First Baptist Church of Artesia, NM

03/18/2026

See y’all tonight for dinner at 5:30pm & Bible study at 6pm!

03/15/2026

First Baptist Church, Artesia NM Service & Event Stream
Lead Pastor, Ty Houghtaling
Thank you for joining us online for our weekly worship services and special events! We hope that this message encourages you and challenges you to live out your faith daily!

03/11/2026

Artesia Ladies! We’re studying the book of James!! Can’t wait to see you at 6pm at 1st Baptist Church!

03/11/2026

We hope to see you all tonight at 5:30pm for our church family dinner! Bible studies for all ages at 6pm!

03/10/2026

03/08/2026

First Baptist Church, Artesia NM Service & Event Stream
Lead Pastor, Ty Houghtaling
Thank you for joining us online for our weekly worship services and special events! We hope that this message encourages you and challenges you to live out your faith daily!

03/07/2026

Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed tomorrow to spring forward on Sunday!

03/07/2026

🇵🇷 WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 7
Meet Oscar and Wendy Ortiz
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

🎉 Their church plant is small. But their vision is big. When Oscar Ortiz started Iglesia Bautista Esperanza Eterna in Río Grande, Puerto Rico, he knew one new church would not be enough.

🚨“Here, there are 46,000 people and almost no gospel witness,” Oscar says. “We can’t wait until we have lots of people and resources. We need to plant more churches now.”

⚠️ Fortunately, Oscar and his wife, Wendy, have help. Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry arm, is sending volunteer mission teams to Loíza, a needy community where Oscar and Wendy hope to plant another new work. “Loíza is a spiritually dark place,” Wendy says, “but by serving the community, Send Relief is helping open doors for us there. They’re repairing homes and enabling us to build witnessing relationships.”

⛪ Now, a foundation is being laid for what will one day be a new church in Loíza. “We want to be a church plant that plants churches,” Oscar says. “And even though we’re small, now we’re seeing how God is able to do so much more with us than we can imagine.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:
📌 Send Relief teams to connect Oscar and Wendy to more people in Loíza who are open to hearing the gospel.
📌 God to raise up leaders in the church plant who can help start and grow a new work in Loíza.
📌 Doors to open in other nearby communities that need a gospel presence.

03/05/2026

What a week ⬇️

✳️ 170 church planters
✳️ 7 languages in attendance
✳️ 30 states & provinces represented

Send Network Orientation was filled with passionate worship, fervent prayer, and practical equipping—but one theme stood out again and again:

💡 The Kingdom of God.

These planters were reminded that their church plants are part of something far bigger than themselves—a global mission and a growing family of churches.

And that family is helping fuel this work through generous giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.

Thank you to the many who are giving and praying! This work could not be done without you!

03/05/2026

Join BCNM and partnering associations for VBS Trainings happening across New Mexico as we explore Illumination Station: Shining a Light on Who Jesus Really Is.

Lead with confidence and equip your team for an impactful summer!

📍 March 7 (9AM–12PM) – Eastern Hills Baptist Church
📍 March 7 (9AM–12PM) – Sandia Baptist Church • Clovis, NM
📍 March 21 (9AM–12PM) – Bethel Baptist Church Alamogordo
📍 March 24 (6PM–8:30PM) – First Baptist Church of Artesia, NM
📍 April 11 (9AM–12PM) – Calvary Baptist Church of Las Cruces

Our training team LOVES VBS, and we are excited to help you and your leaders get ready for this summer!

For more information, contact Katy Parker at [email protected] or (505) 924-2336.

03/05/2026

✨ WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 5
Troy and Chanel Gause
Marrero, Louisiana

👉 Church business meetings are not normally fertile ground for happy accidents. But Ames Boulevard Baptist Church’s tiny remnant of elderly members unintentionally set a miracle in motion when they voted to hire Troy Gause to mow their grass.

🌱 “That’s how I got to know the church,” Troy says. “I started taking care of their property and learned how they’d dwindled down to just a few faithful members. They were probably just a couple months away from closing their doors.”

⛪ When longtime Ames members like Linda Morrow realized “Troy Gause, Landscaper” was also “Troy Gause, Church Planting Missionary,” they began to pray. “He’d just started a church but needed a place to meet,” she says.

“When we met, it was so clear God was putting us together to replant something new.” Now, the sign out front says Cross Community Church, and the name is not the only thing that’s changed. “There’s life back in this building,” Troy says, “Baptisms are happening, salvations are happening, and this church has been raised from the dead.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:
📌 Humility and understanding as members of Cross Community Church face change.
📌 The new believers Troy has baptized to grow in their faith.
📌 Growth and a gospel witness that the surrounding community will see and be drawn to.

03/05/2026