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The First Presbyterian Church
of Baldwin Park
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First Presbyterian Church
of Baldwin Park
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You are welcome here --
come as you are!
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First Presbyterian Church
4428 North Stewart Avenue
(at the corner of Los Angeles Street)
Baldwin Park, CA 91706
(626) 338-1660
Worship and Children's Program: Sundays - 10:30 a.m.
Adult Education: Sundays - 9:00 a.m.
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We are a welcoming and inclusive church in the San Gabriel Valley
Something about this church…
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BALDWIN PARK IS…
a growing, welcoming congregation – people of diversity - different races, physical abilities, lifestyles, and sexual orientations - an inclusive church where we believe that God becomes known to us through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We respond by loving God and the world, forgiving and serving one another, spreading the word of God’s unconditional love, and by striving for the healing of human divisions.
Statement of the First Presbyterian Church of Baldwin Park,
Declaring Itself a More Light Church
Adopted by action of the Session on May 16, 1989
We of the First Presbyterian Church of Baldwin Park, in declaring ourselves a More Light Church, confess our belief that God’s calling and receiving of man or woman is revealed in that person’s heart, and made manifest by the Holy Spirit in that person’s life. Whom God has so received, we can and would do no less than to receive, celebrate, and embrace.
We acknowledge that each of us is received into Christ’s Church not by the merit of our lives, but wholly by God’s great mercy and truly amazing grace. In the church and through the church we seek God’s working in us toward the perfecting of our wills, our actions, and our relationships, in all aspects of our lives. Knowing that there is always a great distance between what we are and what in Christ we are choosing to be-we rely all our lives on God’s love, and mercy, and grace.
Believing that the church most of all should be the place where persons can live with openness and integrity in relation to their conscience, we put no special requirement on anyone to maintain a hidden or secret life within the church for fear of rejection. Also, we pledge ourselves to oppose by word and action injustices toward other persons, as we would oppose injustices toward ourselves.
We further confess our belief that all whom God receives, God also calls to witness and to serve in Christ’s name. We acknowledge that call in our lives and in the lives of all who confess Christ as Savior. Therefore, all who share in our life together we seek to minister to, and with, and to receive their ministry toward us.
Acknowledging that, because of the reality of prejudice in the church as well as society-at-large, gay and lesbian persons may have justifiable reason for uncertainty as to their reception, we act here, in this Statement, to make clear, explicit, and real, our genuine welcome of all persons. This explicit welcome, we believe, is warranted and right.
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Contact us
e-mail: FirstPresofBP@aol.com
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