1921

1921 – George Estes – a man from Sachse who was 46 years old at the time, made what was a long trip at that time…. from Sachse to the Coliseum at Fair Park in Dallas to attend a revival conducted by a lady named… Aimee-Semple McPherson.  In that meeting, George Estes was miraculously healed of rheumatism in his back and had a lasting encounter with the Holy Spirit.

Brother Eastes brought that experience back to Sachse in the form of cottage prayer meetings that were held in various homes. Several visible miracles, like the healing of lady named Mrs. Day from Tuberculosis, caused the prayer meetings crowds to swell and the growing group of believers began to think about starting a church.

1925 –  They moved into an empty bank building in Sachse which they soon outgrew. In 1926, Brother and Sister Easter and a handful of others, went out among the town & businesses to ask for donations to build a church. They then bought a lot at the 3rd street location in Sachse, and the Sachse Assembly of God’s first church building was constructed by all donated labor. Pastor – Daniel Lewis

From Sachse Assembly of God, other churches were built in Wylie, Garland, Lavon and Trenton.

1927 Pastor medley

1928, – WRGB (then W2XB) was started as the world’s first television station. It broadcast from the General Electric facility in Schenectady, New York. It was popularly known as “WGY Television”.

1929– Pastor Furgeson

1930 Pastor Thomas

Aug -1929-Mar 1933 – The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid-off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed.

1931

1933 – Pastor Harris

1934 – Pastor Elswick

1936 Pastor Livingston

1937 – Pastor Pickel

1938 – Pastor Brown

1939 – Pastor Carrington

1939 – World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world’s countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.

1940 – Pastor Browning

1941

1941

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor – Dec 7th, 1941

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population.

1943 – Pastor Wilson

1944 – Pastor Hammack

1945 – On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On May 8, 1945, World War II in Europe came to an end. As the news of Germany’s surrender reached the rest of the world, joyous crowds gathered to celebrate in the streets, clutching newspapers that declared Victory in Europe (V-E Day).  Later that year, US President Harry S. Truman announced Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II. The news spread quickly and celebrations erupted across the United States. On September 2, 1945, formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri, designating the day as the official Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day).

May 8, 1945 – The Holocaust ended with the military defeat of Nazi Germany and its European collaborators in World War II.

1946 – Pastor Tuttle

1947 – Pastor Gibbs

1948 – Pastor Tipton

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.

1949 – Evangelist J.R. Kneggs held a tent revival for Pastor V. E Tipton.  Pastor Tipton later went to Garland to build and Pastor Southside Assembly of God.

The revival meetings went on for 3 weeks.  A storm came through, blew the tent down but another tent was purchased.  The crowds kept coming and many were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit.  Every night, a gentleman by the name of Mr’ Pettis sat on the fender of his car spitting his chewing tobacco and listening to the preacher.  He would not come inside the tent  The last night of the revival when the invitation was given, Mr. Pettis came inside the tent and down the aisle for salvation.  He was well known in Sachse, a lifelong citizen.  During the revival we were in the homes of Pastor Tipton, Bro Andrews and Sister Bailey.

1951

June 14, 1951 – Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau. It weighed 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second.

1951 – Pastor Sparks

1952 Pastor Homer Pittsinger

1954 Pastor H.F. Duckworth

1954 – Pastor J.P. George

1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott, mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional. The 381-day bus boycott also brought the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., into the spotlight as one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement.  December 1, 1955 seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. Local laws dictated that African American passengers sat at the back of the bus while whites sat in front. If the white section became full, African Americans had to give up their seats in the back. When Parks refused to move to give her seat to a white rider, she was taken to jail; she was later bailed out by a local civil rights leader.

1956 – The town of Sachse became incorporated in April

Police Department began with only an elected Town Marshall – May 11th 

1957 – Pastor Vanhorn

1958 – Oct 7th – Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth’s orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union.

1959 – Pastor Carrington

1959 – Alaska and Hawaii admitted, respectively, as the 49th and 50th states of the Union.

1960 – Pop – 359

1961

1961 – Volunteer Fire Department was established

1962 – Pastor Leon Balles

Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

Nov 22, 1963 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States was assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Kennedy’s death. Marxist and former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone. 

1964 – Pastor E. R. Burden

1965 – America Entered the Vietnam War 

June 3rd, 1965 – Ed White became the first American to go for a walk in space. The feat came ten weeks after Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov conducted the first spacewalk. Ed White spent roughly 20 minutes floating in space attached by only a 23-foot tether and 25 foot umbilical, with the world far below him.

1966 – Law enforcement was provided by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department

1968 – April 4th – Martin Luther King Jr., was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dec. 21, 1968, Apollo 8 lifted off, marking the first time humans left low Earth orbit and flew to the moon. This was the second manned spaceflight of the Apollo program, and it was a nerve-wracking and remarkable flight that captured the world’s attention.

1969 – Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969

1969-1987 – Pastor Jimmie Capehart came in1969 and determinedly stayed for 18 years. He plowed the spiritual fallow ground of this city with little fruit to show for his faithfulness.

Edith & Eloise Bailey – Instrumental in keeping the church doors opened when others wanted to close the doors.

1971

1971 – The floppy disk was introduced by IBM and made it possible to easily load software and updates onto mainframe computers. As technology evolved and personal computers became popular, the floppy disk enabled people to share data and programs more easily. An office worker could save documents on a disk at the end of the day and load them onto his home computer to finish up that night. A college student could save her research paper on a floppy disk and submit it to her professor to read and grade on his office computer. People weren’t tied to a specific computer anymore. They could easily transfer data and programs from one machine to another. It truly revolutionized the way people worked and quickly became the most widely used storage medium for small systems.

The first network email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. The email to himself said “something like QWERTYUIOP”

April 3rd, 1973 – The first handheld cellular phone call was made by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper from Sixth Avenue in New York while walking between 53rd and 54th streets.

Cooper hoisted the 2 1/2-pound prototype to his ear and called a rival, Joel Engel of Bell Laboratories at AT&T, to declare that his Motorola team had devised a functional portable phone. “There was silence at the other end of the line,” Cooper recalled to Bloomberg in 2015. “To this day, Joel doesn’t remember that call, and I’m not sure I blame him.”

The clunky “shoe” phone, almost as big as a shoebox, allowed a user to talk for 35 minutes and required 10 hours to recharge, according to Wired magazine.

Motorola spent 10 years overcoming technical and regulatory hurdles and began commercial service in 1983 using a slimmer 16-ounce model that cost between $3,500 and $4,000.

 1974-1987 – Sachse had its own newspaper – the Sache Sentinel 

1975 – George Estes turns 100 years old

1976 – Celebrated 50th anniversary – held in original building

1979 – City establishes it own police department.

1979 – On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans, ranging from the Chargé d’Affaires to the most junior members of the staff, as hostages. … The Iranians held the American diplomat’s hostage for 444 days.

Macintosh Computer project was started with Jef Raskin, an Apple employee, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. In September 1979, Raskin was authorized to start hiring for the project, and he began to look for an engineer who could put together a prototype.

1981

1983 –  New building was dedicated on May 15th

January 24, 1984 – The first Macintosh was introduced by Steve Jobs and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two known, but still unpopular features—the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors.

1986 – 60th Anniversary held in the new building.

January 28, 1986 –  The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal accident in the United States’ space program. The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

1987-2005 Pastor Rick DuBose – But in God’s sovereignty, this small band of praying country folk had their prayers answered. Young youth pastor and his wife…Rick and Rita Dubose asked for a chance to speak life back into this place. It was an updraft of grace. God was ready for Sachse Assembly to move from the struggle for survival to soaring on wings like eagles.  Church attendance at that time was 17 members.

November 9th, 1989 – The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal event in world history that marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterward.

Feb 11th – 1990 – Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end apartheid in South Africa, was released from prison after 27 years. Born in 1918, Mandela joined the African National Congress, the oldest black political organization in South Africa, in 1944.

April 24, 1990 – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached a major milestone: one billion seconds in the final frontier when it was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery.

1991

Jan 17, 1991 – Feb 28, 1991 – The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes.

December 25, 1991 – the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.

1992 – The 1st church building was paid in full.

Weekly prayer meeting and monthly renewal services that included other area churches we held.  Salvation were happening weekly and physical healings were taking place. 

***See testimony of healing – Jo Ann Brewer

1993 – Dedication of new building on 3rd St. – A Place Of Truth, A People Who Care, and A Power That is Real.

April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor

1994 – Sachse began to experience its fastest growth rate.

May 10th, 1994 – Nelson Mandela was elected as the leader of the ANC and was inaugurated as president of South Africa. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

1998 – Fire Department began to be run by the city.

2001

2001

2001 – Pop 9,751

The September 11 attacks, also commonly referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. They 1st hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush.

Mar 20th, 2003 – The invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 and 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq.

Dec 26th, 2004 – The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami occurred with an epicenter off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Nearly 230,000 people died, making it one of the deadliest disasters in modern history.

Facebook – an American online social media and social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of 2020, Facebook claimed 2.8 billion monthly active users,[2] and ranked seventh in global internet usage.[7] It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s

2005

August 23, 2005 – Aug 31, 2005 – Hurricane Katrina was a large and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas.

Purchased Land on Miles Rd

July – Pastor Rick Dubose resigned – Oct – Pastor Bryan became lead Pastor

Launched Spanish Ministry

March 2006 – Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year.

2007 – Changed Name to Northplace Church – Possessing the same passion for God and entrepreneurial spirit as their founding fathers, NPC desires to further expand its outreaches in Sachse and plant satellite campuses in strategic locations around North Texas

Freeing the Future – Paid off debt of 3rd St Campus – Culwell Convention Center – Pastor Bryan seeded his dream home into the vision.

June 29th,  2007 – iPhone was officially launched and made accessible to the public in 2007, and was advertised noticeably at the Macworld of that same year. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released.

2008 – Northplace purchased 140 acres in the 190 tollroad district.

Experience Expansion Campaign – to pay for the land at Pleasant Valley Celebration 

Sunday, Nov 2nd, at the Eisemann Center

2011

2011

2011 – Pop 20, 329

The first foster camp was in 2011 (RFK) with 40 campers and around 100 volunteers.

2012 – October – Heart for the House – Paying for building at Pleasant Valley – Eisemann Center Richardson – December – paid off the land at 2800 Pleasant Valley 

April 15th, 2013 – The Boston Marathon bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon 

2014 – Opened New Building

2019 – Unfinished Campaign- Wylie and Expansion of Children’s Wing

2016

The first Roundup at LDR was in 2016… 2 camps… 20 girls then 20 boys. Same number of volunteers as RFK, but only NPC volunteers

2017

2017 first missions teams come to help at our Roundup with our NPC volunteers

2017 and going forward we have 40 campers with boys and girls at the roundup

2020 – Sachse has a population of 25,920, it is the 118th largest city in Texas and the 1489th largest city in the United States.

Launched Garland – English and Hughes Prison Campuses

New Children’s Expansion Opened

March 13th – Trump Declares COVID-19 a National Emergency