CHURCH HISTORY
Our church started in 2016 as a campus of Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, MD.
In 2021, we hired our rst Lead Pastor, Sam Cassese, and fullled the original vision of launching an autonomous church on the Shore that can multiply other Gospel-centered campuses and plants.
The Eastern Shore is strategically placed and ripe with opportunity. Our relational congregation, conversational expository preaching, priority on group life, and commitment to excellence are providing a refreshing approach to ministry in a community steeped in tradition and surrounded by history.
Over the last three years, we have experienced exponential growth, increasing our Sunday gathering attendance from 200 to over 650. We’ve seen over one hundred people baptized and discipled in a life-giving community. We celebrate regularly through our “Grow Videos,” stories of people’s spiritual journeys, reminding ourselves that the most signicant growth happening in our congregation isn’t numeric – it’s genuine spiritual transformation.
We have a tremendously engaged congregation, with over 50% of our adult congregation serving and dozens of volunteers leading groups and ministry teams. Eastpoint has a unique level of partnership with our local YMCA, where we meet in their gymnasium for two gatherings. We also rent ofce space in a local business park. Our lack of a building has created a “church without walls,” culture, fueling our congregation’s commitment to not simply “go to church” but to mobilize in our community “as the church.”
WHERE WE ARE GOING
We have nearly two hundred attendees traveling from Queen Anne’s County, a twenty-five drive to Easton. Over 50,000 people call Queen Anne’s County their home. Centreville is the County seat and, like Easton, is a vibrant and historical Eastern Shore community. Its convenient location provides a natural draw that will grow its population, and with it, opportunities to advance the gospel deeper into the Shore.
We feel the Lord leading us to plant a campus in that community where our people can live on mission and invite their neighbors. The YMCA just built a brand new building with a 10,000-sq. ft gymnasium and they are eagerly welcoming us to plant a campus in this new location so we may partner with them in Queen Anne’s County as we have in Talbot.
