Van Wert, OH
Welcome to First UB Church of Van Wert!
Thank you for visiting our website! We would love to meet you during one of our 10am Sunday worship services. I’m confident that you’ll find friendly people, engaging worship, and inspiring messages from the Bible.
We hope to meet you soon… God bless!
Pastor Mike
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Our Pastor is Mike Burtnett. Mike began serving as First UB’s pastor in April 2025. He has over 20 years of experience serving in church and missions ministry, and he gets excited about helping people worship Jesus with their entire lives. Mike’s sermons are marked by a heavy emphasis on Scripture that also give suggestions on how to apply God’s Word to our lives.
If you have children, we would love to have you join us for worship! We offer children’s church from age 4 through 5th grade during the sermon time (after worship songs & prayer).
Besides Sunday morning worship, we invite you to a Wednesday Bible study that’s open to all people at 6:30pm, and a Thursday women’s Bible study at 6:30pm, both at the church.
The purpose of the First United Brethren in Christ Church is to lead people to Christ so that they will become disciples and grow to maturity in the Christian faith thus producing this faith in others.
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Pastor Mike Burtnett
419.405.3510
First UB is part of the United Brethren in Christ denomination. Headquartered in Huntington, IN, the “UB” has over 200 churches in the United States, primarily in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan & Pennsylvania. Below is the UB Confession of Faith; you can visit ub.org for more info.
In the name of God, we declare and confess before men that we believe in the only true God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; that these three are one–the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father, and the Holy Ghost equal in essence or being with both; that this triune God created the heavens and the earth and all that in them is, visible as well as invisible, and furthermore sustains, governs, protects, and supports the same.
We believe in Jesus Christ; that He is very God and man; that He became incarnate by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Virgin Mary and was born of her; that He is the Savior and Mediator of the whole human race, if they with full faith in Him accept the grace proffered in Jesus; that this Jesus suffered and died on the cross for us, was buried, arose again on the third day, ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God to intercede for us; and that He shall come again at the last day to judge the quick and the dead.
We believe in the Holy Ghost; that He is equal in being with the Father and the Son, and that He comforts the faithful, and guides them into all truth.
We believe in a holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
We believe that the Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God; that it contains the only true way to our salvation; that every true Christian is bound to acknowledge and receive it with the influence of the Spirit of God as the only rule and guide; and that without faith in Jesus Christ, true repentance, forgiveness of sins, and following after Christ, no one can be a true Christian.
We also believe that what is contained in the Holy Scriptures, to wit: the fall in Adam and redemption through Jesus Christ, shall be preached throughout the world.
We believe that the ordinances, viz. baptism and the remembrance of the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, are to be in use and practiced by all Christian societies; and that it is incumbent on all the children of God particularly to practice them; but the manner in which ought always to be left to the judgment and understanding of every individual. Also, the example of washing feet is left to the judgment of every one to practice or not; but it is not becoming of any of our preachers or members to traduce any of their brethren whose judgment and understanding in these respects is different from their own, either in public or in private. Whosoever shall make himself guilty in this respect shall be considered a traducer of his brethren, and shall be answerable for the same.
Source: http://ub.org/discipline/01-cof/