First Baptist Church was established on June 1, 1913, when the Citadel Square Baptist Church in Charleston sponsored 25 charter members to organize a mission in Mount Pleasant. For three years, this mission met in area homes and Hibben United Methodist Church. In 1916, the mission rented a meeting room in the old Berkeley County Court House at the corner of King and Pitt streets. On March 11, 1917, under Reverend A. J. Nielson the mission organized into the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. Two years later, the church bought the courthouse from the Knights of Pythias and adopted the new name of First Baptist Church of Mount Pleasant. By the late 1950s, burgeoning growth necessitated two worship services every Sunday morning. The church also rented an old store and two houses to provide space for Sunday school classrooms. In 1958, the congregation decided to relocate to its present site on McCants Drive, and a new sanctuary and educational building was dedicated on March 15, 1964. The school opened that fall with kindergarten and first grade students. A new grade level was added each year until the school reached the eighth grade. The Christian Life Center was dedicated when the church celebrated its 70th anniversary on October 25, 1987. The center provided shelter as Hurricane Hugo raged on the night of September 21, 1989, and then served as a storage area for clothes, food, and staples. Out-of-town volunteers who aided in clean-up and home repairs were housed there. First Baptist Church sponsored missions that became independent churches in Awendaw and McClellanville. The church anticipated town population growth and purchased 34 acres on U.S. Highway 17 North in 1979. With the opening of The Church at LifePark on this property in 2010, First Baptist Church became a two-campus ministry in Mount Pleasant.

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