Highly esteeming God’s appointed, Pastor Antonio & Sister Samanatha Harris to the ministry of New Berean Baptist Church. This weekend was blessed, as we shared in the 2nd anniversary of our beloved Pastor Tony. When the scriptures state they were of one mind and breaking of bread, we had pasta salad, fish, chicken, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers and potato salad. Team Berea, pulled together to bless the servant leader.
Executive Staff
Check out The BereanWay – Sunday’s message again with guest speaker Edwin L. Goodwin of Alpha & Omega Baptist Fellowship.
As we move further into God’s will for our life, let us do it with the mindset to go through it and finish it with joy (Acts 20:24). God has great things for us to do. He wants us to (ad)venture with him, by faith just as he with Abraham, Moses, Enoch, Ruth and Job. He is not yet done and there is much more to do.
Happy Blessed Anniversary to you both. We are humbled to announce and share with you the 2nd anniversary of our beloved Pastor and his wife Miss Samantha. Family cookout Saturday and Celebration service this Sunday
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Continue to pray for Team Berea in Curacao while they are serving and sharing the Gospel
A Celebration of Fathers
Thank you, men who came, out this past Saturday to fellowship, pray and feast at our Celebration of Fathers breakfast. It is a good thing to witness men in fellowship seeking the Lord for guidance, direction and hope. The three featured speakers shared some straight-forward, timely and intimate words to help the men know the God has called fathers to a highly respected and honorable role in the lives of the youth.
A BIG SHOUT OUT to the Ladies and Kitchen ministry for serving and preparing a wonderfully appetizing spread of food.
Minister CalvinBrother LandrumBrother Immanuel
Up Coming this Week
Tuesday 7:00 pm – Discipleship Training
Wednesday 12 Noon – Noonday Prayer & Bible Study
Wednesday – 7:00 pm (via ZOOM) Women’s Small Group Prayer & Bible Study
Wednesday – 7:00 pm (via ZOOM) Men’s Small Group Half-Hour Power of Prayer & Bible Study
Saturday June 21 – Noon Pastor Anniversary Cookout
Sunday June 22 – 10:00 am Pastor Anniversary Celebration Service
Check out our Calendar for more events and opportunities of service, fellowship and growth. It’s The BereanWay
A disciple is one who is in training, being taught a follower. As long as we are in the ministry, we are always going to be in the classroom, learning and being taugh the things of the Lord (Matt. 28:20)
Discipleship Training with Pastor Tony
Paul was a preaching man. Wherever he went he preached Christ and him crucified Acts 20:7 As Paul preached, people were converted, people were influenced, and people we disturbed and irritated. It’s safe to know that when we go out and about, we too will encounter opposition. People who oppose Christ or the gospel bring God’s eternal judgement upon themselves John 3:17-18 & 2 Tim. 2:25-26.
We should know also that when we love for and serve the Lord they will hate is because they hated him first, John 15:18 Reading Acts 20:7-10
Educating and Equipping the Saints for Ministry – it’s The BereanWay
Team Berea to Curacao
It’s a great day to be a missionary for Christ. In preparation for Team Berea’s trip to Curacao, we are asking the whole New Berean family to lift the team up in prayer before the Lord for sustainability, needs to be met and mission to be accomplished.
Other opportunities of growth and fellowship
Planting in Faith – Growing the Kingdom – Blooming a Future
Happy Anniversary Pastor Tony and Sister Samantha. June marks two years since the Lord answered our prayers and presented us with his gift. According to Ephesians 4:11-16, God gave gifts to the church, his local assemblies, to lead them, teach them, shepherd, care for and protect them. In this, we are grateful to celebrate, honor and esteem this servant-family in faithful obedience as the Lord expects.
and you’re invited to join in fellowship
Join us this Sunday for exciting time of prayer, fellowship, teaching, preaching and the singing of songs of Zion
Prayer 8:30 am – Sunday School LIVE! 9:00 am – Sunday Preaching & Worship 10:00 am
Also this month
Mission Trip to Curacao June 12-19th
Pre-Father’s Day Breakfast June 14th (by invitation only)
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Sunday School LIVE! Have you not known? Have you not heard? God has made some promises to his people. Come on out and learn what they are. 9:00 am Sunday
Gathering together in obedience to his word in fellowship, songs, hymns, spiritual songs, sharing, serving one another in love and in the preaching of his word – It’s The BereanWay!
If you’re joining us for the first time, check out our “Guest-Connect” portal and learn some things about our Pastor, our ministry and God’s vision, The BereanWay for New Berean
The S.A.L.T. (Senior Adult Living Triumphantly) will be hosting an outing at the bowling alley this week (May 23rd).
Fathers, come on out and be encouraged, challenged and lifted up in a time of fellowship with other fathers as we honor them. June 14th, from 10:00 am to 12 noon. Men, please RSVP to the invitation by June 4th to Sister Wanda.
Celebrating God’s gift to New Berean – Pastor Tony and Sister Samanatha Harris to the ministry. Happy Anniversary. Saturday June 21, 12 Noon to 4:00 pm for a time to give honor to our Pastor. Our Sunday morning service (June 22) will feature a blessed time of songs, fellowship and the preached word of God to encourage and appreciate him for the blessed calling to our ministry.
Mission work is key, vital and imperative to the vision of New Berean to Evangelize with the Gospel and this summer we will be sending a crew of missionaries and future missionaries to the island of Curacao. Pastor Bernard Sylvien has opened up the door for us to come and help out in the mission work he has been called to. If you are not traveling but would like to help, or support this adventure, contact either Deacon Lawhorn or Pastor Tony
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H.E.M.Monthly
To find out the latest information regarding your health and the H.E.M. (Health Education Ministry) Monthly Awareness topic by stopping the information station in the Welcome Center lobby.
Members, Guests, Family and Friends, we are anticipating and “Believing our great God to do great and Impossible” things as we “Adventure with Him“. As we “Adore Him” he’s going to show us how and why we “Reach Up” to him and “Reach Out” in service to others. Our S.T.R.I.V.E. will lead us to walking with him is “Sound Doctrine” while “Value Others“. Let’s meet this Sunday to be “Equipped & Educated” under the teaching and preaching of God’s word, the singing of songs and hymns and fellowshipping with the Saints.
Student Wing – A Work in Progress
Continue encourage our Berean Student Youth Ministry as we are in a full S.T.R.I.V.E. in The BereanWay to ministry to our youth. Bring and gather the youth at the Lord’s table to be fitted with a firm foundation in an atmosphere rooted in sound biblical and practical doctrine.
Celebration of Mother’s Luncheon
Our Celebration of Mothers Luncheon blessed. We were encouraged to celebrate and honor God’s gift to our individual families with Mothers. Here is a small capture of images from this special moment
Let’s continue to “Adventure with God” and “Value Others”. God has called us for this moment in time to STRIVE with him and with one another. We are excited about the calling we have here at The BereanWay. We just completed our 2nd Leadership Training session (see below). As we STRIVE into May and June, we have some great opportunities to have things in common as we serve together, grow together, share with one another (Acts 4:32-37) the things the Lord God is doing through our ministry and in our lives.
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Coming Up …
May 18th – Church Business Meeting
May 23 – S.A.L.T. Ministry, Senior Bowling Event
May 12-19 Mission Team to Curacao
June 14th A Celebration of Fathers Breakfast 10:00 am
June 15 Father’s Day
June 22 – Pastor Anniversary Cook Out (Time to be Determined)
June 23 -Pastor Anniversary Service
Check out our Health Education information table in the Welcome Center when you come in the building
Our Regular Mid-Week Events of Fellowship and Growth
Tuesday
Wednesday
Discipleship Training 7:00 pm Tuesdays
Noonday Prayer & Bible Study 12:00 pm
Women’s Small Group Bible Study – On ZOOM
Men’s Small Group Bible Study – On ZOOM
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The BereanWay is the Vision of Adventuring with God and Adoring him.
The BereanWay is …
Believe God for the Impossible
Educate and Equip the Saints
Reach Up and Reach Out
Evangelize with the Gospel
Adore the Father
Nobly Search& Study the Scriptures
Welcome All Who Come
Adventure with God
Youth Focus, Investing in our Youth
The BereanWay Sunday with Antonio Harris on YouTube
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Sunday’s Message – The WOW Factor (The Works of Women in the Bible)
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The BereanWay this Week
Educating and Equipping the Saints for Ministry – growing to be the disciples of Christ requires and calls for us to assemble and be taught. Jesus told the first wave of disciples to teach others to teach others the things he commanded (Matt. 28:20).
Tuesday
Wednesday
Join Pastor Tony as he leads us through and on an adventure with the Lord and the early church who took the gospel on an unbelievable mission to the uttermost parts of the earth
Grow in your adventure with the Lord and gather, share and serve at our Noonday Prayer & Bible Study held in-person here on our campus
In addition, we meet online in our Men’s and Women’s Small Group sessions. Both session are on ZOOM beginning at 7:00 pm
Coming Soon at the BereanWay
Ladies, don’t forget the Celebration of Mother’s Luncheon
Members, we have a Quarterly Business meeting on the 18th immediately following the morning service. Mark your calendars accordingly
Mission to Curacao June 12th, Pray for our traveling missionaries. Adventuring with God, this is The BereanWay
S.T.R.I.V.E. in 2025
Guests, You’re Invited to Check Us Out and Visit Our Family
Just a snapshot or two from our most recent Ministry Leadership Training session.
Here are a few take aways from today’s training session:
Gratitude: “Pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” I Thess. 5:17-18 Praise to God is the fruit of gratitude to God, it recalibrates in us to the reality of God’s sovereign control over all and it positions us to go deeper with the Lord. Gratitude is demonstrated in:
Affirmation – encourage those you serve with
Admiration – respect and approve the work of those your serve
Appreciation – edify and lift up other in the ministry
Action – do it with gratitude
Forgiveness – “*And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”Eph. 4:32. is a conscience deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person we serve with who has harmed us regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness. On the contrary, the sin of unforgiveness:
builds high and wide walls of isolation
leaves us separated from Christ’s cleansing
erodes away at the peace, joy and contentment we could be experiencing
Encouragement – “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.” I Thess. 5:11 Encouragement is contagious, it goes a long way in building up those we serve with. Encouragement is seen as:
Perserverance – longsuffering
Faith – trusting God
Hope – when things seem to be impossible
Gratitude – being thankful for the opportunities we have to serve
Joy – having fun in our service
Kindness –
Faithfulness – “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Col. 3:16
Other things Leaders consider:
Humility – Christ our example, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” Phil. 2:8
Love – love without hypocrisy, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”I Cor. 13:4-8
Accountability – “that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.” I Thess. 4:6
