“It is what we have going but on a larger scale,” Pastor S.V. Adolph Jr. “I call it First Missionary on steroids.

During the next year, the church will present national speakers, singers, college choirs, plays, portrait contests and more.

FMBC has a colorful history. Rev. A. Vardaman along with Handsboro residents started the church in a log cabin near Bayou Bernard. The church members used the bayou for baptisms. A small building was built at this site. In 1887, the church was moved to its present site, but a building there was later destroyed by fire. Another building was built, and it lasted until another fire consumed it in 1959. The present-day church was built in 1962.

The church building also has been through several expansions over the years.