About Us
The mission statement of Trinity
Baptist Church – Fort Mill SC shall be to expound the
Word of God, evangelize the lost, edify and equip the
saints, encourage the weak and exemplify the Lord Jesus
Christ until He comes.
This shall be accomplished by
faithfully preaching the Word of God from the pulpit,
and teaching, line upon line and precept upon precept,
in the classroom. This shall also be accomplished by
local church visitation, outreach ministry as well as
supporting missionaries and evangelists who are faithful
messengers of God's Word to the lost world.
We will continue to edify and equip
the saints by teaching Bible doctrines as delineated in
the church's doctrinal statement. We will do this
through Adult Bible Classes, Children and Teen Classes
and a scriptural Discipleship Program. We shall endeavor
to encourage the weak through the reconciling of
families and the backslider through counseling and
accountability to the church body.
Our ultimate goal is to exemplify our Lord Jesus Christ in our stewardship, fellowship, and discipleship.
Trinity Baptist Church began with very humble beginnings. There was just a hand full of people that loved God and desired the freedom and liberty to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. They began to earnestly pray and fast in the fall of 2004 for a church. A year later the Lord laid it upon our Pastor, Ricky D. Cope to come off the road of evangelism and to Pastor this little flock of people.
The Lord allowed our "little flock" to find an old, vacant, auto parts house. We began to work diligently day and night to renovate the old "parts" house into a place of Worship, where broken lives and broken homes (broken "parts") could be mended through the Love of Jesus and the preaching of His Holy Word. We call this "The Hospital of Hope, Trinity Baptist Church".
Our very first worship service, January 8, 2006, was held in our Pastor's humble home. There were 12 in attendance and the title of the message that glorious Sunday morning was "Can God Build A Tabernacle in the Wilderness?" The following Sunday there were 21 in attendance and the service had to be moved to the Pastor's barn. We held services there until the renovation as completed (a total of seven weeks), on the eighth week we moved in the sanctuary, March 8, 2006. We had over 200 in attendance. On April 16, 2006 Trinity Baptist Church was established with 20 founding members.
God has continued to bless Trinity daily with a zeal and an excitement that cannot even be put into words. Many souls have come to know and trust Jesus as their personal Savior. Countless hearts have been mended and encouraged, that once were discouraged, despondent, and hopeless. Homes and families that had no hope are now thriving, as they are worshiping and serving Jesus together.
There is hope for the hopeless through Jesus and Trinity Baptist Church of Fort Mill, South Carolina is proof of that.
Yes HE can!
