History

On July 28, 1954 a group of 53 people, meeting in the abandoned Benbrook Elementary School gymnasium, felt a need for a new Baptist church in the area.  They requested membership into Ridglea West Baptist Church for the purpose of starting a mission in Benbrook.  On August 4, a committee of four was elected to locate a building site for the church.  The First Baptist Church of Benbrook was organized as a Southern Baptist Church on August 15th with 66 charter members.  The church entered its first building on McKinley Street on Christmas Sunday.

Only fifteen months after entering the first building, an educational building was completed to meet the needs of a growing congregation.

In October a new auditorium was completed.  This building was designed to be converted to a two-story classroom building whenever a new auditorium might be built.

On January 9th dedication services were held for the new 4-bedroom, 3-bath parsonage and the new educational building containing six Sunday School departments, new Fellowship Hall, and a kitchen.

The new 1,000 seat auditorium was completed and dedication services were held on November 30th.  A self-help program was initiated to remodel the old auditorium into a two-story educational building.  The classrooms were completed and the first classes were held in September, 1982.

First Baptist Church started two local missions that have been constituted into churches – Victory Baptist Church in Johnson County and Trinity Hills Baptist Church in Benbrook.

The church began a television ministry that provides our worship services for the city of Benbrook on the Benbrook Cable Network.

The church began an active apartment ministry in Fort Worth and began supporting two pastors in the former Soviet Union.  Over the past 20 years the church has had an active ministry in Mexico helping to start mission work in Torreon, Chihuahua and Matamoras, Mexico.

On June 11, the First Baptist Church of Benbrook celebrated the retiring of the debt with a “Burning of the Note” ceremony during the morning worship service. On June 10, 1979, FBC Benbrook voted to work towards the ambitious goal of building a new worship center. That decision was not only accompanied by years of working together with architects and contractors to build the facility but also with the commitment of its members to financially contribute to the building fund above and beyond their contributions to the existing ministries of the church. All of those sacrifices bore fruit with the dedication of the new worship center on November 30, 1980.

2009
August 25. Our church family started this journey in October of 2005. Together, the congregation pledged to give $546,501 towards the construction of a new preschool/children’s building and new main entrance/lobby. Over the last four years, not only is the construction complete, but the Future Seed goal has also been reached. In fact, the goal has been exceeded by $1445.76. We thank the Lord for helping us to achieve this goal, and we thank the members of our congregation who have been faithful and generous in their giving.