The Spirit of FCC
"When they arrived, they
called the church together and related all that God had done with
them…" (Acts 14:27)
God has
done much in the life of FCC! FCC had two beginnings. First, the
Baptist Church of Christ began to meet in private residences about 1820.
In 1834 a group of twelve persons made their confessions of faith in response
to the preaching of a new movement of restoration and reformation. On
September 13, 1835, the Baptists made application and presented themselves for
membership to create what is now FCC.
The current church building is the 3rd structure in FCC's history. The
first church was erected in 1855, followed by the second church in 1898, and
our current building in 1989. The original bell from 1855 now hangs in
the steeple and can be heard regularly.
The church is, and has always been, the response of human beings to the grace
of God. Though the responses of FCC have changed and developed over the
past 170 years, they have all been made in the midst of a community of persons
seeking to follow the way of love in Christ.