The Altapass Baptist Church was formed in 1925 by a small number of people in the community. These people met with Rev. Don Hall in a local school building to organize the church. The church was orginally located on Humpback Mountain Road. In 1948 the Clinchfield Railroad donated the land on Altapass Highway where is church is presently located. In February of 1949 the church building was completed and services were held.

     The following is a list of the pastors that have served Altapass Baptist Church: Rev. Don Hall, Rev. C.C. Parker, Rev. J.T. McGuire, Rev. G.H. Glass, Rev.J.H. Henline, Rev. Roby Painter,  Rev. E.W. McMurray, Rev. Astor Buchanan, Rev. William Edwards, Rev. Lloyd Glenn, Rev. Bruce Buchanan and Rev. Steve Sisk.

     In November 1988, the church began a radio broadcast over WTOE 1470AM, Spruce Pine, NC and a weekly broadcast was begun on WWOL 780AM in Forest City, NC in April 1995. The broadcast on WWOL ended on Spetember 2, 2011.

     The sanctuary was enlarged in 1992 to accomodate church growth. Grading for the Altapass Christian School was done in May 1995 and the building was completed and ready for school in August 1996. In 2003 on property above the church the Lloyd & Iris Burleson Family Life Center was started, and the Prophet's Chambers were completed in time for the Annual Bible Conference in February 2006.

   Sunday, August 21, 2011 marked the last Sunday that Rev. Steve Sisk and Carol Sisk served as our Pastor and Pastor's wife. Preacher Steve and Carol served God faithfully for nearly 25 years here at Altapass Baptist Church. God has truly blessed this church with a great man of God to preach and lead us for these many years. We thank God for all that they have  done for us in their ministry.

   Sunday, October 9, 2011 saw Altapass Baptist Church vote Dr. Marcus Benfield as our new Pastor. We thank God for His hand on this man, his wife and family to allow them to become our new Pastor's family to lead us into the future. Dr. Benfield offically started on October 30,2011.