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The Necessity of a Reformed Confession

“A church with a little creed is a church with a little life. The more divine doctrines a church can agree on, the greater its power, and the wider its usefulness. The fewer its articles of faith, the fewer its bonds of union. The modern cry, ‘Less creed, more liberty’, is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy. Definitive truth does not create heresy - it only exposes and corrects it. Shut off the creeds and confessions and the Christian world would fill up with heresy unsuspected and uncorrected, but none the less deadly.” - B. H. Carroll


“A church without a confession of faith may well advertise that it is prepared to be a harbour of every kind of damning heresy and to be the soil for any who are given to growing the crop of novelty. A church without a confession of faith has the theological and ecclesiastical equivalent of AIDS, with no immunity against the infectious winds of false doctrine.” - Dr. Robert Paul Martin

 

Welcome to the Reformed Bible Church of Westmoreland, New Hampshire. We worship together in an New England meeting house built in 1853 on Route 12 in Southwestern NH. The congregation consists of members from New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Our desire as a church is to glorify God in every part of our doctrine and life.

We warmly welcome everyone to join us on the Lord’s Day as we meet together and worship the true and living God. We are an imperfect church but are sincerely seeking to obey the whole counsel of God’s Word and to see the power of the Gospel at work by God’s sovereign grace.

The Reformed Bible Church meets for worship on Sunday, the Lord’s Day. In the worship services, we desire to worship the Triune God in both a reverent and joyful manner. The public worship consists of the simple biblical elements of preaching and teaching, singing hymns and psalms, prayers, offerings, and sacraments. The congregation enjoys a good time of informal fellowship following worship. Our desire is to draw near to God in truth and in grace because He has promised to draw near to believers and increase their faith and bless them with the riches found in Christ.

On the second and fourth Lord's Day of each month, the congregation enjoys a fellowship meal following the morning service at the church building. The second service on those days is at 3:00 pm.

Pastor: Ken Sanders

Morning Service: 10:30 AM
Evening Service: 6:00 PM


Mission Projects for the Reformed Churches in Siberia

We are writing this informational letter to you about the needs of over a dozen newly formed Reformed churches in Siberia. During this past summer’s Ukraine mission trip, the classes which we taught from the Reformed confessions were translated by Pastor Georgi Viazovski, a pastor of the Reformed Baptist Church in Minsk, Belarus. We were delighted to meet Pastor Georgi. He is a sincere, diligent and beloved brother in Christ, like-minded in the Reformed confessions and a man who evidences a true faith. He has been imprisoned for his faith in 2006 for 10 days and part of his work has been producing a quarterly Christian magazine which is sent all over Eastern Europe, including Siberia. Pastor Georgi has done extensive translation work, bringing into the Russian language many books, including Spurgeon sermons and the Puritans.

Thankful recipient believers in Siberia

We were very grateful to learn that God has worked in the hearts of over a dozen pastors in small churches in the Irkutzk region of Siberia, bringing them to understand and embrace the Reformed faith. As this change has come about only over the past couple years, there is a great need for these pastors and their congregations to receive more books, sermons and commentaries which have been translated into the Russian language, along with encouragement from like-minded brethren. There are presently about 10,000 books in storage in Minsk and Moscow. These titles include the puritans John Bunyan and John Flavel, theologian William Hendriksen and sermons by Charles Spurgeon.

To minister to these churches, we would present to you the following needs for prayer and for financial support.

Project # 1  To send about 10,000 Reformed and puritan books from Moscow to the Irkutzk region of Siberia and to distribute them to pastors and church members. This would include transportation of about 5,000 books from Minsk to Moscow by truck and paying for a container to ship them to Siberia.

Cost: $1,500
Received: $1,500

Project #2 To support Pastor Georgi Viazovski with salary for one year so he could devote himself full time to the translation work of new books, including his quarterly magazine. Presently he works full time as taxi driver to support himself financially in the city of Minsk, where he and his wife Luda live in a flat (apartment ).

Cost for one year salary: $3,000
Received: $2150

Project #3 To send two pastors to Siberia for 10 days to visit the pastors in the dozen churches for the purpose of encouraging them, praying with them, sharing counsel where needed, and ascertaining further needs so they can be presented to the brethren in our country. One of the pastors would be Pastor Georgi. The other pastor would either be an American pastor or a fellow pastor from Belarus.

Cost: $3,500–$4,000
Received: $400

We rejoice at this wonderful work that God has begun in the hearts of so many pastors in the Irkutzk region of Siberia and may these efforts to come along side of them prove to strengthen the spiritual lives of the pastors and the churches which they shepherd. Our prayer is that the churches would grow to be sound in doctrine, faithful in preaching and that their worship would be reverent and joyful, according to Scripture.

If you have further questions, please contact Pastor Ken Sanders by telephone: 603-399-7213 or by email: kcsrbc@hotmail.com. If you would like to support these projects, please make a check out to Reformed Bible Church and send it to: 33 Capron Road, Westmoreland, NH 03467. Please designate which project you desire to support. If more funds are received than are needed for a project, we will use the additional funds to support the other proposed needs.

Sincerely in the Lord Jesus Christ,

Pastor John Price
Grace Baptist Church
Rochester, New York

Pastor Ken Sanders
Reformed Bible Church
Westmoreland, New Hampshire