Click an announcement title below for further details.
NEW SANCTUARY IN PROGRESS!
We are so excited to see the work beginning on our new sanctuary! We are extremely thankful to have been able to meet in a new fellowship hall after our beautiful log church burned on October 11, 2022. Redemption Church in Lacombe, LA, provided us with a huge tent to meet in until the fellowship hall was completed the following May. We were so thankful to have a place to meet!
Our church remained faithful through it all - meeting outside until the tent was ready, bringing their own chairs for seating until our chairs arrived, dodging mud puddles in the tent when it rained - it was quite an adventure! And now we look forward to watching our new sanctuary and education facility take shape!
The community has been amazing and has encouraged us all the way - with donations, words of encouragement, and especially with prayers. We give God the glory for all He has done!
We invite you to come watch us grow and help us serve the Lord together!
WORSHIP SERVICE TIMES
We welcome you to each service at Bible Baptist Church of Thomas!
Sunday School - 9:00 a.m. for all ages - Men in auditorium, ladies and children's classes in parsonage
Sunday Worship Service - 10:00 a.m. in the auditorium
Sunday Evening Worship Service - 6:00 p.m. in the auditorium for adults
King's Kids & TRAC (Teens Redeemed and Called) - 5:45 p.m. in the parsonage (August - May)
Super Summer Sunday Nights for Youth - 6:00 in the parsonage (June and July)
Wednesday Evening Bible Study - 6:00 p.m. Adults in the auditorium
Children and youth classes in the parsonage
Help Organization - Addictions
First and foremost -- reach out to God Almighty in continuous prayers!
Reach out to a church for love and support, a family member, and/or a friend.
Listed below are some Help Organizations for someone in need due to an addiction:
Teen Challenge of Mississippi
5 Buford Lane
Poplarville, MS 39470
(607) 745-8063
Teen Challenge of Louisiana
1905 Franklin Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
(504) 947-7949
Ruston Adult & Teen Challenge
411 East California Avenue
Ruston, LA 71270
(318) 254-2830
Adult & Teen Challenge Midsouth
1108 west 33rd Street
Chattanooga, TN 37410
(423) 745-5558
Christian Changes Counseling & Recovery Center
309 East Lampkin Street
Starkville, MS 39759
(602) 338-1880
Home of Grace
7112 Home of Grace Drive
Gautier, MS 39553
(228) 497-1312
Home of Grace
14200 Jerico Road
Vancleave, MS
(228) 826-5283
Jacobs Well
45 Buford Lane
Poplarville, MS 39470
(855) 743-7373
Damascus Road
2274 Hwy. 53 South
Poplarville, MS
(601) 746-5166
Odyssey House
1125 Tonti Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
Wood Lake Addiction Recovery
3015 La-956
Ethel, LA 70730
(225) 683-4144
Mercy House/ Teen Challenge
1110 Mary St.
Georgetown, MS 39078
(60) 858-2256
Townsend Outpatient Addiction Treatment Center
19411 Helenberg Rd #101
Covington, LA 70433
(985) 276-9999
Pine Grove
2255 Broadway Dr.
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(888) 574-4673
Available for men, women, and children
Has facilities in: Hattiesburg, McComb, Carriere, Columbia, Madison, Laurel, Meridian In state of MS only!
All the Way House
2080 Main St
Baker, LA 70714
(225) 775-4321
Statement of Faith
Bible Baptist Church of Thomas
Statement of Faith
The Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments to be the Bible, and that the Bible is the Word of God. We believe in verbal, plenary inspiration in the original writings and that the Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed.
The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. We believe that God created the entire universe in six literal, twenty-four-hour days.
The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His finished work on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was raised bodily and that He ascended to Heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate.
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Person who reproves the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, and that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, indwelling all believers and sealing them unto the day of redemption.
Satan
We believe in the reality of the person of Satan and that he and the fallen angels wage a spiritual warfare against the plan and purposes of God. We believe that Satan is a created angelic being who rebelled and who tempted man to join him in rebellion against God. We believe his power is supernatural, yet limited, and that he cannot act without the permission of God. Satan’s eternal end is everlasting torment in the Lake of Fire.
Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God, and therefore man is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.
We believe that the only marriage recognized by Scripture is the joining of one born man and one born woman. We believe that God expressly forbids intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of the marriage bond.
The Way of Salvation
We believe that the clear message of salvation is “repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” We believe that salvation is “by grace” plus nothing minus nothing. We believe that Jesus Christ died for every man, and that each individual chooses to accept or reject the grace of God.
We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We believe that all the redeemed once saved are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever and that eternal life is the present possession of every believer.
The Return of Christ
We believe the “Blessed Hope” of our Lord’s return is literal, personal, visible, imminent, premillennial, and pretribulational. Believers will be caught up to be with the Lord prior to the seven years of tribulation, and at the end of the tribulation Christ will return with His saints to establish His thousand-year reign on the earth.
Our Eternal State
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord.
We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery in hell until the second resurrection, when soul and body are reunited and shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment to be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment.
