History
Brushy Creek Baptist Church Taylors is a place where 2,833 members and hundreds of visitors have found a home to worship God. Its roots date back to June of 1794, when five men gathered in a small log structure near Brushy Creek off the Enoree River, and established Brushy Creek church as an arm of a small neighboring “Church of Concord Meeting House, Tyger River.” From those humble beginnings, Brushy Creek Baptist Church grew to be called the “mother church of Greenville.” Although not the oldest on record, BCBC has established and supported many other churches in the county, while growing and moving to various locations itself. It is also the only church in Greenville to be known by the same name for more than 200 years.
Both oral and written history show in the first years, Brushy Creek members gathered at different meeting houses and in a wooded area behind a brick house on Old Spartanburg Road. Records show about 40 members attending the church before “The Great Revival” in 1831. One year later, 190 members are listed. Church membership fluctuated during the rest of the 1800s, as the Civil War ensued and black members left Brushy Creek to form Enoree Fork Baptist Church. It was during this time Brushy Creek started one of the first Sunday Schools in Greenville.
In 1902, Brushy Creek Baptist Church members dedicated a new church building on the corner of Old Spartanburg Road and Brushy Creek Road. For the next 90 years, church members would add two structures and a cemetery at that campus, while embracing the beginnings of many modern-day programs, including the Women’s Ministries, World Missions Offering, Vacation Bible School, Bible Drills, and Christian Sports Teams. By the 1990s, Brushy Creek had grown to 1,400 members and needed double worship services and Sunday Schools.
In 1994, Brushy Creek built a new facility on 20 acres around the corner at 
4999 Old Spartanburg Road. It remains the centerpiece of activity for thousands living in Taylors, Greer, Greenville and the Golden Strip, as well as up into Travelers Rest and Blue Ridge. On any given day of the week, you’ll find hundreds meeting somewhere on campus to pray, learn, teach or play. No matter the location, year or pastor, Brushy Creek has experienced one constant: the desire for its members to grow closer to God in all that they do.
You can find the complete history of Brushy Creek Baptist Church in The Bicentennial History of Brushy Creek Baptist Church by Susan Frazier Kahl, which is available for check-out in the library on the first floor of the Education Building, or can be purchased from the church office for $15.00.
