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The Mission of Golf Road Church

Golf Road Baptist Church exists for the purpose of making disciples for Christ who grow in their love for God and people.

We are an international and multi-racial congregation made up of people from over 15 different native countries. Our church is committed to serving the Chicagoland area and beyond for God’s Kingdom as we provide Biblical preaching and teaching, along with Spirit-led worship, to help people become devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. As God loves all people, we as His followers prove our love for Him in our care for one another (John 13:34 & 35). At Golf Road, we want everyone to know that they are valued and have an eternal purpose. If you are looking for a church to know more about the Lord and how to live for Him, we would love for you to check us out by attending one of our services!

501 W. Golf Road

Des Plaines, IL  60016

847-364-0530

Service Times

Sunday Morning Worship Service @ 10:00 am

NURSERY MINISTRY:

We provide safe and caring nursery care for children who are infants  through age 3 on Sunday mornings during our worship service. A short health form needs to be filled out and the child’s temperature will be checked. A security pass is given to the parent that needs to be brought back when picking up the child after the service is over. Children can be brought to the nursery starting at 9:50 AM on Sundays.

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY:

We offer children’s church each Sunday for kids the ages of 4 through completed 3rd grade.  The children are dismissed from the worship service after the music time, prior to the Pastor’s sermon message. They learn bible verses and stories at an age appropriate level while having a lot of fun. We ask that all kids be picked up from the classroom downstairs in our education wing immediately after the Sunday service is completed.

Meet Our Pastor

Pastors of Golf Road Baptist Church

Pastor Gary Houdek & his wife, Diane
Gary has been the pastor of Golf Road Baptist Church since 2001. His wife Diane serves as our worship leader. Gary and Diane were married in June of 1983 and have four adult children: Zachary (Lisa), Kaley (Alex ), Emily (Alex), and Ashley (Brian), and seven grandchildren: Wyatt, Liam, Natalie, Evalyn, Amelia, Olivia and Isabelle. Both Pastor Gary and Diane are natives of Minnesota. Pastor Gary became a Christian in 1985 at the age of 24, was licensed and ordained as a minister in 1989, and received his Masters degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1996. He has served full-time on staff at churches in Florida and Tennessee before becoming the pastor of Golf Road Baptist Church.

The Houdek Family

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What we believe

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

There is one and only one living and true God. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He exalts Christ.  He convicts men of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

Man is the special creation of God, in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every person of every race possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit will never fall away from the state of grace but shall persevere to the end.

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water.  It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations, to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other methods in harmony with the Gospel of Christ.

The first day of the week is the Lord’s Day. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.

Video Testimonials About Our Church

Our Deacons:
Peter Malik, Tim Mohs, Charlie James