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Our History

Faith Bible Church began in February of 1980 when a small group of believers who attended Metropolitan Baptist Church in Oklahoma City gathered to explore the viability of beginning a Bible-based fellowship in Edmond.

The group of believers met for a few months on Sunday evenings in a home with Russell McKnight serving as Pastor. Utilizing the facilities of an Edmond day-care center the church began regular services on the first Sunday of June, 1980. On July 1, 1990, the church purchased five acres of land at 600 N. Coltrane and construction of a church building began in late September of that same year. With great excitement the church body moved into their new permanent facility on February 24, 1991.

Due to poor health Russell McKnight resigned as Pastor in 1990. One year later on October 29, 1991, Mark Hitchcock was called to serve as Pastor. It was at this time that Faith began to experience some growing pains so in August of 1994 Scot Overbey was called to serve as Associate Pastor.

Faith Bible continued to grow and additional space was needed. In order to meet its growing needs the church purchased five adjoining acres of land to the south and began making plans for enlarging the church building itself. Ground breaking for an expansion to the sanctuary and a new educational and office wing was June 1997.

The project was completed and the new facility was dedicated on Sunday March 8, 1998.

On September 1, 1998 the FBC pastoral staff was enhanced as Ron Brown arrived to serve as Youth Pastor.

On August 1, 2000 our Pastoral Staff was enhanced yet again with the arrival of Dr. David Cotten to serve as Pastor to Senior adults.

June 3, 2001 marked the completion and dedication of our 2nd building expansion which provided Faith with an additional 6,000 feet of classroom space.

God has proven to be tremendously faithful in answering prayer and meeting our needs here at Faith Bible Church. However, we strongly believe that our greatest years of ministry are still yet ahead of us.

Forward With Faith!