Our Story

Mercy Gate Box Elder was planted by Andy Daniel and his wife, Tabitha Daniel in May of 2021. Andy was saved out of drug addiction in 2014 and discipled by men like John Stroup and Mike Estell, among many others. Andy holds a bachelors and masters degree from the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.

The church began meeting in their Box Elder home but quickly outgrew the space.

On Easter Sunday 17 April, 2022, the church moved into 475 Villa Drive. By the grace of God, the church quickly began to outgrow that space.

A 12,000 sq ft, 5 acre property owned by the  Dakota Baptist Convention was gifted to the church at 400 225th Street and services started there on 4 February 2023.

The church in this part of South Dakota has a long and fruitful history. The property at 400 225th Street was planted as Temple Baptist Church on May 11th, 1958. By June 1958 the church purchased two Air Force Barracks to meet in, one of which still stands, and by the end of the year had added the current brick building. Box Elder was incorporated in 1965. Temple Baptist Church became Paradigm Church sometime after 2012, and then became Outreach Community Church. A rich heritage of outreach, salvation, baptisms, and church plants can be traced to the church in Box Elder, and we are thankful for the saints who came before us, and we are praying for laborers to come into the fields which are rich for harvest today!

We rely heavily on missions teams from around the United States to help us knock on doors, host block parties, and perform service projects. We could not have done this without you!