CHURCH HISTORY
On the afternoon of September 17, 1868, a small band of believers met in the old Town Hall of Vergennes-since destroyed by fire. There they organized "The First Baptist Church of Vergennes." This church grew numerically and financially to the point that there was a large building built. The church existed for a total of sixty-one years. The church disbanded and gave the building to the Vergennes Graded School District to be used as a Community House. However, the building burned to the ground on a bitter cold night, January 29, 1934. This left the City of Vergennes without a Baptist presence.

Almost one hundred years after the beginning of The First Baptist Church of Vergennes, Reverend Ernest L. Gault began to pray for God to help him start a church in Vergennes. With the help of some local people who were traveling to First Baptist Church in Shelburne Pastor Gault held the first service of Vergennes Baptist Church. This service was held on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1969, in the Bixby Memorial Library on Main Street in Vergennes.