Welcome to Grace Community Baptist Church

                Located in picturesque Palatka, Florida, we are an independent Baptist church committed to the teaching of God's Word in an expository manner (verse-by-verse and book-by-book). If you are looking to grow in your relationship to Jesus through what the Bible teaches or if you want to know more about a relationship with God, we would be glad to have you come visit or to talk with you more.  See our Location/Contact Us page for more details.

See the live streams of our Sunday messages over on our Facebook page Or listen to all of our sermons here.

Important Grace Community Baptist Church Update (5/13/2020)

The elders have met and decided that beginning this Sunday (5/17) we will start phasing back into having in-person services on Sundays. In this first phase we will not have children’s Sunday School classes on 5/17. We plan on following that up by resuming our Wednesday night prayer service on 5/27. All that being said, we understand that the risk of this illness has not disappeared. So we are resuming with a number of precautions.

• We are continuing to ask those who do come to church to please keep a wise physical distance (6 feet) from each other in accordance with the recommendation of our government similar to how one would be in a store or restaurant.
• We would request that you leave an extra couple seats between different family groups. Please, however, intentionally be an encouragement to one another spiritually in your “personal-bubble-respecting” interactions before, during, and after the services.
• Please remember to wash your hands before you come and after you arrive.
• Please avoid shaking hands and other physical contact.
• If you are sick please do not come.
• If you are in a higher risk category whether by age or by current health situation please consider carefully whether you should come. If it is best for you not to come (given your own situation or the situation of those you care for) we understand. We do not want anyone endangered. All, however, are welcome to come and be encouraged through the truth of God’s Word, singing, prayer, and careful fellowship with one another.
• We will continue to have a Facebook live video stream of our messages. So if you deem that it is not best for you to come in person we would invite you to join us virtually on our church Facebook page or here on our website. We are working on making live-streaming a more permanent part of our ministry. All the audio sermons are also here on the church website for you to listen to. If you need help accessing any of this please let us know.
  
• We will not have our monthly men’s/women’s/fellowship dinners during May or June, and will reassess these kinds of activities along the way.
  

Lastly, we realize that different people have varying understandings of this virus, and the best responses to it. We would simply ask that you live in grace and understanding with each other in all of this. None of us have the complete picture of this all. So let’s not live in fear, but walk in wisdom and love towards each other. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. If there is any way we can serve or help you during this challenging time let us know. We are praying for you all.

We are currently studying the following:
Sunday School -  9:30 a.m. - Psalms (Caleb Dodge)
Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m. - Matthew (Caleb Dodge)
Wed. Prayer Service -  7:00 p.m. -  Prayer Meeting
(Click here to listen to recent messages.)

In addition to the corporate worship services, we [NORMALLY] have a monthly Men's Bible Study and a monthly Women's Bible Study. We also have a Children's Sunday School and Nursery, as well as Wednesday night children's programs for those 6th grade and younger during the school year. Our monthly communion service is generally the last Sunday of the month.