As a 60-year member, Gladys Unger has been a choir member for all of those 60 years.  Her family actively supported Ebenezer.  Her parents, Howard and Celestia Ann Wamsley, gave Ebenezer $11,000, with $10,000 going toward the church mortgage and $1,000 was used to new robes for the choir.  Gladys remembers when Rev. Ed Hemphill became pastor in 1942.  She said he is responsible for starting the three-act plays with the MYF.  She liked going with the group to different churches and groups to perform.  Another memorable person was Julia Jackson, the first adult choir director at Ebenezer.  Julia was a graduate of the Julliard School of Music.  Gladys said Julia had a deep faith and was a wonderful example spiritually and musically.  And like so many of her peers, Gladys remembers the Harvest Home celebration in Little's Woods.  She said it was an all-day affair with music, fun for the kids, lunch and dinner and they voted for a Harvest Home queen and her court.  Gladys was the last Harvest Home queen.  Gladys said that Ebenezer is her "extended family."  She has been given the opportunity to serve, to be a caregiver.  Gladys said it is "what God has called me to be."  She said she has also performed volunteer work with Meals on Wheels and delivered meals for 10 years.  She now volunteers at the Hope Dining Room (for homeless people) two months out of the year with her childhood friend, Catharine Dempsey.

Tommy Jarrell's mother, father and four siblings joined Ebenezer in the 1930s and 1940s.  He was on the cradle roll June 8, 1934, and he joined Ebenezer in 1946.
Tommy says, "My parents were the most memorable persons I knew at Ebenezer since they taught our family that Ebenezer was our home away from home and a great house of worship.." He served as an officer of the MYF in the 1940s and remembers worshiping in the old church "where the sanctuary, Sunday School rooms, fellowship hall, and kitchen were used as multi-purpose rooms when needed.  Our church held public suppers to raise money for church expenses.  These suppers were well-known in this area, so you had to be prepared to wait."  The Harvest Home, held each year behind Little's Garage on Polly Drummond Road, was a memorable event.  Another memorable event for Tommy and others -- "My antique horse plow broke ground in both  ceremonies to