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» pink101 - Fond Memories

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I have many fond memories from my childhood surrounding my family's relationship with the church we attended--an independent Fundamental Baptist Church.
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One of the most fondly remembered were those New Year's Eve Watch Night programs. Our church structure was a knock down building. A traveling evangelist of the early 1930s had brought it in on the flat bed of a train and had set it up next to the railroad tracks in the middle of town. The evangelist went bankrupt in our town and our struggling little group got title to it and a lease on the property for 99 years at a dollar a year. It had sawdust floors and benches made from 2 by 4s and 1 by 10s for seats and backs. It was meager; but a pretty good size.
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Gradually the building was improved and one year we had a cement floor poured in and a wall built midway from the front to the back so the space was divided in two.
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About 4 times a year, we had a potluck dinner. We set up in the back part of the church. On New Year's Eve, we played games, sang songs, gave testimonies, listened to the preacher, talked and generally had a good time. The food was always the best. It seems like Baptist women are all good cooks. And, we stayed at church until the New year was rung in and the preacher gave us a prayer of blessing and we all went home.
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Happy New Year to Everyone
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-- posted by pink101