Rolling Hills Baptist Church was established in the summer of 1986 when God brought together 3 families who met weekly for Bible study in the home of Dr. Jim Hill, an employee of the Baptist Home Mission Board.

In November of 1986, Dennis Culbreth, a young enthusiastic minister, became the pastor of the small mission group who held its first worship service on Easter Sunday, 1987, in a Jazzercise studio on Pike Street in Lawrenceville. For over a year and a half members took turns each Saturday night transforming an exercise studio into a chapel by setting up chairs and rolling out a homemade portable stage and an old donated pulpit that had been mended and spray-painted. With a congregation of seven families, set-up and nursery duty came all too often yet no one seemed to mind for God was teaching servanthood. Inconveniences and adversities seemed to bond the group even closer.

God chose to begin His work with one pastor, one Home Mission Board member, five housewives, one school teacher, one real estate businessman, two accountants, one credit manager, one engineer, one legal secretary, one infant, two toddlers and one youth. They found the words of Jeremiah 17:5-8 to be true: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on the flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord...But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. He will be like a tree plated by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.”

During the next year it became apparent that the mission needed more room and a permanent home. After searching for property amidst dashed hopes and disappointments, The Lordsmen Baptist Church, a small twenty-year-old Independent Baptist Church on Braselton Highway, approached the pastor of Rolling Hills. They offered to donate a building and 7 acres of land with only one stipulation – that the current members of Lordsmen Baptist automatically become members of the new church. As they had many times before, the people of Rolling Hills Baptist Church saw the awesome hand of God at work as Rolling Hills accepted this blessing!

God’s hand was evident in the gifted peopled He led to Rolling Hills. Two creative ladies wrote exciting, innovative Vacation Bible School curriculums. Two other talented ladies wrote and composed meaningful children’s musicals so that every child could have a special part. Dr. Henry Blackaby and his family shared their talents. Henry held workshops and shared the activities of God experienced around the world. His wife Marilyn, an accomplished musician, played the organ and his grown children sang when they all gathered for special holidays. Two retired ladies who had zeal and a heart for missions helped the over-worked, over-committed congregation discover the importance of reaching “Judea, Samaria, and the utter-most parts of the world.” They also helped establish a thriving prayer ministry.

In June of 1992 God provided 3 trailers for the price of one – purchased from a church in South Georgia - to meet the needs of the growing Sunday School. In March of 1994 the church purchased seven additional adjoining acres. In 1996 a beautiful preschool/children’s building was added through which hundreds of children’s lives have been influenced for God.

In 1998, Dennis resigned as pastor and the church went one year under the leadership of Steve Parr as Interim. In July of 1999, Jeff Rogers, who previously served on staff at Rolling Hills as youth pastor, was called to be the senior pastor. The congregation grew as God blessed. It soon became necessary to hire a full-time youth pastor (Scott Davis), and then minister of music/education (Jeff Gray). As they soon ran out of worship and education space, the congregation realized that they must begin another building program. On Easter of 2004 the congregation began meeting in a new facility (beside the older sanctaury) having a 450-seat sanctuary, educational space for youth and adults, and a fellowship hall. Soon afterwards, Dean Garrett was called as full-time children's minister. For three years in a row, Rolling Hills was on the list of Georgia's top 100 fastest growing Sunday Schools as published by the Georgia Baptist Convention.

Rolling Hills looks forward to the intertwining of yet a third story – the story of its future. The growth of Gwinnett County is staggering. The Gwinnett County Public School System is one of the fastest growing systems in the United States with over 100,000 students in K-12. Enrollment is growing by 4,000 students per year. People of all nationalities and cultures are establishing their roots here with more than 80,000 non-native English speakers. Even though the possibilities and opportunities for growth are exciting, the problems and challenges are incomprehensible. As a church, Rolling Hills will only be able to meet the challenges that lay before it if its people remain true to their commitment to obey God and to look to Him as their great Provider. The people of Rolling Hills don’t know what their future holds, but they do know in whose hand their future is held. As a church, may they be ever mindful that God has set them apart to be the holy bride of His Son who gave His very life so that they may be holy. Throughout the pages of their history yet to be written may they always be a sweet perfume and a strong beacon of light pointing a lost world to their powerful and mighty God. And may they always remain true by “Moving Forward in Faith” while "Changing Lives...Today and Tomorrow."