Since 1949, East Point Church of Christ has had three names and met at times in a school, with another congregation, in a tent and in two buildings of its own. Today, it is one of the larger congregations of the church in Kansas.

When 55 people gathered in 1949 in Planeview High School to hear Louis Tandy, the congregation was born. That same year, Bill Murray became the congregation’s first full-time minister.

By 1952, after meeting briefly in a tent during the summer, it opened its own building at the corner of Elpyco and Funston streets in southeast Wichita. The land had been a gift from Gene Hancock, Sr., and his son, Gene Jr. In 1954 Venice Pennington and Joe Herndon were appointed as the first elders. Its name was changed from the Planeview to the Elpyco Church of Christ.

The church made a major move in 1995 when it sold its southeast Wichita building and constructed a new one on an 11-acre site at 747 N. 127th Street East where it meets today and is known as the East Point congregation. Between the time its old building was sold and its new one completed, it met briefly with Poplar Avenue Church of Christ. In 2005, it constructed and opened a new classroom wing.

East Point’s influence reaches far beyond Wichita. Through an active mission program, it built a 32-bed hospital at Nohwe Mission in Zimbabwe where several church members spend time each year. The mission includes a school and a home for children as well, and sends ministers to churches in a large area around the mission. In addition to Africa, East Point was instrumental in building a 350-member congregation in Curitiba, Brazil’s second largest city. And each winter and summer, East Point members go to Mexico to help construct church buildings and to conduct Vacation Bible School.

After two years as East Point's youth minister, Darrel Sears became pulpit minister at the start of 2007. John Langley, outreach minister, Sarah Young, children’s ministry coordinator, and Brian Ziegler (acting youth minister) comprise the ministry staff. Elders are Dave Hawley, Don Johnson, Dennis Lacey and Roy VanZant.