Our Ministry
I realize that most of you don’t know much about the ministry in the Old Regular Baptist. Trust me, what you read when you do a Google search is not what we are about.
We as Old Regular Baptist have never paid our ministers. With that said we have helped some ministers with travel expenses if they have been required to travel great distances. For example a few years ago we had to send some ministers to Arizona to dissolve the charter of a church that had got down to 2 members with no local minister to serve the church. The New Salem Association paid for the trip for the ministers.
I feel I’m a called minister of the Gospel. Please keep in mind as you read this that I am also a high school teacher. What better witness for Christ can I be than to be in my classroom, setting an example for the teenagers I come in contact with on a daily basis? My students know that I am an Old Regular Baptist Minister and I don’t mind one bit them asking me questions on how I see biblical issues. My bible lies on my desk and my students see me read it. My school district has never told me it couldn’t be there, so there it will stay. Some students even ask to read it. Is that a witness for Christ, I think so? My great commission just might be dealing with teenagers on a daily basis.
As you read the following please keep in mind that most of our ministers have five day a week job or are retired from a normal job. Some people may think that we have no full time ministry. They need to travel in my shoes for a couple of weeks or with any one of our ministers. On the weekends I sometime visit 3 different churches (when it is not my home church time) and in addition to that there are some weeks that I am at funerals from 3 to 5 nights. Do I get paid; yes I do, not by man but by my Master! We as Old Regular Baptist ministers take no pay for performing weddings, going to funerals, visiting the sick and shut-ins. Does this define a full time ministry? I think so. When will I retire? When I get called home to be with the one that saved me that is when I’ll take my retirement.
We as Old Regular Baptist have never paid our ministers. With that said we have helped some ministers with travel expenses if they have been required to travel great distances. For example a few years ago we had to send some ministers to Arizona to dissolve the charter of a church that had got down to 2 members with no local minister to serve the church. The New Salem Association paid for the trip for the ministers.
I feel I’m a called minister of the Gospel. Please keep in mind as you read this that I am also a high school teacher. What better witness for Christ can I be than to be in my classroom, setting an example for the teenagers I come in contact with on a daily basis? My students know that I am an Old Regular Baptist Minister and I don’t mind one bit them asking me questions on how I see biblical issues. My bible lies on my desk and my students see me read it. My school district has never told me it couldn’t be there, so there it will stay. Some students even ask to read it. Is that a witness for Christ, I think so? My great commission just might be dealing with teenagers on a daily basis.
As you read the following please keep in mind that most of our ministers have five day a week job or are retired from a normal job. Some people may think that we have no full time ministry. They need to travel in my shoes for a couple of weeks or with any one of our ministers. On the weekends I sometime visit 3 different churches (when it is not my home church time) and in addition to that there are some weeks that I am at funerals from 3 to 5 nights. Do I get paid; yes I do, not by man but by my Master! We as Old Regular Baptist ministers take no pay for performing weddings, going to funerals, visiting the sick and shut-ins. Does this define a full time ministry? I think so. When will I retire? When I get called home to be with the one that saved me that is when I’ll take my retirement.
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