ABOUT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NEWPORT, NH
WORSHIP SERVICES
At First Baptist Church, you will feel a warm welcome by our Church family. All are welcome to attend our weekly worship services in person or through a Zoom conference, either by phone or by computer.
During this pandemic, for our Sunday morning worship services, we gather together in our sanctuary and also by phone and by computer to worship our Lord through music, prayer, testimonies of God's people, a weekly offering and offertory, and a Scriptural message by our Pastor, Rev. Steve Hammond. We celebrate Communion on the first Sunday of each month throughout the year. Of course we have to do these things in ways adjusted to conference calling, but God is faithful to give us what we need to be able to worship Him from our homes with a true sense of being together in the Spirit of Christ.
We also communicate through email to announce important details prior to the services and to follow them up with copies of the sermon. You may also find copies of recent sermons on our Resources Page, and older sermons on our Archive Page.
During this pandemic, for our Sunday morning worship services, we gather together in our sanctuary and also by phone and by computer to worship our Lord through music, prayer, testimonies of God's people, a weekly offering and offertory, and a Scriptural message by our Pastor, Rev. Steve Hammond. We celebrate Communion on the first Sunday of each month throughout the year. Of course we have to do these things in ways adjusted to conference calling, but God is faithful to give us what we need to be able to worship Him from our homes with a true sense of being together in the Spirit of Christ.
We also communicate through email to announce important details prior to the services and to follow them up with copies of the sermon. You may also find copies of recent sermons on our Resources Page, and older sermons on our Archive Page.
PULPIT STATEMENT OF FAITH
At First Baptist Church, we preach that God is the almighty Creator of the universe, including both the seen and unseen aspects of all reality. And that God is one God yet also three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
We preach the Bible as the authoritative, inspired, inerrant Word of God communicating everything we need for believing in the One whom he has sent and following Christ forever.
We preach Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, born of Mary, sinless, yet betrayed by Judas, crucified under Pontius Pilate, raised on the third day according to the scriptures and ascended to the throne of God, where he now is the perfect mediator between God and Man for he is himself both truly human and truly divine.
We preach that the cross of Jesus Christ was both the worst and greatest event in human history. For it is there that Man’s worst sin against God is demonstrated. And it is there that full atonement was made for a sinful world. We also believe that Jesus’ resurrection is the proof and first fruit of the victorious work of Christ crucified. Therefore the Gospel of forgiveness and reconciliation is to go out to all the world, where one need only to repent and believe the good news of Jesus Christ to be saved, born again, and welcomed into the kingdom of God.
We preach this Gospel by the authority of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit given to the Church in order that Christ may be personally revealed and known first hand in every generation since Pentecost. All believers are to come together now to live, grow and bear witness for Christ as one Body in conformity to Christ— the Head of the Church.
We preach in the return of Jesus Christ as the blessed hope of the Church. He will return in the same physical way in which he demonstrated his victory over death. Upon his return he will bring with him both salvation and judgment to this world.
We believe and preach and live and work while it is still daylight.
We preach the Bible as the authoritative, inspired, inerrant Word of God communicating everything we need for believing in the One whom he has sent and following Christ forever.
We preach Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, born of Mary, sinless, yet betrayed by Judas, crucified under Pontius Pilate, raised on the third day according to the scriptures and ascended to the throne of God, where he now is the perfect mediator between God and Man for he is himself both truly human and truly divine.
We preach that the cross of Jesus Christ was both the worst and greatest event in human history. For it is there that Man’s worst sin against God is demonstrated. And it is there that full atonement was made for a sinful world. We also believe that Jesus’ resurrection is the proof and first fruit of the victorious work of Christ crucified. Therefore the Gospel of forgiveness and reconciliation is to go out to all the world, where one need only to repent and believe the good news of Jesus Christ to be saved, born again, and welcomed into the kingdom of God.
We preach this Gospel by the authority of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit given to the Church in order that Christ may be personally revealed and known first hand in every generation since Pentecost. All believers are to come together now to live, grow and bear witness for Christ as one Body in conformity to Christ— the Head of the Church.
We preach in the return of Jesus Christ as the blessed hope of the Church. He will return in the same physical way in which he demonstrated his victory over death. Upon his return he will bring with him both salvation and judgment to this world.
We believe and preach and live and work while it is still daylight.
ABOUT THE PASTOR
Pastor Steve at Masada, Israel
Rev. Steve Hammond has been pastoring since 1985. He has been at First Baptist Church in Newport, NH since 2003. Just prior to that, he was an associate pastor at the Columbia Street Baptist Church in Bangor, Maine for about three years. He was pastor of the Putnam Baptist Church in Putnam, Connecticut for ten years. He was ordained in 1987 at the Netherwood Baptist Church in Salt Point, New York where he served for seven years. He went to seminary at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1984. Rev. Hammond grew up in central Maine where in 1972, at the age of 18, he came to faith in Christ at the First Baptist Church in Pittsfield, Maine.
Besides preaching and teaching, Pastor Steve’s interests have included performing and writing music, playing a variety of instruments over the years. He also does presentations of the Gospel through the eyes of a Maine fisherman named “Rock Johnson,” whose stories bear a striking resemblance to those of another fisherman from the first century known as the Apostle Peter.
A good part of Steve's purpose as a pastor is that: "I employ the gifts of preaching, teaching, music and in all things I seek to play a part in the readiness of the Bride for the return of Jesus Christ."
Click here to read some of Pastor Steve's writings and learn all about Rock Johnson!
Visit our Media page to listen to some of Pastor Steve's music!
Besides preaching and teaching, Pastor Steve’s interests have included performing and writing music, playing a variety of instruments over the years. He also does presentations of the Gospel through the eyes of a Maine fisherman named “Rock Johnson,” whose stories bear a striking resemblance to those of another fisherman from the first century known as the Apostle Peter.
A good part of Steve's purpose as a pastor is that: "I employ the gifts of preaching, teaching, music and in all things I seek to play a part in the readiness of the Bride for the return of Jesus Christ."
Click here to read some of Pastor Steve's writings and learn all about Rock Johnson!
Visit our Media page to listen to some of Pastor Steve's music!
