After much prayer and prompting from the Holy Spirit the church of 20 began its modest beginnings in the back room of a local restaurant on Sunday mornings and within two months the congregation had outgrown the space and moved to the Converse Town Hall for the next 10 months. A year later in 1982, they grew to more than 100 members, raising enough money to purchase property at the intersection of state roads 13 and 18. What once was a pole building, housing a business named “Smith Brothers”, had now become the fulfillment of dreams of a church home. With some TLC and renovation The Open Door Fellowship was up and running in its own facility with the promise of more service offerings, children’s church and worship to pursue the vision originally cast.