Providence Baptist Church was constituted on December 15, 1810, as the second oldest church in Jasper County, with David Montgomery, William Green, and Green Bailey as presbytery. David Montgomery, a Revolutionary War soldier, served as pastor from 1810 to 1828. Timothy Landrum, also a Revolutionary War soldier, gave 10 acres of land one mile west of here, where Providence Church was first erected. It moved to this site on March 12, 1832, to be on the stagecoach route through Shady Dale, and this building was erected on four acres of land given by James Beeland. Charter members were Jacob Mercer, a Revolutionary War soldier, and his wife, Jael; Martin Stanley and his wife, Polly; James Brown and his wife, Martha; Elizabeth Green; Rebecca Walden; John Ferrell; Elkaney Denson; Joshua Newton; and James Richards. The first deacons were Martin Stanley and James Brown, and the first clerk was James Richards. Early pastors were James Henderson, James Wilkerson, John Bogan, James Green, James Carter, W.G. Horsley, and Asa Marshall, great-grandson of Daniel Marshall, founder of Kiokee Church in Columbia County, the first Baptist Church in Georgia.