In the rolling foothills of North Carolina, in the county of Burke, our church became official on June 3rd, 1854 at Castle School. Our church history suggests that the name for our church perhaps comes from Hebrews 12:22 "But ye are come unto Mount Sion. And unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels". Prior to this time the early members had met at the Upper Creek Schoolhouse according to Smyrna Baptist Church documentation from October of 1851. Our church history also speaks to the likelihood that the membership met at Castle School, which is located in the Idlewild Farm area on the near-by Henderson Mill Road. In 1861 the construction of a log church was begun on Pea Ridge Road and located in the present cemetery area. Tradition also proposes that services were held in a brush arbor prior to the time of the church's completion, presumably near the site of the log church. In 1898 construction was begun on a frame church with it being completed in 1901.