For 175 years, generations of believers at First Baptist Church, Tupelo, have worshipped, fellowshipped and reached out to ...

TUPELO • Now that the ground has finally thawed after the recent ice storm, the construction zone at First Baptist Church in downtown Tupelo is a bit of a mess.

The "First Baptist Statement on Biblical Sexuality" detailing the church’s support for binary gender roles as well as the belief that marriage is only between a man and a woman was originally ...

First Baptist Church persists today and is integral to the life of the community. Pastor Rodney Croom leads the church these days and recalled its history, “The original congregation in the 1940 ...