HISTORY
started in 1860

Started in 1865

Stone Mountain Missionary Baptist Church was first organized about 1865–1870 under the Green River Association and in 1929 it became a member in the Blue Ridge Baptist Association.

The first church was a log church located across the branch behind where Stone Mountain Missionary Baptist Church now stands.

The reason the church was built was because an earthquake shook the mountains, so the people got scared and built a church. Services were held at Sam Elliott’s house on Buffalo Creek in Rutherford County before the church was built. People rode horses, mules, and wagons and even walked to come to church.

1900's

Preaching was held on Saturday and Sunday once a month. William Logan, the first preacher at Stone Mountain, rode a horse and came from the Bills Creek section to preach. The first people buried in the cemetery were Negro slaves. A fire destroyed all the old record books, so we don’t have a lot of our history.

The old log church was torn down and a frame church built around 1902–1905. Mrs. Bruce Grant furnished most of the materials for this church. This building stood until the early 1980’s, and was torn down to build the fellowship hall now standing.

2000's

In April 1960, work began on a new church. Since then new Sunday School rooms were added, new auditorium furniture purchased and the parking lot was paved. The latter improvements being done in the early 1970’s. This building stood until April 29, 2002 when, on that day, it was totally destroyed by fire.

On September 13, 2002 the footings were dug to start construction on a new church that will be located in the same footprint of the building that was burned. Hopefully construction will be completed in early 2003.

Construction on the new building was completed in late March of 2003. The first worship service was held on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2003. God richly blessed in this inaugural service. The Spirit of God was present and five new souls were born into the Kingdom of God.

Stone Mountain Missionary Baptist Church has come a long way since 1870 but without God’s love, dedicated Christians and hard work, we couldn’t have done it.