OUR HISTORY 

     Christ The Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church was founded at God’s command. One night while returning to his home in Lebanon, Connecticut, on the Old Say Brook Bridge on Interstate 95, God audibly told Rev. Dr. James R. Cook Sr. to return to Bridgeport, Connecticut’s East Side and start a holistic ministry. This  ministry was to care for the whole person, and would be more than a Sunday Worship and a Wednesday Bible Study.In response to God’s command, Reverend Dr. James R. Cook, Sr., founded Christ The Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church. The church held it's first worship service on Sunday, October 7, 1979, at 717 Arctic Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, with twelve (12) people representing three (3) families.  Churches from all areas of the state came to celebrate its birth. The charter members of Christ The Redeemer MBC were: Reverend James R. Cook, Sr., the late Dorene Cook, James R. Cook, Jr., Dorenda Cook, Clarence Coles, Wilhelmenia Coles, Regina Coles, the late Erik Coles, Clayton Ford, the late Gwendolyn Ford, Shawn Carter, and Late Bernice J. Cook.

   Christ The Redeemer MBC was founded to minister to all the people of Bridgeport.  It serves not only the community at large, but also those in prisons, hospitals, sick at home, the poor and those in homeless shelters.  

As the needs of the church increased, spacing became a problem and a larger facility was sought.  Christ The Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church purchased our present location at 785 Boston Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut in April 1989.  In that same month, the then church members marched from the East Main Street location to our new edifice.

As God gives His vision and direction to Pastor Cook, Christ The Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church endeavors to
follow and carry them out.

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Psalm 29:18a, KJV)

MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP PASTOR COOK &

 THE CHRIST THE REDEEMER FAMILY

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