Organized in November 1847 by pastor W.M. Pickett, a missionary from the Southern Baptist Convention Home Mission Board, the First Baptist Church of Honey Grove began with nine charter members and met in a log schoolhouse at nearby Allen's Chapel. After a dispute with Allen's Chapel Methodists over use of the schoolhouse, the Baptists erected a new structure in 1852. The following year the church split, and the remaining members called themselves Honey Grove Baptist Church, holding services in a frame schoolhouse for several years. In 1856, the Baptists, Methodists, Cumberland Presbyterians, and Disciples of Christ built Honey Grove's first public building, the Union Church, which served as the community's only house of worship for twenty years. When the Baptists obtained their own building in 1884, with seating for 350, they inherited the Union Church bell. A former pastor, John H. Boyett, and Lewis Holland printed the Baptist News in Honey Grove in 1888, and the publication, distributed to Baptists across Texas, became a predecessor of the Baptist Standard. In 1912, the First Baptist Church completed a new sanctuary with solid brick walls, a metal roof and ceilings, a cement foundation, and cork linoleum flooring. In 1997, after 155 years of worship, the church continued the traditions of its founders through religious life and community service programs.