The First Hundred Years
The History of DeSoto Baptist Church
DeSoto, Georgia
1891 - 1991

By Jacquelyn Cook

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shapan...the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying, go up to Hilkiah the high priest...to repair the breaches of the house...and Hilkiah said...I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord...when the king heard the words...he rent his clothes... because our fathers have not harkened unto the words of this book...    II Kings 22:2 13

 

During the 1950's when farms around DeSoto, Georgia, were flourishing, many young couples dedicated their lives to God thru the DeSoto Baptist Church. Led by the pastor, Reverend James C. Bell, the people began to repair and enlarge the house of the Lord. In the midst of the carpentering a tattered book was found. The fading Spencerian script revealed a church organization much older than had been thought and a founding group of only five men who faced a problem of lawless times, overcame it, and built to stand.

Who then were these founding fathers and what were the principles upon which they built that enabled this small church to endure for a century?

First, where did these people come from? What were their beginnings?

 

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