Our church was born at a prayer meeting on January 2, 1991, with 16 people in attendance. Our first pastor was Rev. Charles A. Epperson.
The first service was held the next Sunday, January 6, 1991 at the Winter Park Seventh Day Adventist Church, with 39 present.
In February of 1991 we moved to the chapel of the Baldwin Fairchild Funeral Home on Lake Ivanhoe, in Orlando, Florida. We met there for almost 2 years expense free.
On Sunday, November 8, 1992, we began meeting at 1820 East End Avenue in Winter Park, after buying the property from Rev. Carroll Blakeslee and the Edgewood Congregational Church. We paid cash for the property, having accumulated enough funds in the two-year period at the funeral home. We officially organized as an autonomous church affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance on Sunday, February 3, 1993. Rev. Charles Epperson was the founding pastor. The name Maranatha Fellowship Church was chosen by Jonathan Whitlock, a charter member.
Rev. Epperson served as pastor until his death in June, 1996. Rev. Grady Mangham served as our interim pastor after the death of Rev. Epperson. Rev. Curtis L. Pace became our second pastor on Sunday, December 8, 1996. After Rev. Pace left in 2000, Rev. William Austin served as interim pastor until he was called as the full-time pastor of Maranatha in August, 2001. After his retirement in 2008, Rev. Barry Peterson was called to be our pastor in June of the same year.