NAVIGATION
SOCIAL
MAILING ADDRESS SENDING CHURCH Woodlawn Baptist Church 5001 Church Road Bowie, MD 20720 Telephone: 301.464.0433 Website: www.wbcbowie.org
MISSION BOARD Baptist International Missions, Inc. P.O. Box 9215 Chattanooga, TN 37412 Telephone: 423.344.5050 Website: www.bimi.org CONTACT Mail: jeffripg@yahoo.com Telephone: 240.839.8538

ABOUT

JEFFRI’S TESTIMONY

MISSIONS TRIP

June 2012 September 2013 February 2015

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

College: Woodlawn Baptist Institute Chesapeake Baptist College Graduated: Spring 2014 Ministry: Bus Captain 2007-2014 Teens 2009-2014

ADVANTAGES

· I can fluently speak and preach in Spanish. · I am already acquainted with the culture. · I have dual citizenship. (American & Dominican citizenship — I will not have to get a visa).

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

WHAT I BELIEVE
I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was ten years old when I came to the United States of America. As a child, I was introduced to numerous different charismatic churches and made a promise that I would never go to church again because I saw people speak in tongues and many other things. When I was thirteen years old, I was pursuing a dream of making it to the MLB, and therefore began to look for baseball teams to play for. I was introduced to the High School baseball team in October of 2005 that Woodlawn Baptist Church had and on my first practice, I heard a clear presentation of the gospel and accepted Christ as my Savior. After that, I began to come to church faithfully and sat under the preaching of Dr. Ron Fenwick and his preaching transformed my life. As I began to grow as a Christian, I began to go to youth conferences. On my first conference in 2006 in Tennessee, I heard man of God preach, such as Kenny Baldwin, and many others; and at that conference, I made a public profession that God had called me to preach. After that youth conference, I began to soul-win almost every day and joined the bus ministry as captain of Bus 5. As a fourteen year old young man, I began to preach Christ and saw many saved and baptized from my bus route. I have averaged thirty to forty people every Sunday on my bus route and had many special events where I had over seventy people come. I have been able to teach Sunday School in our Junior Church department, preached in teen boys and girls, have trained others to soul-win and work on a bus route, have driven a van route every Sunday for the night service, have preached in many of our Friday nights teen activity, have preached in some of our summer camps, and been able to preach during youth night and our annual youth conference at our church.  I have seen many saved and lives changed. After serving the Lord in the Bus Ministry for over seven years, on May 4, 2012 during my home church's Missions Conference-through the singing and the great message on being in the center of God’s will which was delivered from Dr. Creed-the Lord called me to go to the Dominican Republic. The Lord has given me such a strong desire and passion to reach the Dominican people with the gospel. I have had a blast serving God in Woodlawn Baptist Church, but how can I stay, when my heart is in the Dominican Republic? I hope you would prayerfully consider me.
My   name   is   Pamela   Polanco,   I   was   born   and   raised   in   the   Dominican   Republic.   In   my   family   we   never   had   any   religious   practice,   did   not   attend   any   church,   and my father and my brothers were atheists. When   I   was   12   my   parents   got   divorced   and   I   moved   with   my   mother   and   my   brothers   to   a   new   neighborhood.      Over   the   years,   I   met   a   neighbor   who   was   a member   of   a   church.      She   used   to   invite   me   to   every   service   but   I   never   had   any   interest   in   attending   church.   One   night   in   December   2012,   I   decided   to   go.      My first   impression   when   I   got   there   was   that   people   were   very   friendly   and   welcoming.   That   evening   during   the   church   service,   I   heard   the   gospel,   but   I   still   did not   believe   that   it   was   true.      Well,   I   decided   to   continue   to   attend   the   church   because   I   loved   how   friendly   people   were.      Then,   after   attending   church   for   over five   months   and   listening   to   the   gospel,   I   felt   God's   call   to   salvation.      I   was   scared   because   I   thought   it   couldn’t   be   true,   so   I   decided   not   to   return   to   the   church.        However,   the   seed   of   the   gospel   was   already   planted   in   my   heart   and   the   Holy   Spirit   was   convicting   me   of   my   sin.      So,   I   decided   to   return   once   again   to   Iglesia Bautista   el   Faro   on   June   27,   2013,   and   I   could   no   longer   deny   the   existence   of   an   almighty   God,   or   the   death   of   Jesus   Christ   for   my   sins.      I   asked   Jesus   Christ   to save   me   and   my   life   changed   drastically   after   this.      The   Lord   filled   me   with   peace,   love,   protection   and   he   has   given   me   a   fervent   desire   to   serve   and   be   an instrument for in any way possible.  Shortly   after   my   conversion,   God   gave   me   a   special   desire   to   serve   him   in   the   area   of   missions.      I   thought   to   myself,   if   someone   was   willing   to   give   up everything   they   owned   and   possessed   in   America   to   come   down   to   my   country   to   tell   my   people   about   Jesus,   the   least   I   can   do   is   likewise.      Therefore,   the passion to reach the unreached and to tell the untold was planted in my heart.

PAMELA’S TESTIMONY

I believe in the divine inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. By this is meant a miraculous guidance of the Holy Spirit in their original writing, extending to all parts of the Scriptures equally, applying even to the choice of words, so that the result is the very Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Moreover, it is my conviction that God has exercised such singular care and providence through the ages in preserving the written Word, that the Scriptures as we now have them are in every essential particular as originally given and contain all things necessary to salvation. • I believe that God has preserved His Word for English speaking people in the King James Bible. • I believe in one God revealed as eternally existing in three equal persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe in the Holy Spirit as a divine Person, a personality distinct from the Father and the Son. •I believe that God created an innumerable host of angels, some of whom followed the lead of Lucifer, now called Satan, in rebelling against God, thereby bringing sin into the universe. I believe in Satan's complete defeat by the Lord Jesus Christ through His precious shed blood on the cross and His glorious resurrection from the grave. I believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed. And with such a nature, they are incapable of producing anything acceptable to God. • I believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. I believe that He died for the sins of men as representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that His death was a sufficient expiation for the guilt of all men. I believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate. I believe that Jesus is coming again to gather His faithful followers into the place He has pre-pared for them. • I believe that men are justified by grace through faith, on the ground of the Shed blood of Christ, and that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviorare born again of the Holy Spirit.  I believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost. • I believe that it is the supreme responsibility of believers to testify to the saving power of Christ's gospel, both personally and by supporting missions, at home and to the uttermost part of the earth. • I believe that it is the duty of each believer to live a holy life unto God, keeping himself unspotted from the world, and that it is God's intention that this shall be accomplished in the believer's life by his constant dependence on the divine enablement of the indwelling Holy Spirit. We believe that this experience of deliverance from sin and empowerment for service is designated in the Scriptures as the filling with the Spirit rather than His baptism. Thus the baptism with the Spirit is not an experience to be sought subsequent to re-generation, but is already an accomplished fact once born again. • I believe that God in the Scriptures has progressively revealed Himself through successive ages, during each of which man has been tested in respect of obedience to specific revelation of the will of God; and we believe further that this dispensational viewpoint provides the key to the correct interpretation of the plan and purpose of God in the world, past, present and future, as it relates to the Church, to Israel and to the nations. I believe in the actual offering of a kingdom to the Jews by Christ at His first coming, and His postponement thereof as a result of the rejection by the nation of Israel. I believe that Israel, as well as the Church and nations, is included in the future aspect of God's program. • I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ: Had its historical beginning at Pentecost; is composed solely of believers; is the Body and Bride of our Lord; is distinct from Israel; and that it will be completed as the Gospel is made known to the entire world. The primary usage of the term "church" refers to a local assembly of believers, congregating and structured to carry out the Great Commission of evangelism, baptism, and discipleship of converts. The local church is led by a Pastor, elected by its members. Requirements for membership in the local church are professed faith in Jesus Christ alone as Saviour, believer’s baptism by emersion, and a life in pursuit of the directives lay down in the New Testament. • I believe that at any moment the Rapture of the saved may occur, when "the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven" to catch up His people to meet Him "in the air" and deliver them from the period of judgment on earth designated in Scripture as the 70th Week of Daniel. • I believe in the personal, bodily and pre-millenial return of our Lord Jesus Christ after the 70th week of Daniel. He will then setup His kingdom upon the earth for His thousand year reign, after which He will de-liver the kingdom to the Father, that the Godhead may be all in all.
There are big questions that haunt all of us. What happens when I die? Where will I spend eternity? The single most important question that you will ever answer is this - “If I were to die today, would I spend eternity in Heaven with God?” Your relationship to Jesus Christ is central to the answer to that question. The Bible tells us in I John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life...” The simple truth is God wants you to know where you're going! So, here it is in a nutshell: · First, you must understand your need for a personal Saviour. The Bible is very clear that we all have a huge problem called sin. Romans 3:23 says it this way, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” This verse simply means that none of us are perfect. Are you willing to admit that? · The problem is this - sin has a high price tag. Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death...” In other words, the price for sin is eternal death apart from God in a place called Hell - not a good thing! Because of our sin, none of us can make it into Heaven alone. · Here's the good news - God sent help! The rest of Romans 6:23 says, “...but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Again in Romans 5:8 God says, “But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us!” This leads us to the second step. · You must believe that Jesus Christ wants to be your Saviour! Jesus Christ came to earth as God in the flesh, lived a perfect life, and then voluntarily died on a cross because He loves you. On that cross, He literally paid for all of your sins. He took your blame! He punished Himself for your wrong-doings. What a great gift! · John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God, in His awesome love, came to earth to make a way for you to be forgiven of your sins and given eternal life! · Finally, you must place your full trust in Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour. Romans 10:13 says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” In verse ten of that same chapter God says, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” He says it's as simple as believing and receiving! It's as simple as asking! If you've never asked Jesus Christ to be your personal Saviour, you could do that right now! With Him in your heart, life will make a lot more sense. You could stop right now and sincerely pray something like this: Lord Jesus, I believe that You are God, that You died for my sin, and that You rose again from the dead. I know that I am a sinner, and I ask You now to be my personal Saviour. I'm placing my full trust in You alone, and I now accept Your gift of eternal life. Thank you for keeping Your promise! Amen.

SALVATION

ARE YOU 100% SURE YOU’RE GOING TO HEAVEN?

ABOUT

JEFFRI’S TESTIMONY
I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was ten years old when I came to the United States of America. As a child, I was introduced to numerous different charismatic churches and made a promise that I would never go to church again because I saw people speak in tongues and many other things. When I was thirteen years old, I was pursuing a dream of making it to the MLB, and therefore began to look for baseball teams to play for. I was introduced to the High School baseball team in October of 2005 that Woodlawn Baptist Church had and on my first practice, I heard a clear presentation of the gospel and accepted Christ as my Savior. After that, I began to come to church faithfully and sat under the preaching of Dr. Ron Fenwick and his preaching transformed my life. As I began to grow as a Christian, I began to go to youth conferences. On my first conference in 2006 in Tennessee, I heard man of God preach, such as Kenny Baldwin, and many others; and at that conference, I made a public profession that God had called me to preach. After that youth conference, I began to soul-win almost every day and joined the bus ministry as captain of Bus 5. As a fourteen year old young man, I began to preach Christ and saw many saved and baptized from my bus route. I have averaged thirty to forty people every Sunday on my bus route and had many special events where I had over seventy people come. I have been able to teach Sunday School in our Junior Church department, preached in teen boys and girls, have trained others to soul- win and work on a bus route, have driven a van route every Sunday for the night service, have preached in many of our Friday nights teen activity, have preached in some of our summer camps, and been able to preach during youth night and our annual youth conference at our church.  I have seen many saved and lives changed. After serving the Lord in the Bus Ministry for over seven years, on May 4, 2012 during my home church's Missions Conference-through the singing and the great message on being in the center of God’s will which was delivered from Dr. Creed-the Lord called me to go to the Dominican Republic. The Lord has given me such a strong desire and passion to reach the Dominican people with the gospel. I have had a blast serving God in Woodlawn Baptist Church, but how can I stay, when my heart is in the Dominican Republic? I hope you would prayerfully consider me.

MISSIONS TRIP

June 2012 September 2013 February 2015

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

College: Woodlawn Baptist Institute Chesapeake Baptist College Graduated: Spring 2014 Ministry: Bus Captain 2007-2014 Teens 2009-2014

ADVANTAGES

· I can fluently speak and preach in Spanish. · I am already acquainted with the culture. · I have dual citizenship. (American & Dominican citizenship — I will not have to get a visa).
My    name    is    Pamela    Polanco,    I    was    born    and raised   in   the   Dominican   Republic.   In   my   family we    never    had    any    religious    practice,    did    not attend    any    church,    and    my    father    and    my brothers were atheists. When   I   was   12   my   parents   got   divorced   and   I moved   with   my   mother   and   my   brothers   to   a new    neighborhood.        Over    the    years,    I    met    a neighbor   who   was   a   member   of   a   church.      She used   to   invite   me   to   every   service   but   I   never had   any   interest   in   attending   church.   One   night in    December    2012,    I    decided    to    go.        My    first impression    when    I    got    there    was    that    people were   very   friendly   and   welcoming.   That   evening during   the   church   service,   I   heard   the   gospel,   but I   still   did   not   believe   that   it   was   true.      Well,   I decided     to     continue     to     attend     the     church because   I   loved   how   friendly   people   were.      Then, after   attending   church   for   over   five   months   and listening    to    the    gospel,    I    felt    God's    call    to salvation.        I    was    scared    because    I    thought    it couldn’t   be   true,   so   I   decided   not   to   return   to   the church.         However,   the   seed   of   the   gospel   was already   planted   in   my   heart   and   the   Holy   Spirit was   convicting   me   of   my   sin.      So,   I   decided   to return   once   again   to   Iglesia   Bautista   el   Faro   on June   27,   2013,   and   I   could   no   longer   deny   the existence   of   an   almighty   God,   or   the   death   of Jesus   Christ   for   my   sins.      I   asked   Jesus   Christ   to save    me    and    my    life    changed    drastically    after this.        The    Lord    filled    me    with    peace,    love, protection   and   he   has   given   me   a   fervent   desire to   serve   and   be   an   instrument   for   in   any   way possible.  Shortly    after    my    conversion,    God    gave    me    a special    desire    to    serve    him    in    the    area    of missions.      I   thought   to   myself,   if   someone   was willing    to    give    up    everything    they    owned    and possessed    in    America    to    come    down    to    my country   to   tell   my   people   about   Jesus,   the   least   I can    do    is    likewise.        Therefore,    the    passion    to reach   the   unreached   and   to   tell   the   untold   was planted in my heart.
I believe in the divine inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. By this is meant a miraculous guidance of the Holy Spirit in their original writing, extending to all parts of the Scriptures equally, applying even to the choice of words, so that the result is the very Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Moreover, it is my conviction that God has exercised such singular care and providence through the ages in preserving the written Word, that the Scriptures as we now have them are in every essential particular as originally given and contain all things necessary to salvation. • I believe that God has preserved His Word for English speaking people in the King James Bible. • I believe in one God revealed as eternally existing in three equal persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe in the Holy Spirit as a divine Person, a personality distinct from the Father and the Son. •I believe that God created an innumerable host of angels, some of whom followed the lead of Lucifer, now called Satan, in rebelling against God, thereby bringing sin into the universe. I believe in Satan's complete defeat by the Lord Jesus Christ through His precious shed blood on the cross and His glorious resurrection from the grave. I believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed. And with such a nature, they are incapable of producing anything acceptable to God. • I believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. I believe that He died for the sins of men as representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that His death was a sufficient expiation for the guilt of all men. I believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate. I believe that Jesus is coming again to gather His faithful followers into the place He has pre-pared for them. • I believe that men are justified by grace through faith, on the ground of the Shed blood of Christ, and that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviorare born again of the Holy Spirit.  I believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost. • I believe that it is the supreme responsibility of believers to testify to the saving power of Christ's gospel, both personally and by supporting missions, at home and to the uttermost part of the earth. • I believe that it is the duty of each believer to live a holy life unto God, keeping himself unspotted from the world, and that it is God's intention that this shall be accomplished in the believer's life by his constant dependence on the divine enablement of the indwelling Holy Spirit. We believe that this experience of deliverance from sin and empowerment for service is designated in the Scriptures as the filling with the Spirit rather than His baptism. Thus the baptism with the Spirit is not an experience to be sought subsequent to re-generation, but is already an accomplished fact once born again. • I believe that God in the Scriptures has progressively revealed Himself through successive ages, during each of which man has been tested in respect of obedience to specific revelation of the will of God; and we believe further that this dispensational viewpoint provides the key to the correct interpretation of the plan and purpose of God in the world, past, present and future, as it relates to the Church, to Israel and to the nations. I believe in the actual offering of a kingdom to the Jews by Christ at His first coming, and His postponement thereof as a result of the rejection by the nation of Israel. I believe that Israel, as well as the Church and nations, is included in the future aspect of God's program. • I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ: Had its historical beginning at Pentecost; is composed solely of believers; is the Body and Bride of our Lord; is distinct from Israel; and that it will be completed as the Gospel is made known to the entire world. The primary usage of the term "church" refers to a local assembly of believers, congregating and structured to carry out the Great Commission of evangelism, baptism, and discipleship of converts. The local church is led by a Pastor, elected by its members. Requirements for membership in the local church are professed faith in Jesus Christ alone as Saviour, believer’s baptism by emersion, and a life in pursuit of the directives lay down in the New Testament. • I believe that at any moment the Rapture of the saved may occur, when "the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven" to catch up His people to meet Him "in the air" and deliver them from the period of judgment on earth designated in Scripture as the 70th Week of Daniel. • I believe in the personal, bodily and pre- millenial return of our Lord Jesus Christ after the 70th week of Daniel. He will then setup His kingdom upon the earth for His thousand year reign, after which He will de-liver the kingdom to the Father, that the Godhead may be all in all.
There are big questions that haunt all of us. What happens when I die? Where will I spend eternity? The single most important question that you will ever answer is this - “If I were to die today, would I spend eternity in Heaven with God?” Your relationship to Jesus Christ is central to the answer to that question. The Bible tells us in I John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life...” The simple truth is God wants you to know where you're going! So, here it is in a nutshell: · First, you must understand your need for a personal Saviour. The Bible is very clear that we all have a huge problem called sin. Romans 3:23 says it this way, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” This verse simply means that none of us are perfect. Are you willing to admit that? · The problem is this - sin has a high price tag. Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death...” In other words, the price for sin is eternal death apart from God in a place called Hell - not a good thing! Because of our sin, none of us can make it into Heaven alone. · Here's the good news - God sent help! The rest of Romans 6:23 says, “...but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Again in Romans 5:8 God says, “But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us!” This leads us to the second step. · You must believe that Jesus Christ wants to be your Saviour! Jesus Christ came to earth as God in the flesh, lived a perfect life, and then voluntarily died on a cross because He loves you. On that cross, He literally paid for all of your sins. He took your blame! He punished Himself for your wrong-doings. What a great gift! · John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God, in His awesome love, came to earth to make a way for you to be forgiven of your sins and given eternal life! · Finally, you must place your full trust in Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour. Romans 10:13 says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” In verse ten of that same chapter God says, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” He says it's as simple as believing and receiving! It's as simple as asking! If you've never asked Jesus Christ to be your personal Saviour, you could do that right now! With Him in your heart, life will make a lot more sense. You could stop right now and sincerely pray something like this: Lord Jesus, I believe that You are God, that You died for my sin, and that You rose again from the dead. I know that I am a sinner, and I ask You now to be my personal Saviour. I'm placing my full trust in You alone, and I now accept Your gift of eternal life. Thank you for keeping Your promise! Amen.

SALVATION

ARE YOU 100% SURE YOU’RE GOING TO HEAVEN?

PAMELA’S TESTIMONY

DOCTRINAL

STATEMENT

WHAT I BELIEVE
NAVIGATION
SOCIAL
MAILING ADDRESS
SENDING CHURCH Woodlawn Baptist Church 5001 Church Road Bowie, MD 20720 Telephone: 301.464.0433 Website: www.wbcbowie.org
CONTACT Mail: jeffripg@yahoo.com Telephone: 240.839.8538
JEFFRI & PAMELA POLANCO
JEFF & PAMELA POLANCO