Glorify
1 Corinthians 10:31
Everything we do here — the singing, the giving, the preaching, the potluck afterward — is meant to bring glory to God rather than attention to us.
Port Washington, Ohio◆Established 1975
Church the way
it used to be.
An Independent Baptist church on Shoemaker Road, preaching the King James Bible and singing the old hymns out of the hymnal — the same way we have since 1975. No smoke, no sales pitch. Just the Book, sung and preached, and a seat saved for you.
- Sunday School
- 10:00 a.m.
- Worship
- 11:00 a.m.
- Sunday Evening
- 6:00 p.m.
- Wednesday
- 7:00 p.m.
Where we are4283 Shoemaker Road SW
Port Washington, Ohio
Call the church
What you will hearPreaching straight from the King James Bible
A word from our pastor
We are not trying to be the newest church in Tuscarawas County. We are trying to be a faithful one — the same Book, the same hymns, and a door that is genuinely open to you.
Paul Harvey
Pastor since October 2018
Pastor Harvey came to Countryside in August 2013 as Assistant Pastor and was called to serve as Senior Pastor in October 2018. He and Joanna have been married since 2002 and have three children — Daniel, Caleb, Abigail. Between the pulpit and the classroom he has spent over 30 years in ministry.
Read his full storyWhen we gather
Four services a week, and none of them require an invitation.
Sunday morning is the easiest place to start. Sunday evening is the one people tend to fall in love with. Come to whichever one your week allows.
01
Sunday
Sunday School
10:00 a.m.
Classes for every age, straight out of the Book. A good hour to arrive if it is your first Sunday — the halls are busy and nobody notices a new face standing still.
02
Sunday
Morning Worship
11:00 a.m.
Hymns from the hymnal, an offering, and preaching from the King James Bible. This is the service most visitors come to first. Junior Church is available for N3 through 6th grade.
03
Sunday
Sunday Evening
6:00 p.m.
Quieter, a little more informal, and often the service people say they loved most. Same Book, same singing.
04
Wednesday
Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
7:00 p.m.
Midweek. We pray for one another by name and work through a passage together.
4283 Shoemaker Road SW, Port Washington, OH 43837 — just off US-36 in Tuscarawas County.
What that actually means
“The way it used to be” is not nostalgia. It is four decisions.
Plenty of churches say they are old-fashioned. Here is exactly what we mean by it, so you know what Sunday will be like before you ever walk through the door.
- 01
The King James Bible
Preached from, read from, and memorized out of — every service. We hold it to be the verbally inspired Word of God and the sole authority for faith and practice. If you do not own one, we will put one in your hands.
Psalm 12:6-7 · 2 Timothy 3:16
- 02
Hymns out of the hymnal
Classic hymns that honor our Saviour, sung by the whole congregation. There is no band — just a piano, a hymn number, and everybody singing the same words.
Ephesians 5:19
- 03
Preaching, not performing
Rather than following modern trends we have stayed with traditional Bible preaching and teaching. You will hear a passage explained and applied, not a talk built around a video clip.
2 Timothy 4:2
- 04
An independent local church
No denominational headquarters, no board upstate. A local New Testament church governing itself under one Head — Christ — with two offices, pastor and deacon.
Colossians 1:18 · 1 Timothy 3:1-13
Our mission
The mission of Countryside Baptist Church is to glorify God by evangelizing our city, our county, our state, our country, and the world with the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and by edifying the saints for the work of the ministry so that all may glorify our Father in Heaven.
(1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Peter 4:11; Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Ephesians 4:12, 16; Matthew 5:16; John 12:32)
Evangelize
Acts 1:8
Our city, our county, our state, our country, and the world, with the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In that order, and starting with the people down the road.
Edify
Ephesians 4:12
Building up the saints for the work of the ministry, so that believers here grow up rather than merely attend.
A look around
Where we meet.
A white brick building with a steeple, set against the hill on Shoemaker Road, a few minutes off US‑36. An Independent Baptist church that has been meeting in this corner of Tuscarawas County since 1975.
From Shoemaker Road, with the hill behind it. 
The name and the cross, laid into the brick. 
The cross on the pulpit.
Our text
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Philippians 2:16
Sermons
Every service, preached and posted.
Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday night all go up on our channel. Listen to one before you visit — you will know exactly what the preaching is like.
The most important page on this site
How to have eternal life — guaranteed.
Not a program, not a membership, and not something you have to earn. This is the single most crucial decision you will make in your lifetime, laid out plainly and entirely from Scripture — what the Bible says about your guilt, about the Gospel, and about the promise God cannot lie about.
Read it now“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. ” — 1 John 5:13
Come and see
You will not have to figure it out on your own.
Nobody will ask you to stand up, introduce yourself, or fill anything out. Park off Shoemaker Road, come in the main entrance, and somebody will point you where you need to go. Come as you are able — you will see suits, and you will see slacks and a shirt.
- Address
- 4283 Shoemaker Road SW
Port Washington, OH 43837 - By phone
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