On August 9th, two months and eight days later we purchased the building on Highway 70 East that had previously been Horner’s Antiques. Sunday, September 14th, 1986, we held our first service there and began having speakers who were interested in Pastoring.

Pastor Tim Daniel preached for us on January 25th and February 8, 1987. We felt Pastor Tim was the answer to our prayers and he was invited back on Wednesday night February 11th. His message was entitled “Spiritual Leaders” and the text was Nehemiah 1:1. We had prayer and voted 100% to call Tim Daniel as Pastor of New Testament Baptist Church.

The loan on the first building was for twelve years; in six years, nine months and two days, on July 2, 1993, the note was paid in full.

On March 13, 1997, we purchased 13.54 acres of property on Neuse Road, with plans to build a larger facility to accommodate our growing church family.

On March 12, 1998, we held our first Planning Committee Meeting. We wanted to plan a new church building that would be oriented to the most effective way of preaching and teaching the Word.

The Ground Breaking Ceremony was held on March 19, 2000.

Eight years and one day from the time we paid for the old building, we held our first service (July 1, 2001) at our new building located at 126 Neuse Road, Kinston, NC.