Delmar Baptist Church

God So Loved The World . . .

For over 125 years, we have sought to share the love and hope of Jesus Christ with the St. Louis community. Our projects and affiliations have been many and varied. We are always on the lookout for compassionate ways of engaging God’s world. Recent mission trips to West Virginia and Arkansas served severely impoverished areas through construction projects and ministry to children and youth. Locally, we offer both financial and hands-on support through:

  1. Care and Counseling, an interfaith counseling agency serving the metro St. Louis area
  2. Circle of Concern provides emergency food and other aid to families residing in the Parkway, Rockwood, and Valley Park school districts
  3. St. Louis Energy Care provides emergency utility bill assistance
  4. Salvation Army
  5. St. Louis Community College United Campus Ministry

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.”

— St. Paul

In addition to participating in community ministries, our church offers financial support to the local, national, and international missions efforts of groups such as:

  1. American Baptist Churches USA
  2. Great Rivers Regional Resource Center
  3. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  4. Missouri Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  5. Wycliffe Bible Translators
  6. Central Baptist Children’s Home and Family Services

We also support institutions that value academic freedom, religious liberty and the traditions of historic Baptists. Currently, these include:

  1. Central Baptist Seminary, Kansas City
  2. Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis
  3. Ottowa University, Ottowa, KS
  4. Bacone College, Muskogee, OK
  5. William Jewell College, Liberty, MO

“Some church growth concepts are so focused on the fruit that they fail to consider the root that produces that fruit.”

— Christian Schwarz

Delmar Baptist Church strives to be a healthy congregation that encourages wholeness in Christ. Since 2002, we have devoted ourselves to a church growth process called Natural Church Development. This approach fosters community vitality by nurturing eight essential characteristics common to all healthy and growing congregations:

Empowering Leadership

Gift-oriented Ministry

Passionate Spirituality

Functional Structures

Inspiring Worship Service

Holistic Small Groups

Need-oriented Evangelism

Loving Relationships

We are devoted to becoming a community of faith that embodies these essential qualities. Learn more about Natural Church Development.

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

— C.S. Lewis