A place where people gather to worship God, rooted in scripture and reaching out to our community with the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.
11:00 a.m. – Warm welcome, Bible message, fellowship time
Westgate Retail Park, Tramore Road – X91 EE7Y
087 2623060 · info@anchorbaptistchurch.ie
As the pastor, I personally extend to you an open invitation to attend Anchor Baptist Church where people gather to worship God. There are two things you can expect to receive every time you attend. The first is a warm welcome of sincere Christian fellowship to you and your family. The second is a Bible message that is simply understood and, even more importantly, practical.
Grounded in Scripture — the inspired, inerrant Word of God — we hold to historic Baptist distinctives.
Do you know where you'll spend eternity? God's Word has a clear, wonderful answer for you.
Youth, men's and ladies' fellowships, evangelism, world missions and dynamic practical preaching.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16
"But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine." Titus 2:1
You are always warmly welcome — no pressure, just fellowship and the Word of God.
11:00 a.m. — Our main service of the week, featuring congregational hymns, prayer, and a practical Bible message for everyday living.
6:00 p.m. — An age-appropriate evening service designed especially for young people, with Bible study, singing and fellowship.
7:00 p.m. — A mid-week gathering for deeper study of Scripture and corporate prayer.
Questions or need more information? We'd love to hear from you.
Serving our congregation, our community and the world through the love of Christ.
Applying the Bible to our day-to-day lives — not traditions or worldly wisdom, but what God says in His Word to meet our daily needs.
Monthly service with age-appropriate Bible study, singing, games and fellowship for young people in our congregation and community.
Bible studies, luncheons and fellowship — building strong Christian men who serve God in their homes and community.
Bible studies, luncheons and fellowship — encouraging ladies in the faith and in the calling God has placed on their lives.
Reaching out to our community with the good news of Jesus Christ — sharing God's grace with our neighbours in Waterford.
Reaching out to the world — supporting missionaries and gospel work beyond our local community. And much more.
Interested in getting involved? Come along and see us.
As the pastor, I personally extend to you an open invitation to attend Anchor Baptist Church where people gather to worship God. There are two things you can expect to receive every time you attend. The first is a warm welcome of sincere Christian fellowship to you and your family. The second is a Bible message that is simply understood and even more importantly, practical.
God has given us His Word to meet our daily needs. Therefore, we don't preach or teach traditions, the wisdom of words, or the wisdom of this world, but simply what God says in His book, the Bible. Our world faces so many conflicts, so little peace and joy, so little understanding as to the purpose of life.
We believe the Bible has answers that will help you find peace, hope, encouragement and comfort. Yes, all of this is in the message and wonderful promises of God's eternal Word. We strive to build each person in the faith of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, all the while strengthening the home.
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit our church web site. We are delighted that you are here. I trust you will make yourself at home and will come back soon and visit us again.
It is my heart-felt desire to share God's Word in such a way that you would feel not only uplifted but also challenged to get to know Him better. The Bible is our guide for living our day-to-day lives in a way that will bring peace to our heart and glory to our Creator.
If there is anything that my wife or I can do to be of service to you, please let us know. We are here to reach out to our community as we seek to be a blessing. Again, we are delighted to have you here. I trust you have found our site to be helpful and informative.
If you have any queries or would like more information about what the Bible teaches, please simply ask. We would be delighted to help.
Christians known as Baptists have been meeting in Ireland since the 1650s — rooted in Scripture and the historic faith once delivered to the saints.
"But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine." Titus 2:1
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16
We believe in the verbal-plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is the supreme standard — the rule of faith and practice — by which all human conduct, creeds, and options are to be tried. We believe that God in His providence preserved His Word in the King James Translation. The Scriptures are inerrant and reliable in creation, science, geography, chronology, history, and every other matter they discuss and are the supreme, final and absolute authority in all matters of faith, life, conduct, and doctrine.
God the Son, Jesus Christ the Eternal Word with God the Father as Creator, came to earth in the form of sinful flesh yet without sin. He was begotten of the Holy Ghost in a miraculous manner; born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man ever was or can be born of woman. He died in the flesh as a blood atonement for our propitiation and for the sins of all mankind. He was buried, bodily arose from the grave, ascended into heaven, and is seated on the right hand of the Father. He is both the Son of God and God the Son — 100% man while being 100% God.
The Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, the third Person of the Trinity, and bears witness to the Truth and is the Agent of the New Birth (regeneration). The Holy Spirit ever lives within all believers and will never leave nor forsake them. He directs us into the truth, comforts us, and guides us in prayer. He convicts the world of its sinful condition.
We believe in the person of Satan. He is the unholy god of this world, the author of darkness, the open and declared enemy of God and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the Lake of Fire. Satan is restrained by the Holy Spirit until God's purpose is fulfilled.
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. Man is depraved, and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition apart from the direct intervention of God.
We believe the Genesis account of creation, that man is the result of the direct creation of God, not evolution. Creation was accomplished in six literal, twenty-four hour days and not through some process or form of evolution.
We believe in a literal heaven and a literal hell: heaven is the place of eternal conscious joy for all who receive Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, and hell is the place of eternal conscious punishment in the lake of fire for all who reject Jesus Christ and those dying in their sin.
We believe that salvation is wholly by the grace (unmerited favour) of God, through the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God's Son, on the cross. His death was completely voluntary — He bore our sins in His own body on the tree, the Just dying for the unjust. Salvation is not limited to "the elect" only; it was purchased for all men and is freely offered to "whosoever will come" to the Father through Christ. Those who have truly been saved by the grace of God are "kept by the power of God" — saved forever — and can never again be lost.
We believe that a church is a local, visible assembly of born-again believers who have been scripturally baptised (by complete immersion under water) upon public and credible confession of faith in Jesus Christ, and who have voluntarily united together for the purpose of worship, mutual edification and fellowship, service to God, and observance of the ordinances.
We believe that baptism (by complete immersion under water) and the Lord's Supper are the only two scriptural ordinances committed to the local church. The biblical ordinances are not "means" or "channels of grace," and thus are not called "sacraments."
We believe in that "blessed hope" — the literal, personal, bodily, imminent return of Christ, Who will rapture His saints prior to the Seven Year Tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints to establish His Earthly Thousand Year Kingdom reign. After the 1,000 years, a solemn separation will take place at the Great White Throne Judgment, fixing forever the final state of men in heaven and hell.
If you should die right now, do you know if YOU would go to Heaven?
This important question is not whether you are a church member, or if you live a clean life and do the best you can. It is about where you are going to spend eternity. If you cannot answer "yes" to the above question, then God has sent this message to you. "Now is the accepted time… now is the day of salvation" (2 Corinthians 6:2).
"There is none righteous, no, not one… For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:10, 23). If ALL have sinned, then I am a sinner and you are a sinner. The very nature we are born with is such that a holy God cannot admit us into His presence. God says you must be born again, made new by a power not your own, but by the supernatural power of God (John 3:3–7). No one has committed so few sins but that he or she doesn't need to be saved, and no one has committed so many sins but that he or she cannot be saved.
"The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). Death is simply a permanent separation. If any one lives his life in sin and dies without being born again, he will be separated from God forever, destined to spend eternity in a literal place of torment that God calls Hell (Revelation 21:8). Do not be distracted by man's opinions about hell — let God speak to you! You do not have to face this. God has provided a way of escape.
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). When Jesus was on the cross, He suffered the agony of Hell for you and me. He was separated from God the Father: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). He bore our sins in His own body — the Just dying for the unjust. "The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23). A gift is something you do not work for. Salvation is a gift, given to you when you put your faith in Christ alone (John 1:12).
There are only two conditions: repent and believe. "Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (Acts 3:19). To repent is to acknowledge that you are a sinner, to turn from sin to God and to ask Him for mercy and forgiveness. And believe: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). You must trust Jesus Christ with your life — trust Him to take you to Heaven, and believe that He will. Once you put your soul into His hands, you are His responsibility. He takes your sin, and you take His righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21).
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13
Humbly bow your head and call on Him in prayer. Simply talk to God in your own words — acknowledging your sinfulness, seeking His forgiveness, and believing in His promise. If you have just trusted in Christ as your Saviour, please contact us so that we may rejoice with you and help you grow in your glorious new life!
We're located at Westgate Retail Park on the Tramore Road, Waterford.
Westgate Retail Park
Tramore Road
Waterford
Eircode: X91 EE7Y
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