The first seeds of the Berean Bible Church began as a small Bible class meeting in the Fidelity Bank Building under the teaching of Dr. D. B. Clapp and the leadership of Carl Henley.
The group was organized as the Berean Baptist Church in 1947 and moved to a house on Jennings Street where it continued meeting for several years. Another group under the leadership of Roscoe Smith and Vernon Horton joined it in 1951. Mr. Smith became the pastor, and the name was changed to the Berean Bible Church. As the seedling church began to grow, the group began observing the Lord's Supper weekly.
Charles Stuckey came in 1954 to preach part-time on a temporary basis, and he continued as part-time pastor for nineteen years. The move to a house on Kenyon Street came in 1959 giving the church the capability to send out deeper roots, and three years later the growth required a small auditorium to be added to the back of the house.
As the young church continued to flourish, a new auditorium replaced the house in 1965. Another merger took place in 1970 when the Bethany Bible Church joined with the Berean Bible Church and continued under that name and the ministry of Charles Stuckey until John Stone began to serve as the first full-time minister in 1974. At that time the maturity of this ministry had begun to manifest itself in healthy body life and the steady growth of its outreach.
By 1981, the Kenyon Street facility had reached the maximum potential for expansion. A full-time Christian day school had been added, requiring the purchase of two houses immediately behind the auditorium, which was being packed to capacity for two services on Sunday morning. A search was made for land or larger facilities resulting in the purchase of the North Hills Presbyterian Church and its property of 7.8 acres on Prosser Road. The existing building was approximately the same size which required the continuation of two morning worship services and plans to be initiated immediately for building expansion which culminated in 1985 with the completion of a new 350 seat auditorium.
In 1986, Bob Schindler was added to the full-time pastoral staff, the Faith
