Our Purpose, Our Calling, Our Mission

 

The Philadelphia Fellowship (Baptist) is an “open door”ministry – Rev. 3:7-13.

As Jesus is “The Door” (John 10:7-9), our purpose is to provide access to Him.

 

Our calling is to embrace the pillaged and give access to potential sheep that they may find their pasture in Him. Their pasture is found through the “Open Door”. Though with “little strength”, the pillaged will find a ministry of brotherly love and sisterly affection awaiting them. We are Word Centered and Keepers of His Name. With such a personality, our mission is to be The Perfecting Church Where Overcomers Are Made, v. 12. There is a passion for true Kingdom Ministry in these two mentioned texts. We will seek to emphasize this Kingdom clarity as the foundation of our ministry passion.

 

The Philadelphia Fellowship (Baptist) takes seriously the biblical mandates as are found in Matthew 28:19,20 and Acts 1:8. In that one of the primary historical distinctives of the Church in Philadelphia was that of being missionary, we must place Kingdom emphasis in this area. Towards that end, The Philadelphia Fellowship (Baptist) must be concerned not only with the immediate city of our origin, but also with the region of our presence and the broader borders of our embrace and affiliation. While the city of origin is Norfolk, as God will direct in the future, we will establish a ministry presence in Norfolk.

 

As of this writing, our efforts are geared toward establishing the ministry in Chesapeake. We have a desire to see Portsmouth touched by the ministerial influence of The Philadelphia Fellowship (Baptist) along with Virginia Beach and Suffolk. It is our missionary goal to plant churches in each one of these cities along with a ministry which reflects caring for persons from infancy to the senior years.