About Us
First Baptist Church, Terry, Mississippi was constituted
on September 18, 1852, and was first called Friendship Baptist
Church. The first church was located in New Town, a community
now known as Wynndale, 3.5 miles northwest of Terry. Rev.
Jesse Woodall served as the first pastor of the church. The
first Sunday School was organized in 1860, and the church
letter to the Central Baptist Association in 1866 indicated
there were 31 white members and 21 black members. In 1868,
the church moved from New Town to the current location of
the town of Terry, and a house of worship was completed in
1869. The name of the church was changed to Terry Baptist
Church in 1878, and in 1899 a new, large white frame building
was built that served the church for many years. That building
was replaced in 1955 with a new brick sanctuary. The Children’s
Building was then built in 1963, and the Family Life Center
was constructed in 1978. The church’s name was changed
to First Baptist Church, Terry, Mississippi in 1974, and a
renovation and enlargement of the sanctuary and office suite
was completed in 1988. First Baptist Church currently has
1,147 members, averages 300 in Sunday School and 400 in worship,
and provides a full complement of Christian ministries and
activities to Terry community and our church family. The church
budget for 2005 is about $450,000 and total receipts last
year totaled almost $540,000.
Our church is now in a new day of making Kingdom history in
this community! In recent years, we have seen God bless our
church with wondrous growth spiritually, numerically, and
in ministries and missions! God has truly moved in us and
through us in mighty ways to see souls saved and lives changed
through the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we have
ministered in our community, and we are quickly running out
of physical space in our church facilities to house our growing
congregation and our expanding ministries. Therefore, our
church recently voted to undertake a $2 million Long Range
Building Renovation and Expansion Project where we will upgrade
our current buildings and also build a new, state-of-the-art
Education Building, that will provide space for Adults, Youth,
Preschoolers, and Children, as well as expanded space for
a new Fellowship Hall and Office Suite. In the life of a church,
God every so often blesses a generation to do a great work
for the glory of His name and the advancement of His Gospel
in their community! Dear friends, WE ARE NOW THAT GENERATION!
Previous generations in the life of our great church have
blessed us with the wonderful and beautiful facilities we
have, and now we have the opportunity to be used of God to
prepare our church to “Grow God’s Kingdom By Building
His Church” and set the course for our church to evangelize
and minister to the ever-expanding community of Terry. God
bless you all and thank you for your precious love, ministry
and support, and please continue in prayer for God to guide,
bless, and provide all that He wants us to know and do in
this great challenge He has set before us!
“Growing God’s Kingdom by Building His Church”
Upon the Rock of Jesus’ Power, Word, and Love,
and the Faith of His People!
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