About First Baptist Church Weaverville

Looking for a church home in Weaverville? First Baptist Church has served our community for over a century with a clear mission: growing people in faith, spirit, compassion, maturity, justice, and understanding. Here's what makes us different and how we serve our neighbors.

We believe the Church isn't a building - it's a community of people in relationship with God and with one another. God's love for all people and all of creation has been declared through Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection. The business of the Church is to embody this love for all.

First Baptist Church Weaverville is a welcoming Baptist congregation in the heart of Weaverville, North Carolina. Located at 63 N Main Street, we've served the North Buncombe community for over a century.

Here, all are welcomed, all are loved, and all are encouraged to use their gifts in ministry and service to build the kingdom of heaven.

Sunday Services:

Small Group Bible Study: 9:45 am
Worship Service: 11:00 am

Worship With Us in Weaverville

Wednesday Programs:

Prayer & Bible Study: 5:45 pm
Choir Practice: 7:00 pm

Address:
First Baptist Church Weaverville
63 N Main Street
Weaverville, NC 28787

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Office Hours: Weekdays, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Our Beliefs as a Baptist Church

As a Baptist church in Weaverville, we hold to core beliefs rooted in Scripture and the Baptist tradition:

We believe the Church isn’t a building; it’s a community of people in relationship with God and with one another. God’s love for all people and all of creation has been declared through Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. The business of the Church is to embody this love for all. That’s why we believe worship is not limited to when we gather together on Sundays and Wednesdays: It happens whenever and wherever we show love to another, and all are invited by God to share in it.

What "Baptist" Means at First Baptist Weaverville

“Baptist” has come to mean many different things to many different people over the years—not all of it good. We think the Baptist tradition is defined by its commitment to personal choice and direct connection to God. Traditionally, Baptists do not have a specific creed or set of dogmas that we are required to believe. Nor do we have a central administrative authority that dictates what each Baptist church should teach.

Christ’s Work of Redemption

We are generally united in believing that Christ’s life, death, and resurrection have made forgiveness and everlasting life freely available to all people through faith in him. Consequently, we also believe that all human beings have equal and direct access to God through Christ’s work of redemption. All people have been called to love God and their neighbor perfectly, but have fallen short of that call to love. This breaks our relationship with God. God came to earth as Jesus to reconcile us together. He lived a life of perfect love, suffered and died under the weight of our sorrows and mistakes, and rose to life again to proclaim the hope of renewal for all of his creation. This means all of us can come to God just as we are.

Restoration of Our Relationship with God Through Jesus Christ.

When we believe in the love that God greets us with through Jesus Christ, our relationship with God is restored. Through this restoration, we receive eternal life and are adopted as a part of God’s family. This does not require special rituals, special people, or special words. Because of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us, we are all empowered to call out to him for the renewed life and forgiveness which we all need. God has promised to answer that call from anyone at any time in any place. Once we are freed from guilt, shame, death, and the fear of our own mortality through Jesus, we are empowered to love God and our neighbor by the Holy Spirit. And we do the best job of loving God and our neighbor when we work together.

Living Life As A Response to God’s Love.

We believe that our life together is a response to God’s love—a love fully revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus calls us to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. He also calls us to love one another as he has loved us. Through our church’s attitude and actions, we hope to be a sign to everyone of God’s love for the whole world. Such a radical purpose can only be lived out with humility and with continuing repentance when we fall short of that goal.

Here, all are welcomed, all are loved, and all are encouraged to use their gifts in ministry and service to build the kingdom of heaven.

Mission Focus

Our Mission & Community Impact in Weaverville

Among churches in Weaverville, First Baptist stands out for active community engagement. We believe faith without action is incomplete, so we serve our neighbors through these ongoing programs:

Senior Adult Mealsite

Every weekday morning, we host a space for any senior adult in the community to come for activities, conversation, and lunch.

(Transportation is available.)

Serving Meals to Veterans

Cook lunch, serve it, then eat with folks at the Veteran’s Restoration Quarters in Asheville

Mountain State Fair Ministry

When the fair is in town, we go to help, offering food and services to the workers, as well as Bibles and prayer for fair-goers

Women’s Mission Group

Women of the church meet together to help us reach our community and world every second Monday of the month at 6:00 pm. They learn about mission work, pray for missions, and then work to embody that missionary spirit.