Old Prospect Anniversary

Sunday, October 6, 2024 is the Fiftieth Anniversary of Old Prospect Baptist Church, organized Sunday October 6, 1974. Anniversary services (d.v.) will be held 2 p.m. Please join us.

Old Prospect Baptist Church is an independent unaffiliated missionary Baptist Church in the Sand Flat Community of southeastern Rusk County, Texas. Stafford Harris came to the community as missionary pastor in December of 1972. The Old Prospect believers were constituted as a church on October 6, 1974, by 44 charter members with letters from Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Mt. Enterprise, Texas. At that time the church affiliated with the Mt. Zion Baptist Association and American Baptist Association. Brother Harris remained at the church until September 1975. Following a brief pastorate by Charles Miller, Old Prospect called Glenn Matlock as pastor with the agreement the church would no longer affiliate with the American Baptist Association. Other former pastors include Clyde Stephens, James “Harry” Matlock, and Joe Fulton. The current pastor is R. L. Vaughn.