HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH

In Beautiful, Sunny, Warm, Ocala, Florida (North Central Florida)
A Beautiful Place to Live In or Retire To

PREACHING THE OLD BOOK (King James Bible), THE OLD FAITH, AND SINGING THE OLD HYMNS

Address: 642 NE 20th Street, Ocala, Florida 34470
Telephone 352.236.5303 or 622.6680

A BIBLE-BELIEVING, CHRIST-EXALTING, INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH THAT SEEKS TO HONOR GOD AND HELP PEOPLE SPIRITUALLY

Heritage Baptist Church has several ministries that help people develop a real relationship with Jesus Christ and other Christians. Believing that the Bible is the Word of God, Pastor Smith's preaching and teaching is Bible-centered, practical, and encouraging.

I Timothy 3:15 - "the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."

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Contents

• Pastor's Biographical Statement
• Meet Our Pastor
• Our Beginning
• Our Statement Of Faith
• Schedule of Services
• Encouragement For Pastors
• What's Happening at Heritage Baptist Church?
• How To Locate Us
• Recommendation
• Contact Us
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• Good Christian Internet Sites
• E-MAIL, and Four11 search
• A Free CD of a Recent Sermon from Our Pastor
• Guestbook

Biography

PASTOR WALTER B. SMITH was born in 1951.He was taken by his parents to a Bible preaching church from the time of his birth. He was spirtually born again as a young boy by placing his faith in Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, trusting Him alone to save his soul. He felt called to full-time Christian service in his early teen years. After marrying his childhood sweetheart, Paula, he surrendered to preach under the ministry of Dr. John R. Rice, who directed them to Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist College in 1974 and was ordained into the Gospel ministry by Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan. Since that time, he has been a pastor of independent Baptist churches for 26 years and was in the ministry of Evangelism for 10 years. Thankfully, it is said by many that his preaching of the Word is clear and concise, tempered by compassion, and bears the blessing of the Holy Spirit.

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Family

Dr. Walter B. Smith, Pastor

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Heritage Baptist Church was planted in 2001 as a ministry of:

Memorial Baptist Church
Belleview, Florida

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Statement of Faith

WHAT WE BELIEVE:

1. We believe the Holy Scriptures are the verbally inspired Word and Revelation of God. The Bible is inerrant, infallible, God-breathed, and to be to be taken literally. They are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. We unashamedly hold the King James Bible up as the Bible version preserved by God for English speaking people. Psalm 19:7-11; II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:16-21..

2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I John 5:1-8.

3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, and born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.

4. We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and, in the case of those who reach the age of moral responsibility, are sinners in thought, word, and deed.

5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for my sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. Hebrews 2:9; John 6:44-69

6. We believe in the 'Eternal Security' of the believer; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost.

7. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there as High Priest and Advocate.

8. We believe in 'that blessed hope' - the personal, premillennial, pretribulational and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, when the Church will be 'gathered together unto Him.'

9. We believe in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures which foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a nation.

10. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.

11. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

12. We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the Church are Baptism and the Lord's Supper; that Baptism, by immersion, should be administered to believers only as a symbol of their belief in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as a testimony to the world of that belief and of their death, burial and resurrection with Him; and that the Lord's Supper should be partaken of by believers only to show forth His death, till He come.

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CHURCH SERVICE SCHEDULE

Four Services Weekly! All With Different Messages!

Sunday School 9:30 am
Morning Church 10:30 am
Evening Church Service 6:30 pm
Mid-week Service - Wed - 7 pm
Patch The Pirate Club For The Childrren Ages 4-12 - Wed - 7pm
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UPCOMING EVENTS:

Christmas Musical & Drama - "Then Jesus Came" - Sunday December 21st at 6:30 p.m.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, Wednesday December 24th - 6:00 p.m.
New Year's Eve Service, Wednesday, December 31st - 7:00 p.m.
Winter Revival with Evangelist Dwight Smith, January 25th - 30th, 2009
Missions Conference with Dr. Gene Burge and Various Missionaries - March 25th-29th, 2009

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OUR FACILITY

Our facility has 3.3 acres of land and the building has over 15,000 square footage of floor space.  You will find that 
 our auditorium is very comfortable and enjoyable.  We have plenty of off-road parking behind the church (follow signs).
 Although we are in an older residential section of Ocala, our neighborhood is undergoing a major 
improvement, thanks to the City of Ocala, our neighbors, and others.