Visit our new website at: www.NorthValleyCh.com
All new info/updates, etc. will be posted there. This site remains only for archival purposes, though you will be able to find more information here about North Valley than on the new site at present, so feel free to browse around.

"Not your average Baptist church!"

We are meeting at the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Center

Grand Opening, October 17, 2004!
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Report: there were over 100 people who attended the Grand Opening on 10/17--a great time and good ministry!
 

Announcements

CBF is now North Valley Baptist Church. The name reflects our desire to minister to all the people and communities in the north end of "The Valley."   Pastor Schmidt was recently ordained to the gospel ministry by First Baptist Church, Marilla, NY (his home church and NVBC's sponsoring church). The ordination examination council, consisting of pastors and representatives for more than a dozen churches (mostly from western NY), met on July 10. The formal ordination service was held on Sunday evening, July 11, 2004.   The Marilla Players recently performed the comedy "Every Little Crook and Nanny" at a CBF-sponsored dessert theater, Aug. 18-21 at the Moxie Club in Carbondale. See some pictures from the event.

Services and Location: We are now meeting at 10:30 AM each Sunday in the auditorium of the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Center at the intersection of Business Rt. 6 and Old Plank Rd. in Mayfield. Use the read entrance from the main parking lot (the "River Entrance"). Our church office is in the same building (use the entrance on the side furthest from the intersection). Directions & map

If you live near us, we invite you to visit our services. If you do not have a church home where the Bible is honored as the Word of God or where people really care for each other and are serious about obeying God, consider making us your home church. If you are traveling through or visiting in the area, please worship with us on Sunday.

Carbondale Bible Fellowship began as a Bible study in the fall of 2001, meeting on the mountain above Carbondale in Pastor Schmidt's home. Our concern is to take the Bible seriously. We accept it as the Word of God and study it diligently for the purpose of learning to live as God wants us to live. Our study is not for the purpose of learning more facts (as important as that is), but is intended to impact people's lives in very practical ways. We met in our own facilities in downtown Carbondale from January 2003 to October 2004 when we moved to the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Center. We began the transition from a Bible study ministry to a church in the summer of 2004.

A Simplified Statement of Faith for NVBC (pdf file or as a regular web page)

Worship Guidelines (pdf file)

Newsletters

All the newsletters linked here are in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Please click the "screen" link if you want to read it online (requires the free Acrobat Reader), but if you want to print it out, please use the "print" link--download it to your computer before opening it; it's a very large file in most cases and will not display well (or at least very quickly) online. (To download it, do a "right click" on the print link and select "Save target as..." (In Mac OS X, right click [or Control click] and select "Download link to disk.)

• March-April '04, screen, or print
• Previous newsletters
  • Jan. '04, screen, or print
  • Sept. '03, screen, or print
  • June '03, screen, or print

We'll continue to post more information about the church as time permits.

The Scrapbook

Our current meeting place, the auditorium of the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Center North Valley Preview Service, Aug. 22, 2004 2004 CBF Retreat Misc. pictures 2003 White Elephant Christmas Party Pictures The 2003 Carbondale Parade and Carnival pictures The newest member of the CBF family--Pastor Schmidt's new son! 2003 Easter Sunrise Service pictures 2003 Niagara Falls trip pictures 2002 Christmas party pictures A recent Bible study at the CBF Ministry Center First Baptist Church, Marilla, NY (our sponsoring church)

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