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Sample Past Posts
- Remembering the Schoolhouse(s) Known as “Bell Ridge” in the Morrison City area of North Kingsport, Tennessee January 31, 2020
- A Song of Unity from Long Ago August 19, 2019
- Beautiful Hills of Home August 16, 2019
- When Your Family Tree Becomes All Hung Up July 22, 2019
- “The Storms are on the Ocean” as a Metaphor for Homesickness June 15, 2019
- “Excuse Me, May I Look Inside Your Biscuit?” May 3, 2019
Top Posts & Pages
- A Barony in the Mountains of Southwest Virginia
- Remembering Vacation Bible School in the '60s and '70s
- The Flood of 1977
- Disappearing Towns: Morrison City
- Robert Sayers Sheffey, Mountain Preacher and Man of Prayer
- A Sunny Day in Sharon Springs
- A Conversation that didn't Go Well
- History of a Part of Weber City, Virginia
- Places I've Lived: Paint Lick, VA
- Ode to Soup Beans and Corn Bread
Tag Archives: preaching
Gone to Conference
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”–Hebrews 10: 25, (King James Bible) I am not sure who first thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Annual Conference, appointments, Church, civil war, day lilies, East Tennessee, Lake Junaluska, license, means of grace, Methodist, ministry, North Carolina, ordination, preacher, preaching, singing, Southwest Virginia, union confederate, United Methodist
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Faces from the Past: A Minister in the Family
Mammaw Scott always wanted a preacher in the family. She wanted it so bad she dedicated her seventh child to the Lord, praying that he would become a preacher. He grew up and worked for IBM. But there was a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1939, Church, churches, civil war, district superintendent, Emory & Henry College, former slave, Methodist, Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South, minister, Morrison Chapel, Payne College, Perry, Perry family, preacher, preaching, presiding elder, Scarritt, Tennessee, Tucker, Tucker family, Uniting Conference, Vanderbilt, Virginia
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