Covenant Fellowship Baptist Church

    History

    What’s now Covenant Fellowship Baptist Church began in January of 1981.   What started as the vision of founding pastor, L.C. Campbell -- a vision for a different kind of church, began to materialize when a small group of 21 people met in the home of Dr. Jim Buttles to pray and ask for God’s leading.  That group continued to meet weekly to pray and seek the Lord’s direction.  They planned a Bible conference for April, which was held at the Stuart Women’s Club.  Under L.C.’s leadership, they studied the book of Nehemiah, which illustrates the truth that when God is behind something, there’s no stopping it.

    From that point on, the church met for worship every Sunday morning, and for Bible Study on Wednesday nights.  In June of 1981, L.C. Campbell was officially called to serve as the first Pastor of Covenant Fellowship.  Later that year, they approached the owner of a large piece of property at the end of Aster Lane about the possibility of purchasing it for the church.  As He always does, the Lord provided everything that was needed, and the church was able to purchase the 18+ acres that has been “home” to the ministry all these years.  They broke ground on February 28, 1982, with Mosely and Son Construction.  The church met at Howard Johnsons in Stuart during those years, and held its first worship service in the new building on Easter Sunday of 1984.  The Lord continued to bless the ministry of the church, and in the early 90’s, an education building was added to give the ministry room to grow.

    Covenant’s current pastor, Matt Price, has been at Covenant since June of 1996.  Matt was initially called, under L.C.’s leadership, to serve as Associate Pastor of Student Ministry, a job that he loved and expected to do for much longer than he actually did.  In December of 1997, when L.C. took a full time position as a chaplain for the Martin County Sheriff’s department, Matt stepped in to preach until a new Senior Pastor was called.  The Lord had other plans, and in July of 1998, after 6 months of preaching duties, the church voted to call Matt as Pastor.  Since that time, Covenant has been blessed with a number of Associate Pastors and excellent support staff who have deepened Covenant’s ministry and helped to broaden its reach into the community.  

    To this day, Covenant aspires to be a different kind of church, where people matter more than programs, where leadership models servanthood, and where we demonstrate our love for God by loving each other and serving our community as God enables us.  Ultimately, the people make the church what it is, so every member of Covenant is helping to write the future “history” of Covenant.  What that will look like, we don’t know, but we pray that whatever the future looks like, God is honored and Jesus is glorified through us.