First Baptist Church of Portage, Indiana

01/25/2026

Update: We are cancelling all services today, including the scheduled piano recital.

Since the roads are covered with snow right now, we are canceling our Sunday school hour. We are planning our normal 10:45 service. Be safe if you’re out driving. 

12/16/2025

As Christmas approaches, we are reminded of God’s great grace in sending His Son to be our Savior. 🎄✝️

Christmas is about more than a manger—it’s about the gospel. Jesus became one of us, lived the life we could not live, died the death we deserved, and rose again to conquer sin and death for His people.

Join us as we celebrate this good news:

Sunday School – 9:30 AM: Scripture and testimonies focused on the gospel at Christmas

Morning Worship – 10:45 AM: “What Child Is This?”

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service – 6:00 PM

Plan to come—and invite a friend, family member, or neighbor to celebrate the Savior who came for us.

11/30/2025

Our parking lot is plowed, Coffee is on, and the Building is warm. Join us this morning as we worship the Lord together with missionary Chris Frey. We will meet at 9:30 for some information time with Chris, then at 10:45 we will begin our worship service. Chris will bring the Word to us during that hour.

01/13/2024

Because of the extreme cold forecast for the morning, we are cancelling our Sunday Services this week. Please stay safe and warm.

01/16/2022

We will be livestreaming only this morning. Our service will begin at 10:45 A.M.

12/12/2021

Here is the link to this afternoon's live stream of the Three Church Christmas Program. Hope you enjoy it! Join us at 3pm CST

https://youtu.be/4-l4nowiy7w

11/13/2021

We just learned that a member has tested positive for Covid and that a significant number of other members had been exposed to them in the last few days. Since we are facing a number of quarantines involving many in leadership positions, we are cancelling this Sunday's services.

We will communicate throughout the coming week about upcoming services.

We appreciate your understanding and especially your prayers.

08/12/2021

We had a great time at the Railcats game. We had great seats and the weather was perfect for the game.

06/27/2021

Due to technical difficulties we will be unable to live stream this morning. Sorry for the inconvenience we will be back next week.

05/09/2021

We will not have a live stream today. We will be back next week.

04/16/2021

“Cheap Grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap Grace is Grace without discipleship, Grace without the cross, Grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus Christ bids us come and die with him so we might be resurrected with him. Unless a seed is sown and dies, it will not produce life. So too, we must die to sin in order to experience abundant life.

What in your life are you clinging to? Is it family, stability, freedom, routine, sexuality, money, control, relationships? Or is it Jesus the Messiah and his love alone?

“Come, see the cross where love and mercy meet,
As the Son of God is stricken;
Then see His foes lie crushed beneath His feet,
For the Conqueror has risen!
And as the stone is rolled away,
And Christ emerges from the grave,
This vict'ry march continues till the day
Ev'ry eye and heart shall see Him.”

Music video by Keith & Kristyn Getty performing O Church Arise (Arise, Shine). (C) 2017 Getty Music Label, LLChttp://vevo.ly/F0Qi26

04/04/2021

He Is Risen!

Join us for our Easter service at 10:45 this morning.