About Friendship Baptist
If you are searching for a church home, we hope you will prayerfully consider the Friendship family.
FAMILY is important to us. Not only our immediate families, but our church family as well. We strive to meet the needs of each home through specialized teaching and training and a commitment of genuine concern for one another.
LEARNING God's Word and His plan for each of our lives is the focus of all preaching and teaching at our church. Our Mission Statement is "Produce committed believers who will impact the world with the gospel that our church may bring glory to God."
WORSHIP is something we do corporately to focus our minds on God. It prepares our hearts to listen to the Holy Spirit as the Word of God is preached. We also encourage individual worship on a daily basis as God blesses us and directs our lives.
MINISTRY is something in which we're commanded to be involved. No matter what area or age group, each of us is an ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a harvest of souls to be gathered and soldiers to be trained for spiritual battle.
SERVICE
We hope you will enjoy visiting with us and will seek God's will in finding a permanent church home.
What we Believe
We are an independent, Bible-believing, teaching and preaching church body who meets together to worship God and give Him glory.
We believe the Scriptures of the Holy Bible to be completely inspired and inerrant in the original writings and perfectly preserved for us as the absolute and final authority in faith and life. We believe in, and hold to, the authority and purity of the Authorized King James Version for English-speaking people.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We believe that Jesus Christ, God the Son, was begotten of the Holy Ghost and born of the virgin Mary as true God and true man. We believe the Holy Spirit was sent by the Father, as promised, to guide us to all truth, convict the world of sin, to glorify Jesus and to transform the lives of believers into the likeness of Christ.
We believe man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby died physically and spiritually. Thus, all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, when they reach an age of moral responsibility, become accountable for their sin.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a substitutionary sacrifice and that all who trust in Him as their personal Savior are redeemed and justified on the grounds of His shed blood alone.
We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven and His present position for the redeemed as High Priest and Advocate.
We believe all who receive Jesus Christ by faith are born of the Holy Ghost and become children of God, an eternally secure relationship. We believe in the personal, pre-millenial and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ for His Church.
We believe that the Church is a spiritual organism made up of all believers in Christ; that in its local manifestation, it is an autonomous assembly of believers. Its ordinances are baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Pastor David & Cathy Klass, Founders
I was raised and saved at the Tulsa Baptist Temple under the ministry of Dr. Clifford Clark. I attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, from 1973 to 1976 and graduated in 1976 with a missions major. While in college I met Cathy Hudberg and we were married in 1978. We have four children: Kjersten, Kaleb, Karson and Kolter.
For eight years we served in various positions in three churches in Colorado, Georgia and Montana. In January of 1986 we started the Friendship Baptist Church in Clancy under the authority of Liberty Baptist Church of Helena, our mother church. In June of 1992, after purchasing acreage, we then began construction of an 8,000 square foot church.
The highlights of our church planting endeavor are many: the joy and satisfaction of seeing souls saved, lives changed and making an impact on an entire community. The Lord has blessed us with a missions-hearted people who have a desire to impact not only their community, but also Montana and the world for Christ.
