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Our first fruitful attempt at a corporate worship in Mountainburg was a Daily Vacation Bible School, in which a door-to-door canvass was performed, asking the parents to let their children attend.
During the 1900s, a small group gathered for worship, borrowing a local frame school house and Masonic Hall as a meeting place. We don't know the number of "charter members" since the church records burned with the school, but after a time, another frame structure was built to house the school. It was in ths building that the group of worshippers organized the Community Presbyterian church , January 16th, 1927.
In 1930, tragedy struck. The school building where the church met was destroyed by a fire. The main building of the present school system was finished in 1932 and the Reverend James G. West served as the church's first official minister.
On land donated by the Thomas Simco family, the native stone structure (which now serves as the school administration office) was completed in 1935. The building was constructed by the WPA, with Ben Bassham serving as foreman of the crew. Over 55 years later, Ben's son, Bill Bassham, supervised the construction on the "new" church.
In October 1958, our name was changed to Mountainburg United Presbyterian Church, which coincided with the May, 1958 action of the General Assembly to form the "Presbyterian Church in the United States of America." Eventually the word "United was dropped from the long title and we bcame known as Mountainburg Presbyterian Church, or MPC.
By the early 1990s our congregation had outgrown the capacity of the "rock church."Through hard work of the Long Range Planning Committee, the church acquired new land and built an entirely new facility. At long last, our current building was completed and dedicated to the Glory of God on May 16th, 1993.
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