Who We Are

History of Covenant Bible Church
In the fall of 1997, a family contacted the Evangelical Free Church about the possibility of starting a church. Lewis Wimberley, the church planting pastor with the EFC asked them to see if there were other families who were interested in starting a church and said he would be glad to meet with a group as soon as there were at 2-3 families. By the spring of 1998 there were 3 couples meeting for Bible Study and Lewis started to make the trip to Farmington, MO to meet with these couples.
By 1999, the group had grown to 5-6 families and was meeting together for public worship. A student at Covenant Seminary was traveling from St. Louis to preach for them. At this time, they began to prayerfully consider calling a pastor.
In 2000, Dan Judge became their Interim Pastor. He and his wife were regular attendees of the church and he was Chaplain of the State Mental Health facility. CBC had several resumes before them by the spring of 2000 and they narrowed the search down to Bill Younker, a former Missionary of the EFC and former Church Planter. They called him in July of 2000 and Bill and his family moved to Farmington in August. At this point there were 8 families active in the church.
The church continued to grow and in 2003, the people of Covenant Bible Church bought 20 acres of land outside of Farmington. In March of 2004, the building site was prepared and they started to build that year. They moved in October of 2004.

What are the core values of Covenant Bible Church?
1. The Word of God. - We believe that God's Word is to guide and direct the believer in all matters of life. So we preach and teach the Bible on Sunday morning as well as in Bible studies throughout the week.
2. Prayer - We believe that God answers the prayers of His people and so we encourage people to pray throughout the week, and we pray together.
3. Missions-Outreach - We believe that we are to be salt and light in our world and so we take Christ's command seriously to go into all the world and preach the gospel. We support and pray for local as well as overseas missions

What will you see at a Sunday morning worship service?
We would be glad if you came and joined us! We sing primarily choruses with some hymns. We sing the words from a projector. We are informal in that you don't have to dress up, come as you are. We have a time of prayer during the service as well as a missionary moment that updates us on our missionaries. We started something new, different people in the congregation have been giving testimonies about how the Lord has been working in their lives. There is also an expository sermon, that is, a sermon that goes through a passage of scripture verse by verse. We go through different books of the Bible. Lately, we have been in the gospel of John.

What else is happening at Covenant Bible Church?
We also have a Growth Group that meets on Sunday evening. We meet in homes and have fellowship, pray for one another, and look at that morning's sermon. We have a community ladie's Bible Study that meets on Tuesday evenings and Thursday mornings. There is a men's group that meets on the 1st Saturday of every month for breakfast and Bible Study from 8:30am-10am

If you would like to know more, come and visit us on Sunday morning!