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Our Mission:
Our Mission:
We long to be a God-glorifying, Christ-centred, Spirit-filled, Bible-saturated, Gospel-advancing embassy of God's Kingdom, where authentic worship, discipleship, fellowship, evangelism, and mission happen.
We're depending on God's forgiving, transforming, and enabling grace to get us there.
Meet the Church Leadership Team!
Pastor - Vacant
Elder - Kaibwa Eritai
Elder - Eddie Lauifi
Board Members:
Timetaake Baiteke, Dawn Milne, Jonathan Gaisford
Safe Church Team:
Timetaake Baitake, Dawn Milne
Secretary:
Endlys Mende
Treasurer:
Kaibwa Eritai
Our Church Congregation
Griffith Baptist Church recently praised our God and Father as we celebrated 100 years as an established light for the gospel, becoming, by God's Grace, a centre of spiritual hope, light and and truth in the community.
Today, the local church reflects Griffith’s diverse cultural and demographic richness, with a local congregation consisting of over 20 different cultures, of all different age groups, including the elderly, young families, young adults, youth, and children.
We run weekly Sunday school programs for children, mid-week prayer and Bible study groups, and a ladies' craft group. The church also seeks to partner with other community groups and hires out its hall to Baptist Care and Men's Table support group.
Our History:
Our History:
A group of Baptists began meeting in Griffith from 1919 at the Lyceum Theatre and other venues. Six years later, with the help of the Home Mission Society and at a cost of 600 pounds, Griffith Baptist Church was built, opening January 1925 on the corner of Wakaden & Whitton Sts. As Griffith grew through irrigation farming and migration, the Baptist congregation expanded.
By 1947, the church had become financially self-supporting. During this period, additional facilities were added, including a hall, a manse, and even a gospel motor van used for outreach ministry. The building was replaced in 1973.
Original Church Building
Now located at Pioneer Park Museum
Beliefs
Beliefs
In conjunction with the Baptist Churches of NSW and ACT, our beliefs, as adopted in 1979 are:
In conjunction with the Baptist Churches of NSW and ACT, our beliefs, as adopted in 1979 are:
1. The Nature and Unity of the Godhead
There is one God Who is eternal personal Spirit. He is infinite in power, wisdom, holiness and love. God is Triune in essential being and revealed to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2. The Deity and Humanity of Christ
Jesus Christ as the second Person of the Godhead is eternally one with God the Father of whose person and glory Jesus is the accurate expression. To become human He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, so that two whole and perfect natures, the nature of God and human nature, were united in one Person; truly God and truly human.
3. The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit as the third Person of the Trinity is eternally one with the Father and the Son yet He is sent by Them to achieve the divine purpose in the world and in the Church.
4. The Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures
The Scriptures, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, are the infallible Word of God. They were written by holy people of God inspired by the Holy Spirit and have supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
5. The Sinfulness of People
People were made in the image of God and for fellowship with God. By transgression of God’s command humankind fell from fellowship with God and their nature was corrupted. As a consequence all people are spiritually dead under Satan’s dominion and control and subject to God’s wrath and condemnation. Therefore, apart from God’s grace, people are helpless and hopeless.
6. Christ’s Atonement for Human Sin
In order to redeem people from the guilt, penalty and power of sin, Jesus Christ became human and died a sacrificial death as our representative substitute. By His resurrection, God’s acceptance of His atoning death was demonstrated. This atonement is sufficient for the whole world, but effective only in those who receive it. The sinner is justified and reconciled to God, not through any personal merit, but solely on the basis of God’s gracious gift of salvation in Jesus Christ received through faith.
7. The Work of the Holy Spirit in Salvation
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is necessary for the acceptance of God’s provision of salvation. The Holy Spirit convinces sinners of their sinfulness, leads them to personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and so brings them to spiritual birth as God’s children and to fellowship in Christ. Working within the life of believers the Holy Spirit makes real the presence of Christ, witnesses to their relationship with God, leads into all truth, bestows gifts for effective service and produces graces for holy living.
8. The Church
The Church is the body of people whom God has separated from the world through faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. All regenerate persons are members of the universal Church of God which takes local form wherever groups of believers unite for worship, fellowship and service in accordance with scriptural principles. All believers are called to a priestly ministry in the offering of spiritual sacrifices and sent into the world to be witnesses. God calls individuals to positions of oversight and leadership or to special ministries. The Church recognises such by ordaining pastors, commissioning missionaries, appointing deacons and other leaders, following New Testament practice.
9. The Baptism of Believers Only by Immersion
Baptism is an ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a public declaration of a person’s faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. In accordance with New Testament Scripture it should be administered only by total immersion which symbolises the believer’s identification with Christ in death, burial and resurrection, the remission of sins and the believer’s dedication of themself to God to live and walk in newness of life.
10. The Communion
The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ instituted by Him to be celebrated with the elements of bread and wine by believers in Christ until the end of the age. It commemorates and declares our thanks for the Lord’s substitutionary death. The celebration of the ordinance expresses our fellowship with and in the Lord Jesus Christ as members of the Body of which He is the Head.
11. The Return of the Lord Jesus Christ
At the end of this age, according to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in His glory to the earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom of God awaits His return.
12. The Resurrection of the Dead
At the end of the age, there is to be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous. After death people’s bodies return to dust, but their spirits return immediately to God – the righteous to be with Him and the unrighteous to be reserved for the judgment.
13. Rewards and Punishments in a Future State
God has appointed a day of final judgement for the world. At that time Jesus Christ will judge every person and each will receive reward or punishment according to their deeds. Those judged righteous, in their resurrected and glorified bodies, will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment.
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