The Assembly of God is one of the late 20th century churches established in Warwick. Located at 425 Sandy Lane, the church was started in 1970 by the Reverend Stephen Piper.

Originally, Rev. Piper was looking for a site to relocate the Trinity Assembly of God that wanted to move from Providence to Warwick. Rev. Piper, at that time, was the assistant pastor at the Providence church and was looking for a suitable location during the winter of 1969-70. Not long after he began his search, Pastor Larry McNeill decided that the Trinity Assembly should remain in Providence. The Assembly of God church history tells us that Pastor McNeill asked Rev. Piper to consider beginning “Home Missions work in Warwick.” This was the beginning of the Warwick Assembly of God Church.

In November 1970 Rev. Piper began his work. At first the progress was very slow. He held services in the Greenwood Fire Hall on Sunday afternoons and attracted some children and a few adults. Pastor Piper held on, however, and in August 1971, Assembly of God District Superintendent Reverend David Fowler and the General Council in Kansas City sent a portion of the General Council Home Missions offerings to the Warwick Assembly of God, providing Pastor Piper and his family with housing for a year. It also gave the pastor an incentive to look for property to buy, as the Greenwood Fire hall no longer was deemed satisfactory for the church’s needs.

The result of the search took him to Sandy Lane, where a number of once thriving farms were no longer able to continue agricultural pursuits. Rev. Piper was drawn to an old house near the intersection of Sandy Lane and busy Warwick Avenue. The house and property was run down and needed a great deal of work. The location, however, was ideal and this eventually turned out to be the property that the Warwick Assembly of God now occupies.

In the years after Rev. Stephen Piper successfully negotiated the purchase of the old farm and house on Sandy Lane for the Warwick Assembly of God, progress on the property was made slowly. The pastor and his family moved into the old rundown farmhouse and began to clear the land for building a church. The work was tedious and difficult. A boon came to the Pipers when the general Council of the Assembly of God

Church sent Rev. Ron Clark and his wife Pat to help the Pipers. Prior to the arrival of the Clarks, Pastor Piper had been teaching Sunday school to teens and adults, while his wife Marjorie taught all children up to age 12. With the assistance of the Clarks, four classes were formed and more adults were attracted to the church.