Old Friendship Missionary Baptist Church - History Review.

Old Friendship has a very rich and colorful history starting as far back as 1854.  Yes!  That is when a group of slaves under the leadership of John "Preacher" Jennings, worshiped in the brush arbor for more than a decade.  Following the Civil War, under the leadership of Jennings' son - Elijah, the congregation built a log church.  Oral tradtion holds that it took the church members half a day to count the pennies and paper money donated by the community to build the church.

Elijah Jennings donated the property on Land Lot 55, the 19th District, 2nd Section of Cobb County to the church with the restriction that it always be used as a church.  His son, John Jennings, was the congregation's first pastor.  Years later in 1943, another family member - Willie "Baby" Jennings - donated another acre to the church with the same stipulation.