Our Story

Pastor Kim Allen and the members of the Little West Fork Baptist Church saw a need to  reach the African American Community.  Little West Fork Baptist Church agreed to use “The Old Church Building” to start a mission. Pastor Kim Allen contacted Brother Willie J. Freeman about working with the Mission. After several meetings and much prayer, Brother Willie J. Freeman, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, agreed to take on the responsibility of giving leadership to the new mission work.  On the 10th of May 1993, it was voted and agreed upon to call Brother Willie J. Freeman as Mission Pastor.  Pastor Freeman was led by the Holy Spirit to name the Mission “Greater Missionary Baptist Mission”.   On September 5, 1993 at 11:00 am, Greater Missionary Baptist Mission held its first service.   As the Mission continued to grow, Brother Lewis Dorris agreed to sell approximately four acres of land located on Ringgold Road.  With the help of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, the land was purchased.  We moved to our present location May 1997. 

On May 11, 1997, the members of Greater Missionary Baptist Church, Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, Little West Fork Baptist Church, Cumberland Baptist Association, Clarksville Mayor Don Trotter and many other community supporters, marched from the “Old Church Building” to the “New One”.

In October 2000, Greater Missionary began construction on Phase II of our building program, the Christian Education and Child Development Center at the cost of over $700,000.00.  Phase II consists of 12 classrooms, 2 toddler and children’s rooms, finance room, fellowship hall and kitchen.  Broady Construction Company completed the building in July 2001.  Phase III Part A $2,450,000 building program was started in February 2009 at a cost of $2,450,000 consisted of building a 12,000 sq. ft. Little Visionary Daycare Center and redesigning our parking lot was done by RCR Builders of Nashville, TN. We moved into our state of the art daycare facility in January 2011. The facility was dedicated on the 4th Sunday, May 22, 2011@ 2:00pm. The daycare facility was closed in August 2013. It is now our GMBC Visionary Center. In July 2011 our GMBC Prayer Garden was established as a peaceful place to pray and meditate.