It is customary at the close of a year to look back and reflect on all that has happened in the past year, as well as to look forward and imagine all that might happen in the new. I would like to invite each of us to take some time in the next few days to do that with some intentionality, and to do so through the lens of our Rule of Life. Read More
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent, traditionally a time of reflection, confession, and repentance with an emphasis on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. There are a host of ways to observe Lent. Here are a few ideas. Read More
It is customary at the close of a year to look back and reflect on all that has happened in the past year, as well as to look forward and imagine all that might happen in the new. I would like to invite each of us to take some time in the next few days to do that with some intentionality, and to do so through the lens of our Rule of Life. Read More
UPDATE: Ginter Park Baptist Church has suspended all in-person activities.
The health and wellbeing of our community is our highest priority. Therefore, we are actively monitoring updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and will continue to respond based on the best advice from our local officials, public health authorities, and medical professionals. Read More
These days, Lent is most closely associated with the idea of fasting, often fasting from something we enjoy in order to call to mind Jesus’ sacrifice for us. Recently, there has also been an emphasis on using the time to pick up a practice, a spiritual discipline such as reading a daily devotional, in order to draw ourselves nearer to God. Take the opportunity this season of Lent to try something new or perhaps return to a spiritual practice you’ve fallen away from. Here are twenty ideas to help you get started. Read More
In 2014, GPBC began its partnership with the MICAH Initiative and Frances w. McClenney Elementary School (formerly Ginter Park Elementary School). The mission of the Ginter Park Baptist Church Weekend Backpack Ministry is to feed local children so they may learn, grow, and make good decisions. We provide students with backpacks of Read more…
These days, Lent is most closely associated with the idea of fasting, often fasting from something we enjoy in order to call to mind Jesus’ sacrifice for us. Recently, there has also been an emphasis on using the time to pick up a practice, a spiritual discipline such as reading a daily devotional, in order to draw ourselves nearer to God. Take the opportunity this season of Lent to try something new or perhaps return to a spiritual practice you’ve fallen away from. Here are twenty ideas to help you get started. Read More
During the month of June, we are collecting a Special Mission Offering benefiting children near and far through Camp Alkulana and Journey Partners. 80% of our offering will be given to support Richmond children going to camp and 20% will be given to the work for water education and health for Read more…
What is your relationship to money? What are the messages that influence your financial choices? How do you spend the money you have? Where is your money flow in harmony with your values? And, what changes might you be called to live into that would align your financial and spiritual Read more…
How do we measure a year? In people welcomed, forgiven, loved. In backpacks, and food drives, and in compassion for those in need. In prayers said, in marches marched, in young ministers trained up. In songs sung, and anthems raised, in bells rung. In laughter, in meals shared, in scriptures explored. In hellos and in goodbyes and in those precious moments beside the death bed of our dear ones. In packing lists, doors closed, tears shed,
and in learning a new thing. In stories, in banners, in ashes, in candles lit, in flowers on a cross, in bread broken and in cup shared. Read More