In 1899, when Tifton was a tiny saw mill village, standing in the mist of a huge forest of yellow pine trees, families from North Georgia and North Carolina began moving here.  Among these were the Chesnutt and Britt families who were the early organizers of Presbyterians in Tifton.

  On May 7, 1899 the small group of Presbyterians petitioned the Presbytery of Savannah to organize them into a church.  The Presbytery responded by organizing the church June 14, 1899.  Mr. O. L. Chesnutt was the first Elder and Mr. W. H. Harris the first Deacon.

     During November 1900 the congregation built and paid for a neat frame building located at the site which is now 210 N. Central Avenue.  Rev. J. B. Cochran served as supply pastor.  Services were held in this building until the summer of 1906 when it was completely destroyed by a tornado.  Services were then held at a school and in different homes for the next few years.

     From 1906 through 1911 regular services were discontinued.  However, Mr. Henry H. Britt gathered the few Presbyterians in his home on Tift Ave. and taught them the Catechisms and the fundamental doctrines of the church.

     Rev. Tallent of Macon made several trips to Tifton in the spring of 1911 for the purpose of reorganizing the church.  On April 23, 1911 the reorganizational meeting was held with 21 charter members.  They were: Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Britt, Miss Ruth P. Britt, Miss Esther Lee Britt, Miss Mary Chesnutt, Miss Blanch Britt, I.A. Fulwood, B.Y. Wallace, Mrs. I.A. Fulwood, Mrs. B.Y. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mansfield, Mr. and Mrs. David Comfort, Mrs. J. M. Price, Mrs. G. G. Davis, Mrs. A. A. Jennings, Mrs. S. C. Bowyer, A. S. Scott, and Mrs. Eliza C. Tift.

     During the same year the members purchased the building at 217 N. Park Ave. previously owned by the First Baptist Church, remodeled it, and made an attractive church home. 

This picture was what the church looked like in 1911 before the remodeling.

The last of the indebtedness was paid in the spring of 1914.  An education building was completed in 1959, and the fellowship hall, named for members W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr. and T. E. Decker, was dedicated in 1983.

     In recent years the church has been transferred from the Presbytery of Savanah to the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia (now Flint River).