ORIGINS:

In faith and practice our origin goes back to the Scriptures, the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Apostles. We descend from a long line of churches going back to the time our savior walked the earth in the first century and began his assembly under the new covenant; the churches who did not depart from the “faith once delivered to the saints”. (see our Statement of Faith on this site)

From colonial times in America, our history is traced as follows:

The Sandy Creek Baptist Church of North Carolina was organized in November 1755 by Shubael Stearns, who with his brother-in-law Daniel Marshall, was sent by the Opequon assembly. The Sandy Creek Association was formed in 1758. From the Sandy Creek church, forty-two churches were established in seventeen years.

(It is important to note that Shubael Stearns and the Sandy Creek church were “Separate” Baptists and not “Regular” Baptists. Separate Baptists would not adhere to the Philadelphia Confession as did the Regular churches but insisted that the Bible alone served as the platform for their beliefs. They were critical of the Regulars also for not being strict enough in requiring new church members to give clear evidence of a conversion experience. Also called “New Lights”, the Separate Baptists, “because of their emphasis on the possibility of individual inspiration and enlightenment through the Holy Spirit, caused them to regard with suspicion any indication of associational authority over the local congregations.” Torbet: A History of The Baptists 1950, Judson Press)

The Grassy Creek Baptist Church, later of the Roan Mountain Association in North Carolina, was organized in 1757 under the authority of the Sandy Creek church.

The Grassy Creek assembly baptized Reuben Young (R.Y.) Blalock on 2 May 1881.

On 14 June 1895, R.Y. Blalock was ordained by the Franklin Street Baptist Church of Louisville, Kentucky and sent out as a missionary to Oregon. (The Franklin Street assembly and other Baptist assemblies originated in 1781 by missionaries mostly from Virginia. By 1785 three associations in Kentucky were formed.)

In 1923 R.Y. Blalock, working with the Middle Oregon Association organized a New Testament assembly in Caldwell, Idaho.

With his membership still in the assembly in Caldwell, Idaho, Brother Blalock came to the Landmark Missionary Baptist Church of Roseville, California in 1935 to hold a revival for the assembly there. On 2 February 1935, the Roseville assembly sent Brother Blalock out as a missionary to Salinas California. By June he had sold his possessions in Idaho and moved his family to Salinas.

On the 9th of August 1935 Brother Blalock organized the Hebron Heights (later First) Missionary Baptist Church in Salinas, where he moved his membership. This assembly sent him out as a missionary to Modesto.

On the 19th of September 1937 Brother Blalock organized the Airport Missionary Baptist Church of Modesto and he moved his membership there. Brother Blalock also organized many other assemblies since that time; El Nido (1938), San Pablo (1939), Pinole (1939), Concord (1943), and Oakland (now Landmark Hayward 1944).

After pastoring the assembly in San Pablo for a year, Brother Blaylock resigned and being sent went to Antioch, California where on 24 August 1941 he organized the First Missionary Baptist Church of Antioch. Nineteen years later in February 1960, Dewey Mott was sent out by the Antioch church as a missionary to Concord, California.

In March of 1960, after being a mission for one month, the Faith Missionary Baptist Church of Concord was organized with eight members, including the Pastor, Brother Dewey Mott with his wife Betty. The others were; Elaine Pinson, Clara Blaylock, James Reeves, Joyce Reeves, Richard Rowell, and his wife.

The Lord has preserved our church now for over sixty years and it is to Him we give the glory.