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Our vision for the future of the church is shaped by looking back almost 2,000 years, at the apostolic church. As an ethnic church in America, we have unique opportunities and challenges - we minister primarily to the Romanian community of western North Carolina, but also go beyond the geographic boundaries. reaching people in our native countries, Romania and Moldova.
Our primary call is to worship God - and we strive to be a worshiping congregation. Our God is an awesome God, worthy to be praised with our songs, our prayers and our lives. Worship is to be complemented and supported by sound biblical teaching. The infallible and inerrant World of God is our source for knowledge of God. It is our calling and our duty to teach and train our children to come to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our goal is to disciple all believers, so they can witness and teach others.
As we worship, learn, fellowship and minister, we are to proclaim the saving grace of God and evangelize. Romanians are our primary mission field, but not the only one. All men need the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, and since we are part of a wider community, we are called to share the Gospel with all people.
History
In June 1988 a small group of Romanians sensed the leading of the Lord to come together. By God's grace the group has grown and has come to be the Romanian Baptist Church of Hickory.
Pastor Marion Powell and the Mountain View Baptist Church have offered their full support to the newly formed church and for eleven years the congregation has met in their facilities. In 1988 the Church has called Dr. Theo Smilovici to minister to the congregation as the first pastor.
In 1990 Dr. Livius Percy was ordained as a pastor and has served the church ever since. In September 1998 we started the construction of a new sanctuary. Nine months later, after a sustained effort of the whole congregation, the construction was completed and we dedicated the building on June 6, 1999.
The church has grown steadily, and at this time it has almost 100 members, along with a large group of children.
Romanian Baptist Church
Our vision for the future of the church is shaped by looking back almost 2,000 years, at the apostolic church. As an ethnic church in America, we have unique opportunities and challenges - we minister primarily to the Romanian community of western North Carolina, but also go beyond the geographic boundaries. reaching people in our native countries, Romania and Moldova.
Our primary call is to worship God - and we strive to be a worshiping congregation. Our God is an awesome God, worthy to be praised with our songs, our prayers and our lives. Worship is to be complemented and supported by sound biblical teaching. The infallible and inerrant World of God is our source for knowledge of God. It is our calling and our duty to teach and train our children to come to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our goal is to disciple all believers, so they can witness and teach others.
As we worship, learn, fellowship and minister, we are to proclaim the saving grace of God and evangelize. Romanians are our primary mission field, but not the only one. All men need the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, and since we are part of a wider community, we are called to share the Gospel with all people.
History
In June 1988 a small group of Romanians sensed the leading of the Lord to come together. By God's grace the group has grown and has come to be the Romanian Baptist Church of Hickory.
Pastor Marion Powell and the Mountain View Baptist Church have offered their full support to the newly formed church and for eleven years the congregation has met in their facilities. In 1988 the Church has called Dr. Theo Smilovici to minister to the congregation as the first pastor.
In 1990 Dr. Livius Percy was ordained as a pastor and has served the church ever since. In September 1998 we started the construction of a new sanctuary. Nine months later, after a sustained effort of the whole congregation, the construction was completed and we dedicated the building on June 6, 1999.
The church has grown steadily, and at this time it has almost 100 members, along with a large group of children.