WELCOME TO DUENWEG CHRISTIAN CHURCH
We’re Glad You’re Here!
If it’s your first time at Duenweg Christian Church, welcome to the family!
We understand showing up at a new church for the first time can be nerve-wracking, so here’s more information about Duenweg Christian Church and what you can expect.
What to Expect
You're welcome here.
We understand showing up at a new church for the first time can be nerve-wracking, so here’s more information about Duenweg Christian Church and what you can expect.
Smiling Faces
From the parking lot to the auditorium, our guest services team is here to guide you and answer any questions you have.
Personal Connection
As you enter our doors, there will be someone to show you around and help you navigate your first steps.
Practical Bible Teaching
Each week you can expect faithful and practical preaching from the Bible.
A Place to Belong
We aren’t meant to do life alone. No matter your life stage, there’s a group for you. Our Wednesday Bible Study groups are a place of belonging, care, and discipleship.
Spiritual Investment in Your Children
We offer fun and engaging ways for kids and teens to learn about faith in Jesus and develop biblical foundations for their lives.
Our Values
Jesus
Our first value is about our real love for Jesus Christ. The Christian life is a call to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
“He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
Matthew 22:37
Total Commitment to the Bible
The Bible is the authoritative Word of God. In it God speaks to his people and tells them who he is, who they are, and what he demands of them.
“Above all, you know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from the prophet’s own interpretation, 21 because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
2 Peter 1:20-21
Bold Passion for our Community
Throughout Scripture, God is described as doing his work in cities. God has placed us in the great city of Joplin, Missouri, and we are asking him to do a great work in this region. Our call to serve Jesus in our surrounding communities fuels our love for this city. As a church, we want to love our city, serve it, and make kingdom investments in it.
“After they had preached the gospel in that town and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.”
Acts 14:21
People
God has loved us by giving his Son for us, and now his love has been poured into our heart. One of the evidences of his love for us is our love for others. At First Baptist, people are not nuisances or interruptions. They are objects of our love and care just as they are for God himself.
“For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another”
1 John 3:11
Family
We value relationships and believe in doing life together.
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.”
Acts 2:42
Multigenerational Pursuit of Godliness
God calls his people to a discipleship journey of growing in godliness. God, however, does not call us to do this in an isolated way, but as members of a church family. One of the great realities of our church is the presence of people across the spectrum of life from babies to great-grandparents. We are committed to growth in godliness that happens in each of these stages of life
“These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. 7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol[b] on your forehead.[c] 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.”
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
Joy in Worship
In the Bible, worship refers to the activity of lifting praise to God that happens in a specific time and place, and it also refers to an entire lifestyle where all our lives are given over to Jesus Christ. At Duenweg Christian Church, we take both forms of worship seriously, and we are committed to doing that with hearts full of joy.
“Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness.”
Psalm 100:1-2
