In 1884 a parsonage was purchased, located at the southeast corner of Cherry and Fourth Streets. In the summer of 1884 an addition was built to the church to provide space for Sunday School classes, etc., which cost approximately $2,500 including new lighting and decorations.
In 1911, although the congregation did not have a pastor, a building program was launched. The old structure was razed and the present building of terra cotta brick with stone and black wood trim was erected at a cost of $18,250. The building committee included A. C. Jones, I. B. Hammers, Harvey Leonard and Omer North, with L. K. Evans serving as treasurer. Joseph A. Reichel, the contractor, had the new church complete in time for dedicatory services held April 13, 1912. During the summer of that year the ambitious congregation erected a new parsonage on the site of the old one.
Dr. Robert Edwin Worley, a medical missionary from this church was drowned in Swatow Bay in China on June 27, 1907. His brother, Lewis Worley, was ordained in the El Paso Baptist church July 2, 1907, also serving as a missionary in China for seven years.
THE FEDERATED CHURCH has been organized from a combination of the Presbyterian and Christian Churches, the outgrowth of plans discussed at meetings of the two groups held October 29 and November 7, 1937. The two groups voted to make the plan permanent on March 9,
The present Baptist Church.
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