Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Dr. James E. Jones - Pastor
OUR CHURCH
Matthew 28:16-20 provides the marching order from God to each one of us. He says " All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore, go...make disciples...baptize...teach them to obey everything I have commanded you...I am with you always to the very end of the age". God has promised to be with us as "we go".
Our church has committed herself to be available to meet this challenge from God.
We strive to be a planning people: We want everything that we do to be under God's direction.
We hope to be a prepared people: We cannot fulfill His command unless we are prepared to do so.
We aim to be a positive, praying and passionate people so we can spread Jesus' message not only in our community but in the whole word.
History
In the 1830’s, neighbors in the area assembled in homes for church services. In 1837, Henry Sanders, a large land owner and operator of Sanders Tavern and Stage Coach Stop, donated land for the church and had the log meeting house built at his own expense. He named it Pleasant Hill after a place in his native Virginia. In May 1840, Good Hope, it’s mother church, gave permission to officially organize this congregation. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church has had four different church buildings. Two of them were burned. The first fire started during the War Between the States and the second fire was so damaging as to make necessary the erection of the new building. The meeting house that was destroyed by fire on April 18, 1945, was a frame structure which had been built in the late 1890's and had been remodeled with the expenditure of several thousand dollars a short time before the conflagration. In addition to the loss of the building by this crisis, the church also sustained a heavy financial loss, having only a few thousand dollars of fire insurance at the time. But God, in His inifnite grace, allowed us to rebuild and even expand since. He has blessed us with a beautiful temple and a modern Christian Life Center, built in 2009. In April 19, 2015, PHBC commemorates 175 years serving the Lord and the community in Campbellsville, Ky!