About Us

Loving God and Others with all we are and all we have.

WHO WE ARE

  • You might be wondering where we got the name "Hague" in Hague Baptist Church. Hague is the name of the small, unincorporated community where a group of 11 believers planted our church to reach their neighbors with the gospel in 1911 and where we continue to gather in worship every Sunday. Being a neighborhood church means that we believe reaching and serving our neighbors and local community, just like Jesus did, is crucial to advancing God's Kingdom not only in our neighborhoods, but also to the ends of the earth. While Jesus was on earth he lived, worked, proclaimed God's Kingdom, and experienced the highs and lows of life right alongside his neighbors in the communities he spent time in. That's the kind of neighbors we're aiming to be. As another famous neighbor once asked: "So let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say... Could you be mine? Would you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor?"

  • One of, if not the, primary metaphor for God's people in the Bible is a family. When God saves us we become children of God, other believers are our brothers and sisters, God reveals himself as the Father, after his resurrection Jesus is called the firstborn among many brothers, the church is called the household of God, older women are to be motherly examples and friends to younger women, and younger men ought to be able to look up to and be supported by the older men the way a son imitates and trusts a good father. God started humanity with a family and in many ways the church is a family of families. "God settles the lonely in families," Psalm 68:6 tells us. For many people who've experienced loneliness the family that God ultimately settles them in is his very own family, his church. God's church isn't a business, a group chat, a volunteer organization, a political party, or a hobby club. God's church is a family with God as their Father. A family draws their identity from their father by all sharing in his name (which we call our last or family name). A family functions based on the values of their parents. A family is united by covenant (parents) and blood (kids) not merely by emotional attachments or proximity under a roof. As a church our identity is found in the Lord, we seek to live out his values, and we are covenanted together by the power of his blood. Family isn't something you show up to for a couple hours a week (if the weather's good, you got enough sleep, and you didn't plan something else) and neither is church. Family is living together for God in light of the generations he brought before you, the generations he will bring forth from you, alongside the generation he has placed around you right now. You can join our family through a process we call membership. Tap the link to learn more about What We Believe as members.

  • A lot of good words start with the prefix re-, recreate, relaxed, restoring. That's because many of the best things in life aren't meant to be done just once but over and over gain. Re- simply means again. In fact many of these things are really only good for us if we do them over and over again. For example, when we participate in recreation we are being created again in the sense that we are being returned to a healthy mental, physical, and emotional condition by actively engaging in something that we enjoy and that is good for us. Martin Luther said that all of life is repentance meaning that we repeatedly must be turning away from sin and selfishness and turning towards God throughout our entire lives. All Protestant churches exist today because of a movement called the Reformation which sought to correct errors and false teaching it saw in the church by forming the church once again, according to the truths of God's Word alone, rather than human tradition or sinful pride. The reformers had a saying "Reformed and always reforming" and that will be true of any healthy church. All Christians and all churches need to be examining ourselves and growing in the Lord. His work in our life is never complete and he intends to work in our lives through each other. God doesn't work on us in isolation and God doesn't call us to work alone, we are all works in progress meant to work together. The main way God has provided for us to experience his work in our lives together is by gathering together weekly to worship him (in the Bible "the church" literally means "the gathering"). We'd love for you to join us as we gather this Sunday.

    Because we believe that God is never done working on us and that we aren't meant to work alone Hague Baptist Church is in the process of something called replanting. This is a four year partnership we have with Westside Baptist Church and the North American Mission Board's SEND Network. To learn more about what replanting is and how it works be sure to ask Pastor Alex on the next Sunday you visit us.

Hague Baptist is a neighborhood church, a family of believers,
and a work in progress (like you!).

WHERE IS HAGUE BAPTIST CHURCH?

We are located at 6725 NW 126th Ave Gainesville, FL 32653.

Approximately halfway between Gainesville and Alachua, just north of 441.

WHAT ARE THE SERVICE TIMES?

Sunday: Sunday School 9:45am | Worship Service 11:00am

Wednesday: Prayer Meeting & Dinner: 6:00pm

HOW SHOULD I DRESS?

We don't have a dress code at Hague Baptist and we hope that clothing and other preferences won't keep anyone from worshipping and belonging with us.

HOW LONG IS THE SERVICE?

We aim for around 70 minutes with our services. One reason our services are a little longer than you may be used to is because we take the Lord's Supper together as a church family every week.

WHAT ABOUT MY KIDS?

As a dad to six amazing kids (and another on the way!) this question means so much to me (if you can't tell by the length of this section). One of my deepest convictions is that the church must help build up faithful parents, who will lead Christ-filled families, whose kids will grow up to love and serve Jesus all their lives. To that end Hague Baptist will always be praying, learning, growing, implementing, and modifying our strategies and ministries in order to best equip families with God's Word, according to God's Word.

We practice family integrated worship, which means that we welcome and encourage kids (even your loudest and wiggliest ones) to join not only their family but our whole church family in the worship service. One of the biggest factors in the lives of kids who grew up in church and kept following Jesus as an adult is that they developed their own sense of belonging within the "big church" gathering outside of their age-specific ministries. We believe that dads and moms are the primary spiritual leaders and teachers in their children's lives and that one of the best ways for our kids to learn what it means to gather and worship with God's church is by us modeling it for them and giving them opportunities to participate themselves. Because we believe God has given this special blessing and high calling to parents we want to do everything we can to support you in raising your kids to know and walk with Jesus. We currently have activity sheets with fill in the blank sermon notes and a coloring page to help kids follow along with the service, crayons, booster seats with trays (our youngest kids snack through much of the service) that you can use in the pews, and egg shakers and scarfs so kids who may not be able to sing along yet can still make a joyful noise to the Lord or dance like David. In addition to that we have a gated "Training Area" in the back with two glider chairs and some soft toys so that kids who need to move around or nurse can do so without dad or mom needing to leave the service.

KEY PARTNERSHIP

We partner with and support Sira Christian Pregnancy Center.

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