We were named for a jubilee.

Not for a founder, a street, or a denomination. For the year in Scripture when every debt was cancelled, every slave went home, and liberty was proclaimed throughout all the land.

Leviticus 25 describes a year Israel was commanded to keep every fiftieth year. Debts were forgiven. Land went back to the family that lost it. Slaves walked out free. And a trumpet sounded across the whole country to announce it.

That verse — “proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” — is cast into the side of the Liberty Bell, twenty minutes up I-95 from our front door. The men who chose it for that bell understood it was about more than taxes and a king.

We took the same verse for the same reason. A nation’s freedom is worth defending. A soul’s freedom is worth everything. We exist to proclaim the second one, in this town, until the Lord comes back.

The bell cracked. The gospel hasn’t.Why we kept the name

What kind of church this is

New Liberty is an independent Baptist church. Independent means exactly what it sounds like: no denominational headquarters, no outside board, no committee in another state deciding what gets preached here. This congregation governs itself under the authority of Scripture, with two offices — pastors and deacons — and two ordinances — baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

In practical terms, it means you can find out what we believe in about ten minutes, because we publish the whole doctrinal statement in full and we do not soften it depending on who is asking.

We preach and teach from the Authorized King James Version. We believe the Bible is inspired, inerrant, and preserved — and that the God who gave it has kept it intact for every generation, including this one.

What a normal week looks like

Sunday School at ten, morning worship at eleven, evening service at six, and prayer meeting on Wednesday night. Around that: a men’s group working book by book through the Bible, a women’s study running October through July, an addiction recovery group every Friday, a nursing home visit each month, and a Saturday when families go door to door across Aston.

None of that is a program we launched to look busy. Most of it is what our pastor was already doing for years before this church existed.

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Sixteen years on Concord Road

Our history

Short, because we are a young church. But there is a longer story behind it, and it starts on a roof.

Before 2010 A calling formed on the street
Michael Wilps was converted out of the trades and called to street preaching — work that grew into the largest prison ministry on the East Coast, alongside nursing home visitation and men’s discipleship.
Before 2010 Freedom Baptist Church, Glenolden
He served as assistant pastor in Delaware County before God moved him to start a work of his own.
2010 New Liberty Baptist Church is founded
A new, independent, Bible-believing church planted in Aston — named for the jubilee verse and organized around proclaiming it.
Since Ministries take root
Sunday School classes, a men’s study, a women’s study, VBS each summer, monthly nursing home services, and Family Soul Winning across the neighborhoods of Aston.
Today Sixteen years in
RU Recovery on Friday nights. A Gospel Jubilee each fall. Missionaries supported abroad. The same Book preached from the same pulpit.

Pastor Michael Wilps with members of New Liberty Baptist Church in front of the pulpit in Aston, PA

What we are actually for

Four things this church exists to do

Preach the Book

Plainly, from the King James Bible, without apology and without wondering aloud whether it’s true.

Reach Delaware County

Door to door, street corner, nursing home, Friday night recovery group. We go out; we don’t wait to be found.

III

Build up believers

Men discipling men, women teaching women, children taught the Bible instead of entertained through it.

Send the gospel further

Supporting missionaries carrying the same message to fields well past Aston, Pennsylvania.

You’d be welcome

Sixteen years, and the door still opens the same way.

Come see it for yourself this Sunday, or listen to a sermon first — whichever feels less like a leap.

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