Charter member W.H. Jenkins was born in 1826. In 1861, he enlisted in Company A of the 38th Georgia Regiment, CSA, and served until the surrender at Appomattox, Virginia. In 1865, he married Nancy Crumbley (1839–1920) of Henry County, and the couple settled five miles northwest of Jackson, on land where the Southern Railway depot would later stand. In 1881, Jenkins deeded a strip of land for the construction of a railroad through the community, completed the following year. “Jenkinsburg” became a station along the route, and in 1889, the town, named in honor of his family, was officially founded. A farmer by trade, Jenkins grew cotton, operated a cotton gin, and also served for a time as postmaster.

The same year the church was founded, Reverend Miles Dillard, pastor of the nearby Jackson Church, held a revival in Jenkinsburg. The meeting, set during the busy farming season, was initially met with reluctance, but the tent—pitched on the present church grounds—drew what was said to be “the greatest revival ever held in Jenkinsburg.” As a result, a permanent church was organized in December 1889 with nine charter members. Reverend Dillard served as its first pastor from 1889 to 1890, receiving 59 new members during his tenure.

On October 9, 1889, Melissa Crumbley (1869–1934) deeded a one-acre tract for the church’s first building. That original structure was destroyed by lightning in 1915, but it was soon replaced on the same lot with the current sanctuary. The trustees described the new building as “a framed and ceiled building, finished and painted on the outside, with a seating capacity of 400 and valued at $1,000.”

Today, Jenkinsburg’s church remains a proud link to the town’s origins—a testament to the vision of its founders and the enduring spirit of this rural Georgia community.