What to Expect
Our morning worship attendance averages around 40. Our worship services are "traditional" with expository preaching, hymn-singing to piano and keyboard accompaniment, and a small but effective choir that presents well-written anthems by contemporary composers and arrangers. We highly value prayer, Bible reading and teaching, congregational singing, love towards one another (and friendliness toward visitors), worship, service, and outreach through our support of missionaries, church plants, and ministries. We usually celebrate the Lord's Table (communion) that is open to all believers, at the morning service the 3rd Sunday of each month. Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) are available from the sound console operator. Dress is casual.
Our morning worship attendance averages around 40. Our worship services are "traditional" with expository preaching, hymn-singing to piano and keyboard accompaniment, and a small but effective choir that presents well-written anthems by contemporary composers and arrangers. We highly value prayer, Bible reading and teaching, congregational singing, love towards one another (and friendliness toward visitors), worship, service, and outreach through our support of missionaries, church plants, and ministries. We usually celebrate the Lord's Table (communion) that is open to all believers, at the morning service the 3rd Sunday of each month. Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) are available from the sound console operator. Dress is casual.
Sequoia Baptist Church joins with the many in our nation who are mourning the tragedy that took the life of Charlie Kirk, and also demonstrated the assault on free speech in America today. Mr. Kirk was a man devoted to God, his faith, and his family. He never hesitated to tell anyone that the best thing he ever did was to accept Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord. He had a particular desire to share the truth with college students, telling them as he often would say, "Jesus defeated death so that you could live."
We grieve with and pray for the Kirk family and friends, and the people of Turning Point Ministry; but we also rejoice in knowing that Charlie is with the Lord, having heard the words, "Well done, good and faithful servant." He said he wanted to be remembered for the courage he had in living out his faith, because that was the most important thing to him. At Sequoia, we have the same desire: to be bold and yet gracious in living out our Christian faith.
If you are looking for a Bible-believing church that teaches the truth Charlie Kirk did, and seeks to live it out with the same courage, we invite you to visit.
We grieve with and pray for the Kirk family and friends, and the people of Turning Point Ministry; but we also rejoice in knowing that Charlie is with the Lord, having heard the words, "Well done, good and faithful servant." He said he wanted to be remembered for the courage he had in living out his faith, because that was the most important thing to him. At Sequoia, we have the same desire: to be bold and yet gracious in living out our Christian faith.
If you are looking for a Bible-believing church that teaches the truth Charlie Kirk did, and seeks to live it out with the same courage, we invite you to visit.
The Truths We Embrace
We believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, without error as originally written. It is the complete revelation of His will and His kingdom purposes; and is the only unfailing rule of faith and practice for life.
We believe in one God, Creator and sustainer of all things, ruler over heaven and earth, existing in three persons understood as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-eternal, co-equal, and co-powerful.
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His miraculous conception, His virgin birth, His sinlesss life, His substitutionary death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal, imminent return.
We believe man was created by and for God. That by disobeying God, every person incurred spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all people are sinners by nature, by choice, and by practice.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that all who believe in Him, confessing and repenting from their sins, with true, saving faith are declared righteous and are placed in a right relationship with God.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit indwelling all Christians, enabling and empowering their life and ministry.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of everyone who has ever lived; to everlasting blessedness with God for those in right relationship with Him, to everlasting punishment for those who have rejected His forgiveness of their sins through His Son.
We believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, without error as originally written. It is the complete revelation of His will and His kingdom purposes; and is the only unfailing rule of faith and practice for life.
We believe in one God, Creator and sustainer of all things, ruler over heaven and earth, existing in three persons understood as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-eternal, co-equal, and co-powerful.
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His miraculous conception, His virgin birth, His sinlesss life, His substitutionary death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal, imminent return.
We believe man was created by and for God. That by disobeying God, every person incurred spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all people are sinners by nature, by choice, and by practice.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that all who believe in Him, confessing and repenting from their sins, with true, saving faith are declared righteous and are placed in a right relationship with God.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit indwelling all Christians, enabling and empowering their life and ministry.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of everyone who has ever lived; to everlasting blessedness with God for those in right relationship with Him, to everlasting punishment for those who have rejected His forgiveness of their sins through His Son.
History
Our church was established in 1963 by the First Baptist Church of Auburn as the "Kent Mission," and we have been at our current location since 1968, at which time we adopted our name from the nearby "Sequoia Estates" housing development. Our Pastor, Brian Duffer, transitioned from an interim to permanent pastor in 1994, and he graduated from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 2002.
We are affiliated with the Northwest Baptist Convention of over 500 churches. We dropped our affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention in Oct. 2022.
Our church was established in 1963 by the First Baptist Church of Auburn as the "Kent Mission," and we have been at our current location since 1968, at which time we adopted our name from the nearby "Sequoia Estates" housing development. Our Pastor, Brian Duffer, transitioned from an interim to permanent pastor in 1994, and he graduated from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 2002.
We are affiliated with the Northwest Baptist Convention of over 500 churches. We dropped our affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention in Oct. 2022.