Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church Baptism (1950) This 1950 home movie captures members of the Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church participating in a river baptism at Onion Creek. The pastor baptizes three parishioners, following the Baptist tradition of total immersion. Later, the congregation gathers at the church for service, with the church choir performing on the chapel steps. Established in the early 1870s, the Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church is a historically Black church located in the historic Clarksville neighborhood of Austin.