What We Believe
Our congregation is composed of biblically hungry men and women who want to make a difference in this community for Christ and His kingdom. We affirm the 1689 London Baptist Confession, and are a part of the G3 Church Network.
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We are a community of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. We hold to the inerrancy of the Scriptures both the Old and New Testaments. We believe the Bible is the word of God. Our church life and individual lives are committed to following Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture. Pastor Dean is an expository Bible preacher and teacher. We are here to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with our community and around the world.
Our congregation is composed of biblically hungry men and women who want to make a difference in this community for Christ and His kingdom. We affirm the 1689 London Baptist Confession, and are a part of the G3 Church Network.
We believe God is spreading the good news through His church. As such, evangelism is a primary focus in our ministries:
• We are presently developing a pregnancy center to service four surrounding counties;
• We are very active in sending out our people for short term and long term mission trips and financial support to missions in Nicaragua, Senegal, the Philippians, and Papua New Guinea;
• We are active in street evangelism in Lewisburg being out there 3-4 times every week proclaiming God's word.
• ECC has supported home-schooling and most of our families are home-schooled.
• We are active members and the center for WV For Life, Greenbrier County, WV.
• Women's weekly sewing ministry for local hospitals and resource centers (Sonshine Quilters)
• Weekly all church fellowship supper and prayer;
• Pastor Dean's daily "Truth Matters" devotional sent via email.
Church family pot-luck meal, Scripture insight, and prayer 1-1-25, 1-8-25, 1-15-25, 1-22-25, 1-29-25
Gwinn family memorial 1-4-25
Pastor Dean has served as Pastor of Emmanuel Community church since 2000. He is committed to expositionally preaching and teaching God's word. His passion is what is expressed in Colossians 1:28-29 ---"28 Him we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. 29 For this purpose I also labor, striving according to His working, which He works in me in power."
Pastor Dean was married to Jane Ann Pringle for 40 years, until she passed away in 2009. Together they raised four children: Heather, Laura, Amanda, and Clint. Currently, he is married to Gloria June Harper. Although he initially considered pursuing veterinary medicine, he felt called to follow God's leading to a preaching/teaching ministry.
Pastor Dean has worked as a college and university manuscript representative for Prentice Hall Publishing Company, he served as an assistant dean in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin for 3.5 years, he also served as the Administrator of a Cleveland region Christian High School for 5 years. He has 35 years of pastoral experience.
His educational background includes a B.S. from the University of Illinois in Behavioral Neurology, an M.A. in Counseling from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and an M.Div. from Grace Theological Seminary.
Pastor Brdlik has been affiliated with various church organizations, including: Conservative Baptist, Independent Fundamental Churches of America, Southern Baptist Conference, and presently the G3 Network .
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Thinking about past mistakes can weigh heavily on us, creating doubts and fears that can affect our decision-making and overall confidence. However, it's important to recognize that they don't have to dictate our future.
Acknowledging our mistakes and understanding what led to them can be a powerful tool for Godly growth and resilience. Every mistake is an opportunity to learn and improve. By embracing them and moving forward with a positive mindset, we can transform past errors into stepping stones for a better future.
Hebrews 12:11 provides us with hope concerning our past failures and how God uses them to change us and make us more righteous:
all discipline (God bringing us to recognition of mistakes, usually sinful) for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful, but to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
We need to recognize two things here:
1. Our past is checkered with mistakes and sinful decisions.
2. We either can allow our guilt and sorrow to create doubt and fear to stymie our future joy and usefulness for God, or we can learn from these “mistakes” and progress positively under the guidance and power of the Spirit through God's word.
Today's My Utmost for His Highest speaks to this:
At the end of the year, we turn with eagerness to all that God has planned for our future. And yet anxiety is likely to arise from remembering our past. Our present enjoyment of God's grace is likely to be tempered by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays. He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry for the future. He reminds us of the past so that we won't put our trust in the shallow security of the present.
Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return. But God can transform destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep in Christ. Leave the irreparable past in His hands and step into the irresistible future with Him.
What a great New Year's thought...not to let past blunders paralyze us for this new year, but instead, use them as reminders, teaching tools to bring us to a closer walk with Christ and personal righteousness. Never forget, God is sovereign over our past (blunders and all). He will never leave us or forsake us. Learn and go forward this year in His grace.
Hebrews 12:12-13 is our marching orders:
12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
Walk with the King this year and be a blessing!