Welcome to Mount Pleasant Church
Established in 1878, Mount Pleasant is a non-denominational church located in Taylorstown, Virginia, an hour west of Washington DC.  We invite you to join us for Sunday school, worship services, and other activities during the week.  Sunday services are streamed on our YouTube channel: YouTube.com/@MountPleasantChurchTaylorstown

Like so many before her, Alisa Hart recalls one of her first memories of Mt. Pleasant from attending a ham and turkey dinner with her family. The Harts (parents Vanessa and Dan) had recently relocated to Taylorstown from Sterling, Virginia around July 4th when she was ten years old. The family regularly attended a Lutheran church prior to the move and had not had a chance to try out many churches in western Loudoun yet; Mt. Pleasant felt good and just fit (like those dinners). The sense of community, inclusion and love has been a constant for Alisa for over ten years. She’s always known her Lord and Savior from childhood. Alisa recalls her mother ran a youth group at the Lutheran church and she and her sisters Madison and Sarah, would attend meetings and events regularly. When she began attending Mt. Pleasant, she recalls she and her sisters of being the only ‘youth’ who attended regularly for years. It was different, but she did not feel a void.She remembers being thirteen and the only student in her confirmation class under the leadership of Pastor Tony. Once her classes were complete, she joined the church and has been a member ever since. She shared that there was a period around COVID where she felt a need for more academic content and attended services at Hamilton Baptist for a time. Coincidentally, she recalled that she saw she was short on gas many Sunday mornings, and due to the shorter distance, she would attend services again at Mt. Pleasant. As she attended regular worship at Mt. Pleasant, her gasoline crisis seemed to resolve itself. As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things (Ecclesiastes 11:5) a.k.a: God works in mysterious ways. Alisa shows real passion for things she cares for deeply. Two standouts include animals and sustainable agriculture. As a junior, she is transferring to Bridgewater College beginning August 2024 and pursuing a degree in Environmental Science. Currently her hobbies include participating in 4-H, country line dancing and swing. She now teaches dancing and has moved into choreographing dance routines. This has led to a recent trip to Florida to participate in a dance competition. She fondly recounts how some of her hobbies have turned into employment -- she can enjoy her hobbies while being able to have a job. How does that saying go? “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”Internship – currently working for Loudoun Water Conservation which ends on August 31, 2024. The job never seemed like work as the mission is improving the landscape throughout the county. In Bridgewater, she will serve as an intern with a local food pantry that teaches how to create and sustain food using local resources.Alisa had two messages she felt led to share around the time of the disaffiliation of Mt. Pleasant from the United Methodist. And what timing! To the delight of the congregation Alisa shared those messages as she packed the house to share God’s word on February 25, 2024, Are You Listening? and May 12, 2024, Creepy Christians. These sermons (and others) can be viewed on Mt. Pleasant’s YouTube channel Mt. Pleasant Church Taylorstown. She would like to see Mt. Pleasant expand its service of youth education in the church through young adult bible study and to begin a youth group. Alisa Hart is a cherished member of the Mt. Pleasant family and a child of God. May she continue to be blessed and to bless others throughout her journey.

Verse: Romans 1:11-12 NIV I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.                           

By Shelly Coates 7/2024