In 1992 Andrew Love, and his wife Jenny, along with another couple, with the support of the Grace Baptist Association (SE), re-opened the church as “Larner Road Evangelical Mission”. It was, in effect, a church planting project, starting “from scratch”. At first services were held each Sunday morning, and on Sunday evenings there would be a joint service at Grace Baptist Church in Bexleyheath.

By 1996 Andrew and Jenny, who were now the sole full-time workers, along with five other faithful attendees, felt that it was now time to consider constituting a church. And so it was that after much discussion with the Association, and with those in attendance, on 6th July 1997, by the grace of God, Northend Baptist Church came into existence with a membership of seven.

Over the next couple of years, the Lord blessed the work, although it still continued to be a small church, numerically. Andrew and Jenny had felt since their time at Bible College that the Lord was calling them to overseas missionary work, specifically Brazil, and that burden had remained on their hearts. They approached the church about it, and though the members knew they would miss Andrew and Jenny, they recognised the Lord’s leading and gave their Pastor and his wife their full support.

Andrew and Jenny were accepted by UFM for service in Brazil, and by 1999 they had the required level of financial support pledged from churches around the country. One problem remained - Andrew did not want to leave the church without a pastor. A number of men preached at the church “with a view”, but the Lord didn’t seem to be leading the membership to any of them.

In May 1999 Andrew was put in contact with Bob Morgan, who had been pastoring a Baptist church in Mid-Wales, and was at that time seeking a new pastorate. During a holiday in Gloucestershire Andrew and his family crossed over the border into Wales and met up with Bob Morgan and his family in Brecon. When Andrew returned to Erith he proposed to the church that Bob Morgan be invited to preach for them. This first preaching engagement was followed by a number of others, and early in 2000 Bob Morgan was formally called to the pastorate, and accepted the call.

Bob Morgan, with his wife Rosemary, and their daughters Emily, Abigail, and Hannah, moved to Erith in July 2000, and was inducted as Pastor in September of that year. In the very same month Andrew and Jenny and their daughters, Hannah, Maria, and Sarah, moved to Brazil.