Our History
History of Martensville Baptist Church
Since August 2002
In August of 2002, Harv Sawatzky (Sharon) was called to pastor Martensville Baptist Church. His mandate was to help the church head in a new direction and become focused on winning the people of Martensville for Christ. Pastor Harv’s gifting is his relational style of leadership and in a loving, humorous way he challenged the church to change. With godly character and hands-on ministry, he led them through a transition towards a healthy, vibrant church.
In the spring of 2006, the Baptist General Conference District of Saskatchewan called Harv to be the half-time District Coach. He remained the Lead Pastor at Martensville Baptist on a “supposedly” part-time basis. This allowed the church to bring on Tim Braun as the Associate Pastor September 1, 2006. Pastor’s Tim’s gifts led him to be responsible for the area of music and small groups. He also was able to help fill the pulpit during the times that Pastor Harv was required to “change hats” to District Coach at another church.
Building for Eternity Campaign was held in the Fall of 2007. It was a 6 week campaign teaching people the scriptural principles of giving. At the Celebration Event, the people of MBC committed $380,000 to a new building program that began in the spring of 2008 and was nearly completed by October 2008. Along with the pledges and gifts regularly on Sundays, the church borrowed the extra needed from Faithlife Financial.
Through all the changes God has shown His faithfulness and He is working in the hearts and lives of people. This is evidenced through our continual climb in attendance. The average attendance on a Sunday morning in 2002 was 53 growing to 163 in 2008.
The history of this church is not complete. God is at work and continues to call us to lead people to becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus.
“being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Phil 1:6
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