This congregation was organized in 1867 by the Rev. J. Hill Bounds, an immigrant from Mississippi who brought his family to Texas by ox-wagon in 1865. At first, this church, as well as others in Wortham, shared a two-story building with the local Masonic Lodge. T. A. Bounds, son of J. Hill Bounds, donated the present centrally located site. Bishop Kenneth Copeland, born 1912, of the Texas Conference joined this church as a boy and at 17 held a revival here. Bishop John C. Broomfield was a revival leader in the 1930s. The present edifice was built in 1925.