About Our Church

The Bible Baptist Church began in September 1982. In the beginning, the Church met in the Richfield Elementary School building. A few years later the Church moved to the old Richfield Library building, also known as the Old Town Hall, in the center of the Village. In the early 1990's the church rented 2000 square feet of office space on Brecksville Road which it converted for its use. In 1993 the Church relocated further north on Brecksville Road to a rented building. In March 2009 the Church began meeting in the Richfield Holiday Inn Express, at 5171 Brecksville Road. It met there for the next 13 years before moving to its present location in Suite 200 of the commercial plaza located at 4174 Wheatley Road.

The mission of the Bible Baptist Church is to obey, honor, glorify, and serve our Lord by preaching and proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ while edifying, exhorting, and encouraging His people. We want to help people come to Jesus Christ by faith, trusting Him as their personal Lord and Savior, so that their sins may be forgiven and that they might be assured of eternal life. Second, we also want to help those who have come to Christ live an abundant and victorious Christian life of service, worship, and growth in order to bring honor and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.

To do so, we have a variety of services, activities, and ministries designed to fulfill our mission. Those include our regular Sunday services, our informal Bible study each Friday at 7:00 PM, and special services, meetings, and activities that are scheduled from time to time as well. In addition, we have a live, call-in, radio program featuring commentary, occasional guests, and live, on-air, questions about the Bible and current events in Light of God's Word. The program can be heard each Sunday night from 10:00 AM to Midnight and each Friday afternoon from 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM on 1220 WHKW.

Our preaching and teaching is mostly expository and always doctrinal and Bible-based. Our missions program sends the Gospel message to the world around us, both at home and abroad. Yet, through it all, we want to maintain a focus on the individuals and families that make up our church, all the while lifting up and glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible Baptist Church is an unaffiliated, independent, fundamental Baptist church. We are conservative in doctrine and practice, holding unashamedly to the Authorized King James Version of the Bible as God's complete, inspired, preserved, inerrant, and infallible Word in the English language. We reject as unscriptural the charismatic and ecumenical movements, as well as "Christian" contemporary and rock music. We believe in and look forward to the imminent, premillenial, pretribulational coming of Jesus Christ for His saints and His personal, visible, triumphant return following the seven year tribulation period to set up His millennial reign on earth.