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Sunday, November 4, 2018
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
LIFE
HARRIS
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need to love our communities and
one another. Nobody expects us to
be in lock-step formation about any
thing. Our diverse interests should
make us curious to know one another
better.
Not everyone who wears a burka
or a hijab is a terrorist, neither is
everyone who wears a Make America
Great Again cap. I don’t have to
subscribe to one’s religion to have
a conversation with them. Most of
the people who condemn someone
with a different religion haven’t
really met some of that faith. There
are people who love this country
and are not Baptists, Methodists, or
Presbyterians.
When I step up to vote, no one is
looking over my shoulder to see if I
voted for a certain candidate. The
most important thing is that we exer
cise that right to go out and vote.
If you haven’t done that already,
remember the polls are open Tues
day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Harris Blackwood is a Gainesville
resident whose columns appear on
the Sunday Life page and on www.
gainesvilletimes.com.
AUSTIN STEELE I The Times
Lynn Leverette, secretary at First Baptist Church, a
deaconess, and a member since 1979, stands in the
church on Wednesday, Oct. 31.
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started the church during
slavery times with that level
of commitment, that level of
character and integrity and
that work ethic,” Whitehead
said. “Although you may not
be able to see back in 1838,
if you look at the people
now, I think you’re looking
at the same kind of people.”
Times weren’t always
easy and Deborah Mack,
the church’s financial secre
tary, said she could see the
hand of God on everything
along the way.
“God has allowed us to
stay on this corner for a
purpose,” said Mack, who’s
been a member since 1950.
“At one point, there was a
bus station next door to us
and people would be pass
ing through and they’d get
off and come over and visit
with us. And sometimes
there’s people in need who
stop and check with us.”
Like many churches,
First Baptist has seen its fair
share of financial struggles.
Just before Whitehead got
to the church, it was “in debt
thousands of dollars.” Mem
bership was dwindling and
the church seemed to be
falling apart.
The church was without a
pastor for most of 1997 but
Whitehead said the mem
bers held it together.
“The people of this church
that remained got together
and came to the rescue of
this church, and helped this
church out of a real dark
place in its history,” White-
head said. “Once I got here,
they continued to work hard
and continued to give, and
they got to a point where
they paid off all that debt.”
Leverette said one of
the most pivotal moments
in recent memory came
after that debt was paid in
2000. The church had a cel
ebration and as a symbol
of everything it had done
to make it out of that dark
place, it burned a copy of
the mortgage in front of the
whole congregation.
“It was an awesome sight
to see us actually burn
that,” Leverette said. “It
was because God kept us. It
was because he kept us on
the high road and we came
through by faithfulness. We
really did.”
The history of First Bap
tist is visible throughout the
church. There’s an outline
of a door on the back wall of
the sanctuary, which used
to be the door to the choir
room. In the foyer, there’s a
step that used to be the step
into the church from the
sidewalk. There’s a ring in
the ceiling of the sanctuary
where a pipe that heated the
church used to fit. It ran on
coal. The wood around the
bottom half of the sanctu
ary walls is original to the
building.
“We used to have win
dows that raised up,” said
Robert Hale, a deacon at
the church. “We didn’t have
stained-glass windows like
this. Sometimes, we’d have
so many people in here,
they would stand out there
on the outside and look in
and listen.”
That’s the kind of atmo
sphere and Sunday service
First Baptist is building
up again. With 180 years
behind it, Whitehead said
the church is headed in the
right direction.
He believes it’s God
and the members of the
church that have made it all
happen.
“There’s no such thing as
the preacher doing it him
self, alone,” Whitehead said.
“There’s an engagement
with the congregation that
takes place. So whatever
happens, it’s not some
thing that can be attrib
uted to the pastor alone
or the preacher alone, but
it’s the congregation... We
do this together.”
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