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Sandy Point General Baptist Church

4170 Highway 70 West
901-584-0795

Sunday School was started on Jan. 1, 1944 in the afternoon. Twenty-seven people were present even though it was sleeting and snowing. They met in a small school-house building with an average attendance in 1944 of 39. Soon there was preaching every Sunday. Sometimes there were four of five preachers of different faiths present. God blessed in the services and soon there were many people interested in being baptized and starting a church.

The church was organized June 5, 1946 by Bro. H.A. Douglas and members of "The New Liberty Presbytery." Bro. McDaniel gave the land and a small block building was erected in 1946. There were eleven charter members, Jeffery and Ila Hollingsworth, Robert and Callie King, Erwin King, J.L. King, Kenneth Hollingsworth, Luradean J. Melton, H.A. and Ida Douglas and Mrs. Adilade Douglas who may have been the eleventh as she was very active in the early church.

First Deacons were, Bro. Jeffery Hollingsworth ordained in 1947, William Luther (1879 1968) came as a deacon from Prospect, Bro. H.F. McDaniel, (1882-1964) joined the church Oct. 9, 1947, coming as a deacon from the First Baptist Church of Camden, Bro. Troy Black (1896-1975), Merlon Hollingsworth became deacon in 1951 and later went to Westside General Baptist Church, Bro. Orin Baker (1915-1970), Bro. O'Neal Melton and ordained in 1952. Bro. J.D. Bond, 1928- ordained in 1954, Bro. Lillard Turner, 1920- ordained in 1954, Bro. Paul Jordan, 1925-, was a deacon from 1959 to 1984, Bro. Herman Markham ordained in 1951, came as a deacon from Prospect General Baptist Church in 1962 and left in 1975, Bro. Clifford Markham, ordained in 1975, Bro. Donald Rogers, 1939, ordained also in 1975, Bro. Dwayne Kee, 1948, ordained in 1978, Bro. Wayne Hastings, l928-, ordained in 1980, Bro. Samuel Watson, 1926- , was ordained in 1984, and Bro. Jimmy Brewer ordained in 1997.