 Potter's House Church of Sturgis started on January 12, 2003 as a daughter work of The Potter's House, with the first service being held at the Grange Hall located on Fawn River Rd.
Our second service found us moving to a banquet room, located at the Sturgis Inn, this would be our home for the next several months. In August of 2003 we became a Home Missions church with the United Pentecostal Church International.
During this time we experienced many special moments, people were receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, being baptized in Jesus Name, and lives were being changed as we continued to reach out to people in the community.
In April of 2004, by the grace of God, we were able to purchase a building of our own. This building was located downtown near the main intersection of the city.
The efforts of many helping hands turned this former bank into a beautiful place of our own where we could worship the Lord. On May 25, 2004 Potter's House Church of Sturgis became its own entity.
 We were hungry for God to grow His church, in October 2004 following a month of prayer and fasting, we began to witness God adding to His glorious church in mighty way.
We continued to trust in the Lord, praying and fasting, preaching His word, sharing the Good News supporting the efforts of Foreign Missionaries, and within a year God had filled this storefront church.
In less than three years, On November 5, 2006 God made a way to bless us with our current church building, we called it a Miracle!
On January 3, 2007 it seemed that our miracle was stolen from us. We received an early morning phone call informing us that our church had just been destroyed by fire. There was extensive damage and at that moment we wondered what God was trying to do?
God had greater plans for this church, within 24 hours the men and women that would help in the restoration were already enroute. For the next 6 months we would worship God in a temporary home, while our building was being totally restored,
another Miracle that God had blessed us with.
We returned home on July 1, 2007, to a beautiful building, beyond our wildest dreams, Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."
In 2009 we reached our first milestone, we have been here for 5 years, We have experienced many changes, but one thing has not changed, God is Great and Greatly to be Praised. We look forward to the next 5 years to see what God will do?
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