The First Baptist Church of Van Horn, TX

Charles Lomax
Deacon and Chairman of Deacons

James Campbell
Deacon and Chairman of Finance

Lloyd Taylor
Deacon and Chairman of Building and Grounds

Charley King
Deacon and Bible Study Teacher

Fred Elmore
Deacon and Head Usher

If you are in need of assistance from our deacons, please email secretary@fbcvh.com or call the church office at 432-283-2010

Pastor Rob Casey and his wife, Julie, joined us in September of 2005.  Pastor Rob has served in a variety of positions in various churches including Minister of Education, Worship Pastor, Evangelism Director, and Family Life Pastor.  He has also been working with teenagers off and on since 1994 beginning as a 7th and 8th grade teacher and tutor in a private school in Houston.  He has been instrumental in sharing Christ with young people in Juvenile Justice Centers, Boot Camps, Youth Camps, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the ongoing ministry of a Youth Pastor.

Rob met Julie while attending Pensacola Christian College in Florida, and they later married in 1998.  He attended The Criswell College for a year before God called him to Pastor in Van Horn, and he's now enrolled in online classes at BH Carroll Theological Institute in Dallas, Texas.  

The greatest news in Rob and Julie's life is the long awaited (nearly 11 years!) arrival of their newborn son, William Thomas Casey, whom they adopted through Buckner Adoption and Family Services in late August.  God has done incredible miracles in their lives over the last several months, and we rejoice with them over their new found family life! 

Rob and Julie enjoy the great outdoors, their two dogs, have a love of music and singing, and can usually be found somewhere in the garden if you can't find him around town with folks, or in front of his computer working on a new podcast episode or video.  He is passionate about communicating the Word of God and really reaching our current generation, nation, and world for Christ.

Pastor would love to hear from you! You can reach him by pastor@fbcvh.com or by calling 432-284-0250 day or night.  Pastor Rob's podcast of Bible Studies and Sermons is easily found on the web at www.answersintruth.com and his ministry of discipleship toward reaching the next generation can be found at www.follow452.com.

"I recognize that we cannot answer every doctrinal question that will arise over the course of ministry and that many folks might have more questions than what this will cover.  However, I want to at least address a basic synopsis of what kind of teaching and preaching you will find here at FBCVH.  If you have questions regarding these statements or other doctrinal issues, I would love the opportunity to chat with you and seek Christ together through them." ~Pastor Rob Casey

  We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the only Savior of the world.  He was born of the virgin Mary, lived a completely sinless life, even though His life was full of every temptation as we have. He was acquainted with our griefs, a man of sorrows.  God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him and have access to the Heavenly Father and eternal life through Jesus, instead of spending eternity separated from God in torment.  It is because He rose from the grave on the third day that we believe and know that we can trust Him and that He really did defeat sin, death, the grave and even hell on our behalf.  He did all of this out of His shared love with the Father and the Spirit, who are all three One, yet distinct, for Their beloved humanity, whom They created in Their likeness in the beginning, along with every other living thing, not to mention the universe itself. 

The Bible, in its original manuscripts is the very living breath of God.  It is completely trustworthy, without error, and is the authoritative work of God to both instruct us in all His ways, and guide us to His love and grace.  Any who would desire to follow Christ may do so.  Upon believing in Jesus Christ and calling on Him as Lord and Savior, one is adopted as a true son of God, given the Holy Spirit as a down-payment of promised heaven, and gifted individually as a part of the whole body of Christ to fulfill great and good works that the Father had planned for His children to walk in before the foundation of the world was laid.  However, there are no good works that any person can do in order to gain this access, this place of promise or this granting of heaven by the Father.  Salvation has always been by grace, through faith, and that not of ourselves, but a gift of God, not of works, so that no one may be able to boast, except in God and the cross of Christ alone.

The world is under the curse of sin.  Every person on Earth that has not believed in Jesus Christ, is lost, held captive by the enemy, Lucifer, to do his will and destined for eternity in hell.  It is only upon receiving the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ that we are free not only from this destiny, but also this bondage to iniquity.

The Lord instituted two practices that the church is to continue in throughout the church age until His return: baptism and communion.  We are baptized after becoming a part of the family of God through our personal faith in Christ.  The Biblical mode of baptism is immersion under water as it fully represents best not only what is spoken of in Scripture but the best picture of what has taken place spiritually in the life of a new believer.  The Lord’s Supper or Communion is a practice representing the New Covenant and physical sacrifice of the Lord’s body for our sin.  His broken body and spilled blood for us is remembered and is to be remembered reverently as we are proclaiming His death to the world as He would wish us to, until He comes.  The table is open to all who believe.

Every believer is called to make disciples.  We do so by doing life with people as we are living life near people.  We are called to come alongside and teach others all that Christ taught us.   We are not called to manipulate people into a verbal assent, get people to merely walk an aisle, or become members of our churches.  As was the ministry of Christ and the Apostles, so should our approaches to ministry be.  While we have no power in and of ourselves to accomplish the tasks of that which can only be described as supernatural, we are endowed with the power of the Holy Spirit, and we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength.