About Us

On just about every block and corner in Baltimore City you will find a liquor store and church. Fortunately for the great people that God is reaching out to, here we are. With our friendly, compassionate, relational and inclusive aim in fellowship, we live open lives before our neighbors. We are outsiders who have become insiders. Since we know what it's like to be an outsider, we can relate and prayerfuly minister the gospel to our fellow outsiders. Fulton has recently celebrated its 110th anniversary in ministry. "We are graced for this," Pastor Rivera once preached and surely it's only by God's grace that we are afforded the opportunity to serve his people and the sheep of his pasture these many years.

The inner-city Community that we are in has caused many to be wary about visiting Fulton. As it is with everywhere else in the world, there are some rough spots and there are some beautiful spots. We believe we are smack in the middle of a diamond mine. These beautiful people that God is reaching out to, have the same struggles that we all have We are graced with the opportunity to take God's love, grace, mercy and peace to the streets that we are all too familiar with. We, like they, have daily crisises and pressures. We know what it's like to struggle with life's decisions. We know what it's like to see families come and go. To see friends and loved ones taken by not-so-favorable circumstances. We know what it's like because we were they. We are mindful and prayerful that as we were once outsiders, who are now insiders, that they can become insiders too. These men and women, boys and girls are family that we have yet to meet. Our community. Our family.

The Great Commission of Jesus Christ is that we should go throughout all of the world and call all mankind to repent and believe. Repent from lifestyles of sin and depravity and believe that Jesus has made peace with God for us. Going further we ought to baptize, teach, and make disciples. The ministries of Fulton Baptist aim to do just that. We know that we were made to worship God with everything we've got. We know that we go hard for our favorite teams, get turned up over our favorite songs and are absolutely thrilled about anything and everything that makes us happy. But what if knowing God and making him known could bring you that much joy and so much more. We believe that ministry is a lifesyle. It's the lifesyle that Jesus is living through us. Biblically speaking "We are the Body." We are his hands and feet. We are his arms and shoulders. We can only go where he says because he is the head.

Mission Statement

The mission of Fulton Baptist Church is to lead people to Jesus Christ, grow them in Christ, and make them servants of Christ, in order to make a difference for Christ. We will strive to give visible form to our faith in our relationships with our church, our community, and all others that we encounter.

Vision Statement

Fulton Baptist Church, in accordance with the Mission, shall be: To grow the congregation by 150 persons per year over 5 years, to purchase a church bus, to develop a food distribution program, to restore the computer lab, to refurbish the parsonage, and to pay mortgage off in 5 years.

Fulton's History

The Gospel

We are called as disciples of Christ to preach the Gospel throughout all nations untill he returns. We love you som much that it would be a disservice to you to not share with you the very ministry that the church is called to service in. There are many ways to present you with the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here we'll take the "Romans' Road."

The Roman Road

"For whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
- Romans 10:13

How You Can Know God's Love

"There is a God in Heaven who loves you as you are and not as you should be."

Yes... you are right... there is a God. You know that must be true. The heart of
the human being longs for God, and logic demands divine existence.

While everyone believes God is... most sense separation from God. We
know God must be holy and good. We see ourselves as unholy and not good.
We conclude that God is angry with us and we cannot know Him.

Good News! This Testament of God's love is His Word to tell us that He loves
us as we are. That love will save us from our sin and make us what we should
be as God's children.

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

We hear Jesus say, "God so loved the world." God's love has no limitations.
He loves "so". More than we can imagine. He loves everyone - not just
some ones.

Romans 5:8 tells us that God loved us so that "when we were in our sin
Christ Jesus came to die for us."

Romans 3:23
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"

This verse tells us that all people have sinned. We have fallen short of
God's intended purpose for us. God made us to know Him.... to receive His
love and to love him in return.

For love to be love... for God to be God... and for humans to be humans....
God gave us a choice. We can choose to love ourselves and turn to our
selfish pursuits. That is sin. In our sin we cannot know God and His love.
The result of sin is that we are lost... separated from God.

Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord."

Wages are just payment... due reward... what one has coming because of
labor. The just payment for our sin is death.

Death here means spiritual insensitivity. When we are still in our sin, we
have no life with God. We are alive physically but dead spiritually. If we
continue in that condition, we will be separated from God for all eternity.

The wages of sin is death. but God's free gift is eternal life. While wages
are earned, a gift is offered... no strings attached. God says He will give us
eternal life - life with Him - in the place of sin's payment of death.

How can God remain true to His holiness and forgive unholy sinners?
Because Jesus, His Son, has paid the price for sin by His death on the cross.

Second Corinthians 5:21 says, "He who knew no sin became sin for us, that
we may be made the righteousness of God through Him."

Jesus arose from the grave to conquer sin and death for all who receive Him
as God's free gift.

How can you receive God's free gift of love and life?

Romans 10:9-10
"that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a
person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he
confesses, resulting in salvation."

A person receives God's free gift of love and life by placing faith in Jesus
Christ. To believe is simply to take God at His word. With our heart
(whole believing) we believe that Jesus is God's Son who died for our sin
on the cross and arose from the grave to live in us as Savior and Lord.

To believe in Jesus will result in confessing that faith with one's mouth.

Do you acknowledge that your are a sinner?

Do you believe by faith that Jesus, God's Son, died for your sin on the cross?

Will you now confess Him as your Savior and Lord?

Romans 10:13
"for Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

This verse says that any person who will call upon the name of Jesus,
the Lord, shall be saved.

To call means simply to ask in prayer. The verse does not require one to
know more... do better... clean up one's life... or in any way try to add to
what Jesus has done for us.

Will you now call upon Jesus to save you from your sin so that you
can know God's love and forgiveness?

Pray like this: "Dear God, I confess that I am a sinner, and I am sorry. I need
a Savior. I know I cannot save myself. I believe by faith that Jesus, your
Son, died on the cross to be my Savior. I believe He arose from the grave
to live as my Lord. I turn from my sin. I ask You, Lord Jesus, to forgive my
sin and come into my heart. I trust you as my Savior and receive you as
my Lord. Thank you, Jesus, for saving me."

When anyone calls on the Lord in this manner, that one is saved according
to God's Word. If you pray a prayer of repentance and faith, you are saved.
You have God's word on it.

If you have prayed this prayer we'd love to hear from you, fellowship with you and even more so celebrate the greatest decision you've ever made - trusting Christ with your souls salvation.

Mission

Vision