Our church began as a Chinese Bible mission in February 1978 and was formally incorporated as the St. Louis Chinese Baptist Church (STLCBC) on May 6, 1979. Pastor Joseph Yu was called upon to shepherd this new flock until he retired in 1995.
During the first few years of this new born church, we worshiped in the borrowed basement of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Creve Coeur. But unfortunately Emmanuel Baptist Church soon disbanded and decided to donate their church property to the St. Louis Metro Baptist Association and we were forced to move our worship services into the small parsonage next to the old Emmanuel church building as the Metro Baptist Association decided to convert the old church building into their new offices.
In May 1991, with God's grace, lots of prayers and a great leap of faith on the part of our congregation we bought our first church building on the Ashby Road, north of Page Ave. and just east of Lindbergh Blvd. With steady growth in numbers, we soon outgrew the original building. So in 1996, with the help of brothers and sisters from First Baptist Church of Ferguson and with our own brothers and sisters bare hands, we started the construction of our church building extension. In December of that same year, the Lord called upon Pastor Ying-Kit Wong to be our second full-time pastor. After enduring months of sweat and physical pain, the dedication our of brothers and sisters came to fruition -- the church building extension with 4 new Sunday school classrooms was finally dedicated in May of 1997.
Praise the Lord that our congregation have grown steadily since the Ashby building was extended and so in the fall of 2004 with a new vision of reaching out to the rapidly growing Chinese community in the sprawling west county area, we took another leap of faith -- the congregation decided to sell the Ashby church building and move into the west county and thus embarking on a Journey of faith not unlike the Israelites. For about a year, Ballwin Baptist church, with God’s love, let us use their place to hold our worship services and Sunday school classes. In 2005, we worshipped in a rented space on the second floor of Westminster Christian Academy building in Town & Country, and at the same time, we continued to pray and search for a new permanent location to worship the Lord. God is indeed faithful. He answered our prayers and led us to find a church building at St. Peters. We have moved in the wonderful building since June 2008.
