Our History

Our church’s story began in 1907, when Flitwick was a small rural village, very different from the town we know today.

Until then, local Christian believers had travelled each Sunday (usually on foot) to worship in neighbouring villages. They came to realise that their witness in Flitwick would be far more effective if they had a focal point in the village, so got together to found the church, known originally as Flitwick Baptist Church. A wealthy local Christian gave the land, and a building was erected; it was designed as a Sunday School, with the intention of enlarging it into a church later. However, a full range of church activities was held on the site from the start, and it was to be some 70 years before any building extension took place.

After the setback of the First World War with men away fighting, the church became lively and active in the 1930s. During the Second World War it helped care for an influx of children evacuated from London to escape the bombing.

As Flitwick started to grow from a village into a town in the 1950s and 60s, the church grew in numbers too, with members starting systematic door-to-door visitation in the new housing estates. To keep pace, the buildings were extended in the 1970s and again in the 1990s.

In the 1970s, the church ended its affiliation to the Baptist Union, and joined with other like-minded churches in the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC).

The church carried on growing, to the point that by the 2000s it wasn’t possible for everyone to get a seat on Sunday mornings, and the church started holding two Sunday morning services.

In 2020 we decided to modify the buildings once more by demolishing the wall between the two largest rooms to create a spacious auditorium, big enough for up to 200  people. As the work reached its conclusion in 2021 we also decided to signal a fresh start to the community by changing the name to King’s Church Flitwick, realising that the word ‘Baptist’ no longer meant very much to many people; the new name, building on the church’s location in Kings Road, proclaims our allegiance to King Jesus, the King of Kings.