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On March 4, 1928, Dr. W. Moore Scott, Sup’t. of Home Mission, came to West Memphis for a check up on the number of Presbyterians in West Memphis.  Finding fourteen, he deemed it necessary to organize a church.  In August, 1928 a revival was held in the Baptist Church (which was then the only white church building in West Memphis) and a Presbyterian Church was organized with twenty-seven members.  Services were held bi-monthly in the Baptist Church until the depression of 1929.  Then lack of men and money forced them to discontinue the work and the organization became inactive.

In the summer of 1935, Dr. Robert McCaslin of the Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis, Tennessee became interested in West Memphis.  He arranged with the members of the Presbyterian Laymans League of Memphis to foster services in the Methodist Church (this building having been completed in February 1935).  Finally, the Memphis Presbytery offered to take over the field as a Home Mission Project.  Such an offer had to be submitted to the Arkansas Presbytery to obtain permission to labor within its bounds.  This stirred Arkansas Presbytery to action and immediately steps were taken toward reorganizing the field. In November 1936, Dr. W. Moore Scott, Mrs. Scott, Rev. J. B. Green and Miss Ola Burton conducted a revival in the Methodist Church and again were organized with forty members.