MINISTRY

Blue Christmas Service 2026

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For many, the Christmas season is a time of joy and celebration—but for others, it can also be a time of grief, loneliness, or difficult memories. Our Blue Christmas Service is a quiet, reflective gathering designed to offer comfort and hope to those who are hurting during the holidays. Through Scripture, prayer, and music, we’ll remember God’s promise to be near to the brokenhearted and to bring light into our darkness.

Stephen Ministry Page
Grief Share Page

Questions?

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Dave Hentschel

Lead Pastor: Preaching, Spiritual Formation, and Care

Contact Pastor Dave with any questions

Questions?

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Rachel Rickershauser

Director of Children's Ministries

Contact Rachel with any questions

Operation Christmas Child 2026

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Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief organization. Their mission is to provide local partners around the world with shoeboxes filled with small toys, hygiene items, and school supplies as a means of reaching out to children in their own communities with the Good News of Jesus Christ. They ship these simple gifts outside the United States to children affected by war, poverty, natural disaster, famine, and disease.

At MBC, we love to participate in OCC! Boxes and brochures are available in the foyer. Drop off boxes at MBC by November 15, and be sure to enclose a $10 donation for each box. You can write 1 check to cover all the boxes you submit, or donate online and check Follow Your Box to track it to its recipient(s). For more info or ideas on packing a shoe box, check out their website here

Collection date is Sunday, November 15.

Contact Lenore Tosi with any questions.

Click here to Email Lenore

Disability Training Event

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Disability Training Event
Saturday, October 17th 8:30am – 11:30am
Location: Fellowship Hall at MBC

This regional training event, hosted in partnership with Joni and Friends, is designed to help participants grow in confidence, awareness, and practical skill as they minister to individuals and families affected by disability.

The morning will be led by Sarah Bush, Regional Coordinator with Joni and Friends. Sarah will guide attendees through helpful training that strengthens both understanding and ministry practice, equipping people to interact with greater care, confidence, and gospel-centered compassion.

The gospel-centered truth behind including the disability community in church and why we need to be intentional about making disciples of all nations, including those affected by disabilities.

  • WHY: What does God say about people affected by disability? And how did Jesus model how we should treat people affected by disability?
  • WHAT does that look like for the church?
  • Supporting a person affected by disability actually supports the entire family
  • WHO is qualified to support people affected by disability at church? (hint: you don’t need to be an expert at anything!)
  • Etiquette tips: using the appropriate language and action steps to welcoming people affected by disability into your church
  • HOW do we support people affected by disability?
Register

Time
8:30am – 11:30am

Cost
Free

Breakfast
Included

Leader
Sarah Bush, Regional Coordinator with Joni and Friends

Audience
MBC attendees and churches throughout the surrounding region

Purpose

The goal of this event is to equip participants to serve people with disabilities and their families with greater understanding, dignity, and confidence. The training will help attendees develop a more thoughtful awareness of disability ministry and offer practical ways to build welcoming, accessible, and meaningful ministry environments.

Schedule

8:30am Breakfast and welcome

9:00am Training session with Sarah Bush

10:30am Discussion, questions, and practical application

11:15am Closing encouragement and next steps

11:30am Event concludes

Invitation Scope

This event will be shared with MBC attendees as well as churches throughout the surrounding area. The intent is to make the training accessible not only to those already serving in disability ministry, but also to those who are exploring how they can better understand, welcome, and minister to people with disabilities.

Who Should Attend

  • Current volunteers and leaders serving within disability ministry
  • Church members who want to grow in their ability to care well for people with disabilities
  • Anyone who wants a greater awareness of how to interact with, welcome, and minister to individuals and families affected by disability
  • Ministry leaders from MBC and other churches in the area who want to strengthen their church’s approach to disability ministry

Questions?

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Bob Erbig

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Family Life & Mission

Contact Bob with any questions

Questions?

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Bob Erbig

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Family Life & Mission

Contact Bob with any questions

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

-2 Timothy 4:1-5, ESV-
Resilient Life
Kids
Family Ministries
Disability Ministry
Disability Training Event
Women
When Love Hurts Group
Men

Contend Conference 2027

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 Contend Conference 2027

Build Deep. Build True. Build for Generations
April 23-25, 2027

A weekend for families and leaders to lay foundations that hold — in worldview, in the home, and in the wider culture — anchored in Matthew 7:24.

REGISTER
Schedule

Why we gather

Equipping believers to contend for truth and resist cultural drift.

In a culture built on shifting sand, Contend ’27 calls believers back to the bedrock — laying foundations in our families, our children’s worldview, and the broader work of cultural renewal.

Key Verse — Matthew 7:24

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” 

The Contend Conference exists to equip believers to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3) — with biblical clarity, practical tools, and courageous conviction.

Conference Themes

1) Recognize the shifting sands of culture

Name where culture and compromise have crept into our assumptions.

2) Equip with discernment

Give families and churches biblical tools for the questions they’re actually facing.

3) Train the next generation

Help kids and teens think biblically and engage culture with confidence.

4) Anchor in the gospel

Point every session back to the good news of Jesus Christ.

Go Deeper: Breakout sessions & tracks

Saturday afternoon offers two breakout sections — choose the track that fits your season of life.

Parents: Sexuality & Gender 
Grounding kids in the goodness of God’s design before culture’s messages reach them.
Speaker: Elizabeth Urbanowicz 

Adults: Social Justice & the Family
How neo-Marxist and postmodern frameworks target marriage and parental authority.
Speaker: Monique Duson

Moms: Discipleship Amid Cultural Hostility
A practical plan for prioritizing your own growth first, then discipling your kids.

Speaker: Erin Kunkle

Parents: Theology of Home
What Scripture says a home is for, and how to build one that points others to God.

Speaker: Erin Kunkle

Teens: Mind Games: Screens & the Mind
An interactive look at how screens shape attention and identity, and how to take back control.

Speaker: Brett Kunkle 

All Ages: Affinity Groups (Outdoors)
Homeschooling, public theology, parent education, and next-gen justice conversations in small groups.

Saturday A.M. Kids Session

Walk Thru the Bible – New Testament

On Saturday 4/24 from 9am – 12pm we have a special offering for all kids ages K-6th called “Walk Thru the Bible: New Testament”. This is a great opportunity for kids to learn about the entire New Testament in just one day. Check out the video below to learn more! 

Foundations don’t build themselves
April 23-25, 2027

MBC Campus

REGISTER

Questions?

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Bob Erbig

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Family Life & Mission

Contact Bob with any questions

Foundations don't build themselves

April 23-25, 2027

MBC Campus

REGISTER

Questions?

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Bob Erbig

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Family Life & Mission

Contact Bob with any questions

Bible Study Fellowship, Mondays 6:55pm

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Men & Women's BSF

Begins Monday, September 14th @ 6:55pm, MBC

Register Here

Romans speaks to our deepest struggles—doubt, pride, fear, and guilt—and leads us to God’s grace. Written for ordinary people, it offers real hope for real life.

In this study, discover how the God who saves also transforms, moving us from striving to surrender, from fear to faith, and from guilt to grace..

Questions? Contact: John Drew, Men’s Class Administrator, or Priya Mamidi, Women’s Class Administrator.

Women will meet in the YFMB (Youth & Family Ministry Building). Men are in the Sanctuary.

Garden Workday October 31st

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Calling all gardeners (and gardener wannabes)! The Men’s Ministry is hosting a campus workday, Saturday, October 31st from 8am to 12pm. Come help us beautify our church property. Tasks include cleaning up our garden beds and minor facility repairs. Come for as little or as long as you’re able—we’d love your help!
Register Here

Questions?

MBC Office

Millington Baptist Church

Contact MBC with any questions

Embracing your Christian Identity – Small Group experience

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Leaders: Andrew Strain, MBC Elder 

Our identity and how we view ourselves affects our behaviors and decisions we make in live. When we tell others we are “in Christ” what does that mean? Learn about who we were created to be, who we are under the fall, and who we are as God’s redeemed. How we should let our Christian Identity guide us going forward in life.

Class will be on Sundays at 11am for five consecutive weeks April 26 – May 24 in YFMB 203.

Watch this video to learn more!

Please contact Andrew Strain with any additional questions. 

Register Here
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Register here to join this class!

Christianity Explored Fall 2026

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What is Christianity Explored?
A relaxed and informal way of sharing the best news you can ever hear, and gives people space and time to think about the big questions of life.

What’s each session about?
Over seven sessions, guests will read Mark’s Gospel to find out more about the life of the person at the heart of the Christian faith – Jesus Christ. The structure of each session is simple: a short Bible study, a talk (you can give your own using our talk outlines or use our films) and a discussion based on the talk.

Can we know God?
Seven sessions looking at Jesus’s life in Mark’s gospel, meeting the man who claimed to be God and discovering how he changed history.

Registration

When does the group meet
Christianity Explored begins October 18th at 11am. The group will be meeting in YFMB room 202.

Questions?
Contact the MBC Office ()

Disability Ministry

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Our Vision
Weakness Is Not the Exception. It’s the Canvas.

Throughout Scripture, God consistently reveals His glory not through strength, achievement, or perfection—but through limitation, suffering, and dependence. From Jacob’s limp to Moses’ stammering tongue, from Mephibosheth welcomed at the king’s table to the man born blind, the biblical witness is clear: disability is not an exception to the image of God, but an expression of it. At Millington Baptist Church, Upside Down Glory is our commitment to live out this conviction together—building a church family where every person, of every ability, is welcomed, discipled, and empowered as an essential member of the Body of Christ.

This ministry is more than a program—it is a culture. Through our partnership with Joni and Friends, our Disability Leadership Team (DsLT), and a growing network of care, hospitality, and outreach, we are working toward a church that looks like the Kingdom: a table with room for everyone. Whether you are personally navigating disability, loving someone who is, or simply answering a call to serve the overlooked, there is a place for you here. Explore the resources below, join our team, and help us become a church known for the upside-down, glory-revealing love of Jesus Christ.

Intake Form

“Dignity before ability. Belonging before healing.”

Christ-Centered
Every act of service reflects the compassion and truth of Jesus.

Collaboration
We partner across ministries with unity, humility, and shared purpose.

Learning Posture
We pursue continual growth in understanding and practice.

Hospitality
We create environments of belonging for every individual and family.

Outreach
We engage our community as ambassadors of Christ’s inclusive love.

First Step
Help Us Serve You Well

Every person’s story is different. Our Disability Intake Form helps us understand the unique needs of individuals and families in our congregation and community—so we can walk alongside you with care that is personal, not generic.

Takes about 5 minutes

Confidential and reviewed by our Care Team

Helps us connect you with the right people and resources

No obligation—just a conversation starter

Intake Form
Serving Form

Resources
Grow Deeper. Serve Better.
Whether you’re new to disability ministry or looking to deepen your theological foundations, these resources will equip and inspire you.

Sermon Series

Upside Down Glory — 8 Week Series.
This series walks through Scripture to redefine ability, confront suffering with hope, and build a truly welcoming church family.

Sermon Series

Ministry Partner

Joni and Friends
MBC has partnered with Joni and Friends to develop training, coaching, and resources for disability ministry in our local church and community.

Website
Youtube Training Resources

Recommended Reading

Books on Disability & the Church
MBC has partnered with Joni and Friends to develop training, coaching, and resources for disability ministry in our local church and community. Check out these resources:

Podcast

Joni and Friends Podcast
Hosted by Joni Eareckson Tada, this podcast explores faith, disability, and the love of Christ for every person.

Listen Now

Church Resource

Key Ministry
Practical tools and training for churches seeking to include children and adults with disabilities in every area of congregational life.

Visit Key Ministry

Disability Support Team

Support Team
The Disability Support Team is the hands-and-feet engine behind MBC’s disability ministry. While the Disability Leadership Team sets the vision and strategy, the Support Team makes it real—showing up week in and week out to welcome families, assist individuals, and ensure that no one navigates church life alone. No specialized credentials required, just a willing heart and a belief that every person belongs at the table.

Learn More

Get Involved

Tell us about yourself or your family member. Every form is reviewed by our Care Team so we can learn how to serve you better—personally and practically. Click HERE for intake form

We’re looking for members from Kids, Student, Care, Hospitality, and Outreach Ministries to serve on the DsLT.

Equip yourself through Joni and Friends partnership training to serve families impacted by disability.

Our Parent’s Night Out Respite Program is launching soon. Volunteers needed to give caregivers a meaningful rest.

Disability Ministry Internship
MBC is excited to announce a BRAND NEW internship opportunity in our disability ministry! Interested in learning more? Check out the information packet and fill out an application today!

Disability Ministry Intern Packet
Internship Application

Questions?

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Bob Erbig

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Family Life & Mission

Contact Bob with any questions

Questions?

Picture of Bob Erbig

Bob Erbig

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Family Life & Mission

Contact Bob with any questions

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

-2 Timothy 4:1-5, ESV-
Ezekiel
Resilient Life
Pastor's Table Blog
Grief Share
MBC Safety & Security Team
Missions - World Partners
MBC Hospitality Team
Teens

MBC 175th Anniversary Banquet

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175 years of God’s faithfulness to MBC. We are amazed at the wonderful works God has done through his church over the past 175 years. To remember all that he has done and celebrate all that he has done, we will be having a 175th anniversary banquet! This banquet will be taking place on Thursday, November 12th at 6pm. We hope you can join us!
Register Here
2025 Annual Report

Update 3/16/2023

The Annual Business Meeting was a great time for the church to recap the past fiscal year and to look forward to 2023-2024. Pastor Bob & Pastor Dave spoke about our plans to continue to be firmly planted, growing together, and investing in the lives of others. Larry Blakeman shared about the budget and new World Partners. We had a good time celebrating what God has done and expectant of the future of our church.

We did have quorum and voted unanimously to pass the proposed budget for 2023-2024.

Also, a motion carried unanimously for additional funding that was requested for 2022-2023. 

Hock Ng presented from the Elder Nominating Committee five new candidates: 

  • Jeff Callender (2nd term – 3 years)
  • Chris Dowden (1st term – 3 years)
  • Andrew Strain (1st term – 3 years)
  • Jan Torgrimsen (2nd term – 3 years)
  • Paul Wilford (Unexpired 1 year term – 1 year)

All gentlemen were approved.

Doug Hulin, Elder Vice-Chair, thanked our outgoing elders, Paul Achenbach and Hock Ng, for their investment, dedication, and leadership in so many areas. 

Pray for your involvement in MBC’s Vision based on Psalm 1:1-3.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 

Annual Report Download

We are offering childcare during the meeting as needed. Must register by March 12th please.

Child Care Register Here

Wednesday, March 15, 7pm, In-Person Only

Our Annual Business Meeting is an important time for our church as we celebrate all that God is doing at MBC and plan for the exciting year ahead.

This year’s Annual Business Meeting will be conducted in-person in our Sanctuary on Wednesday, March 16, at 7pm.

Members will be emailed instructions on how to login to the ABM portal. This is the same web portal we used last year. You’ll need your username and password. There is a “forgot password” feature, in case you forgot.

We encourage all members to login prior to the meeting so that you can watch Pastor Bob’s pre-meeting instructions video as well as familiarize yourself with the Annual Business Meeting portal.

Most importantly, your participation is essential to this meeting’s success. According to our constitution, first we need 20% of active voting members to attend the meeting to constitute a quorum. Second, of those attending, we need a simple majority vote to both approve the annual operating budget and to elect members to the Board of Elders. Please make every effort to attend and vote.

2021 Annual Report
2020 Annual Report

Save the Date: Wednesday, March 17, 7pm

Our Annual Business Meeting is an important time for our church as we celebrate all that God is doing at MBC and plan for the exciting year ahead. Due to the pressing concerns with COVID-19 and congregating in large groups we are creating a virtual forum in lieu of a live presentation in our sanctuary.

 

We encourage you to watch the meeting presentation, download and review the Annual Report, and participate in the Online Voting that was emailed to every MBC Member. This email covers voting for the church budget for the upcoming fiscal year and leadership positions within our body. The Center will be compiling the votes in order to preserve anonymity.

 

Your participation is essential to this meeting’s success. According to our constitution, first we need 20% of active voting members to attend the meeting (watching/voting) to constitute a quorum. Second, of those attending, we need a simple majority vote to both approve the annual operating budget and to elect members to the Board of Elders. Please make every effort to attend and vote.

Step ONE: Download

Annual Report

Step Two: Download

Slideshow

Step Three: Watch

Video Below

Step Four: Ask

Ask Questions

Step Five: Vote

Vote Here

Annual Meeting Presentation

HAVE QUESTIONS?
Call the church office at 908-647-0594 or email MBC Office.

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