Pastor Articles

Self-Examination for the Lenten Season

In the first several centuries of the church, it was becoming common to plan for baptisms to take place on the day they celebrated the resurrection of Jesus (not yet called Easter). The church did not have the view that as soon as you became a believer, you should be...
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Update from the Weiss family 11-2022

Greetings First Baptist Church Family: November 2022 We have not written a family/church update letter in quite some time, so an annual Christmas letter seems fitting, with recaps from 2022. We completed our 2021-2022 Awana season. We meet on Wednesday evenings from...
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Update from the Weiss Family | 11-2021

Dear First Baptist Church Family, As 2021 comes to a close, we’d like to share with you some of our activities and memories from the year. We moved to Boardman on November 1, 2019. We have lived here for two years now. In that time we have come to love our church...
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Update from Pastor Rick and Shara Weiss | 3-2021

Greetings Church Family, We have lived in Boardman now for 16 months. We are all settled in and consider this our forever home (from our lips to God’s ears, right?). We are so grateful to be a part of a church that held together during the Covid-19 pandemic, continued...
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2019 Christmas Letter

Dec 23, 2019

December 22, 2019 Dear Church Family, Merry Christmas to each of you! Or as Shara might say, in Australian, “Happy...

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