Faith Community

When describing my experience as a part of a community of faith, the church, I had to first recognize what a faith community truly was. My definition of a faith community is a group of people, regardless of race or creed, joined together by a common focus, goal, or idea. Keeping this in mind, I believe that my church, Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist, exceeds all expectations of what a faith community should be.
The church I attend has a rich heritage. Pleasant Hill was first built on Tallassee Plantation, about ten miles outside of Albany. This is also were my grandparents lived. They even helped build the church. The reason Pleasant Hill was built there was because it was a central location for all of the blacks on the plantation to come and share what they believed and understood to be the word of God. They met every Sunday for Sunday school, but only heard a sermon from the preacher on the first Sunday of each month. This was because the preacher had to travel from Albany ...