About

Since its founding in 1852, the First Baptist Church of Monroe has existed to glorify God.  We desire to be led by the Holy Spirit to reach into the world and share the glory and grace of God through Jesus Christ the Son.  We are an open fellowship of free and faithful Baptist Christians committed to a journey - a journey of serious study, intentional worship, loving and compassionate fellowship and hands-on ministry. 

At First Baptist we offer a variety of ministries and programs in an effort to reach, teach and minister to  whole persons.  We collaborate with the Union Baptist Association in a cooperative endeavor to do missions and ministry locally.   We affiliate with the  Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina  for  the same purposes.  We are aligned with and financially supportive of the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to do together  what we could not do apart:  namely, to support ministry and missions both locally and globally.

We are autonomous.  This means that no individual, person, hierarchy or ecclesiastical board dictates what we should believe or  practice, who our leadership should be, how we budget our money or whom we support.  We are governed by our members and the  majority of the work done in the church is by our members.  We are democratic in governance, seeking always to be a community of faith governed and led by God.