Sending our love for you in the name of our Lord and Father of our Savior Jesus Christ. We are encourage by you and your prayers and love as demonstrated towards one another. Your efforts of faith in calling one another, texting and sending greetings cards are the things our Lord looks at as evidence of us being found faithful.

As we remain focused and steadfast in the faith, we would like to share a few items of importance with you our members:

In our attempt to be a faithful, we have attempted to provide you with several opportunities of spiritual growth and service.

Let us help by providing you with the tools you will need pertaining to the spiritual warfare we are engaged in. There will always be opposition in war. There will be some direct attempts against our faith and there will be some designed to thwart us by deception. But God has appointed us to be watchful and to prayer that our faith not fail (Lk 22:32).

We also strongly encourage you as members of New Berean, to employ the services of the Deacon Family ministry to assist or aide you if we can. Provide feedback on ways we can keep you connected to the rest of the Berean family and pray, call, and reach out to one another as you can. Our normal is no longer normal so we all are exploring different methods to be a blessing.

Visit Us – We all have been inundated with all the information, misinformation, rumors and other reports as we process through the current pandemic but our responsibility as believers is to be found faithful (I Cor. 4:2). There is enough recklessness being displayed and as part of being a faithful steward, we will provided you with what the CDC (Center for Disease Control) website has specifically relevant to us.  

Pulpit Points is a library collection of messages formatted in Youtube mp4 for both listening and viewing. From the pulpit preaching ministry of Founder and Pastor Leroy E Ricks along with various of preachers, browse these recorded messages and expected to be encouraged, blessed instructed and challenged.

Pulpit Points (Audio Archive) is our library audio collection of messages from the pulpit preaching ministry of Pastor Leroy E Ricks along with various of preachers, browse these recorded messages

Ladies Mid-Week Zoom Bible Study Meeting – Ladies, members and guests are invited to join Sister Joan Jackson every Wednesday to take a walk through the scriptures. These lesson are designed to speak to the needs of our women using biblical principles, the precepts and commandments

Salvation – Man’s greatest need is to have a personal relationship the Lord. We as Believers have been commissioned by the Commissioner, our Lord Jesus the Christ to take the good news the gospel of God’s great love to the world. (Matt. 28:18-20, Acts 1:8) is the commission to his disciples and subsequent followers what to tell, to who to tell and why. This is a basic outline of the things we ourselves ought to be settled in so we may be obedient to the Commission. Preach – Baptize – Disciple to a lost and dying people.

Sunday Devotional is a series of lessons from the International Sunday School curriculum. Each week we feature the upcoming lesson with a brief summary and commentary to help you with a practical understanding of the word of God

Investing is good. We invest our time, energy and efforts with the intent of receiving a greater return. God has called us to invest in our children. There is a great gap existing between men and God. God’s word provides the tools, resources and instructions our children can use to gain a greater return value.

Introduction: The Christian race is not easy but demands that we endure and push past our tiredness in faithfully proclaiming the gospel as we move towards the finish line. Not for boasting but running in such a way as to win the prize, the eternal and incorruptible crowns that last forever.

The Message Points: I Corinthians 9:24-27

1. The Outset (Matthew 6:33) “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
2. The Outlook (Philippians 4:4) “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!“
3. The Outreach (2 Corinthians 5:20) “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.”
4. The Outcome (2 Timothy 4:7-8) “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.“

On behalf of the New Berean Staff and ministry Leadership, we pray for your steadfastness in the Lord during this new year.

Our hearts are always for your to walk in the new life we now have in Christ Jesus our Lord. He has promised us so much through his commissioning which he charged us with.

He said, “Lo I will be with you always even till the end of the age“

which was preceded by his direction to his disciples to preach to the lost, baptize to those who believe and disciple and train those who choose to follow (Matt. 28:18-20). This blessed promise is always accompanied by his eternal grace, hope and love. We are encouraged to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace (Eph. 4:3).

We thank you for your service, labor of love and for your devotion to your call in Christ. As we transition into a new year, we ask you keep us in your prayers. Please pray for Pastor Cason as the Lord leads him to oversee the ministry until the Lord chooses a new pastor through the Pulpit Committee. Please be patient, prayerful and encouraging as we move on to those things the Lord has in store for us this new year. We thank you for all you have done and encourage you to remain faithful, Also we solicit your prayers as we consider the available means to creatively ministry to everyone so that no one is neglected (ref. Acts 6:1-7). We have a challenge ahead of us but we need your input and active responses on how we can best serve you.

Let us together look to be used mightily by the Lord, encourage one another and reach forward to those things which are ahead (Phil. 3:13).

Christmas is a very merry time. It the time that we in our society have set aside to recognize the birth of the Savior. Knowing the Christ as we do, we are grateful for the gift of God which is eternal life through the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes

By the grace of God, let us begin to forget those things which are behind and reach forward to those things are ahead (Phil. 3:13),

Yours in the name of Jesus Christ

New Berean announces this year’s Annual Christmas Day service with Little Grove Baptist Church and our Watch Night service will not take place this year. We are making this important decision is due to the need to care and take precaution for the people of God.

We are in a precarious situation in our country with the COVID19 pandemic and by wise counsel, have chosen not to meet or gather on the premises of New Berean on these two special service. We have been given only one body to carry out God’s mission and we are take care of the temple as honorable as best we can.

We are asking for the New Berean family ministry to follow the safe guidelines and executive orders of our government officials to help minimize the spread of the COVID virus. It is imperative that we as the body of Christ trust God and obey those who have rule over us (Tit. 3:1) so that when its is all said and done we will glorify our Lord and fair better than those on the outside by our obedience (Dan. 1:8-21) .

In the meantime, continue to pray for and encourage one another that our faith not fail but we be encouraged in the faithfulness of our loving Father (Josh. 1:8).

Virginia Governor’s Executive Order #67 & #68

In between our times of corporate fellowship, keep in contact and share with your respective Deacon and or ministry Leaders any issues or concerns we can help with. Stay Connected…

Watch Night at New Berean will not be the same as it has. There will be no corporate gathering to hear the songs of hope and faith. There will not be the familiar gatherings of laugher and encouragement. The time of holding hands and standing as we prayed -in the new year, to thank the Lord for the great things he had done while in anticipation for the hope of more great things to come. For the past 31 years, New Berean has gathered together in our building to share, fellowship, testify of the things we have witnessed and experience during the past year. We all have had some of the most extreme circumstances imaginable happen to us this past year. But as Paul testified before in his second letter to Timothy (II Tim. 3:10-12) we too can say how the Lord delivered us out them all.

Please take a moment, if you would and share with us God’s demonstration of his powerful love towards you. It will mean a lot to others that God is still working in the lives of his people here at New Berean. The fact he is still speaking to us, working in and through us will encourage those who need it. The year 2020 has been one for the books with the lost of our beloved Pastor and Founder Leroy E. Ricks, Sr. We are greatly appreciative for the life he lived before us, the biblical instructions and practical teachings he poured into our lives. But God is still working out his plan. As he allowed Moses and Israel to move forward by passing the torch onto Joshua, he has done it again with Pastor Ricks and New Berean. We are to grow into following His plan and be about our Father’s business. God’s grace will sustain us, it is sufficient.

If care to, share with us how God’s grace has been imparted to you personally this year. Use the comments block below and testify for the Lord and encourage one another as we see the day approaching (Heb. 10:25).

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Join us here this and every Wednesday at New Berean Baptist as we take advantage of this opportunity to renew our minds. Beginning at noon, we invite you to join our Prayer Warriors as we together, collectively wherever we are to Pause-N-Pray before the Lord’s throne of grace. If you care to share any specific request with us, let us know on our Pause-N-Pray contacts information.

Also Pastor Cason with take us through an examination of various subjects and bible lessons designed to encourage, challenge and prompt us to be as the Berean did – search the scriptures (Acts 17:11). This week’s lesson audio lesson, Cason will take us through another edition of “What We As Bereans Believe“. He is sharing with us the basic foundational doctrines the ministry of New Berean is founded. Join us today beginning at 2:00 pm.

Another opportunity to grow and be renewed in our minds is our Ladies Weekly Bible Study (via ZOOM). We are excited about how the Lord has chosen to teach our women. So zoom in and be encouraged by the teaching of God’s word.