Pastor

Brian Keithline

Pastor Brian "knows the scoop." A former journalist for newspapers in the Rockies and the South, Brian discovered the TRUTH about Jesus through his stories. God brought Christian leaders, business owners, and ministers into his life -- through the notepad and lens of a camera -- in such a way that he discovered the "good news."


BREAKING NEWS! With a changed heart and confession of faith in our Lord, Brian felt the excitement and the call to pursue a full-time devotion to serving others through Jesus.


Brian, his wife, Kristy (a middle school teacher of 25+ years), and his son, John, have served churches from the Denver area to Wyoming, and now, Minot, North Dakota. With a start in kids and youth ministry, Pastor Brian doesn't mind "cutting up" and sharing God's sense of humor, but he also doesn't shy away from God's Word of Truth because EVERYDAY MATTERS with Everlasting Hope in Jesus Christ!


Come and visit, and have a cup of coffee on the house with Pastor B.

Visitation pastor

Karen Anderson

Bio Coming Soon!

Our Core Beliefs

  • The preeminence of Christ as our Divine Lord and Master
  • The supreme authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God, and it sufficiency as our rule of faith and practice
  • The right of private interpretation and the competency of the individual soul in direct approach to God
  • The absolute separation of Church and State
  • A regenerate Church membership (John 3:3)
  • The beautiful, symbolic ordinance of the local church and its interdependence in associated fellowship with other Baptist Churches
  • The solemn obligation of majority rule, guaranteeing equal rights to all and special privilege to none
  • The spiritual unity of all believers, for which the Master so earnestly prayed
  • A world-wide program of missions an evangelism in obedience to the great commission

Affiliations

Immanuel Baptist Church is a part of the American Baptist Churches USA and the American Baptist Churches of the Dakotas - A people of faith in Jesus Christ in 56+ congregations spread across North and South Dakota.


Common priorities include:

  • Spiritual Life Development
  • Christ-Centered Ministries
  • Taking the Gospel to the Lost
  • Christian Camping Ministries

Church Covenant

Having been led, as we trust, by the Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and on profession of our faith, having been buried with Him in Baptism and united to His Church, we do now solemnly and joyfully enter in covenant with each other, as one body in Christ, and by the aid of the Holy Spirit we do engage:


  • To order our conversation and conduct in the church and in the world as becometh the Gospel of Christ, endeavoring to watch over and care for one another in love, and with tender sympathy bear one another's burdens and sorrows.
  • To forsake not the assembling of ourselves together, but to attend the public worship of God with our brethren as constantly as possible.
  • To seek and pray for the spirituality, harmony, and prosperity of this Church; sustain its worship, ordinances, disciplines and doctrines; cheerfully contribute of our means as God has prospered us to the support of a faithful and evangelical ministry among us, for the relief of the poor and for the spread of the Gospel through out the world.
  • To search the Scriptures; to pray with and for our families, to be sober and temperate in our deportment; and endeavor, in purity of heart and good will toward men,
  • To exemplify and command our Christian faith, and maintain a conscience void of offense in all relations of life.
  • To be considerate of our Pastor, to pray for him, and especially to heed his warnings and counsels when administered according the precepts and spirit of God's word.
  • In all cases of discipline or of business before the Church we will endeavor to avoid a contentious spirit; and if unable, from a sense of duty to God, to harmonize in opinion with others, we will recognize the right of the majority to govern, and will peaceably submit to its authority.
  • We, moreover, engage that, when we remove from this place, we will as soon as possible unite with some other church of like faith and order where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God's word.