Salem Community Church is celebrating its historical beginnings during the 11 a.m. service on Heritage Sunday at 11408 Salem Church Road in the Pampa area of Gloucester. Pastor Scott Pollard will discuss the legacy of the 182-year-old church, from the early 1800s when the Bland family and others began meeting in their homes and calling themselves the Cheesecake Church, through the construction of a building in 1844, to today. Pollard will also talk about the preachers who led anywhere from 10 to 40 churches each by traveling among them on horseback, and he will don an authentic, hand-sewn Circuit Rider costume especially made for the occasion. Prior to the Revolutionary War, there were as many as 4,000 circuit riders ministering to churches across the nation, said Pollard. Perhaps the most famous one was Francis Asbury (1745-1816) of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Pollard said the denomination helped bring about freedom of religion and the separation of church and state in the newly-f...