Our Ministries and Fellowship Opportunities

Every year we have a special event for the children. Everyone participates and shares their gifts to put this together. We usually have skits, games, Bible study and dinner.

Ladies gather for a time of food, fellowship, Bible study and prayer.

Men get together for a dinner out or at the church, watch sermons on various topics, then discuss the sermons together.

Some of our church members join with this established ministry to witness the gospel and serve food in the inner city.

Every April the ladies have a wonderful time of fellowship, food, service project, Bible study or Christian biography all hosted by one of the ladies in our church.

Every May our church members help to raise money for this prolife ministry.

In the fall, we gather together to fill shoeboxes with toys, school supplies and toiletries and the boxes are sent to needy children throughout the world.

We host a variety of outdoor events throughout the year.

Weather permits, we host a few camping trips locally in New York state parks during the summer and early fall season.

Whenever God opens the opportunity, our Pastor John traveled with another Pastor to Nepal for nearly two weeks of training native Pastors in the cities Kathmandu and Butwal. It was a joy to see the earnestness of these men and the progress of the gospel in Nepal. All the men were greatly encouraged by their time together and much good for the kingdom of God was done.

We were very grateful to learn that God has worked in the hearts of over a dozen pastors in small churches in the Irkutzk region of Siberia, bringing them to understand and embrace the Reformed faith. As this change has come about only over the past couple years, there is a great need for these pastors and their congregations to receive more books, sermons and commentaries which have been translated into the Russian language, along with encouragement from like-minded brethren. There are presently about 10,000 books in storage in Minsk and Moscow. These titles include the puritans John Bunyan and John Flavel, theologian William Hendriksen and sermons by Charles Spurgeon.

Grace Baptist Church sponsored 6 children ranging in age from 9-17 to come to Rochester. The young people came from Mogilev, Belarus; an area affected greatly by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the 1980's. Studies showed that even 6 weeks being outside the affected area could increase their lifespan. Although healthy, area doctors, dentists, and opticians showed generous support and offered appointments free of charge. The children were also present for church services, attended family conferences in Tennessee and vacation Bible schools, shown hospitality by church families, and were taken to such notable sites as Genesee Country Village and Museum, Ontario Beach, Seabreeze Amusement Park, Letchworth State Park, and Niagara Falls. They also visited Washington, DC, Hershey Park, and New York City before their return flights to Belarus. Many of the “children” are grown and keep in touch.

Several members entered the mission field to the Ukraine with the Reformed Bible Church of Westmoreland, NH. The first year consisted of Pastoral teaching to area Pastors as well as offering dental support by dentists and hygienists as exams and cleaning were provided while Bible stories were shared with those children waiting. Pastoral teaching to area pastors and construction of a fence around the church building as well as a vacation Bible school to area orphanages. Many times, Pastor John traveled with Pastor Ken Sanders of NH to provide teaching to pastors from Ukraine and Belarus.

Items are collected, and boxes sent to a sister church where the items are distributed to the needy and nearby orphanages.

Items requested by Caleb and Melissa Gibello are sent to them.