In August 1984, the Lord burdened the heart of Pastor Wee Yan Tiong, who was then pastoring the Singapore Bible Baptist Church (SBBC), to plant another gospel work in the western part of Singapore.  In October of the same year, Pastor Wee stepped down from the interim pastorate of SBBC to pave the way for a new pastor, and in January 1985, through a formal business meeting, the Singapore Bible Baptist Church released the ten charter members to form another independent Baptist Church.

On 16th February 1985, attended by the various independent Baptist pastors in Singapore, the inauguration and organisation of the Shalom Baptist Church took place.  Since then, we have moved through several places before settling down presently in the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent).

Through God's providence, preservation and prevailing grace, our church has multiplied and grown, both numerically and spiritually. As at now, we have a membership of more than 250 members with two missionaries in West Malaysia - Pastor Ter Y.H. and Pastor J. Tan; and one in Asia - Pastor Soh. In addition, we are privileged to help out in the support of more than 40 missionaries and annually involve in supporting mission projects in and around South East Asia.

Shalom Baptist Church is an independent, fundamental, autonomous, local New Testament Church.  We believe that the local church is a divine institution of Christ, and as such, all our Mission programs, Mission supports, Bible College, Bible Institute and every form of church work are done in and through the local church and not through any Convention, Fellowship or Mission Board.  We are of the persuasion that the Baptist church and faith can be traced back to the time of Christ under the names of Ana-Baptists, Waldenses, Albigenses, Paulicians, Novatians, etc.  Baptists are not Catholics nor Protestants but have existed since the time of Christ. Throughout church history, Baptists have stood for the Bible, fighting for the purity of the doctrines and practices of the church, and an estimate of some 50 millions Baptists have died for their faith during the Dark Ages (426 AD - 1600 AD).