The spirited Houston congregation featured in ReShonda Tate Billingsleyâs Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfoldingâand, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is at the heart of the drama.
As the First Lady of Zion Hill, Rachel is not only Pastor Lester Adamsâ wifeâsheâs currently his eight-months-pregnant wife, whoâs going toe-to-toe with Lesterâs onetime mistress, congregant Mary Richardson, who is also pregnant. Her baby may or may not be Lesterâs, but Maryâs doing all she can to win sympathy and turn her fellow churchgoers against Rachelâeven threatening to blackmail Pastor Adams with a paternity agreement. After all, where can an unmarried mother-to-be go but to the Lord?
Rachel has a few choice answers for exactly where Mary can go, but as these expectant moms do battle, hostilities erupt into a drama unlike anything Zion Hill has ever seen! Something has to give, and while Rachel contemplates everything from transferring her lifelong church membership to packing up and leaving Lester, she knows deep down God is calling her to forgiveness. Will the arrival of the new babies bring a new understanding? Or harden forever the anger thatâs dividing them?