Photo gallery: Locals wear their Sunday best
Published 12:00 am Sunday, April 27, 2014
Once a week many local churchgoers set aside their blue jeans and T-shirts in exchange for suits, finely decorated hats, striped bowties and bright dresses when they enter into worship.
“I want to be respectful in church,” Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church deacon Ralph Jennings said.
Here are photographs of local residents dressed in their Sunday best.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat Deacon for Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Ralph Jennings, dresses up in a suit for each Sunday services. “I want to be respectful in church,” Jennings said. “And I want to present myself well because I’m a deacon here.”
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Janice King attended Easter service at Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in all white with a matching hat. “I wanted to wear all white because white is a symbol of purity and remembrance for what Jesus did for us on this day,” King said.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Colby Passman, 13, buttons his jacket before attending Easter service at Jefferson Street United Methodist Church.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Robert Scudamore wore a seersucker suit for Easter service at St. Mary Basilica. “You got to dress up for church,” Scudamore said. “Especially for Easter.”
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — 6-month-old Annie Edwards smiles for a picture on her first Easter at Memorial Park after church service at St. Mary Basilica.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat —Ra’Kiyah Henderson, 7, shows off her new dress before the start Easter service at Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Janice King attended Easter service at Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in all white with a matching hat. “I wanted to wear all white because white is a symbol of purity and remembrance for what Jesus did for us on this day,” King said.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Eleven-year-old De’Marcus Jackson added a bow tie to complete his outfit for Easter service at Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church. “It gets a little warm,” Jackson said. “But my mom wanted me to look nice for Easter.”
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Aniyah Lane, 4, wore silver glittered shoes with her dress for Sunday service at St. Mary Basilica.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Three-year-old John Grady Klein dressed in an outfit made for him by his grandmother Sheliah Boseman for Easter Sunday before service at St. Mary Basilica.
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- brittney lohmiller / The Natchez Democrat — Four-year-old Julia Blankenstein plays with the tulle on her Easter dress on the steps of Jefferson Street United Methodist Church before service starts.
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