The membership of our church is made up of born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our church family is a loving group of individuals that together forms the body of Christ. First Baptist Church belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention (national), the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, and the Greater Cleveland County Baptist Association. None of these organizations exercises authority over the local congregation of First Baptist Church. The conventions, national and state, and the association are alliances of churches working in friendly cooperation under the heading “Southern Baptist.” A Southern Baptist Church is as independent as you can get and still be counted part of a denomination.

The Southern Baptist Convention has over 16 million members who worship in more than 42,000 churches in the United States. It exists to do missions. Cooperatively, these churches can do more together than they could ever do independently. Together Southern Baptists support about 5,000 North American missionaries serving the United States, Canada, Guam, and the Caribbean. Together, Southern Baptists support over 5,000 international missionaries in 153 nations of the world. Being a Southern Baptist fits the mission of the First Baptist Church of Kings Mountain, which is “to do the King’s business in Kings Mountain and beyond.”

We officially receive people into our congregation in one of two ways: (1) a personal decision has been made to follow Christ as Savior and Lord combined with baptism by immersion; or (2) a transfer of membership letter from another church. * Note: in the transfer of membership from another congregation, we do ask that individuals be willing to be baptized by immersion if this was not done at previous church.