You might be wondering where we got the name "Hague" in Hague Baptist Church. Hague is the name of the small unincorporated community where a group of 11 believers planted our church to reach their neighbors with the gospel in 1911 and where we continue to gather in worship every Sunday. Being a neighborhood church means that we believe reaching and serving our neighbors and local community, just like Jesus did, is crucial to advancing God's Kingdom not only in our neighborhoods but also to the ends of the Earth. While Jesus was on earth he lived, worked, proclaimed God's Kingdom, and experienced the highs and lows of life right alongside his neighbors in the communities he spent time in. That's the kind of neighbors we're aiming to be. As another famous neighbor once asked: "So let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say... Could you be mine? Would you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor?" If so, click here to Plan Your Visit.

One of, if not the, primary metaphor for God's people in the Bible is a family. When God saves us we become children of God, other believers are our brothers and sisters, God reveals himself as the Father, after his resurrection Jesus is called the firstborn among many brothers, the church is called the household of God, older women are to be motherly examples and friends to younger women, and younger men ought to be able to look up to and be supported by the older men the way a son imitates and trusts a good father. God started humanity with a family and in many ways the church is a family of families. "God settles the lonely in families" Psalm 68:6 tells us. For many people who've experienced loneliness the family that God ultimately settles them in is his very own family, his church. God's church isn't a business, a group chat, a volunteer organization, a political party, or a hobby club. God's church is a family with God as their Father. A family draws their identity from their father by all sharing in his name (which we call our last or family name). A family functions based on the values of their parents. A family is united by covenant (parents) and blood (kids) not merely by emotional attachments or proximity under a roof. As a church our identity is found in the Lord, we seek to live out his values, and we are covenanted together by the power of his blood. Family isn't something you show up to for a couple hours a week (if the weather's good, you got enough sleep, and you didn't plan something else) and neither is church. Family is living together for God in light of the generations he brought before you, the generations he will bring forth from you, alongside the generation he has placed around you right now. You can join our family through a process we call membership. Tap the link to learn more about What We Believe as members.

A lot of good words start with the prefix re-, recreate, relaxed, restoring. That's because many of the best things in life aren't meant to be done just once but over and over gain. Re- simply means again. In fact many of these things are really only good for us if we do them over and over again. For example when we participate in recreation we are being created again in the sense that we are being returned to a healthy mental, physical, and emotional condition by actively engaging in something that we enjoy and which is good for us. Martin Luther said that all of life is repentance meaning that we repeatedly must be turning away from sin and selfishness and turning towards God throughout our entire lives. All protestant churches exist today because of a movement called the Reformation which sought to correct errors and false teaching it saw in the church by forming the church once again according to the truths of God's word alone rather than human tradition or sinful pride. The reformers had a saying "Reformed and always reforming" and that will be true of any healthy church. All Christians and all churches need to be examining ourselves and growing in the Lord, his work in our life is never complete and he intends to work in our lives through each other. God doesn't work on us in isolation and God doesn't call us to work alone, we are all works in progress meant to work together. The main way God has provided for us to experience his work in our lives together is by gathering together weekly to worship him (in the Bible "the church" literally means "the gathering"). We'd love for you to join us as we gather this Sunday and you can start planning your visit here.

Because we believe that God is never done working on us and that we aren't meant to work alone Hague Baptist Church is in the process of something called Replanting. This is a four year partnership we have with Westside Baptist Church and the North American Mission Board's SEND Network. To learn more about what replanting is and how it works be sure to ask Pastor Alex on the Sunday you visit us.