Albuquerque Sovereign Grace Baptist
Church
We continue to be blessed with visitors from a wide variety of places. Most recently we have welcomed families from Massachusetts and Virginia in addtion to those from Lancaster, California, Fort Collins, Colorado, El Paso, Texas, and Danbury, Connecticut. While we have had visitors from Canada in the past few years, this summer brought us guests from The Netherlands. We were pleased to get to know them, learn a little about their home church. While we couldn't introduce them to a new cheese, they joined us for a New Mexican meal complete with red and green chile accompanied by honey-drenched sopapillas.
Happy Birthdays!
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We were delighted to celebrate birthdays for two of our ladies, Grandma Cherry (left) and Bernice. Along with cake we had finger sandwiches, slaw, potato salad, and beanie-weenies for the young. April Lund, owner of the Sweet Blessings Bakery and Catering (417 Tramway Blvd, 298-4800) made a yummy cake and decorated it handsomely, with a bright red cherry and, for Bernice, a reminder that her cats get around! Happy Birthdays, ladies!!
Spring 2005 Status
We received word and more than thirty photos from the Davidson family, missionaries in Peru that we support, of their tent campaign in San Juan de Miraflores. The outreach included all ages and ranged from preaching services to one-on-one discipleship and childrens programs.
Also visiting was the Ortiz family. We enjoyed the fellowship of our elder in Portal, Arizona, and we look forward to returning the visit and travelling to his part of the southwestern United States.
June, 2004: The Lord continues to watch over His church.
Ray Gonzales, Robert McKay and David Hayden have moved on to other churches in the Albuquerque area.
Brothers Ortiz and Guerrero have been ordained as elders and are now active in their own Sovereign Grace ministries. Brother Ortiz has a church in Portal, Arizona and Brother Guerrero leads a group in the El Paso, Texas area. Both works are done entirely in the Spanish language.
Pastor Charles Treadwell continues to lead the Albuquerque congregation assisted by Brother Daniel Sharpes.
July 30, 2000: Robert McKay and David Hayden called
as Elders to work along side
Charles Treadwell
and Ray Gonzales
May 17, 2000: Albuquerque Baptist Temple Church was
dissolved and was incorporated as Albuquerque Sovereign Grace
Baptist Church
June 3, 1999: Voted unamimously to change name to Albuquerque(Sovereign
Grace) Baptist Church
11/7/98: Received 20 new Trinity Hymnals from a brother in Oregon.
September 6, 1998: Started a Sovereign Grace class,
during Sunday School.
June 3, 1998: Voted on a new constitution Based
on the constitution of the Reformed Baptist Church of Grand Rapids,
MI and revised to fit our church.
October 1, 1997: Adopted the London Baptist Confession
of Faith of 1689
June 1997: Started teaching the "Doctrines
of Grace"
Meetings of the Albuquerque Reformation Society are currently on hold.
" Call it what you will--Calvinism, reformed theology,
the doctrines of grace--these truths are nothing less than historic
Southern Baptist orthodoxy. This is the theology which gave rise
to the formation and early development of the great missionary
and evangelistic enterprise which we know as the Southern Baptist
Convention. This is what our forefathers believed to be the true
teaching of Scripture. These are the doctrines on which they built
their churches and which undergirded their ministries. And if
these doctrines were true then, they are still true today, because
the Bible has not changed, God has not changed, and truth does
not change.
If we hope to see a renewal in our churches (how we live), then
we must be willing to seek a renewal in our theology (what we
believe). Our doctrinal heritage can be very helpful as it challenges
our thinking and points us forward into a renewed understanding
of God's Holy Word."
Excerpt from:
Southern
Baptist at the Crossroads: Returning to the Old Paths
There is no soul living who holds more firmly to
the doctrines of grace than I do, and if any man asks me whether
I am ashamed to be called a Calvinist, I answer—I wish to
be called nothing but a Christian; but if you ask me, do I hold
the doctrinal views which were held by John Calvin, I reply, I
do in the main hold them, and rejoice to avow it.
But far be it from me even to imagine that Zion
contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or
that there are none saved who do not hold our views...I believe
there are multitudes of men who cannot see these truths, or, at
least, cannot see them in the way in which we put them, who nevertheless
have received Christ as their Saviour, and are as dear to the
heart of the God of grace as the soundest Calvinist in or out
of Heaven.
Excerpt from C.H. Spurgeon:
A
Defence of Calvinism.