Antioch Missionary Baptist Church - Nashville, TN

On Saturday, June 2, 1990, a group of spirit-filled, born-again believers met in the home of Reverend and Mrs. Marcel Kellar at 4821 Lindell Street, Nashville, Tennessee to explore the possibility of organizing and planting a new church to serve the under-ministered area of Parkwood, Golden Valley and the surrounding communities. After prayerful discussion and deliberation the decision was made to

organize a new church for the new congregation. The name Antioch was chosen as stated in Acts 11:26,with Reverend Marcel Kellar as the organizing pastor. On Thursday evening June 7, 1990 at 7:00 p.m., the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church convened at Temple Baptist Church to be officially recognized and accepted into the Middle Tennessee Baptist Association. Graves, pastor of Temple Baptist Church and 1st Vice Moderator of the Middle Tennessee Baptist District Association presided. Pastor Kellar, a firm believer in the importance of evangelism, led the Antioch congregation in the first evangelist effort. we met in pastor’s home for the first step in evangelism. Our hearts were filled with joy at ourselves to go into the community each Saturday afternoon to be witnesses for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On Sunday, June 10, 1990 we held our first worship service in the auditorium of Maplewood High School. Sunday Church School met at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship was conducted at 11:00 a.m. Pastor Kellar’s first sermon was “The Vision, the Venture, the Victory”, Matthew 28:19-29; Proverbs 29:18 and I Corinthians 15:57. When the invitation to Christian Disciple was extended, fourteen believers came forward to unite with the Antioch family.