Our StoryIn November 2023, Tundra Baptist Church, located in the Tundra Community, south of Canton, recently celebrate its 125th anniversary. This momentous occasion featured inspiring music, guest speakers, and personal testimonies from many who have been touched by the church and its ministry through many years.
Founded in 1898, Tundra started as the Missionary Baptist Church of Christ at Ebenezer in what was then the Lone Star Community. The years 1933 to 1935 would be significant period of time for the congregation. It was the Great Depression, and it was when the original church building burned. They met in the Lone Start School, never missing a Sunday service, later purchasing property for $10, started raising money to build a church building, and moved to the current location in 1934. It was in 1935 that the name of the church became Tundra Baptist. However you look at it, 125 years of continuous, unbroken ministry is a remarkable achievement. Like many other farming communities around Van Zandt County, when those few families moved and settled in Tundra, they brought faith and service to Christ with them. They wanted a church and Tundra was the fruit of that desire. Who knows if they could even envision 125 years down the road. They were just doing what they knew to do, one day and one step at a time. If you think about it, a lot hasn’t changed. |
Our LeadershipPhil & LaJuana Knott
Pastor Phil currently serves the church as Pastor, having come to Tundra in 2018 following 37 years in international missionary work. “After living and working abroad for so long in the dynamic, ever-changing environment of foreign missions, I wasn’t entirely confident of settling down to pastor an established congregation. Our life had been starting new churches, training new missionaries, and exploring new mission fields. But we soon discovered at Tundra a people with a passion for God and His Word, a caring congregation where people matter, where there is a commitment to Biblical teaching and preaching and lives are transformed by the Gospel. What more could we want?”
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