What to Expect
- How long is the service?
- The service usually lasts about an hour.
- What about kids?
- A nursery is available during all services at the church. Additionally, during the morning worship service, there is a children’s sermon. Subsequently, the children are then dismissed to either stay in the sanctuary or go to the preschool room where there is a lesson and activities.
- What is the service like?
- We primarily use the 2008 hymn book for singing. Furthermore, our services include Scripture readings, choir performances, and children’s sermons. Sermons are Bible-based, focusing on verses. Ultimately, we aim for everyone to participate in worship.
- How do people normally dress?
- We will have a few people in suits, most will be business casual, and some in blue jeans. Nonetheless, what matters to us is that we are tuning our hearts to God’s heart and inviting others to join us. Will we see you Sunday?
Values
Vision Statement: To Know God and Make Him Known
Mission Statement: Our Mission is to Love God, Love God’s People, Love the People God Loves.
Love God
Our lives are God-centered. We are here and have life because of Him. We worship and have a desire to grow closer to Him.
Love God’s People
We love believers. Our desire is to fellowship and grow closer to others who have given their life to follow Christ.
Love the People God Loves
We love those who do not have a relationship with God, and we are committed to being used by God to show His love to them.
Doctrinal Statement
Staff
Vicki Clark
Keenager Director
Donna Grace
Pianist
Pastor Emeritus
Bro. Jack Evans
Bro. Jack Evans served as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1991-2016. Throughout his tenure, he invested his life into the church and the community as a whole. Moreover, loving others in the community moved him to become the chaplain for the Greenbrier Fire Department. Consequently, the work of God through Bro. Jack led to many of the families in the church today coming to be part of the Ebenezer family.
Under his leadership, the church sold the parsonage. Additionally, Bro. Jack and his wife, Dianne, bought a house in Greenbrier determined to make Greenbrier home where they would raise their son, Josh. Moreover, the Evans family helped the church to expand the media focus. Furthermore, another part of Bro. Jack’s legacy is leading the church to build the Fellowship Hall and add more classrooms.
We are forever grateful for the impact Bro. Jack and Dianne Evans have had and continue to have in the life of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
History
Through the years, Ebenezer Baptist Church has looked to the Lord for wisdom and help. Notably, the verse that has had a central impact on the church is “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’” –1 Samuel 7:12
Originally organized in 1874 at Rocky Fork, located on what is now Main Street or Old Distillery Road, about one mile from US Highway 41 in Greenbrier, Tennessee, Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church worshiped at the first location until the group moved to the present site at Ebenezer Road and Church Street in Greenbrier on November 1, 1876. The name was changed from Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church until 1876 when the name was shortened to Ebenezer Baptist Church.
In March 1963, with a membership of 237, construction began on the present sanctuary and basement. The first worship service in the new sanctuary was held on September 22, 1963.
Entering its 150th year of serving God in August of 2024, Ebenezer, meaning “stone of help,” serves as a reminder of God’s continuous assistance. As the stone Samuel set up and called Ebenezer reminded the Israelites of God’s help, may the name of this body of Christ prompt a reflection on God’s ongoing blessings in your life each day.
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I’m come;
And I hope by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.