early 1900's In the early 1900’s Miss Olive Clegg commenced a Sunday School in a house in Picnic Hill.

1902—1904 Home meetings were commenced by Mr Tranter overseen by Rev M.L. Murphy

1905 In 1905 the Picnic Hill Baptist Church was first built with help from the Lilydale Baptist Church. Mr Atkinson conducted musical evenings; Mr Bert Thorowgood led Christian Endeavour and Youth Group.

1917—1932 Rev JJ Proctor, a man of the people and loved by everyone served the Church

1940—45 Trevor Morris and Fred Levitt packed the Church for evangelistic meetings

1966 The Church moved to the current site and was remodelled. Bill Taylor was the Church administrator and Elsie Taylor led the Sunday School. Ron Hartly played the music and led the worship and his wife Dorothy led the Girls Brigade. Mrs Pat Edwards also led the Sunday School.

1987 Pastor Bruce Kelly was called as the first sole Pastor for Wandin Baptist. During Bruce’s ministry the church numbers increased; the little church became too small so they moved to the Wandin Senior Citizen’s Hall

1988 In July 1988 the Church was constituted as a member of the Baptist Union of Victoria with 34 members.

1993 In 1993 Revs Rowland and Jan Croucher were appointed as Pastors of the Church; the house next to the Church was purchased and established as a Community House. During this period many groups were established including a Disability Friendship Club, a Youth Group, Sunday school, Play group, Craft Group, Men’s and Women’s Bible Studies, Senior’s Group and Women’s Ministry

1995—2005 Alan Smith was appointed as Pastor and assisted in consolidating the ministry and finances of the Church. This was a period of co-operation with other churches in the community.

2006 Reverends John and Val Billingham were appointed as joint Pastors, and work commenced on the building of the present church buildings. John supervised and worked on the building of the Church. In March 2010 the building was completed and opened.

2011 In March 2011, Rev Ray McDonald was inducted as an Intentional Interim Pastor to work through any remaining issues in the Church and to prepare the Church for a future pastoral appointment.

2012 In November, 2012, Rev Neville Kellam was inducted as pastor and remained so until the end of November 2015. Pastor Neville’s ministry was characterised as a period of consolidation in the church. His preaching was encouraging, inspirational and appreciated, and he with his wife Dorothy were much loved.

2016 From December 2016 to November 2021 Rev Darrell McKerlie served as pastor. We appreciated Pastor Darrell’s ministry, which included three years of active participation in the Stable One Winter Shelter for people experiencing homelessness, where people slept in the church for one night a week, and a period of COVID lockdown, where we learned that we could worship face to face via our computers, tablets, and phones. The ladies enjoyed the Bible studies, which Pam led at their home.