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Missions

Service

Outreach

First Presbyterian Church supports 6 missionaries: Paul & Reinhold Sydnor Evangelism Europe, Ferris & Thelma Goodrum Christian Education & Music Brazil, The Bradshaw Family Ministries, Morningstar USA Ministries Philippines, C. W. and Leslie Bing, Water For The Oppressed Zambia, and Matthew Lee Wycliffe Bible Translators Cameroon

 The members of this church support with their time and talents Habitat for Humanity, Paint Your Heart Out, The Good Samaritan, Transit Ministry Fund, the After Prom Party, and special needs of the Pastor's Helping Hand Fund. First Presbyterian offers our building for many self-help organizations - AA Meetings 3 times a week, Al-Anon meetings, NA Meetings, ARC Meetings, CPR Classes, VASAP Classes, Classes sponsored by the YMCA, and others.

Theological Principles that are important to us are:

  1. As Christians, we believe in the sovereignty of God. God is almighty, all knowing, all loving and everlasting.

  2. The Trinity, God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is a key to how we understand and relate to God.

  3. We believe that the Bible is our "only infallible rule of faith and practice." It is the Word of god to us, and shows us the way of salvation through our Lord    Jesus Christ as Savior.

  4. The Church gathers to worship, learn, and to be equipped to live and share the Gospel with others.

  5. All that we have is God's. Therefore, God calls us to give regularly and proportionally of our time, talents, and resources for the work of the Kingdom.

  6. The covenant family, the "we" of Christianity, is very important to us. God's people are a family together, and can grow and encourage and minister together precisely because of God's work in the covenant community.

  7. A key emphasis of the Presbyterian Church has always been education. We have an ordained clergy, stress education and learning for our children, and must never stop learning as adults. Christian education is the call of every Christian.

  8. A cornerstone of the ministry of the church is Outreach. God has given us the gift of Life to share with others. We are to seek to find ways to reach out to each other in the community and world in a regular and creative manner as God leads us.

  9. First Presbyterian Church of South Boston was founded in 1842 in Halifax, and South Boston in 1877. Since its foundation this church has been involved in living out the faith, sharing the gospel, and seeking others to join in that mission.