church in Morrisville. During the next 20 years, the New Brunswick community experienced rapid growth whichwas reflected in a corresponding growth of the church. By 1970 more than 600 peoplewere worshipping in a 750-seat auditorium that had been built by this time along with atwo-story educational building. However, the 1970's brought drastic demographic changesto the community, and by the early 80's the attendance had declined to the mid 300's. Moreand more Wayne Avenue members were shifting their place of residence to Trenton, NewJersey. With the base of financial strength eroding, a decision had to be made if missionsand other worthy ministries were to continue. On February 12, 1984, a proposal was made to relocate the church to Mercer County.Well over a third of the congregation had already moved there. The congregation waspolled and over 94% favored such a move. A fifteen acre site at 1700 Goodman Road waspurchased for $150,000. The Wayne Avenue property was appraised for $1.3 million andlisted for sale. First Baptist has remained since that day. I didnt really have a church experience with the ICC. Most of my time was spent studywith some member at their homes. I was initially impressed with this church due to thedynamic preacher, the zeal of the congregation and the number of young people that I metwho seemed devoted to the Lord. I decided to continue attending this church to see if Iwanted to become a member. I continued going to Bible Talks, and soon my friend askedme if I wanted to become involved in a personal Bible study. I was thrilled to study theBible more in depth and quickly agreed. What I did not realize was that this was a methodused by the church to indoctrinate people into their group. I became engrossed in the Biblestudies and was excited about the things that I was learning. I was surprised that thesethings were never taught to me while I was growing up in a Baptist church.My first personal Bible study took pla...
