Extension Classes
Saturdays · 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Teachers go out to the surrounding barangays and hold a Bible class for the children where they live, rather than waiting for them to come to us.
Through the Week
Ministries
A small church with a full week. Every one of these began the same way — somebody went out with a Bible and did not stop going.
When We Meet
Beyond the Lord’s Day
Our three services are all on Sunday. The rest of the week and the month carry the work out to the children, the young people, and the houses of Inabanga.
Choir Practice
Saturdays · 1:00 – 2:00 PM
The singers learn their parts the day before, so that the congregation is led well in the hymns and specials on the Lord’s Day.
Young People Fellowship
2nd Sunday · 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Once a month the young people of the church meet for preaching, singing and fellowship, and are challenged to give their lives to the Lord’s work.
Soulwinning & Tract Distribution
Last Sunday · 1:00 – 3:00 PM
The whole church goes out together with the gospel and printed tracts, and what is begun that afternoon is followed up during the week.
Service times for Sunday are listed on the Visit page.
Extension Classes
The Class Goes to Them
Many of the children in the barangays around Inabanga will never be brought to a church service by anyone. So the class is carried to them — the same Bible stories, the same memory verses, the same gospel, taught in the place where they live.
It is one hour on a Saturday morning, held week after week. For some of these children it is the only place a Bible is opened in front of them.
Helping the Children
Notebooks and Pencils
When the church is able, the children in the extension classes are given notebooks, pencils and the other supplies they need for school. It costs little and it says plainly that the church cares about more than an hour of their week.
It is a small thing to give and it opens a door into the home, where the gospel can follow.
Soulwinning
House to House
This church has no other method and wants none. From the first year, when there was one family and no building, the work has been done by going out with the gospel and giving out tracts.
More than a hundred souls have been baptized in almost thirteen years. Every one of them was first somebody’s doorstep on a Sunday afternoon.
Bible Studies & Follow–Up
Coming Back Around
Handing a man a tract is the beginning, not the end. Those who show interest are visited again, and a Bible study is started with them — in a home, around a table, with the Book open.
Soulwinning, Bible studies and follow–up have been the three habits of this church since 2013, and they are still what fills the building on Sunday.
Young People
Raised Up and Sent
The young people meet on the second Sunday of the month, and they are taken to conferences with young people from other churches when there is opportunity. They are not entertained; they are taught, and then they are given work to do.
Two who grew up in this church are now in the ministry. One is a pastor. The other is in Bible school at Bible Baptist Church, Cebu. That is what these afternoons are for.
The Ladies
The Women of the Church
The ladies of this church are in the extension classes, in the choir, and out with the tracts on soulwinning Sunday. Much of what happens here during the week happens because they carry it.
They are honoured on Mother’s Day and at the church anniversary. The rest of the year the work they do is weekly and mostly unseen.
Children’s Work
Beginning Early
Children are taught in Sunday School, they sing, and they take part in the church anniversary and other activities through the year. They are given the same Bible the adults are given, in words they can carry home.
The young people now serving the Lord out of this church were once these children. We are not in a hurry, and we are not done.
Beyond Inabanga
Supporting Missions
This church was started by missionaries, and it has never forgotten it. Out of the offerings of a mission church in a small town, Rebuilder Bible Baptist supports twenty–five foreign missionaries and five local missionaries.
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Foreign Missionaries
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Local Missionaries
“The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.”
Luke 10:2 · KJV