Dr. Jeff Owens has been the Pastor of Twin Rivers Baptist Church for 10 years. His heartbeat is to see people saved and discipled in Christ. Under his leadership, the church has grown considerably. His vision is for churches to be started all across the nation and the world.
I believe one of the primary missions of the local New Testament Church is the winning of the lost and then the discipling of those converts that we win. It says in Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. This passage of scripture seems to indicate that if we do not have a vision, people will perish. That vision, of course should have as it’s focal point the winning of the lost. One of the primary tools that God has developed for the winning of the unsaved and the discipling of the newly saved people is the local New Testament Baptist Church. The population of America seems to grow, and yet the population of Independent Baptist churches seems to be decreasing. Through the years we have lost many good churches, and we must replace the loss as soon as possible for us to fulfill the great commission. It has been my privilege through the years to assist with the starting hundreds of local New Testament churches. Our Global church Planter Ministry has the burden and desire to plant churches around the world, but especially in America. This ministry is founded and administrated under the Twin Rivers Baptist Church of New Bern, NC. We will plant new churches as well as find good pastors for local churches in need and churches for good men to pastor who are available. On my staff is a man by the name of Zac Howsare. He will help lead this ministry with me and our church team as we push forward for the Lord. Bro. Howsare himself has successfully planted an old time religion church from scratch and is now continuing to help others do the same as he works on our staff. The hope for America will not be found in the White House. I think it will be found in the church house. Please help in prayer and with the finances as we attempt to birth as many independent, fundamental, Bible believing, God-fearing, hell hating, people loving Baptist churches as possible before Jesus Christ comes back.
If we are to reach our nation and the world for Christ it will be by the planting of Biblically sound, evangelistically fervent, local new testament churches. With churches closing their doors daily, it is our desire to both salvage churches on the brink of shutting down, and also plant new churches in those areas that are in need. One Christian congressman was asked by some pastors in D.C. “What can we do to help you in the fight for our country?” The Senator responded “Each of you go back to your city and lead 10,000 people to Christ and disciple them. Then next year do the same thing again. Politics doesn’t change the nation. Christ is what will change the hearts of those voting in the nation.” – What a wise statement! If we are going to reach our generation with the gospel as our Baptist forefathers have in their generations, we must follow the same Biblical plan. We must actively go and plant churches all across our land! Our intent is not only to brightly shine the light of the gospel, but to actually build lighthouses all across our land for the millions in darkness. We pray that you would join us in prayer, join us in financial support, and join us in physical support (as distance allows) to impact our world with the gospel of Jesus Christ!
All for Jesus
Bro. Howsare