Shelby Road Baptist Church is a result of several families joining together with a desire to see a local Baptist Church in Shelby, Michigan. It began as a small group Bible study in area homes. From there, the group began meeting weekly in the American Legion Hall on Shelby Road, with the first official service having 50 people in attendance!

After purchasing property from the Elliott estate in 1978, many local residents worked together on the first building project, saving the church over 50% of the costs in material and labor. On December 15, 1978, SRBC was officially recognized, and included a charter membership of 28 members. The new building was dedicated on March 29, 1980 with 121 in attendance, and became affiliated with the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) later that year.

The congregation grew from 61 in 1984 to 112 members in 1989, almost doubling in five years. In 2002, the need for two identical Morning Worship Services became apparent, and we now run 500-550 between those two services!

In November 1988, an annual Praise Offering Celebration was instituted as a way for people to say "Thank You!" to God for all the good things He does for us during the year. That first offering totalled $36,354.59, received from a congregation of 91! People began to catch the vision of what God can do with grateful hearts. In 2003, the first $17,000 of the offering went to build a church in Togo, West Africa, and in 2004 we purchased nursery furniture for Hackley Lakeshore Community Hospital in Shelby, demonstrating that we value Life, our community families, and our local hospital! The first $17,000 of our 2006 Praise Offering went toward our Bible Translation project (see below) and the first $35,000 of our 2007 Offering ($138,677.23) went to build an orphanage for children of AIDS victims in India! The additional money given was enough to pay off our entire mortgage so that we are now debt-free - all to the glory of God!

We built a new, larger sanctuary in 1991 and also added a gymnasium/fellowship hall. Our most recent building projects - a larger sanctuary, a new youth wing, and expanded gymnasium (Family Life Center) - were completed in 1999, and an office complex was also completed in Feburary 2003 to house a growing Staff.

We are currently very excited about our biggest missions project yet ($107,000) - the first-time translation and printing of The Bible in the Inner Seraji language for people in India, due to be completed in 2010!

Senior Pastors Who Have Served SRBC:

Rev. Daryl Sheler (1978-1980)
Rev. Allan Vine (1980-1983)
Rev. Lyle Raven (1983-1984)
Rev. Robert McNeil (1984-present)

Associate Pastors Who Have Served SRBC: