Fellowship Free Will Baptist Church
2313 Portland Avenue
Kingsport, TN 37660
(Click here for map)
423-288-5835
Schedule of Services:
Sunday Mornings:
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service - 10:30 a.m.
Children's Church - 10:30 a.m. on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays in each month
Staffed nursery available each week
Wednesday Evenings: 6:30 p.m.
Welcome to the Fellowship Free Will Baptist Church web site.
If you are looking for a friendly, Bible-believing church in the Kingsport, Tennessee, area, we would be excited to see you visiting in our services. We are conveniently located in the Bloomingdale area just one block from John B. Dennis Highway.
Pastor Josh McKinney and Family
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News:
Special Services on Sunday, January 26
We will be having a day of special services on Sunday, January 26. First, during our Sunday school hour beginning at 9:30 a.m., we will have a special presentation by Chris Dotson, the Director of the Tennessee State Association of Free Will Baptists. Dr. Dotson’s presentation will be “The History of Tennessee Free Will Baptists.” All of our adults will have one combined Sunday school class for this special presentation, while the children will still attend their respective age-appropriate classes.
During the worship service, at 10:30 a.m., we are excited to have a musical concert by the group Phillips & Banks! They are a southern gospel group that is well-known in our region. For more about the group, visit their website here. After the concert, Dr. Chris Dotson will be preaching for us.
Please be sure to join us for these special services!
Spring Retreat for Senior Adults/Legacy Conference – March 10-12
Details have been announced for the Tennessee State Free Will Baptist Legacy Conference, a Spring Retreat for Senior Adults. The retreat will be held from March 10-12, 2025, again at the historic General Morgan Inn located in Greeneville, TN. This year’s special speaker will be Rev. Glenn Poston, former director of the Tennessee State Association of FWB and currently pastor of Corner Stone Church in Murfreesboro. Rev. Jon Forrest will be providing special entertainment; he is a veteran youth pastor, having served Bethel Church in Ashland City for 30 years.
Tickets for the entire conference are $79.95 per person and include the conference, a full breakfast on both mornings, and a delicious dessert each night. This does NOT include lodging at the hotel. To register for the conference, or to learn more details, go to the conference web page here. If you wish to make hotel reservations, you will need to contact the General Morgan Inn directly; the phone number and website link are on the conference web page. You may also opt to drive from home to Greeneville each day; it’s only about an hour away from Kingsport.
Tennessee ECHO Newsletter Going All-Digital
The ECHO newsletter from the Tennessee State Association of Free Will Baptists is going all-digital in 2025. Due to the ever-increasing cost of printing and mailing, the Association has decided to discontinue the printed copies. If you want to continue receiving, or begin receiving, the ECHO publication, you will need to sign up for email and/or text messages on the TNFWB’s Flocknote system by going to https://tnfwb.flocknote.com/ or you may scan the QR code below with your cellphone camera.
Sermon from December 29
The sermon from Sunday, December 29, is now available on our Sermons 2024 page. Pastor Josh presented an epilogue to his series of Christmas sermons; the message is entitled “His Destiny, Our Eternity.”
Services on January 5, 2025, were cancelled due to bad weather, so we have no sermon to post for that date.
Video of the Month for January
We have updated our Video of the Month page a few days early, for January. As the new year begins, it’s a good time to think about a new beginning in our relationship with God. So we are featuring a song called “God of New Beginnings” by Gordon Mote. Let us also pray that in 2025 we find ways to reach out to broken people, like those in the song, who may not know that there is a God whom they can turn to for a new beginning.
Winter Weather Reminder
As a reminder, all last-minute service changes due to bad weather (or any other last-minute reason) are communicated via the One Call Now telephone system. (This is the same system we use to relay prayer requests.) If you are not receiving the messages from One Call Now and need to be added to the list, please contact Pastor Josh.
Please also note that if you need to hear a message again, or if you think you may have missed a call, you may dial 1-877-698-3261 and follow the instructions to hear one or more recent messages. This phone number is also listed on our Schedule Changes page.
Welcome New Pastor Rev. Josh McKinney!
Fellowship Church would like to extend a warm welcome to our new pastor, Rev. Josh McKinney. Pastor Josh grew up in our church and eventually felt the call to ministry. He left us to become pastor at another church, where he served faithfully for the past nine years. Now he is coming home to lead us here at Fellowship! We are excited to have him back and are looking forward to seeing how the Lord will use Josh as he leads us!
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