About This Archive
This page sits at the URL that once held Southwood Baptist Church's contact page. The URL has been kept so that existing links to it still resolve, but the contact page itself has not been restored, and this page explains why.
What this site is
This is a preserved record of Southwood Baptist Church, an independent Baptist congregation that met in southwest Fort Worth, Texas. The congregation no longer meets. It later took a different name and moved out of the city; that successor congregation has since closed as well, and a different and unrelated church now uses the building. This site therefore documents something that ended, and it is written throughout in the past tense.
There is no contact facility here of any kind — no telephone number, no address, no email, no form and no way to reach anyone. That is deliberate rather than an oversight. This archive is not affiliated with any currently operating church, and no request sent anywhere on the basis of this site would reach the congregation described on it.
A name that is easy to confuse
An unrelated Southwood Baptist Church exists elsewhere in the United States, and search engines regularly merge the two records. This site concerns only the Fort Worth congregation and should not be taken as a source of information about any other church sharing the name. Similarly, a number of business-directory sites still carry a listing for the Fort Worth church built from a decade-old record. Those listings are stale, not evidence that the congregation is still meeting.
Where the material came from
Every factual claim on this site is drawn from snapshots of the church's own website preserved by the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. The domain was crawled well over a thousand times between 2005 and 2026. The useful captures fall in two periods: a deep, content-rich site that ran from about 2005 to 2013, which is the source of most of what appears here, and a thinner successor site from 2014 to 2016. After that the domain served only a hosting error page for several years, and then an expired-domain notice.
Nothing has been added from any other source. Where the archive did not record something, this site does not state it — there is no founding year given here, for instance, because the church never published one. The only statement about the congregation's age is the site's own description of a history spanning about three decades, and it is reported as the claim it was.
What was deliberately removed
Several categories of material present in the original have been left out:
- All contact details — the street address, the church office telephone number, staff email addresses, driving directions and a printable map. Publishing directions would point readers at a building the congregation left years ago and which another church now uses.
- All personal names. The original site named its ministers and staff, listed Sunday School volunteers alongside their personal mobile numbers, and published signed testimonials from members. Those are living private people. Staff are described here by role only. The church itself is named in full throughout — the congregation's identity is the point of the record; its members' identities are not.
- All forms and transaction surfaces — the visitor comment form, the volunteer signup form, class registration, CD and DVD request links, a member messaging tool, and the giving page.
- Service times as live information. The weekly pattern is described historically because it explains how the congregation worked. It is not presented as a schedule anyone could attend.
What was kept
The church's name, its affiliation, the shape of its week, the ministries and outreach programmes it ran, what it taught, and the language it used about itself. The original URL structure has also been preserved as closely as possible, so links made to individual pages over the past two decades continue to resolve rather than breaking.
Why keep it at all
Institutional Baptist history is comparatively well preserved. Association records, yearbooks and collections such as the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives hold a great deal of it. What tends to vanish is the ordinary, self-published record of a particular congregation — how it described itself to a stranger, what it thought worth putting on a website, how it organised a Wednesday evening. Small church sites disappear quietly and completely when a domain lapses, and there is rarely anyone left to notice.
The record begins on the homepage, with fuller detail under about Southwood and staff and ministry roles.