Chester Christian Church began in September 1975 under the direction of Ron Whisman, the first minister of the congregation. After a three year ministry, Ron moved as a missionary to Johannesburg, South Africa. Meeting for four years in rented facilities, the first church building, located on Happy Hill Road, was constructed using volunteer labor in one week's time during the fall of 1979.

Neil Wheeler became minister of the church in February 1980 and continues to serve the congregation as lead minister. In 1992, the congregation purchased eight acres of land at the corner of Harrowgate Road and Curtis Street. In 1993 the church sold their Happy Hill Road building and began meeting at C.C. Wells Elementary school. In 1997, CCC began holding services at the new Carver Middle School.

In the summer of 2005, construction began on a 12,000 foot first phase building to house worship/multi-use and classroom space. We moved into that facility summer of 2006 and plans on the second phase building are already well underway.

Our Roots: The Christian Church traces her modern roots to the early 19th-century American frontier, a period of great division and strife among the denominations of the day. America's pioneers brought their deeply rooted religious convictions to their new nation and with them brought deeply rooted animosities.

It was in that venue that several independently developing unity movements came together to form what would later be called the Restoration Movement. Using the Bible as their only guide, they sought to restore the pattern of faith and practice found in the pages of the New Testament in their own time. On every question they asked, how did the early church do this? Their goal was simple – To be Christians only!