Gilliam Springs Baptist Church was founded by nine charter members on November 25, 1882, under the leadership of the Rev. P.J. Corley in the Gilliam Springs School. The log school stood on the east side of North Main Street near Brookwood Drive and Tenth Avenue. In 1884 the congregation erected a log church building there. A brick church was constructed in 1934, and several additions were added beginning in the early 1960s. Although older than the First United Methodist and First Baptist churches, it was built outside the limits of the original Town of Arab and was annexed in the 1970s, becoming the oldest church in Arab.