Our Vision at Fairfield Baptist

Our mission is to Love God and Love others....

....and our vision is to
Build Authentic, Biblical Community

Build [bɪld] - verb, built or (Archaic) build·ed; build·ing; noun-verb (used with object)

1. to construct (esp. something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
2. to establish, increase, or strengthen (often fol. by up): to build a business; to build up one's hopes.
3. to mold, form, or create: to build boys into men.
4. to base; found: a relationship built on trust.

au·then·tic [aw-then-tik] -adjective

1. not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
2. having the origin supported by unquestionable evidence; authenticated; verified: an authentic document of the Middle Ages; an authentic work of the old master.
3. entitled to acceptance or belief because of agreement with known facts or experience; reliable; trustworthy: an authentic report on poverty in Africa.
4. Law. executed with all due formalities: an authentic deed.

Bib·li·cal [bib-li-kuhl] -adjective

1. of or in the Bible: a Biblical name.
2. in accord with the Bible.
3. evocative of or suggesting the Bible or Biblical times, esp. in size or extent: disaster on a Biblical scale; a Biblical landscape.

com·mu·ni·ty [kuh-myoo-ni-tee] -noun, plural -ties.

1. a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
2. a locality inhabited by such a group.
3. a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists (usually prec. by the): the business community; the community of scholars.
4. a group of associated nations sharing common interests or a common heritage: the community of Western Europe.
5. Ecclesiastical. a group of men or women leading a common life according to a rule.
6. joint possession, enjoyment, liability, etc.: community of property.
7. similar character; agreement; identity: community of interests.
8. the community, the public; society: the needs of the community.

Our Vision at Fairfield Baptist