Welcome on behalf of First Baptist Church of Williams Lake.  We are a congregation that is seeking to be faithful to the whole counsel of God.

My aim as the pastor and overseer of this flock is threefold:

1. To strive for the glory of God, that is manifested in His Word, by accurate teaching and proclamation.

2. To see His people guided, guarded, and built up in the means of grace provided through His Word.

3. The continual administration of Church ordinances.

God's glory is seen primarily through vessels and assemblies who stand under the authority of God's most holy Word, and are themselves holy, even as He is holy.  Our day and age is indicative of 1 Timothy 3, and is not unlike those of the past which have disregarded the precepts and principles of God's statutes and the Church's Covenant stipulations.

It has been my burden, since I began preaching at a street ministry back in the mid 90's, to call professing Christians, as well as those outside of Christ, to seek and submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  This was also part and parcel of the Messianic mission of Jesus: to call Israel back to God as much as to call those who would become the Israel of God.

Judgment begins with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?   And if it is with difficulty that the righteous are saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?  These texts have been a banner for my ministry and are reflective of what you will behold in this website.

In short, the ministry of First Baptist is one that is as much to the Church of Jesus Christ (in seeking and striving for reformation and revival in our day) as it is to the lost who still need to be 'born again'.  It is with this in mind that we labor through the Reformational truths made manifest in the recovery of the Gospel by Luther, Calvin, and others, as strive to extol the riches of God's grace in salvation to the glory of His Name.

Our Church motto comes from the Westminster divines who penned, "We exist in order to glorify God and enjoy Him forever."  May the Lord bless you and may you benefit by this website.  We pray all profit gained from what you receive through this ministry that is dedicated to the exaltation of Jesus Christ and the advancement of His Kingdom, go to the glory of God.

In Christ and with His love,
Rev. Darrin Lauder