We are a Southern Baptist church striving to making disciples and meeting the needs of our community. Jesus Christ being our foundation, we are continuously looking for opportunites to do just this. Come worship and serve the Lord with us, and help us reach the world for Christ.

East Side Baptist Church, originally known as Middleburg Baptist, was organized on January 17, 1909, with the Reverend Little as pastor. During her first years, the members shared the sanctuary of the little white church across from the old Burlington Mill with the members of the Middleburg Methodist Church. Each church held services on alternating Sundays.

The first record of an offering given by the membership of Middleburg Baptist was that of $3 to be sent to the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Later the congregation voted to give ten percent of the total offerings to the Cooperative Program, helping to ensure the continued advancement of the Gospel at home and abroad.

Because of a growing congregation and a need for space and identity, the church voted on July 22, 1945,'to make plans to build a new Baptist church on land donated by the owners of Burlington Mills. The original plans calledfor a building 60 feet by 36 feet with Sunday School rooms on each side of the pulpit. Three rooms were to be added in the balcony over the pulpit, leaving the auditorium to be 45 feet by 35 feet with one aisle down the middle and aisles beside the outside walls.