Heritage Presbyterian Church began in 1904 with the gathering of the First United Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City. In that year corporation papers for the church were filed in the territorial capitol at Guthrie, Oklahoma. The United Presbyterian Church was a denomination formed in the 1850's from two Scottish Presbyterian denominations that had settled in the United States and had maintained a distinctive reformed witness for many years.

The church moved to NW 25th and Shartel and completed a building in 1917 which remained the home of the church until the late 1980's. With this move came a name change: the church was now called Northminster Community Church. Undoubtedly the name reflected the church's new location in what was then the extreme northern part of Oklahoma City.

The church flourished as a small suburban church, paying off its indebtedness for the 1917 building within ten years of construction, and establishing two daughter churches (Second Presbyterian and Trinity Presbyterian). Between 1950 and 1970 the congregation suffered decline. At one point in the 1950's a body of members amicably withdrew to form Knox Orthodox Presbyterian Church. In the 1970's, membership had fallen to only thirteen communicants who decided to seek a denominational home in the Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod (RPCES). At that time (July 1977), the church changed its name again to Heritage Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Robert H. Cox was sent by the synod to help the congregation decide what direction it should take. He thought that they should disband; however, in one of those unusual exercises of Providence, God sent the church a young man named Steve Childers, who was interested in the reformed faith and in finding a place to serve in the Kingdom. Steve met with Rev. Cox, who eventually advised him to consider taking on the responsibility of pastoring Heritage. The Southwest Presbytery of the RPCES permitted this by special dispensation because, at the time, Steve (who is now Professor of Church Planting at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida), had no theological training.

Under Steve's leadership the church began to grow as it reached out to the surrounding neighborhoods and to the students of the nearby medical community. Eventually Steve left to pursue theological studies. In 1982 the RPCES denomination joined the Presbyterian Church in America.

Rev. Charles M. Garriott assumed leadership in 1983. The building at 25th & Shartel was sold in 1985, and the church worshipped in two different rental properties for the next four years. In 1989, Heritage moved into its present home in the northern part of Oklahoma City (NW 145th & Western Ave). The property and improvements cost three-quarters of a million dollars of which $250,000 was secured with a mortgage. The property became debt-free in 1996. Heritage has assisted in the establishment of Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Norman. Thus the tradition of our founding congregations continues.

Rev. Mark W. Balthrop was called as senior pastor in October 2004. The Lord has blessed Heritage with significant growth on a variety of fronts. Heritage voted to withdraw from the PCA in December 2007 in order to find a denomination that is a better fit for the congregation. Under the leadership of the current session, the Gospel is presented in central Oklahoma as it has been done since pre-statehood days.