Our Story

First place of worship at Jefferson and Lancaster, circa 1900

The twenty-six members simply could not stay. They loved their church, but they could not agree with leaving the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), and their church, First Baptist Church of Oak Cliff, was leaving because of recent Convention decisions. The twenty-six would charter a new church, one whose descendants would continue to serve in Oak Cliff 125 years later.

So much was changing in 1898. The Trinity River …continue reading

Part 1, 1898-1917