West Kingston Baptist Church began in 1889 as a Sunday School for children held at a Kingston Fairgrounds building on Fairgrounds Road in West Kingston and sponsored by Queens River (Usquepaug) Baptist Church. Numbers grew until in 1897 a chapel was constructed at the corner of Kingstown Road (Rt. 138) and Railroad Avenue. Begun under the auspices of the Rhode Island Convention of the American Baptist Church, the church became an independent work in the 1950's. The church continued as a village church of modest size until the 1960's when the University of Rhode Island and the town of South Kingstown entered a period of substantial growth. The congregation saw significant growth in the 1960's and the 1970's, leading to the construction in 1975 of a much larger facility at 263 Waites Corner Road, adjacent to the parsonage (built in 1970).

Over the past fifty years the congregation has expanded to include people from a variety of Christian backgrounds, economic strata, and geographic origins, many of whom have attended the university and settled in the South County area. With an emphasis on the worldwide spread of the gospel, the church has sent out several missionaries.