In addition to serving through our Team structure, opportunities to serve include: leading in worship, teaching Bible and/or discipleship studies, and singing in the choir.
We partner with the Anson Crisis Ministry to help our neighbors who are struggling with the basics of food and shelter. Our members participate in Bereavement Ministry, Blessings in a Book Bag (weekend meals for children), a Prayer Shawl Ministry, and a Baptist Men’s Ramp Building Ministry.
The Administration and Stewardship Ministry Team handles property, financial, and personnel matters through the work of three committees. Their work includes supervising building maintenance, approval of an annual budget, and employee relations with members of the church’s staff. The chairperson of the deacons serves as an ex officio member.
The Congregational Care Ministry Team oversees all the ways the church provides care to the congregation—bereavement, prayer ministries, providing meals for congregational events or specific ministries (Kitchen Committee), and partnering with the deacons to provide every member a family minister.
COMMITTEES:
Bereavement
Communications
Family Ministry
The Discipleship and Education Ministry Team guides the church’s Sunday School, youth and children’s ministries, Vacation Bible School, and all other faith formation programming.
COMMITTEES:
Children Ministry
Children Music
Children Sermon
Jan Bible Study
Sunday School Officer
Sunday School Teacher
Vacation Bible School
Youth
The Missions, Charity and Benevolence Team organizes how the church will serve our community in local missions and benevolence causes. It also guides the church in deciding which partners to support in missions beyond Anson County, such as the Baptist Children’s Home of North Carolina and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
COMMITTEES:
Anson Crisis Ministry
Baptist Men
Benevolence
Blessings in Bookbag
Inter-Church Council
Special Missions
WMU
The Worship Ministry Team provides leadership in all ways needed to develop and implement regular worship services—decorating, children’s sermons and children’s church, music, sound and video, ushering, and worship themes through the Christian year.
COMMITTEES:
Baptismal
Childrens Church
Christmas Tree
Communion
Decorating
Flower
Manger
Music
Nursery
Usher
Videographer
Wedding
Welcome
FBCW started a ramp ministry over 12 years ago for those in the community who need assistance getting in and out of their homes. Volunteers from FBCW and other churches build as many as 20 ramps a year, raising funds to buy the materials. Recipients are asked to contribute what they can afford, which might be only a token amount.
FBCW is a longtime supporter of Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina. We participate in the BCH Thanksgiving Offering, invite BCH representatives to be speakers, include BCH in our annual budget, and sponsor special mission projects for children in care. Our members have visited many BCH sites in recent years, providing gift bags for the children in care. We also provide financial support for BCH throughout the year.
FBCW helped start Anson Crisis Ministry and continues to be deeply involved in its ministry to the marginalized in our community. Anson Crisis Ministry seeks to meet the food needs of the people of Wadesboro and Anson County in a spirit of Christian fellowship. To this end, all volunteers are welcome to sort and store the food as it comes in, work in our thrift shop to raise money to purchase food, and make up “day bags” for the homeless in our town.