old life and the resurrection to the new.  


4. BAPTISTS stand for the separation of Church and State, and for the largest measure of civil and religious-liberty.  


5. BAPTISTS stand for education, evangelism, and world-wide missionary endeavor.    


As  believers in Christ of the Baptist denomination, our object is to  worship God in Christ, fellowship together in Christian love, preach  Christ, teach and practice Christianity as taught in the New Testament,  and carry out the principles of God's word. We further aim to  witness for Christ in word and deed to the effect that others shall be  won to the saving knowledge of Christ by our example. We further  aim to promote orderly and godly living and dedicated Christian service  among our constituency for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. We further aim to advance the work of Christian Missions on both home and foreign fields. 

Photos

SOME OF OUR MEMBERS

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Noted Former Members

Founding Pastor James R. Miles

Founding Pastor James R. Miles

Founding Pastor James R. Miles

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Founding Pastor Miles


Mother Leslie Mile

Founding Pastor James R. Miles

Founding Pastor James R. Miles

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Leslie Miles. wife of founding Pastor Miles


Burdell Campbell

Founding Pastor James R. Miles

Burdell Campbell

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Faithful member and mother of  Minister Robert Campbell.

Wanda Campbell

Deacon Clarence Burch

Burdell Campbell

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Our former Financial Secretary and the wife of Minister Robert P. Campbell, I still love you! 

Deacon Clarence Burch

Deacon Clarence Burch

Deacon Clarence Burch

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Our former Chairman of the Deacon  Board, the husband of Deaconess Grace Burch

Dorothy Warren

Deacon Clarence Burch

Deacon Clarence Burch

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Faithful member and sister of the Deaconess Grace Burch

Deaconess Laverne Dunbar

Deaconess Laverne Dunbar

Deaconess Laverne Dunbar

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Faithful member and sister of the Deacon Grace Burch.

Deacon Ernest Dunbar

Deaconess Laverne Dunbar

Deaconess Laverne Dunbar

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Faithful member and brother-in-law of   Deaconess Grace Burch


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