How Birmingham’s Allen Pruitt Jr. Brings Solace Through His Ministry of Music   

By Sym Posey | For The Birmingham Times Choir Director Allen Pruitt Jr. can still remember the look of joy on the face of the woman who was in hospice. “[She] was the mother of my wife’s best friend and the year prior we went to a birthday gathering and they sang ‘Happy Birthday.’ I was just playing around with the end, and her mother loved me from there. My wife’s friend said that is all she talked about. It was like five seconds, that was it. “When we were told that she was on hospice, I said, ‘I would love to put something together for her.’  We went by and she passed within that week but the joy you could see on her face … That means more than anything else.” Pruitt, Minister of Music at Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Choir Director with Refresh Family Church, said he loves to sing and perform, but for him it’s more about reaching people. “I want to be able to touch each person musically and spiritually so that they can receive whatever they need,” he said. “I love to see people and how blessed they are from just the experience...