Who We Are
Badger Grove Community Baptist Church celebrated its 154th anniversary in 2024. We celebrated the retirement of our pastor, Rev. Roger Strunk, on April 30, 2023, after 12 years with us. On January 21, 2024, we called Marcus Wolverton to be our new pastor. Praise the Lord!
Our fellowship of faith, hope, and love in the countryside has a long history of ministry in the name of Christ to the neighborhood, as well as to nearby Brookston and greater Lafayette. We put the focus on God and are connected to one another in a caring community bound in God’s love through Jesus Christ.
Members on our shared Christian journey include farmers, homemakers, business leaders, teachers and school superintendents, nurses and doctors, construction workers, salesmen, and more.
We have concentrated much of our mission work recently toward homeless and hunger ministries locally, while reaching out with evangelistic, development, and relief efforts to as far away as Kenya.
We are small in number but believing that God will help us to grow and continue spreading the Gospel as God leads us to do, seeking to share our faith in and love of Jesus with family, friends, neighbors, and visitors.
Our Purpose
The purpose of this church is to endeavor to fulfill the instruction given us in Matthew 28:19-20, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age,” and also in Matthew 22: 37-39, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’.”
Our Core Beliefs
We believe that there is only One God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe God has revealed himself (his words and deeds through history) in the Bible: the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.
We believe that humanity is sinful and bound for hell (eternal separation from God) – and there is nothing any of us can do to change that by ourselves.
We believe that the only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, God in human flesh, who lived and died and was raised to redeem us (bring us back to God).
We believe that every person must decide for themselves to confess their need for Christ, repent of their sins, and accept Christ into their life as Savior and Lord.
We believe that the Holy Spirit has the power to set us apart for God’s use; by dwelling within us he makes it possible for us to live holy and separated in the present world.
We believe every Christian is a member of the body of Christ, the Church; they have the responsibility to keep God’s Great Commandment and God’s Great Commission until Christ returns to earth at the end of the age to take his Bride (the Church) home to heaven forever.