Our History:
The congregation had formed in 1923 when there was no organized Baptist group in Lincoln Park and Baptists were using the Methodist Church on Victoria Street. The Baptist folk gathered in each other’s homes to sing and pray together in what they called “cottage prayer meetings”.

God blessed them in those humble meetings and the group grew until finally it rented the shell of an unfinished house covered with tarpaper on the corner of Cicotte and Fort for a meeting place. The seats were planks laid across objects and there was a pedestal for the Bible with only a chair for the preacher. A small stove, for which members took turns bringing coal, served as heating.

In 1924, Sunday School materials were furnished by the Detroit Baptist Union for six months and the Union also furnished preachers from time to time. This continued until May of 1925 when formal approval was received from the Detroit Board of Associated Baptists to call Rev. Asa Richardson as the first charter Pastor.

The church congregation grew spiritually and numerically, settling in the church building on Victoria Street for a number of years and then moving to the location at the corner of Fort and London in the late 1940’s. Over the years, the church building grew from “basement church” to one with a beautiful educational/office wing. The building was completed in the mid-1960’s, but regular renovation has been done through the years to make the building one of the outstanding church facilities in Lincoln Park.

And more than the building, the people who make up the church have consistently declared the Gospel of Jesus Christ over the years with their lives. It is our desire to see people transformed by the message of salvation and hope that is offered through Jesus Christ. We celebrate the divine in the daily, pursuing lives of hope, gratitude, and worship.