Leadership
We are blessed to have so many willing servants who faithfully serve in our church.
Our Pastor
Pastor Mike Dinges has over thirty years of soul winning, Sunday School, and preaching experience. He also had times where he focused on youth work and the Bus ministry and also had the privilege to study under Dr. Jack Hyles.
He was born into a middle-class working family in New York City. He grew up in a very stable & predictable home and was saved at age seven.
In 1988, at age 21, he married his sweetheart, Kari, whom he had been dating for three and a half years. They have two wonderful children, Hannah Kathleen and Jakob Keith. Jakob married Katie in 2022.
In 1993, he took a group of ten people and started the Peoples Baptist Church. Over the last 31 years, they have met in homes, on driveways, rented a basement, and other buildings to meet in. The church is now on the northeast corner of Route 3 and the Garden State parkway. They have a beautiful brick building and parking lot and are completely debt free. The church is known as the “Friendliest Church in the World” and has people that certainly earn that reputation every Sunday. The church ministries are growing and new ones are started consistently.
Our Staff
From the Deacons
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On behalf of the deacons of Peoples Baptist Church and their families, we thank you for visiting our site and look forward to meeting you personally! We do strive to be the “friendliest church in the world!"
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In this fast-paced, highly demanding Northeast region we live in, we can so easily be caught up in the day to day and forget the One Who is our source of peace. We hope to be a place and a people that you may find refreshing to your soul. We pray it would be a place you and your family can be grounded and growing in your faith in Jesus Christ.
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Psalm 71:3, “Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.”
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Exodus 31:17, “It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”
May the Lord richly bless you!