Mount Vernon Baptist Church Pastor Rev. Dr. Henry Ficklin said we can truly say that we've come this far by faith, leaning on the Lord. We must declare boldly that if it had not been for the Lord on our side, where would we be? We would not have made it, even as a Church. Certainly the Lord to be in the plan when he commanded the late Rev. Shaw and others to start a church that has not looked back, but has kept on a steady march until this day.