Chugiak Baptist Church started as a mission work in 1989 under the authority of Badger Road Baptist Church in Fairbanks, Alaska. Pastor Michael Hughes had been pastor of a church in Ardmore, Oklahoma prior to coming to Alaska.
We first met at the home of one of our members while we purchased and then renovated our current building. This property was purchased in the summer of 1990, and we began meeting here in late summer 1991, after working on the building to prepare it for meetings. Chugiak Baptist Church organized into an Independent Baptist Church in October, 1997.