Founded in May 2001, Bethel Light FWB Church Ministries is a small, steadily growing, multi-racial, multi-cultured congregation location in the rural area of eastern North Carolina in the Mar-Mac community; just south of the city of Goldsboro; home to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. We are affiliated with the National Convention of Free Will Baptists, USA and the United American Free Will Baptist Denomination, Inc, headquartered in Kinston, NC.

Bethel Light - The House of God, Where The Lamb Is The Light - is a church where God is "Lord of All"; His Holy Spirit is in complete control; and all who truly desire a sincere relationship with the risen Christ are welcome. We are a people who love offering praises and thanksgiving to the God of our salvation. Corporate praise and worship is both taught and encouraged.

Some of the ministries available at our church include:

And other programs/services of major benefit to our members and the surrounding communities.

    The Mission of Bethel Light FWB Church Ministries, Inc. has been developed around Acts chapter 2. It is: To turn unchurched people into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, equipping them to reach their full potential in Him.

    We have broken this statement down into some basic definitions. The unchurched are those people who are either non-Christians or people who have dropped out of the church. These people might be our neighbors, our friends, our relatives, or people we have never met before. They could be children, adults, or elderly people. They might be rich, poor, or middle-class. They might be white, brown, black, or olive-skinned. The one thing that they have in common is that they, like us, need to have a vital personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our job, just like the church in Acts 2, is to find them and give them the opportunity that has been given to us - the opportunity to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

To be a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ means becoming an Acts 2 Christian, it means dying to self and living for Christ, it means becoming the best husband, wife, child, father, mother, sister, brother, worker, boss, citizen and/or church member, that you can be. To be a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ means to take Christ into your own being and striving to become like Him in every way.

    This leads us to the next part of our mission statement. Our job as a church is not just leading people to accept Christ as Savior, it is also equipping them to reach their full potential in Him. Church leaders are called, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. (Eph. 4:12-13, NIV)

    We are not only looking for converts, we are seeking to equip those who are won to Christ with the tools necessary to function in this world as His fully devoted followers. We are called upon to teach both new converts and mature Christians how to live a life that is pleasing to Christ and that results in good works done in His Name.

    May the God of peace, Who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to Whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (Heb. 13:20-21, NIV)