Mizpah
Baptist Church
Come and see that the
Lord is good!
HELPING ALL FIND CHRIST
"He said to him, " Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself."
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Matthew 22:37-39 (CSB)
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WELCOMING YOU HOME
Welcome to Mizpah Baptist Church. We believe our greatest strength is love. When you come, you will experience the love of Christ as soon as you walk in the door, no matter who you are. Our goal is to help everyone experience Christ and become one of His disciples. Got questions? Great, we would love to chat with you.
History and Etymology for Mizpah
Mizpah, a place in ancient Palestine where Jacob and Laban erected a heap of stones as a sign of covenant between them.
Mizpah is Hebrew for "watchtower". As mentioned in the biblical story of Jacob and Laban, making a pile of stones marked an agreement between two people, with God as their watching witness.
Genesis 31:44-49
44 Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”
45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker. 46 Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound. 47 Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.
48 Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed 49 and also Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.