the team

Timothy Hicks
BILLY OYLER

LINDA WOOD
Local Ministries We Help
statement of faith
our history
In May 1954, a small group of people met under a pecan tree in the yard of Mr. Harold Raines. On June 20, 1954, Tenth Street Baptist Church was organized with 41 charter members. They met in the home of Rev. Aron A. McKay, the church’s first pastor. July of 1954, the name was changed to Faith Baptist Church; in November, property was purchased by the church on South 11th Street. A building program was started and the members moved into their new building in March, 1955. Once again, in 1958, the church changed its name to Second Baptist Church. In early 1970, the church purchased property at the corner of East Barton & West McAuley, and entered a bond program to pay for the construction of a church building on the new property. The first building phase was completed by October. Four years later, new classrooms and a fellowship hall were added to the property. At this location, the church continued to grow; once again they found it necessary to find land to build a building large enough to for the growing membership.
In early 1997, Second Baptist Church was approached by a sister church, Richland Baptist, about the possibility of a merger of the two churches. This took place in May 1997. The name was once again changed to Cornerstone Baptist Church. The two congregations entered a building program to erect the present 2 story multi-purpose facility which consists of a worship center, kitchen, choir suite, and 21 classrooms. The building was built on the property owned by Richland Baptist. The old Richland building was converted into a fellowship hall, kitchen, 4 classrooms, & 3 storage rooms. All of this was finished and moved into in March 1999. In October 2016, our church began renovations of a portion of our former Richland Building into a Student Center for our growing Student Ministry.
Our worship center is located on the corner of Balfour and Clement in West Memphis. We invite you to join us for worship Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, and Wednesday nights and see the exciting new things happening at Cornerstone WM.