I’d like to invite you to be my Special Guest this Sunday.

If you are new to the Hampton Roads area, looking for Church to attend, or are visiting one of our members, put New Berean on your list of places to visit this weekend.

But Why Come to Church?

You may ask, “can’t I worship and praise God at home or wherever?” Yes, you can, however there are a number of things to consider about NOT coming to church. The “local assembly” or church as we commonly call it is hub for all of God’s New Testament order. It the place where ministry begins. The local church…

• is where believers of like faith in Christ Jesus gather for fellowship, communion and sharing our resources (Acts 4:32-37).
• is the place where all biblical education, training and dispatching for evangelism begins (Matt. 28:20)
• is where believers submit and subject themselves to God’s divine order of responsibility and accountability (Hebrews 13:7, 17)
• is the place where believers of like faith gather to encourage and provoke love, and spiritual gifts of each other and is not to be neglected (Hebrews 10:24-25)
• is where the role of Bishops and Deacons are assigned for the care, oversight and spiritual feeding of all believers exist (I Tim. 31-13)

So, in reality, you can be a believer and worship God at home or anywhere else (John 4:21-25). But as the growth and development of the Christian faith progressed and became organized (Tit. 1:5), the need to establish biblical meeting places for the scattered one became vital to the continuance of the work (James 1:1). .

What To Expect When You Visit Us at New Berean

• A Warm and welcoming atmosphere
• Spirited and encouraging worship music (Traditional and Contemporary)
• Biblically sound preaching and teaching
• Safe and Secure Facility
• No Pressure Environment
• A Clear Understanding of Our Vision & Purpose – The BereanWay
• A “Teaming” Ministry Utilizing the Talents and Spiritual Gifts of Everyone With Opportunities of Spiritual Growth, “WE ARE TEAM BEREA“

Please review our “Safe Fellowship Protocol” as part of your checklist. We are currently wearing masks while inside the worship facility and offering our “Drive Up & Tune-In” available option for those who cannot come in with crowd.

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Pulpit Points with Antonio Harris – Check out our archived collection of messages from the pulpit preaching of “Pastor Tony”, Since joining us as Senior pastor in June, he has blessed and encouraged our hearts with the words of God in preparing us to receive the vision of, The BereanWay.

• Sunday’s Pulpit Point’s message “Walking With the Shepherd” with Pastor Tony Harris, Watch or listen again to Sunday’s Pulpit Points message. (video/audio)
• “Marketplace Evangelism” training with Pastor Tony is going on every 1st and 2nd Tuesday. On the 3rd and 4th Tuesdays, join us as grow in our faithful obedience to the Lord in taking the good news of God’s love and grace to the hedges and highways.
• Mid-Week Virtual Prayer and Bible Study for both men and women via zoom
• Stay connected with opportunities of grow and service with our Calendar of Up-coming Events

You’re invited this Sunday to fellowship with for our Super Bowl Fellowship this Sunday.

Wear your favorite Team jersey to the morning service, even if you team is not playing in the big game.

Tuesday is Marketplace Evangelism Night

Join us this Tuesday evening as we go out in the hedges, highways, byways and local stores to share Christ with those who will hear.

Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer

Join in and Grow Together

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People are out in the streets, laughing, shopping and gathering for various holiday festivities. As so are we. Let us take this special time to open up and engage others in a conversation about Jesus, who is the real reason for the season.

Life seems to be in such chaos, with all the violence, political unrest and multitude of wars around the world. But that’s not the way it was originally. God’s original design was his human creation interacting with one another, with his animal and earthly creations. All carrying on in harmony and having fellowship with him (Gen 1, 2).

The sin was introduced into the perfect environment through the rebellion and disobedience of Adam and Eve, all of mankind and the earth as it was once known was cast into a downward spiral of continue and destructive direction (Gen. 3, Rom. 5:12). Once God’s design was broken, mankind has attempted to recapture that communion and fellowship with the environment. The problem is and has been the attempt is being done man’s own way and not by God’s divine order (Rom. 1:21-23).

The 3 Circles of Evangelism image, helps us understand how sin broke and disrupted God’s design and how order can be restored. Mankind, broken as we are, has attempted to recover itself through various vices and have created other issues and problems that have made even more chaos and confusion.

The bottom line is God wants us to be restored through repentance, prayer and faithful obedience to the Gospel, the Good News of his love and grace (Titus 2:11-14).

Life on Mission has provided us with some easy tools to help share the faith in God.

Help someone experience the true meaning and richness of Christmas by coming to a restored and saving knowledge of Jesus the Christ

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Download the Life On Mission app (below) to help assist you in sharing,

Life on Mission App

Missionary as defined is a person sent on an assignment to carry a message to a foreign or other land and country. Here at New Berean, we accept the reality that all of us as believers are called and assigned by the Lord to carry the message of the cross to other across the planet. After his resurrection from the dead, Jesus assigned his disciples to take the word of God’s grace as extended through his finished work on the cross to the heart and eats or everyone (Mark 16:14-16). While some have taken this assignment as their personal calling in the ministry, all of us as disciples and followers of the Lord have this assignment as well and we do it practically through our “Marketplace Evangelism” initiative and support to those on the mission field.

Our mission support here at New Berean extends to Costa Rica, The Philippines, Ceraso (in the Caribbean) and India

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Along with your prayerful and financial support for the work going on around the world, we also support by actively reaching out to our community through “Marketplace Evangelism”, the Crisis Pregnancy Center and Union Missions.

Be encouraged, be involved and support the Commission of Christ through your local church

Training is the first and second Tuesdays of every month at 7:00 pm and we go out into the Market the 3rd and 4th Tuesdays with Pastor “Tony”

Welcome to our New Berean Baptist Church web page. We are a local New Testament ministry founded in 1989. The BereanWay is the vision God has placed on Pastor “Tony” Harris to lead and guide the ministry into carrying out The Commission of Christ.

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On behalf of Pastor Tony and Sister Samantha, the Staff and Ministry Leadership of New Berean Baptist Church, we pray God’s blessings of grace, hope, contentment and peace be with you and your families. Be mindful of our manifold blessings as well as those who are not as materialistically fortunate. God has called us to extend what he’s blessed us with others in compassion and love (Acts 4:32-35).

CANCELLATION NOTICE: Both our Women’s and Men’s virtual Bible Studys will not be held tonight but will resume next Wednesday.

FAITH – FOOD – FAMILY – FELLOWSHIP

The Stores are the Doors to Evangelizing the World

Beginning this week, join Pastor Tony as he takes us through the Acts of the Apostles to learn what “marketplace Evangelism” and how we can employ it in our society to win people to Christ.

The BereanWay – Equipping and Educating the Saints for Ministry

As our world spirals downward and increasingly away from the things of Christ, we as believers must be about our Father’s Business. Pastor Tony has begun a training series designed at helping us as believers and disciples to be equipped and educated in the teachings of our Lord (Matt. 28:20). It’s The BereanWay, join us.

North American Mission Board – Download the app

November 5th – Strategic Planning – Introduction, Brief overview, identify team members, assess skillset, and establish ground rules, etc.

Thanks to all of you who came out and are helping us get The BereanWay Strategic Planning process off the ground. We all are excited about the changes the Lord is making and about to make in us. As we expect, there was a little apprehension, but more than that, there is an expectancy that God is able to exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think (Eph. 3:20). Its the BereanWay to Believe God for the Impossible, Adventure with God and Adore God” as he teaches us, trains us and directs us through Pastor Tony’s leadership.

Continue to pray and encourage the change in us God is doing and the change he is going to make through us. Our next session is scheduled for this Saturday November 11 at 9:00 am. See you there.

November 11 – Session 1

December 9 – Session 2

January 13 – Session 3