In April of 1867, a handful of members from Nashville’s First Baptist Church joined together to form a new congregation on the east side of the Cumberland river, in what was then a rural suburb called Edgefield. These first members promised to help one another grow as followers of Jesus, and to work together to make the truth about him available to their neighbors here and around the world. For more than 150 years, Edgefield Baptist Church did what they’d first promised to do, through all the changes that transformed a rural suburb into a thriving and beautiful urban neighborhood. In September of 2010, much like those founding members of Edgefield long before, a handful of members from Nashville’s Grace Community Church joined together to form Trinity Church on the west side of the city-center. For ten years they met in an elementary school auditorium a block from the campus of Vanderbilt University. Setting up and tearing down Sunday after Sunday, meeting in one another’s homes throughout the week, the church grew and flourished among a transient population from all over the world. Then in the fall of 2020, these two congregations decided to join together to form one church. Both churches were committed to offering a faithful witness to Jesus in the Nashville city-center for many years to come. They believed they could do more to advance their mission by partnering together than they could as separate congregations. So, on January 1, 2021, our churches officially reconstituted as Edgefield Church. In this neighborhood that we love, we’re pursuing together the same values that have guided faithful churches throughout the centuries.