Our Mission

We are asking ourselves some very basic questions at the moment, and because our pastor is only a simple sort of person, he kept the questions short. Here they are:

Who are we meant to BE?
What are we here FOR?
HOW do we DO that?

We found the answer to the first question by studying the Baptist Union booklet, "Five Core Values for a Gospel

People" - see the "Our Values" page..

As a result of asking the second question we came up with a mission statement, to help focus our minds on what we are supposed to be about. Everyone was involved in putting this together and it wasn't easy!

The Mission Statement of Wimborne Baptist Church

To love and worship God
To love and serve one another, our local neighbourhood, and the wider world
To live and speak the good news of Jesus Christ, so that others become his disciples

We have recently been looking at the third question - and putting together a Vision Statement to establish our practical priorities for the next few years. This was adopted at a members' meeting on 5th October 2004. If you know the answers to any of our three questions please come along quickly and help us! Seriously though - all the talking in the world means nothing unless we can get on and do something to make ourselves and this world we live in more like the way God intended it to be when he made it. Some of this site is quite light hearted - but this is the serious bit - what we are really about. To see how it is working out in practice, see our Hot News page

Recently we have sensed God challenging us about taking him and his call more seriously. I recently read an

e-book from the Bruderhof community, called "The Awakening" by Friedrich Zuendel, which describes some amazing events in a German village in 1841, and what happened when a very ordinary German Lutheran pastor began to take God seriously and offer himself as a soldier in the spiritual battle. Click on the image to download this book in Acrobat (pdf) format (file size 797Kb). (Used with permission of the publishers)