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Sunday School 9:30 AM || Sunday Worship Service is at 11 AM
House Church is Sunday evening at 6 PM. The second and fourth Sundays it is at the Spencer Senior Center, 42 Liberty Street. On the third Sunday it is at the Candor Senior Center, Spencer Road, Candor. Prayer Meeting is Wednesday evening at 6 PM at the church. NSCA Tuesday Ladies Morning Bible Study–10 AM. Call for location. Tuesday Afternoon Ladies Bible Study–1 PM at the church.
What to Expect
When you come to New Life Baptist Church, expect to be loved. Expect to be included. Expect to be valued. We do not care where you are from or what your background is. We are interested in the journey ahead in Jesus Christ as a church community. Expect a blend of traditional and contemporary worship. Expect to find a theologically conservative, yet culturally diverse community. Our congregation includes people from Spencer, Candor, Elmira, Finland, Mexico, Russia, Guatemala, and Argentina. If your kids need grandpas and grandmas we’ve got them. We value families worshipping together, but we do offer a junior church during the morning message. We value fellowship. Expect coffee and refreshments both before and after the morning worship service. Expect to find a caring community of believers in Jesus Christ who love God and you, and who look to serve both!
Our Heartbeat
Our Purpose
The purpose of New Life Baptist Church is to Love God, Love Others and Serve Both. One way we accomplish this is to offer Christian education to our members and community through North Spencer Christian Academy, NSCA.
Our Mission
Our mission is to worship God and to serve Him, each other, and people everywhere. In the power of the Holy Spirit, we do this by Exalting God, and Equipping people for works of ministry, including Edifying believers, Encouraging others, and Evangelizing the lost.
Our Vision
We are to be a community of believers who, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, evangelize, encourage, educate, equip ourselves, and serve one another to exalt God.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What time do we meet?
We meet every Sunday in North Spencer, NY. We have Sunday school at 9:30am and worship at 11am
What about my kids?
We love kids! Children are welcome at all services. We also have a vibrant, hands-on Junior Church program that allows families to have children in a smaller, more dynamic setting during the message time and as the services finish. We do have “Quiet Bags” with coloring books, etc. that are available to parents if they wish. We also have a Nursery for small children.
What we believe
This is the summary of our confession of faith. For the complete faith statement, please see the Church By Laws.
Our Staff
Frequently Asked Questions
MISSIONS
Missionaries are an extension of the local church, helping to spread the gospel, the good news, of Jesus Christ all around the world. New Life Baptist Church helps support the following missionaries and missions works.
Bill and Lori Smith
Bill and Lori Smith serve in Papua New Guinea reaching the lost through the SeiguHealth Clinic where Lori is the chief clinician. Bill’s ministries include church planting and training and teaching young men at Goroka Baptist Bible College, preparing them to pastor their own churches.They serve through the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, ABWE, and can be reached at www.billandlorismithpng.com.
Marc Montas and Raymondé Joseph
Montas Joseph is our missionary/translator in Haiti.He and his family live to the southwest of Port Au Prince, and minister to the region betweentheir home and north to St. Marc and Banique, where the church helps support a widow and her family.Joseph preaches, teaches, evangelizes, and translates for ministry teams in Haiti. Joseph serves as an associate pastor at Église de Dieu Sanctifié de Merger (the Sanctified Church of God in Merger), where he is helping to build the church spiritually and physically.He is wonderfully supported by his wife Raymondé and their children.
Andrew and Anna Smith
Andrew Smith grew up in Paupa New Guinea as the child of missionaries. As he was exposed to missions he saw the need for a Pilot/Mechanic to help the missionaries reach the lost in remote locations. He found that God had given him the ability and he learned to pilot with Ethnos 360 Aviation. Anna Smith wasamong those who said the ominous phrase ” I could never” to missions. In her life she wasn’t unwilling, but felt that she wasn’t the one God was going to send until she met Andrew. She went on her first missions trip to Paupa New Guinea which showed her the real perspective of missions-the joys and difficulties. Andrew and Anna got married and are fulfilling the call to missions in their life.
Fady and Eliana Maalouf
Fady Maaloufis our Christian missionary in the country of Lebanon.He lives near Beirut and reaches into the Arab world with an online Arabic Seminary, teaching and equipping leaders for church planting in Arabic speaking nations.He does translation work and publishes tracts and other instructional material in Arabic.Fady is affiliated with Arab World Baptist Mission and International Partnership Ministries.
Kevin and Kenyatta Maki
Kevin and Kenyatta Maki are missionaries to the deaf community worldwide.Kevin served a number of years at Deaf Baptist Church in Fremont, CA. They are proficient in American Sign Language and Kevin preaches, teaches, and disciples the hearing impaired community.Kevin has taken over as Evangelist and Director of Deaf Ministries for IPM, International Partnership Ministries.
John and Sharon Metzger
John Metzger is a missionary educator for Jewish evangelism.He has authored several books from a Jewish perspective explaining how the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) point toYeshua Ha’ Mashiach, Jesus the Messiah.John teaches, lectures, attends missionary conferences, and engages in other avenues to share the Jewish roots of our Christian faith as he equips Christians to minister to people with a Jewish background.John serves with Ariel Ministries.
Randy and Cindy Richner
Randy and Cindy Richner and their family serve the Lord in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.Randy and Cindy are second generation missionary children, whose parents also serve as missionaries.Fluent in Portuguese, Randy teaches, evangelizes, and counsels from a biblical perspective, as he and his family live the gospel in South America.
Colton and Tanya Twigg
Colton and Tanya Twigg and family have finished their first tour in Paraguay where they have concentrated on learning the Spanish language in preparation for their first missionary assignment.They are scheduled to return to the United States in 2017 on their first furlough, reporting to their supporting churches and continuing in deputation (raising support for their missionary work).
Joe and Dawn Lee
Joe and Dawn Lee have been ministering to the Native American people of New Mexico for many years.They began ministering to the Hopi in Winslow, Arizona.They are currently serving the Navajo with Southwest Indian Ministries, a ministry of Baptist Mid-Missions.Joe counsels, preaches, teaches and is involved in church planting activities with Widefield Baptist Mission in Vanderwagen, New Mexico.
Christopher and Courtney Powers
Christopher and Courtney serve the wider church through their ministry, www.fullofeyes.com.Chris is a former NSCA student who now offers free contemporary graphics and design to churches throughout the world.His work is being translated and used in multiple languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.An example of his work “Love Made-An Animation” can be seen at: https://youtu.be/1tQCmkfuhzc.
Corning Area Bible Club
Corning Area Bible Club is a ministry of Bible Centered Ministries,International–BCM Int’l.Current missionaries are Dave and Sandy Mogren and Jeanne Desposito.From the Corning area, they minister to children, sharing the gospel through public school release time, and here at NSCA, through weekly Bible time.
RENOVATION HOUSE
Renovation House is a faith-based Christian rehabilitation program for men dealing with substance abuse and other life controlling issues.Reverend John Early is the Director, and the program may be reached at www.renovationhouse.org.
Retired Missionaries
In addition to active missionaries still serving in the field, the church helps support a number of retired missionaries who still serve the Lord in other ways.Heath and Norma Bobbett, Arlene Updyke, Scott and Louise MacGregor, and Phyllis Ackerman are our honored retired missionaries.