In November 1839, Abraham Belton Neal and Rebecca Pickens Neal moved to the Greenbush Community, now known as the West Armuchee Valley, which was centered around one store and a post office, that was located on a knoll about one mile north of the current location of Pleasant Hill UMC. Mr. A.B. Neal was an old fashioned Methodist Exhorter, and would hold worship services at his home. The Neal home was a two room building with a dogtrot (open hallway) between the two rooms, and he and visiting pastors would stand in the dogtrot to speak to the crowd that was gathered and seated in the yard. In the summer months, the group would meet in a brush arbor nearby.

In 1847 there were enough Methodists to organize and build a 20’ by 24’ poplar log structure on the hillside north of the spring. Miss Sue Gore suggested the church be given the name “Pleasant Hill” because she looked across the hollow and saw the beauty of the church, and because she felt the pleasantness of the Spirit when she worshiped there. Between 1857 and 1859 the log building was replaced with a frame building.

The five acre parcel of land where the current church and cemetery are located was donated by Abraham Belton and Rebecca Pickens Neal.

Regular services were held on a part-time basis once or twice a month until the early 1970s when lay speakers filled in on Sundays when the ministers were not available. Pleasant Hill transitioned to having services with the pastor every first and third Sunday, and Sunday evening services. For some time Pleasant Hill met with Shiloh Baptist on fifth Sundays to worship together, with ministers alternating the preaching.

Pleasant Hill continued in the Pleasant Hill Charge with Fisher's Chapel UMC until 2013, when Pleasant Hill UMC became a stand-alone congregation with a full-time pastor.