An extract about the origin of Rosyth Baptist Church taken from the book  HISTORY OF BAPTISTS IN SCOTLAND

On Saturday, 8th June, 1918, a meeting of interested Baptist friends was called to meet the Rev. J Hair, M.A., and Rev. J. Miller of Dunfermline, in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Rosyth, to consider the possibilities of a cause there, where some 200 families were residing, chiefly from Southern dockyard towns.  Ten Baptist friends attended this meeting. Of these six were former members of Zion Baptist Church, Chatham, Kent.  It was stated that a room in the temporary Infant School had been obtained wherein to hold Sunday services.  It was thereupon decided to hold the first service on Sunday evening, 23rd June, 1918, at 7p.m., and the Rev. J Hair, M.A., consented to conduct the service. 

The friends present decided to form themselves into a local Committee, with Mr H. F. Seager as secretary, to canvas the Garden City and to arouse an interest in the coming service.  Handbills were procured and distributed, and house canvass made by two ladies, Mrs Seager and Mrs Dixon.  During the canvas it was also found that many were concerned about their children, who had been attending Baptist Sunday Schools in the South, and urged the formation of a Sunday School. 

As a result on the Sunday evening 40 local friends and a number from West Baptist Church, Dunfermline, attended the first service, at the close of which a Communion service was held, attended by 25 members of Southern Baptist Churches.  During the week following a meeting of the friends was held, and it was decided to start a Sunday School on the following Sunday, 30th June, 1918, and a staff of teachers was appointed, with a lady as Superintendent, Mrs H. F. Seager, and Mrs C. Lewis as Secretary.  On the first Sunday 10 scholars attended, increasing to 46 within a month. 

The services on Sunday evenings continued to be well attended, although the seats were infants' forms and the lighting arrangements candles and oil lamps.  The numbers at the services and in the Sunday School were now so much increased that the accommodation in the temporary school was quite inadequate, so it was decided to request the use of the Y.M.C.A. Hall for services and  Sunday School, and this was ultimately arranged.  The attendance at this time was about 100 at each service, and about 200 scholars in the Sunday School. 

A Building Committee had been formed, as the need of a School Hall at least was acutely felt.  A Church Constitution had also been adopted and approved by the Baptist Union of Scotland, and the Church was received into the Union.  It may be worth mentioning that a clause in the constitution makes it impossible for any member having an interest in the liquir traffic to become an office-bearer in the Church, and also draws attention to the undesirability of accepting to membership any person holding doctrines such as sinless perfection.  A site for a School Hall, which could be used as a Church and School, was chosen on 14th September, 1919, in consultation with the 20th Century Committee of the B.U.S. 

In January, 1920, the Rev. A. D. Law, of the Baptist Theological College, was sent to Rosyth, and was later inducted by Dr Jervis Coats as the first Pastor.  Under him the cause grew, and at length in May, 1923, a Church Hall was opened for public worship by the Rev. J. T. Forbes, D.D., Glasgow.  The progress both of the Church and Sunday School was marked from this time forward. 

In June, 1924, the Rev. A. D. Law for health reasons resigned the pastorate, and about the same time Mr H. F. Seager, who had acted as Secretary since the beginning, also resigned on his appointment to Weymouth.  The Church was served by students from the College until November 17th, 1924, when Mr A, A, Wilson was inducted as Student-Pastor. 

The Church records its indebtedness to the 20th Century Fund Committee and its Convener, the late Dr. Coats, for their support and encouragement throughout.  Special mention should be made to the many devoted women who worked and sacrificed in many ways for the Church in the initial stages of the movement.