About Us

First Baptist Church, Oke-Isokun, Oyo was founded in 1858 as a result of the effort of Rev. T. A. Reid, a missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Presently, First Baptist Church Oyo belongs to Oyo West Baptist Association in Oyo Baptist Conference of the Nigerian Baptist Convention.

Rev. T. A. Reid was posted to Oyo as a missionary by the American Foreign Mission. He was in the town until 1864.  In 1865, as a result of war in the United States of America, missionaries could not come to Nigeria.  Between 1864 and 1889, there was no missionary in Oyo station; this also was as a result of inter-tribal wars among the Yoruba. Rev. S. G. Pinnock took charge of Oyo Station from 1892-1909. He did not limit his activities to Isokun area of Oyo town alone; he extended his activities to its environs as well. He asked for a piece of land from Alaafin Adeyemi I to build a church at Ashipa in 1895. In 1898, he established the second Baptist Church in Oyo town, that is, Aatan Baptist Church. This was the first preaching station of Isokun Baptist Church.