Our History

In June of 1995, Pastor Marvin McKenzie of the Bayview Baptist Church in Astoria, Oregon asked Kevin Birdsong to pray about moving to Tillamook to plant a new Independent Baptist Church. The church in Astoria had already sent one of their faithful couples, Wayne and Sandy Ward to "get the ball rolling."
After two weeks of prayer, Brother Birdsong felt it was God's will to move his family to Tillamook. He and his wife, Charlotte, along with their sons, Kyle and Keith, arrived in Tillamook on August 26, 1995.
 

Pastor Birdsong's motto was then, and still is today, a statement made by William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, "Hard work and holiness will work anywhere." After meeting for about a year, the church was officially organized and chartered on September 15, 1996. Nineteen people signed the charter and became the first members of Ocean Breeze Baptist Church. After thirty years of ministry in Tillamook County the church is still moving forward, preaching the Gospel, and winning the lost.