In the summer of 1852, Joel Willis, J.M. Thornton, Robert G. Hall, M.B. Johnston, W.J. Coleman, and Lorenzo Faulk met in a log Methodist church in the small Barbour County community then known as Five Points to organize the Baptist Church of Five Points. Articles of Faith and Decorum were approved on August 31, and Joel Sims was called as the first pastor. In December 1852, the southwest corner of Feagin’s field was chosen as the building site, and in February 1853 a frame church with glass windows but no steeple was dedicated. By April 1855, the church’s own records referred to it as the Baptist Church of Midway. A steeple and bell were added in 1859, gas lamps replaced candles in 1869, and the church was rebuilt in 1872 with the original materials at hand. Renovations in 1902 and 1930 added stained glass windows, Sunday School rooms, restrooms, and a kitchen, while the structure retained some of its original building materials and remained on its original site. From its beginnings in the Salem Association of Barbour County to the Bullock Centennial Association of the present, it has also been actively associated with other congregations and with the Baptist State Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention since early in its history.