Our History

Beginnings

On the evening of 23 September 1987, a small group of believers in Jesus Christ met in the home of Dr. Worth Worley for the purpose of establishing a new independent Baptist church in Singapore.  That group met again and determined, by a simple majority vote, that the name of this new church would be Heritage Baptist Church.

On 7 November 1987, twenty-four people met at the Balmoral Room in the Garden Hotel for the official organizational service of the Heritage Baptist Church. Less than a year later, the Registry of Societies officially recognized Heritage Baptist Church (HBC)!

Vision

From the beginning, HBC has been a mission-minded church. When only six months old, HBC hosted its first annual missions conference and unanimously voted to begin sending monthly support to eight missionary projects.  Over the years, the love and burden of this church for missions have not changed. Today, we are able to truthfully say that “the sun never sets on the ministry of Heritage Baptist Church!”

Change

In February 1995, Pastor Worley announced that God was calling him to start a new ministry in eastern Russia.  Therefore, HBC unanimously voted to call Pastor Ray Crocker, who was serving as Pastor Worley’s associate, to take over as the senior pastor.

Over the years, as the church has grown and as situations changed. HBC has moved its worship services to different locations. Yet, our purpose and our focus has remained unchanged. We strive to reach everyone we can with the life-changing message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The End?

Many noted that in the Bible, the book of Acts has no proper ending because the history of the church is still being written. Similarly, we will not seek to end this history because it is still being written. It will continue to be written until Jesus Christ returns to take us to our eternal home!