The Church of Opportunities

The International Bible Baptist Church is a service-oriented Church with a desire to see all its members faithfully serving the Lord. We offer a lot of opportunities to those people who love to worship and serve God by faith. We have been referred to as the “Church with a Heart for souls” and by God’s grace, we want to stay committed to this trust. We also make good on our promise that we will continue to be one of the “friendliest” Churches in the East Bay.

As a first time guest to IBBC, our friendly ushers will hand you an information card to fill out. It is not to snoop in your private lives but to “know you better to serve you greater”. If you need more information about our ministry, please do not hesitate to ask and to talk to our friendly Church staff. It is our hope that you will make IBBC your spiritual home.

Sunday school classes are available for all ages, so you can bring all members of your family. Our classes start at 9:30 until 10:30am. We follow a graded, bible-based curriculum taught by our dedicated teachers. We encourage you to ask questions during the sessions and we will try to provide satisfactory answers as the Word of God directs.

Nursery care is provided for your infants. We do have qualified nursery workers to take care of your babies while you listen to the Word of God.

Worship services begin at 10:30 until 12:30pm. You will enjoy the heart-warming, God-glorifying congregational music, Special music that will comfort your weary souls, and an old fashioned preaching from God’s word.

Prayer Meeting is conducted every Wednesday at 7:00 pm. We gather your prayer requests and with the participation of the Church members, we bring your requests to the throne of God’s grace. This is followed by the Institute hour, featuring our young preachers-in-training expound the Word of God. Finally, another hour of Bible Study time is given with an expositional study from the Pastor.

Home Bible Studies are being conducted nightly in different locations. We are sure that we have one in your neighborhood, so do not hesitate to inquire. We provide Home Bible Study to help edify the faith of God’s children and to win the unsaved neighborhood and love-ones to Christ.

All Church visitations is on Thursdays at 7:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for Christians to serve and to have on-the-job training in Soul-winning, follow-up visitation, and discipleship.

IBBC has an exciting weekend doing Evangelism and Saturation Campaign on Saturdays from 10:00 to 12:00 pm and 1:00 to 3:00 pm. These are conducted in various locations doing door to door saturation, religious survey, street evangelism, and tract distribution.

IBBC also provides exciting time for the young people on Saturday or Sunday afternoons. Quarterly, a sports rally is held to allow the young people some sports activity such as basketball, volleyball, chess, ping-pong, and bowling.

For those who would like to learn more about the Word of God, The International Bible Baptist Institute is for you. It is a college level training program for those who would like to be used more in teaching and preaching ministries. The classes are held regularly on Saturdays at 8:00 to 10:00 am and 4:00 to 6:00 pm. Other classes will be available in the near future. The coming web site will allow you to enroll through the internet and learn God’s word in the privacy of your home.

IBBC provides an excellent academic experience for your school-age children. Using A-Beka curriculum, we provide instructions from Pre-School to Junior High School through our own, the International Bible Baptist Academy, which is recognize as a accredited institution of learning in the states of California.

International Bible Baptist Medical Mission is the newest addition to our growing ministry. It is currently led by our own Dr. Rolando Simeon as medical director. Its purpose is to provide community medical services to the needy here in the States and other Countries. The Lord has blessed IBBC with several medical practitioners such as doctors, dentists, and nurses to provide the services.

As a community outreach to the local community, IBBC has organized the FLAME/Abot-Palad Social Services Program, providing services to the homeless and people in need of counseling. We also provide meals during Thanksgiving and Christmas to benefit the hungry.

To reach the hearing impaired, IBBC will also begin a Deaf Ministry in the near future.

What is IBBC all about?

The International Bible Baptist Church was established as a Bible-believing, Independent, Fundamental, Missionary-minded, New Testament Church that takes a strong stand on Separation from immorality and from the influence of ecumenism. We have the inspired, infallible Word of God as our main textbook and guide and the only source of our faith and practice.

It is the goal of this ministry to carry out the mandate given by the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 28: 18-20, which has the three-fold commands:

By making disciples through the New Birth.

By baptizing the saved ones in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

By teaching the believers to observe the whole counsel of God.

Our desire as the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is to edify and strengthen the faith of the believers to be like Christ, the only model and master. Another goal is to promote Christian fellowship based on the standard of the Scriptures and faithfully administer the Scriptural ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

For World Evangelism, we established the International Bible Baptist Fellowship & Missions to spread God’s Word to the World. We are what the Bible describes as “peculiar people” with the following statement of faith:

The Bible as the plenary and verbally inspired Word of God, preserved for our use through the years to come. (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21; Matthew 24:35)

That salvation is God’s grace alone through repentance and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21; Ephesians 2:8-9)

The virgin birth of Christ. (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23)

The Atonement through the blood of Christ. (Hebrews 9:22)

That there is one God and in the Unity of the Godhead there are 3 persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one.

The Humanity and Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 1: 1,14; Hebrews 1:8; Colossians chapter 1)

The personality and the work of the Holy Spirit. (John 16:7-11; Genesis 1:1-3; Ephesians 1:13-14)

The personality of Satan – the deceiver, the tempter and the reality of sin. (Isaiah 14:12; Ezekiel 28:14-17; Revelation 12:10)

The eternal joy of the saved in heaven and the eternal damnation of the unsaved in hell. (Romans 6:17-18; I Corinthians 15:22; Galatians 3:10)

The local, independent, fundamental New Testament Baptist Church as the kind of Church Jesus established during His earthly personal ministry. (Matthew 16:18)

The pre-millenial, pre-tribulational and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ. (I Thessalonians 5:1-11; Revelations 3:16)

The literal and bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The doctrine of election and the Sovereign Grace of God. Our Salvation is through God’s choosing and prerogatives alone and that man’s responsibility is to answer God by faith, which also comes from God.

The doctrine of election and the Sovereign Grace of God. Our Salvation is through God’s choosing and prerogatives alone and that man’s responsibility is to answer God by faith, which also comes from God.

1. Total depravity. (Romans 3:10-23)
2. Unconditional election. (John 15:16; Romans 8:29; I Peter 1:2)
3. Limited Atonement. The atonement is designed for all but only effective to those who believe. (Hebrews 9:14, 28; I John 1:7)
4. Effectual calling. (John 1:26-29; Romans 8:3)
5. Perseverance of the Faith. (II Timothy 2: 10-13; Lamentation 3:22-23)
6. Soul Winning. (John 3:14-15; 6:44)

The grace of giving through Tithes and offerings. (Acts 2:34-37; Malachi 3:10; I Corinthians 16:2)

The Genesis account of creation and that the universe was the result of God’s direct creation. (Genesis 1:2; Colossians 1: 16-17; Hebrews 11:3)

The doctrine of separation from the worldliness and from teachings contrary to the Word of God.

The spirit of love, humility, meekness in the lives of the believers, underscoring the truth that we are here only because of the Grace of God.

 Click here for the IBBC Brochure.