40 years and Growing!
Faith Baptist Church was organized as an independent, fundamental Baptist church
in July, 1967. Pastor Bennie Moran had ten people attend the first service which
met in his own home in Westover, West Virginia. At the time, there were no fundamental,
independent churches in Morgantown.
Two months later, the congregation began meeting at the Westover Community Building
where services were conducted for the next seven years. These were years of both
spiritual and numerical growth.
In 1973, the church moved to Richard Avenue. The church would remain there for more
than twenty years. Groundbreaking for our new building, located on Green Bag Road,
was in the spring of 1994. The move from the Richard Avenue location to the Green
Bag Road building occurred in June, 1995. The formal building dedication service
was in September, 1995.
Faith Baptist Church has been the home of Morgantown Christian Academy since the
school's beginning in 1978, Starting with just three kindergarten students, the
school grew to enrollment of students in grades K-8. In the fall of 2006, the Morgantown
Christian Academy High School began, and with it, construction of a building to
house the high school classes, and an expanded school and church library.