In November 1991, a small group of believers met together for worship and a Thanksgiving meal, never dreaming that in just a few months they would begin what is now North Hills Community Church located in Taylors, South Carolina.

We were a very unconventional church plant—no pastor, no constitution, no marketing strategy—but a definite desire to faithfully study scripture and to be God’s people reaching out to the lost and hurting in our community.

God has led us each step of the way and we have done our best to keep in step with what he is doing. The timeline below highlights some of the significant milestones in our history . . .

1991

Immediately after we met for Bible study, we began planning a Christmas outreach to the Greenville Rescue Mission. Within a few short weeks we were performing a Christmas program and praying with men who were alone for the holidays. Since that time, involvement with the Rescue Mission has always been a part of NHCC’s local outreach.

1992

The initial group quickly outgrew the large living room and with that growth came the important decision to move forward with officially establishing a new church. A building right in the heart of the “North Hills” area at the intersection of East North Street and Pelham Road became our first church home, and Peter Hubbard was soon called as the teaching pastor. The vision for community outreach continued and a strong emphasis on world outreach was also established as we made an official decision to designate 10% of all offerings for foreign missions.

1993

NHCC continued to grow and adopted a summary Statement of Faith, a Constitution, and established the first Board of Elders. We were excited to begin supporting our first official missionaries, Tim & Cheryl Hinds, who moved to Kenya to share the gospel with tribal people.

1994

We could no longer fit in the building on East North Street, so we moved to the other side of town into a grocery store building on Old Buncombe Road. We soon held a community BBQ as a means of connecting with our new neighbors, and we enjoyed continued growth and outreach in that community over the next several years as God continued to transform lives through the power of the gospel.

1995

Through the leadership of one of our elders, we sponsored an outreach to hundreds of upstate bikers who collected diapers for foster children and in return were provided a meal and many stayed for a presentation of the gospel.

1996

As the church grew to over 300 people, the elders felt strongly that we must provide a way for God’s people to care for one another and hold each other accountable to living out God’s Word. The Shepherding Group ministry was born and continues to be the key component in facilitating real and serious community at NHCC.

1997

The facility on Buncombe Road became overcrowded and we began the long and difficult search for land. Finally, in a miraculous way, the Lord provided the perfect piece of property on Edwards Road in Taylors.  As we saw God establishing a more permanent presence in the Greenville community, people from within our own church family also began to mobilize for long-term foreign missions ministry. We responded by establishing an official Mission Board.

1998

In the same year we were building our first building, we increased the percentage of missions giving to 15% of all offerings. We also adopted a full doctrinal statement. In response to the crisis in Kosovo, we collected funds for a small Albanian church to distribute blankets and New Testaments to hundreds of people in the refugee camps.

1999

We eagerly moved into our own facility on Edwards Road, anticipating by faith what God might have for us as a church family in the days ahead. Even as we moved, we continued to invest in our old neighborhood as we pioneered the first Release Time Bible Classes in Greenville County public schools at Parker Middle School.

2000

Seeing the resources God had now gathered at NHCC and wanting to live out our philosophy of developing effective spiritual leaders, we established LEAD Ministry Training, a formal three year ministry leadership training program that equips men and women to lead others in ministry by providing academic training, mentoring and actual ministry experience. We also responded to the need for intensive discipleship by establishing a formal ministry of Biblical Counseling at NHCC.

2001

Just as we had done ten years earlier, we prepared a special program for the homeless men staying at Greenville rescue Mission, only this time instead of taking the program downtown, NHCC families  transported two hundred plus of the men to our facility for a special meal and program. We also continued to diversify in our local and global outreach. We began a live translation of worship services into Spanish and established a Spanish-speaking Shepherding Group. NHCC families also began hosting children from Belarus for six weeks each summer as a means of offering physical and medical assistance as well as spiritual impact for the sake of the gospel.

2002

We hosted a special Christmas outreach to single moms, and under the leadership of our first LEAD Ministry Training graduate, Mosaic Ministry to single moms began. After just over three years in our new building, the worship services were once again overcrowded, so we stepped way outside of our comfort zone and added a second morning service, maintaining a commitment to have identical services so the church family would not become polarized by stylistic differences in the two services.

2003

As the number of teens at NHCC increased, we added our first full-time student ministries pastor to the staff, being clear to communicate our commitment to a family-based model for youth ministry as we come alongside parents in their God-given responsibility to shepherd their children.

2004

We responded to an invitation to provide a conference for all SEND International missionaries in Alaska. We sent more than 30 speakers, musicians, cooks and children’s workers to minister to these missionaries who are most often serving in remote places.

2005

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we asked God to direct us and use us to be a specific help to people whose lives had been devastated. We sent several work teams to do the difficult work of tearing down and rebuilding. We also prepared a home here in Greenville for a family who lost everything in the hurricane. NHCC people helped locate and outfit an entire rental home for this couple and their two granddaughters. We got the girls established in schools and helped the adults find new jobs.

2006

We responded to a request to provide a team of children’s workers for the annual New Tribes Missions conference for all New Tribes missionaries in Mexico. We sent a team of more than 25 people to minister to the teens, children and nursery-aged kids during the weeklong conference.

2007

Once again we stepped way outside our comfort zone and added a third identical service on Sunday evenings. We also launched Kidstuff Children’s Ministry and began offering all educational programs for children and adults during all three services. This change not only made room for more people to attend worship services and classes, but it also opened the door for many people to serve in ministry at NHCC on Sundays without having to miss the worship service. During this same year we began SCORE, an after school program that includes academic tutoring and sports instruction for kids at Brook Glen Elementary School. We also increased our missions giving to 16%.

2008

We developed and launched a summer program for elementary children, WORLD VIEW, that emphasizes evangelism and world missions. If a child attends every year during his six years of elementary school, he or she will cover the globe learning of God’s kingdom work all around the world. We partnered with a gospel-centered organization in Egypt to establish a community center for women where they can participate in Bible studies, receive medical attention, and produce handmade products which enable them to provide for their families and help support the center.

2009

Because of our desire to see parents stay on target we developed and launched a comprehensive, systematic parent training program, Parenting on Purpose,  that provides at least one workshop for parents every six months from the time they are expecting a child to the time they are empty nesters.

2010

Under the leadership of LEAD graduates, the senior citizens ministry at NHCC became fully organized including internal care as well as outreach. In response to the flood in Nashville we organized teams of volunteers to spend time in Nashville helping restore the home of a flood victim, as well as serving with a new church as they responded to the needs of a housing project in their neighborhood.