Mount Helm Missionary Baptist Church traces its origins to 1835 at First Baptist Church of Jackson, where the first members, who were enslaved blacks, met in the basement while white slave owners worshiped in the sanctuary upstairs.
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Mount Helm
My grandfather is one of the former pastors of Mount Helm.
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very interesting!!! I pass this church on the way to Mission First each day.
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