Join us on Sunday, March 15, 2026 4pm-6pm for an indoor Pickleball event at the new PickleRage center: 900 North Avenue in Plainfield, NJ. For those able to stay, a casual dinner option is available onsite from 6-7pm. Special thanks to the Men’s Ministry for subsidizing the cost of dinner!
Teens
Disabilities Ministry
“God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.”
1 Corinthians 1:27
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.
“Dignity before ability. Belonging before healing.”
Get Involved
Step 1: Intake Form
Step 2: Join the Disability Leadership Team
Step 3: Attend Volunteer Training
Step 4: Support the Respite Program
Step 1: Intake Form
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
Step 2: Join the Disability Leadership Team
We’re looking for members from Kids, Student, Care, Hospitality, and Outreach Ministries to serve on the DsLT.
Step 3: Attend Volunteer Training
Equip yourself through Joni and Friends partnership training to serve families impacted by disability.
Step 4: Support the Respite Program
Our Parent’s Night Out Respite Program is launching soon. Volunteers needed to give caregivers a meaningful rest.
Video
- Raising The Next Generation in Turbulent Time by Voddie Bauchum
- Helping The Next Generation Navigate Today’s World by John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle
- How to Raise and Alien Child by Jen Wilkin
- The Storm Tossed Family: How The Cross Reshapes the Home by Russell Moore
- The Strange New World of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
Books
- Parenting: 14 Gospel Principals That Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp
- The Tech Wise Family: Everyday Steps to Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch
- Running With Horses: A Parenting Guide for Raising Children to be Servant Leaders for Christ by Larry Taylor
- A Practical Guide to Culture by John Stonestreet & Brett Kunkle
- Strange New World by Carl Trueman
- How Children Raise Parents by Dan Allender
- The Intentional Father by Jon Tyson
- Faithfull Different by Natasha Crain
- Another Gospel by Alisa Childers
Podcast
- The Think Biblically Podcast
- The Upstream
Seminars
Several times a year we offer seminars for MBC families and those in our community. We run these events to equip families to navigate the difficult cultural terrain we are living in. Here are examples of past seminar topics:
- The Tech-Wise Family
- Raising Generation Z
- Families in an Age of Anxiety
Ministering to Those with Disabilities
Check out this video that overviews the heart behind our “Upside Down Glory” ministry at MBC
Questions?
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.
In the Upper Room – Maundy Thursday 2026
Thursday, April 2, 7pm, Sanctuary
No Childcare available.
Come and join us for Maundy Thursday 2026! Our service will be at 7pm at MBC and we will be blessed to have another performance this year entitled “In The Upper Room”. We will also be having a time of communion during the night. We hope you can join us.
Experience the powerful story of Mary, a Jerusalem widow navigating doubt and devotion in David Dunlap’s “In the Upper Room.” As she opens her home to Jesus and his disciples, her private sanctuary becomes the historic site of the Last Supper. Join us for this moving exploration of faith, sacrifice, and the quiet courage it takes to support a divine calling.
Hare-Raising Egg Party – March 28th
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Saturday, March 28, 10am-12pm
VIP Access for Special Needs families begins 9:30am.
Rain or Shine!
The Hare-Raising Egg Party is back on Saturday, March 28th, from 10am – 12pm! Families and kids will love the egg and bunny themed games, crafts, and a petting zoo! Kids of all ages will enjoy this family-friendly event. Did we mention candy?? Kids will receive candy and prizes at the carnival game stations.
We’re also collecting individually wrapped candy for this event. Drop off in the foyer on Sundays or in the main office during the week.
Bake Sale: to support our teens going on a missions trip to Tennessee this summer.
Clothing Collection: We’ll be collecting gently used spring/summer clothing for babies, kids and teens for our ministry partner, Street Hope Alive, located in Paterson, NJ. Please consider doing some spring closet cleaning and bring your donated clothes to the Egg Party!
Raffle: Register to attend by March 27 to be included in the raffle drawing for PRIZES!
RAIN OR SHINE!
Saturday, April 12, 3pm-5pm
(VIP Access for Special Needs families begins 2:30pm.)
The Hare-Raising Egg Party is back on Saturday, April 12th, from 3pm-5pm! Families and kids will love the egg and bunny themed games, crafts, and a petting zoo! Kids of all ages will enjoy this family-friendly event. Did we mention candy?? Kids will receive candy and prizes at the carnival game stations.
VIP Access for 2:30pm. We ask that only families with children with special needs register for the 2:30pm time slot.
General access starts at 3pm, so everyone else please register for either the 3pm or 4pm timeslot.
Register by March 29 to be included in the raffle drawing for PRIZES!
*Registration is encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome.
Join the Hare-Raising Easter Party Crew
MBC, we need your support! You can register to serve at the event below. And please consider donating candy- we’ll need lots! (We don’t need plastic eggs.) Thank you in advance!
QUESTIONS?
Contact Rachel (rachel@millingtonbaptist.org).
NEW THIS YEAR!
We’ll be collecting gently used spring clothing for kids and teens (sizes 2T – adult small) for our local ministry partner, Street Hope Alive. Please consider doing some spring closet cleaning and bring your donated clothes to the Egg Party!
We will have a donation area in the YFMB.
Thank you!
VBS 2026 – Rainforest Falls
July 13-17, 2026
As kids step into Rainforest Falls, they will discover the nature of God and what it means to be rooted in a lifelong relationship with their Creator.
Registration is open!
Contact Rachel for waitlist
July 13, 2026 — July 17, 2026
9:00am to 12:15pm
• $35 for 1 child
• $60 for 2 children
• $90 for 3 or more
Add just $3 to receive the music digital download card! (Valued at $7)
• If it’s your first time volunteering, we’ll ask you to go through our screening process.
• NOTE: Priority is given to Returning VBS volunteers, MBC attenders, and 6th graders returning as 7th grade volunteers. Teens and adults from other churches may be put on a volunteer waitlist.
Contact Rachel Rickershauser with any questions (rachel@millingtonbaptist.org)
Night of Revival, January 16
On Friday, January 16 at 6:30pm MBC will be hosting “Night of Revival 2026”.
At this event there will be worship, a message, and some time for prayer. We are also encouraging people to invite friends, family, and neighbors who are both saved and unsaved to the event so that they might get to experience the love of Christ and hear the word of Christ proclaimed!
We hope you join us for Night of Revival 2026.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
For more information email Noah Graves
Circle of Sisters
Circle of Sisters Study Dates for 2025-2026. Sundays following 2nd service – 2pm.
September 21, 2025
October 5, 2025
October 19, 2025
November 2, 2025
November 16, 2025
December 7, 2025
January 11, 2026
January 25, 2026
February 8, 2026
February 22, 2026
March 8, 2026
March 22, 2026
April 12, 2026
April 26, 2026
May 17, 2026
HAVE QUESTIONS?
Contact Gail Loehr (galoehr@gmail.com) or Deirdre Rajoppi (deirdre170@hotmail.com)
Grief Share
Healing Through Grief: A Safe Place to Share & Grow
An MBC Grief Share support group is a safe, welcoming place where people understand the difficult emotions of grief. Through this 13-week group, you’ll discover what to expect in the days ahead and what’s “normal” in grief. Since there are no neat, orderly stages of grief, you’ll learn helpful ways of coping with grief, in all its unpredictability—and gain solid support each step of the way.
| Meeting | Date |
|---|---|
| 1 – Is This Normal? | Thu, Mar 13, 2025 |
| 2 – Your Grief Journey | Thu, Mar 20, 2025 |
| 3 – Loneliness & Sadness | Thu, Mar 27, 2025 |
| 4 – Self-Care | Thu, Apr 03, 2025 |
| 5 – Fearful & Overwhelmed | Thu, Apr 10, 2025 |
| 6 – Anger | Thu, Apr 24, 2025 |
| 7 – Regrets | Thu, May 01, 2025 |
| 8 – Grief & Your Household | Thu, May 08, 2025 |
| 9 – Grief & Your Friendships | Thu, May 15, 2025 |
| 10 – Questions for God | Thu, May 22, 2025 |
| 11 – Stuck in Grief | Thu, May 29, 2025 |
| 12 – Hope & Resilience | Thu, Jun 05, 2025 |
| 13 – What Do I Live For Now? | Thu, Jun 12, 2025 |
| Floating Week | Thu, Jun 19, 2025 |
If you regularly attend MBC register here.
https://www.griefshare.org/leaderzone/promotion/logos
User: dave@millingtonbaptist.org
Password: GriefshareMBC
Resilient Life
The Resilient Life
We live in an anxious age. Our 24 hour news cycle, social media hype, and globally connected world fuels our fears. Danger seems to be lurking around every corner. To counter this, the secular world has crafted “safe spaces” to shield the next generation from pain and suffering. But is this the solution? Are we meant to avoid stress and live a comfortable?
Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians tells a different story. With boldness and love, Paul exhorts the believers: “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; (2 Corinthians 4:8-9, ESV).” In short, he calls the Corinthian Christians, and us, to love the resilient life?
Supporting Resources
Se7en Churches of Revelation – small group workbook
Se7en Churches of Revelation – Sermon Series
Symbols in the Book of Revelation.
What is the resilient life? We are able to recover quickly, because we know where our hope lies. As Paul writes, “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison (2 Cor. 4:16-17, ESV).” This series will look at themes in 2nd Corinthians and draw from the five practices of resilience outlined in the book Faith for Exiles. By the end of this series, we hope you will be prepared to live a RESILIENT LIFE for Christ.
Act I Sermon Schedule:
12/3 Luke 1:1-4 Intro: Letter to Theophilus & Overview
12/10 Luke 1:5-38 Prediction of John and Jesus’ Birth
12/7 Luke 1:39-80 Mary’s Prayer and Zechariah’s Prophecy
12/24 Luke 2:1-52 The Birth of Jesus
Christmas Eve Morning at 10am
Christmas Eve 4pm & 5:30pm
Don't miss ACT II - Introduction of Jesus, Luke 3-9. Beginning December 31
Sermons
Passion Conference 2026
Arlington, TX, January 1-3, 2026
MBC is inviting young adults (ages 18-25, post-HS) to the Passion Conference in Arlington, Texas which will take place January 1st to 3rd, 2026. Come experience a life-transforming conference of worship, messages, and community together with your fellow young adults.
Contact Johnny Graves for more information. Interest form below.
If you are 100% in please confirm by May 28th to guarantee a spot.
(tickets open May 29th, we feel it may sell out quickly)
If you are interested but not confirmed, sign up on the waiting list and we will attempt to purchase another round of tickets if tickets are still available later down the road.
Please email/call Ben Youtkus or James Ciannello to confirm your spot.
