New Auditorium Project
Next Steps
Where We’ve Been
Since September 2013, when Pastor Owens became the pastor of Twin Rivers Baptist Church, our Lord has done many mighty and wonderful works in our great community of New Bern, North Carolina. At the time our church met in a modest church house on Trent Road. Our little building was 1,600 square feet with three rooms and a kitchen. The building could seat fifty people. We started with three Sunday school classes and averaged a few dozen in attendance during our Sunday School hour. The church had one bus, which also served as our junior church location for a brief time. We had a yearly operating budget of approximately $60,000. Within two years, we began renting space from a nearby building to expand our Sunday school and junior church space.
Trent Road
In 2015, our church family began raising money for our current church building. We were able to raise approximately $80,000 in a short period of time for the down payment on our current building. In September of 2015, we moved to our current building on Highway 70. At that time, most of the building was set up as office space. We were able to build our first auditorium, which could seat one-hundred people.
Where We Are
In recent months we were able to purchase two parcels of land beside our current property to expand our current facility or add parking. We have expanded our total property size to 1.6 acres. To date we have raised more than $320,000 for our next building program.
Where We Are Going
Our pastor, church leadership and congregation are definitely moving forward by faith for the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastor Owens is a man of faith and vision for both now and the future. His goals have never including the ownership of fancy buildings or fancy material things. The goal has always been to glorify God and to reach as many people with the gospel as possible. Our buildings are not museums or elaborate architectural masterpieces. The buildings around our church are more like people factories and hospital facilities for helping to heal families, enrich lives and change people for the better. We want bigger buildings so we can feed more hungry people and mend more broken lives. We hope in the future to see buildings built for our Twin Rivers Baptist Academy, our Practical Bible Baptist College. Furthermore we will need buildings for our church ministries in general including a Fellowship-hall and a gymnasium. Our first and most immediate goal is a new Church Auditorium that will house our current weekly growing congregation.
Ministry Highlights
Average Sunday morning attendance
2015 – 45
2016 – 110
2017 – 160
2018 – 185
2019 – 200
2020 (Pre-Covid) -240
Current – 210
Largest Sunday attendance – 603
September Home Coming service – averaging nearly 300 every year
Given over 220,000 pieces of candy and toys
Reached our church-wide Faith Promise Missions giving goal every year.
Total amount given thru Faith Promise is near $250,000.
Currently support twenty missionaries and ministries.
Estimated sixty-five hundred professions of faith through our ministry with an average of five to seven hundred per year.
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