Love, Joy, Peace...
About Us
At First Baptist Church, Blackwood, it's our mission to help you explore your relationship with God and improve those meaningful relationships in your family life. Join us each Sunday and Wednesday to experience the warmth of faith and the strength of our community. We look forward to worshiping with you
Meet Our Elders

Pastor
David McMurray
Senior Pastor
Born: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Life Verse: 1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Worship Leader
Jose Quann
Associate Pastor
Born: Camden, New Jersey
Life Verse: Ephesians 3:20

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Youth Pastor
Marquise Grant
Pastoral Candidate
Born: Camden, New Jersey
Life Verse: Galatian 6:9

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
Youth Pastor
Bill Dolhansky
Elder
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Life Verse: Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Meet Our Deacons

Pastor
Mark Couse
Deacon, Chairman Board of Trustees
Born: Camden, New Jersey
Life Verse: 3 John 1:4

I could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth.
Worship Leader
Don Hickson
Deacon
Born: Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Life Verse: Joshua 1:8

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Youth Pastor
Jeff Hood
Deacon
Born: Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Life Verse: Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Meet Our Board

Worship Leader
John Parsons
Trustee, Treasurer
Born: Swickley, Pennsylvania
Life Verse:John 15:5

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Worship Leader
Margo Venable
Trustee, Clerk
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Life Verse: Psalm 27:4

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
Worship Leader
Vacant
Trustee
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Life Verse: