In the postwar years, newly freed African Americans created new communities and institutions such as the First Baptist (Missionary Baptist) Church and the St. John AME Church in Winchester.

The revamped Missionary Baptist Seminary thereafter opened in Little Rock.

Sibley is the home of several churches, including First Baptist, First United Methodist, Missionary Baptist, and the Independent Baptist congregation, Baptist Tabernacle, founded by the late evangelist Jimmy G. Tharpe.

The change in allegiance was not felt by the Southern Baptist for many of the churches were from the Missionary Baptist and independent Baptist churches.

"God could have given us one, but God's entitled to give us seven," said Kenny McCaughey, smiling and a little shell-shocked at a news conference that opened with a prayer and was held at his church, Missionary Baptist, in Carlisle, which is seven miles southeast of Des Moines.

Baines was a "Missionary" Baptist in orientation (not to be confused with the Missionary Baptist denomination).

Haynesville has a variety of churches, including Baptist, United Methodist, Presbyterian, Missionary Baptist, Pentecostal, and Church of Christ.

After its founding, with a population of 120, there were four churches, including Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Protestant, Missionary Baptist, and Primitive Baptist.

Singing schools are also common in Missionary Baptist churches, as well as rural churches across the South.

These churches had a mixed Missionary Baptist and Primitive Baptist background.