Bath Road Baptist Church was started in the spring of 1954 by Rev. Samuel Dempster under the name of “Fundamental Baptist Church”. After arriving in Kingston, Rev. Dempster and his wife May rented a hall, advertised and visited a thousand homes. The first meeting of the church saw a total of ten people in attendance. From these humble beginnings, the church was eventually able to adopt its first chartered members in 1956, purchase a lot in 1959, and to build its own facilities in 1962.
Pastor Dempster ministered faithfully through the sixties and seventies until he became seriously ill in the early 1980s. In 1985, the church called Rev. Carl Muller to the pulpit. Carl was a tremendous blessing with his excellent pulpit ministry (he now pastors a church in the Burlington area). During the interim between Pastor Muller and Pastor Ryttersgaard, several men of God were used in the pulpit of the church to encourage the believers and maintain the ministry of the church in the Kingston community.
In 1991, Rev. Peter Ryttersgaard was called to be the pastor and continued as the senior pastor until 2022. It should be noted that in the early 1990s, the church was renamed from “Fundamental Baptist Church” to “Bath Road Baptist Church.” Because the word “fundamental” no longer pointed to the fundamentals of the Bible but to a myriad of other unhelpful things, the founding pastor, Sam Dempster, made a motion at a church business meeting to change the name of the church and the membership at the time voted to change it to “Bath Road Baptist Church”.
The church has grown under the blessing of God. In the spring of 2004, fifty years after its beginnings, the church dedicated a new addition to the existing facilities. This expansion included a new foyer, “The Loft” (a room upstairs mainly used by children and youth), a multi-purpose “Fireplace Room” downstairs and a lift providing access to all three floors.
Today as a church we look with gratitude to our past for all of those who worked and sacrificed to see this church started and nurtured during its early years, and we look to God for the future, seeking His continued blessing, and praying that He will continue to build His church in this place.