Our History
Faith Church began as a mission church
in March of 1996. The Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, Christ Church - Plano and the North
American Missionary Society formed a partnership to begin this new mission. A search of
church planter candidates concluded that Rev. John and Nancy Clifford were called to be
the church planters of this Allen mission. Christ Episcopal Church provided the start-up
families and a place to begin the process of forming a church.
The Dallas Diocese contributed $200,000
spread over the first three years, to help defray start-up costs and the North American
Missionary Society contributed in the areas of supervision and vision casting.
"The Mission Church" moved its
services to the Allen area in August 1996. Christ the Servant Lutheran Church was very
gracious in allowing "The Mission Church" to use its facilities on Saturday
nights for both worship and Christian education. Soon after the move to Allen, the Dallas
Diocese gave us our official name of Faith Church.
As Saturday nights did not prove to be
the best time to build a church family, Faith began to look at other facilities for Sunday
worship. Beginning in 1997, Faith Church was allowed to use Boyd Elementary School in
Allen for both worship and Christian Education. Due to renovations planned at Boyd in
1998, Faith moved to Norton Elementary School until construction of it's permanent home
at Alma and McDermott in Allen was completed in April 2000.
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