On October 14, 1941, just two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small congregation gathered together under a brush arbor on Mudville Road in Kerrville, Tennessee, to worship God. Leading the revival services were Rev. Ben Belk and Rev. Earl Adcock.
Later the arbor was moved further down Mudville Road, where the revival continued on the property of Leon and Alma Chapman. The Chapmans donated one acre of land for a church building to be erected. The stipulation was that as long as the church remained on the property and services were being held, the church could use the land, but if the congregation moved, the land would revert back to the Leon Chapman family.
In late 1942, Leon Chapman and his stepson, Roy Brookshire, went around the Kerrvile community asking for donations to help build the new church. In 1943 a small frame building was erected on the land donated by the Chapman family and during the summer, the Kerrville Assembly of God Church congregation was formed. The church’s first pastor was Rev. Ben Belk. The church’s congregation consisted of seveal local families including the Chapmans, the Crunks, the Jesse Haley and A.E. Haley families, the Houstons, the Blacks, the Gardners, the Soan Woodards and the Delaneys.
In 1987 the congregation purchased a small tract of land on U.S. Highway 51 and Sullivan Road for a new and larger church in a more visible location. The new facility held opening services in July 1991 and Rev Lindell Fisher gave Alma Chapman Delashmit the honor of naming the new church. She said “it took a lot of faith” to build and continue the church through the years. She named the church Faith Assembly of God.
