Fairmont Baptist Church

09/03/2026

Feeling scattered, pushed out of your comfort zone, or facing an unexpected detour?'

​In Pastor Rob's sermon last week, he covered Acts 11:19-30, and the early believers were scattered because of intense hardship and persecution. But instead of shutting down, they stepped into new spaces (like Antioch) and started sharing hope with people they had never reached before. God turned their painful displacement into unstoppable purpose.

​Here are three quick encouragements to carry with you today from this story:

​Trust the detour - The disruption you are facing right now might just be God positioning you exactly where someone needs your light.

Be a "Barnabas" - When Barnabas arrived and saw this new, messy, beautiful community, he didn't critique it, he encouraged them to stay true to the Lord. Who can you cheer on today?

​Love in action - When a severe famine was predicted, the Antioch believers didn't hoard their resources out of fear; they immediately gathered support for those in Judea. Real faith shows up when times get tough.

​Your current challenge might be the exact setup for your greatest impact, so keep going, keep encouraging others, and keep looking for ways to share the grace you've been given!

08/29/2026

08/27/2026

This Sunday we're going to hear how God used His people when they had to flee persecution. It's going to be a great Sunday service as we worship in spirit and truth! Feel free to join us at 10:30am!

08/19/2026

Last week we covered how three times a sheet came down from heaven full of animals Peter had spent his life calling unclean, and three times God told him to eat. Peter refused until the voice corrected him plainly (Acts 10:15, ESV): "What God has made clean, do not call common."

The vision wasn't about food. It was preparing Peter to walk into the house of Cornelius, a Roman centurion and who Peter's whole upbringing told him to avoid. And when he arrives, he says it out loud: "God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean" (Acts 10:28).

Peter was following the rules he'd been given his whole life. God still had to interrupt him three times before he'd see a person the way heaven already did.

This week: name one person or group you've already sorted into a category before you let God speak into it, and then do the harder thing Peter did, go toward them, not away!

08/14/2026

This Sunday we're going to examine how God's grace is available to everyone because God is impartial. We hope you can join us as e worship in spirit and truth Sunday mornings at 10:30am.

08/06/2026

This Sunday we are going to be discussing God's impartility from Acts 10, and considering how this should be applied to our lives. Please join us this Sunday at 10:30am as we come together to worship in spirit and truth!

08/05/2026

UPDATE ON EMAIL SCAM ATTEMPT:

We have since found out a copy of the church directory was requested by another fraudulent email using my wife's name of [email protected]. To be clear, this is not Twyla's account.

From there, the scmmer is using my name in an email of rev.robert@fbcsaskatoon@gmail.com reaching out to church members asking for gift card in a format I would never use. To be clear, this is not Pastor Rob's acount.

If you get an meail from either email account, please report and list it as spam in your email.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your assistence.

08/04/2026

Please be aware that someone has attempted to use an email of [email protected] asking for gift cards. It is a spoof account attempting to get responses and they are requesting gift cards. If you get such an email, please report it to Google and mark it as spam.

Thank you so much for your assistance in helping to report the fraudulent account.

06/13/2026

This quote certainly should make us think about whether "the church" is actually helping people with not just their physical needs but their spiritual needs as well.

05/07/2026

When was the last time you saw our storage areas so neat and clean? Thank you to those who came to the church last night and did this amazing act of neatness!