A Brief History of the Church

Frampton Park Baptist Church, as it is now called, was founded on Sunday, 13^th May 1798, when eight Believers gathered for worship in a Meeting House on nearby Shore Road, then known as Shore Place. The sermon text was Ephesians 2:22 “And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” John Rance, the first Pastor, noted in his diary: “Now from this small beginning of a Baptist Church in Hackney, which is the first to be formed in that place, I trust the Lord will raise up many to show forth His praise.”

The church moved to its current location in 1956.

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In 2015, we moved into the new building.

For the last 9 years or so, we have had a slightly different style of leadership. Rather than the previous traditional model of bringing in an accredited Baptist minister from outside we developed a core leadership team from within the congregation consisting of 2 part time bi-vocational Co-Pastors (one paid, one unpaid) and a full-time Church Manager. The paid Co-Pastor has recently resigned hence the search for a new Pastor.