Our  church  is important in the development of Little Rock.  

In 1819, Arkansas became a territory of the United States.  In 1821 the capital was moved from Arkansas Post to Little Rock, a raw and rough frontier village of about 650 people, the largest community in Arkansas.  In 1824 a Calvinist Baptist Church began in Little Rock.  In 1832, Benjamin Franklin Hall, protegee of Alexander Campbell in Kentucky, came to visit his brother, Judge Samuel  Hall, a resident of Little Rock.   The Calvinist church had a log building  and there were two other churches, a Presbyterian and a Methodist without buildings present in Little Rock.  The log cabin was used by the Territorial Legislature when in session.

Hall spoke at a Temperance Society Independence Day picnic (July 4th, 1832) on the subject of Christian union as he saw it in relation to a new nation dedicated to freedom of conscience.  Immediately after the picnic, a Christian Church was organized from members of the Calvinist Church and some members of the other three churches.  That church, Little Rock First Christian Church is the older continuing  church in Little Rock today.