Our History

Glen and Nell Webb and a few families from nearby DeSoto, Kansas founded the Elm Grove Baptist Church in May 1965. The old Elm Grove Elementary School, built in 1885, served as our first church building. The church stayed very small under the first four pastors who served faithfully until 1973. Glen & Nell Webb remained steadfast and faithful to the Elm Grove Baptist Church, thru the years. Mr. Webb assisted in building every building, except the last. Nell Webb went home to be with the Lord in November of 2010. Mr. Webb remains faithful to this day.

The Elm Grove Baptist Church (independent in organization) called their fifth pastor, S. D. (Sandy) Seaba and his wife, Debbie, and four sons in April, 1974.  He has served this church and this church only for thirty-eight years.  He began with a handful of people and a one room school house for a church – no Sunday School space, no telephone, no mail box, no mission program, nothing but a few people who wanted to see a church grow.