Stockdale Baptists organized their church in 1874 in a picket building and for years also met in a mill house or schoolhouse. The Rev. L.S. Cox was the first pastor. In 1885, under Pastor E. Norwood, the congregation erected its first church building, but it was damaged in a storm in 1886, and services were held in a cotton warehouse while it was rebuilt. In 1910, while the Rev. J.A. Morse was pastor, the present site was bought and the third sanctuary was built. Under the leadership of the Rev. Charles Bowes, the present building was completed in 1953, and the current parsonage was erected in 1966 on the site of the 1885 church while the Rev. Charles Young was pastor. During the century, stewardship and enrolment grew. Beginning in 1916, the congregation sponsored a Mexican mission, erected a Mission Hall in 1919, and built the present Mission Church in 1964 during the pastorate of the Rev. Kenneth Wellman. The congregation also ordained several ministers: the Rev. Marshall Smith in 1918, the Rev. Celestino Grasciotti in 1924, the Rev. Bryan Teague in 1928, the Rev. Jesse Jasso in the Mission in 1962, the Rev. Antonio Del Carmen in 1970, and the Rev. Crus Casarez in 1973. The Rev. John Hallum is the present pastor.