In January of 1997, several families, desiring to form a new church in Midland that was committed to the inerrancy of the Bible and the proclamation of the gospel,  began meeting in homes. This group officially became Sunrise Baptist Church  in February, 1998. Within eighteen months, that gathering of a few families had grown to a regular weekly attendance between 50-70 folks This growth saw Sunrise go from meeting in homes to a conference room at the old Ramada Inn on Saginaw Rd. to the historical church building at the corner of Gordon and Grove where the church would settle until 2005 when the church had outgrown the space at Gordon and Grove. Sunrise moved to the current location on Jefferson in 2005.

Over the years, God blessed the church with many new families and members. Our history hasn't been without ups and downs, but we believe that we still exist to proclaim the gospel to the city of Midland and to demonstrate our love for neighbor in service and sacrifice so that those who are not familiar with God's love may come to receive eternal life in Him.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:9–10)