Led by the Holy Spirit in 1878, eight women and men met in a small, one-room schoolhouse located on what is now East Cook Street to begin a Baptist Church in Dayton, Texas. The church petitioned for membership in the Southern Baptist Convention in October, 1878, at the meeting of The Tyron Baptist Association. The Associational minutes recorded that the church had a total of sixteen members at the time, and had contributions for the entire year of $3.20. Since there was no full-time pastor, the church was led in services and baptisms by traveling pastors, called circuit riders. The church moved two other locations before coming to its present site in 1900. In 1911 there were fifty to sixty in regular Sunday School attendance in addition to Sunday Services. Thursday night was set aside for prayer service and choir practice.
 
Being missions-oriented, the church established its first mission in 1912, which met at the Dayton Mill Company. Financial support of Buckner's Orphans Home was another continuing mission activity. During the 1920's, the Women's Missionary Union (WMU), Young Women's Auxiliary (YWA), Girl's Auxilary (GA), and Men's Brotherhood were functioning organizations used by the church to reach out to others who did not know about Jesus. The church began supporting Miss Edith Boyd as a missionary to China in 1937.

In the 1930's, new Sunday School rooms were added, the church was bricked, and a baptistry was built behind the choir. During this decade and the next, the Lord continued to bless the church in reaching new converts, so that in 1944, the membership was eight hundred and thirty-six and Sunday School enrollment was two hundred and sixty-seven.

The 1950's saw additional growth in membership and expanding facilities as a new sanctuary and classroom building was dedicated in 1955, and the church began to pay rent on a building used as a mission.  In 1959, the Sunday School attendance was three hundred and thirty-four, and the mission attendance was seventy-two. The mission was chartered as an independent church, Trinity Baptist, in 1967. During the 1970s, the church established a bus ministry and children's church to help meet the needs of the expanding children's attendance. In 1981, a three-quarter mission dollar Family Life Center was completed and dedicated for Christian fellowship and for winning the lost. The church continued mission outreach through the sponsorship of three more missions: Camino Del Rey Spanish Mission (1982), Christian Baptist Church (1983), and Whispering Meadows Baptist Church (1984).

Jesus Christ was the cornerstone for the church's ancestors even as He is for members today. The Holy Spirit continues to direct the church as they "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever."  II Peter 3:18.