The East Washington Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Washington, DC, striving to live out the Biblical command to love God, each other and the entire world. This means worshiping and following Jesus Christ not only through our words, but also through the lives we lead.
We began in 1894 and we’re celebrating our 128th year of existence to the glory of God!
The mission of the East Washington Heights Baptist Church is to glorify God by making disciples through the gospel of Jesus Christ. God’s mission and the mission of His Church are inseparably linked. If God’s mission is to be glorified through the redemption and reconciliation of a people, the Church’s mission must orient around the glory of God and seek to glorify Him through redemption and reconciliation.
Our Vision is to be a church of grace-filled people, empowered for community transformation, so that the Gospel is faithfully transferred from person to person and gernation to generation. As Jesus Christ works in and through us to fulfill our mission and pursue our vision, we expect to see results in three areas: Community Transformation, New Church Formation, and Next Generation Empowerment.
The Gospel is ultimately about humanity being restored to God’s community. Only through practicing community will individuals grow fully in the grace and knowledge to be found in Jesus. Furthermore, it is through community that a fragmented world can best witness the power and the nature of God’s work. As a culture of confession, transformation, friendship, forgiveness, justice, power, and love springs up in the lives of normal people, those who don’t know Christ will be compelled to ask: “What Is Happening?”
Connect (or “Missional”) Groups are an essential part of our church, as they provide a place where deeper fellowship and better support for one another can take place. Considering that the early church worshiped in large settings – in the synagogues – as well as in home, we unite together similarly in order to be in deeper fellowship with God and one another. God has reconciled us not only to Himself but also to each other. This “each other” is called His Church.
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