Vision Statement

Faith Presbyterian Church faithfully and humbly accepts God’s greatest commandments to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” and “to love your neighbor as yourself.”  Matthew 22: 36-39


Purpose Statement

Our purpose is to be a worshipping community who makes disciples by gathering in the name of God, gifting by the Holy Spirit, and going into the world to share the love of Jesus Christ.

In gathering, we encourage relational ministries by caring for and fellowshipping with one another. In gifting, we engage in educational and spiritual nurturing ministries. In going, we reach out in ministries of love, compassion and justice and invite others into relationship with Jesus. Through this vision and purpose, we affirm that “God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image, male and female, of every race and people, to live in one community”

 (A Brief Statement of Faith, PCUSA). Therefore, we open our hearts, our arms, and our doors to people from all backgrounds, believing that we stand on common ground when we claim the indwelling presence of Jesus.

We open our arms and hearts and doors, we envision God blessing and growing this community in nurture, calling, ministry and membership as we anticipate growing a worshipping community with membership between 700 and 900 in the decades to come.

History

Before Faith became the landmark on the hilltop at Charlotte Highway and Van Wyck Road, the Presbyterians of Indian Land, SC devoted over 250 years in ministry to their community.

  • 1760’s - Area communities requested a pastor from the Presbytery. A church structure was built on what is now Henry Harris Road (exact location unknown) with an adjoining cemetery. The cemetery, “Old Six Mile,” remains and is managed by Faith Church.
  • 1802 - 1804 - A woods fire destroys the original church structure.
  • 1835 - Member Allen Morrow and sawmill owner cut timber for a new Six Mile Presbyterian Church. (Faith’s current office building) •1865- following the Civil War, many of the members move away from Indian Land. •1920-1970- The church structure is bricked. (1924) The church becomes a mission of Mecklenburg Presbytery. Though the church grounds are well maintained, it be-comes a church without a congregation.
  • 1971- The Six Mile membership was transferred to Banks Presbyterian Church in Marvin, NC.
  • 1993- The property is transferred from Mecklenburg (NC) to Bethel Presbytery (SC) that became today’s Providence Presbytery. •
  • 2004 - Providence Presbytery began dreaming, planning, praying and working toward the birth of this congregation
  • 2005 - Providence Presbytery formed a New Church Development Commission to organize a congregation made up of elders and pastors from neighboring PC(USA) churches. That Commission met monthly to lay the groundwork for the launching of this congregation.
  • 2007 - In April Rev. Dr. David M. Bender was called to organize a new congregation and chartered as a church of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and installed our first session on October 3, 2010.  Faith held our first worship service on October 10, 2007 at the Indian Land Rec Center. 
  • 2008 - Edye Bender was called as Program Director.
  • 2010- Faith was chartered on October 3, 2010 as a church of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
  • 2017- The new worship facility was built on the original Six Mile Presbyterian Church site and dedicated on October 1, 2017.
  • 2025- The Ministry Center is built and dedicated on October 5, 2025. Throughout its history, Faith has invested in ministry, to grow God’s kingdom in Indian Land. Since its humble beginnings in the Rec Center, Faith ministries have grown from 3 to 135. 

 

Organization

Faith Presbyterian Church is a member of Providence Presbytery and of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which is comprised of over 2.5 million Presbyterians and over 11,200 congregations. The organization of the church occurs within four governing bodies: local sessions provide leadership and direction for the individual congregations; individual congregations are grouped together by regions into Presbyteries; Presbyteries are grouped together by regions into Synods; and the General Assembly, which is headquartered in Louisville, KY, provides support, leadership and direction  for all 11,200 congregations.

We recognize that God calls both women and men into the leadership of God’s church, and we therefore ordain women and men as Elders and Ministers of the Word   and Sacrament.


For more on our church government, please visit the Presbyterian Church(USA) website.