Our Story

 

Fellowship Bible Church looks like any other ordinary, New England church. It has the requisite white siding and steeple and it sits quietly on five acres of beautiful wooded land in Castleton, Vermont.  In 1986, Fellowship Bible Church came into being when a few Bible-believing Christians started meeting in a local home. As our small congregation grew to over 50 worshipers, we moved from one building to another to accommodate our needs. Eventually, the church inherited five acres of land in Castleton, VT, from one of its members, but plans to expand and build on that land--“The Promised Land,” as it was dubbed-- didn’t materialize right away.  For no apparent reason, the congregation began to dwindle.

 

In 1992, when we had to move out of our last meeting place because of water problems, the missionary pastor from AMOC who had been serving FBC felt led to minister elsewhere. With only five people remaining in the congregation, five acres of undeveloped land, less than $3,000 in the bank, no pastor, and no building in which to meet, God could finally show us and the world that He had plans to be the builder of His house, not man.  Those five remaining people called another missionary pastor, Robert Bouffard with AMOC (American Mission for Opening Churches) to lead us. He caught the vision and agreed to lead us in bringing God's Word to our community and FBC again began to grow.  

 

By June of 1995, through a series of miracles too numerous to reiterate, “The Promised Land” became home to a beautiful edifice where God’s Word was faithfully preached and as of July 2002— through more of God’s miracles--was mortgage free.

 

This building served Fellowship Bible attendees well until 2017 when the membership realized we needed more room to accommodate all they wanted to accomplish in bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to Castleton and surrounding towns.  A building project was begun and, again, we saw God working miracle upon miracle to bring the new addition into being.

 

Eight years later, the gospel of Jesus Christ is being faithfully preached in accommodations that better serves our needs. We invite you to come to worship the Lord with us. 

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Only God could accomplish the miracles we witnessed. We have been truly blessed as we have watched God at work in this place and we invite you to come and share in these blessings.

“Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.”

Psalm 127:1a