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Baptist
Network
Northwest
A network of nearly 100 churches offering identification, fellowship, propagation and assistance to churches and their leadership for the purpose of maximizing their ministry effectiveness and advancing the cause of Jesus Christ in the Northwest.
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History
Baptist Network Northwest has been in existence
under several different names since 1945. John Ruhlman, in his book "History
Of Northwest Regular Baptists," documents the beginnings of our Fellowship:
- 1945 Spring Meeting of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of Western
Washington at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Seattle.
- 1946 Name changed to International Baptist Fellowship and meeting was held
in Vancouver, B.C.
- 1949 Name changed to Northwest States Baptist Fellowship.
- 1957 Name changed to Northwest Fellowship of Regular Baptist Churches.
- 1993 name changed to Northwest Association of Regular Baptist Churches.
- 2006 Name changed to its present "Baptist Network Northwest"
Our Association grew out of a hand-full of churches that fellowshipped
together for the purpose of supporting church planting endeavors. This group
formed the Columbia Basin Mission in 1941. The name was changed to Northwest
Baptist Home Mission in 1957. Therefore the NARBC came into existence as a
result of an interest in church planting.
Our Association of churches and the Mission are inseparably entwined. Our
Association has grown from a half dozen churches that began meeting together
in 1941, in the interest of Home Missions, to nearly 100 today. The few
churches from which sprang our Fellowship were mission-minded churches.
We must keep our history and heritage alive by each and every church in our
Association aggressively participating in the program of propagation of new
churches through Northwest Baptist Home Mission, the official Church
Planting agency of Baptist Network Northwest.
Presently we have 12 new baby churches. Let us join hearts and hands and
pray, pay and plant more churches in our Great Northwest, enlarging our
Association and writing new history for the future!
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Darrell
Beddoe -- Regional Pastor
Baptist Network Northwest
P.O. Box 5884, Bremerton, WA 98312
Phone (208) 371-0237 / Fax (208) 361-1471
darrell@baptistnetworknw.org
Dave Thompson -- Business Manager
Northwest Baptist Home Mission
P.O. Box 477
Burbank, Washington 99323
(509) 544-6607
detsdt66@aol.com
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