The organization of the Asheborough Presbyterian Church was the direct result of the work of an evangelist preaching in the community of Asheboro and of the responsive desires of several local families.  But, indirectly, the formation of this church was the culmination of many events and circumstances which occurred over 1, 850 years as Christianity moved westward from Jerusalem to Rome, through the Protestant Reformation of 1517, through the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1560, with the immigrants to America who formed the presbytery of Philadelphia in 1705 and Orange Presbytery in 1770, with the dispersion of Scots and Ulster-Scots throughout North Carolina in the eighteenth century, and to the erection of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1789.

When our church was formed, Asheborough was still a small village of less than 200 inhabitants.  (There were only 16,000 in all of Randolph County.)  Randleman (or Union Factory, as it was known then) was the largest town. 

On May 4, 1850, the Asheborough Presbyterian Church was organized, with thirteen members, by a Committee of Orange presbytery.  George McNeill, a minister-evangelist from Fayetteville Presbytery, had been holding services here from time to time since 1848 and encouraged the local group to establish an ongoing congregation.

The History of Asheboro Presbyterian Church is a record of faith and trust in God and a witness to the blessings and responsibilities that God laid upon his people in this place.  It is a fascinating story of the growth of a family of believers, of growth in numbers, of growth in faith and witness, of growth in church programs and of growth and change in facilities for worship, education and fellowship.