Karl Anderson, pastor at Gainesville’s Upper Room Church of God in Christ, said too many people he knows and leaders of his Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination have already died or become seriously ill with COVID-19.
“In my denomination alone, we’ve lost so many bishops and leaders and parishioners in 2020,” Anderson said. “We’ve really got to do something about this, and quick.”
Anderson and other leaders at Black churches in east Gainesville and other parts of Alachua County are gearing up to open their doors to community members to those who have appointments to receive a coronavirus vaccine, as a place in their own neighborhoods that they can trust.