The Valley Baptist Church (now renamed Surrey Valley Baptist Church) is historically significant as a representative of the Baptist faith in Albert County. In 1822, Henry Steeves, one of the seven Steeves brothers who arrived in 1766, founded the Hillsborough Baptist Church in partnership with Rev. Joseph Crandall. By 1871, the pastor Rev. John Hughes, decided to establish a satellite Baptist Church less then three kilometers away in Surrey. In 1877, fifty members from the Hillsborough Church formed the first congregation here at "The Valley". In 1913 kerosene lighting gave way to natural gas. Electricity did not arrive until 1942, five years after a telephone was installed. In 1925, Mr. William Lewis accepted the position of organist. He faithfully served as music director for fifty-five years. The Church has recruited, funded and dispatched missionaries to India, Africa, the Philippines, Bolivia and Haiti. The Church building was placed on a foundation in 1963 and the 1100 square meter Fellowship Center was dedicated in 2000. Equipped with the gymnasium in the Fellowship Center, the Church felt ready to bring a new ministry to the youth of the community.

These changes over the years were the result of dollars and cents and years of dedicated service rendered. The real currency for the Church and its congregation, however, are the religious and community works made possible by this Church's persistent presence in this valley for one hundred and thirty-nine years.
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​We feel our Church has been a blessing from God and nothing would be possible without Him and without the continued Faith that God is in control of our Church!