Warren C. Hope is an ordained Missionary Baptist minister and pastor of the Silver Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Coolidge Georgia. A former middle school teacher and elementary...view moreWarren C. Hope is an ordained Missionary Baptist minister and pastor of the Silver Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Coolidge Georgia. A former middle school teacher and elementary school principal, he is a professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida. He has a passion for history, which led him to earn the Ph. D. in History from Florida State University in 2008. From Whence They Came: Origins of the Missionary Baptists in Southwest Georgia, 1865-1900, emerged from his passion for history and need to know more about the Missionary Baptist denomination, Black ministers, and the independent churches that were organized following the Civil War.view less