Pastor

Martinsville FBC is located in Martinsville, IL. It is 30 miles E of Effingham, IL, 31 miles W of Terre Haute, IN, and 35 miles N of Robinson, IL. We are located along Interstate 70 and the town has a population of 1100. We have an elementary school and local high school.

Our church will celebrate its 146th anniversary in October. In the past, we ran 2 full services on Sunday mornings, as well as men’s, women’s, youth and children’s programs. We started a new building at our current location in 2008 and moved in during homecoming October 2009. We paid off our 20 year note in 8 years.

We are now running an average of 60 for Sunday morning worship and 30 for Sunday school. Last fall we started a kid’s church on Sunday’s evenings. We are running a bus to pick up 11 kids and the program had 30 kids (4 yrs-6thgrade) and 10 adults. We also have preaching on Sunday evenings and have been averaging 15. On Wednesday evenings we average 25.

We are praying for God to give us a burden for the lost and to send us a pastor that will equip and lead us to become a beacon in our community, as we reach out in love and share the Gospel of Christ to our neighbors that are perishing. We are known as a giving church through our benevolence and food pantry.

We are a very accepting church.

We are looking for a man who believes both in 1 Timothy 3:2 and the Baptist Faith and Message.