Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church

Church History

To the best of our knowledge, Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church’s oldest records date 1859. At that time, the church house sat in the northeast corner of Bartow County in a rural community where Allatoona Lake is today. The old cemetery and the faint remains of the old church house (foundation rocks and annual flowers that must have lined the building) remain on two ridges that are separated by a cove of the lake today. When the government bought the property from Macedonia (probably in the late 1940s) to build the lake, a new meeting house was built on State Route 20 near Cartersville, GA. It was those who were involved in the construction of that building that had a marble stone engraved “1859 as far back as records show”. In 2011, with concerns about the progressively worsening environment around that location, the building was sold and the church bought property outside White, GA on Mansfield Road. According to the good hand of our God upon us, construction was completed, and we met there for the first time June 24, 2012. We believe that the true church was constituted by Jesus and that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). We trust that Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church is a local body of that true church and we pray that she remains so until Jesus returns.