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Hillbilly

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Gerryb (Great Joy)

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Date Posted: 22:55:12 03/19/12 Mon
In reply to: Hillbilly 's message, "Long time no see." on 18:38:29 03/19/12 Mon

It has been a long time. I have been busy in a new church right here in Worcester. Actually it is an old church with new life. It is the Pleasant Street Baptist Church which was founded back in the 1800s and which after a long, long time was allowed to run down and deteriorate badly. Then a young Southern Baptist Pastor saw it and thought that it would be a fine place to start a work and he got the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board to send him and his family to turn it around. Thanks to a number of churches from the souhern states which been sending folks up here during the summer months on short term mission trips the tired old building has been renovated and they are doing just that and it is a very exciting place to worship. My daughter Amanda (late 20s) is the mother of three little boys and she and her husband have been attending there. It is a reue family church. Amanda plays her flute in the church orchestra. The Worcester Lighthouse Mission which you have probably heard me speak of operates in the basement on Satuday evenings. They hold a block party in the church parking lot in late August and it has turned into a neighborhood celebration. All proof of what can happen when one man and his family catch a dream and work on making it happen.

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Author: Hillbilly [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 19:27:54 03/20/12 Tue Cave Springs Independent Missionary Baptist Church predates the Civil war. Tradition has it that some of the earliest graves in the cemetary were that of slaves. The only thing marking them is sandstone rocks placed to show there is a grave there. The first gravestones with names show up around the time of the Civil War in the early 1860's.

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Author: Gerryb [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 11:08:40 03/21/12 Wed Old churches are great. Unfortunatly, I fell a week ago last Friday and suffered a severe bruise on my knee and have been unable to climb the atairs to the main sancutary. I haven't been able to go for a couple of weeks. I'm going to try this coming Sunday.