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Faithful attendance at church meetings brings blessing you can receive in no other way. ~Ezra Taft Benson I enjoy being at church with my church family every Sunday. Our congregation is small in number but we would love to welcome more people into our Christian family. Today we had Homecoming Day to celebrate our church being an organized body of …
A Country Church – A place you can call home, people you can call family. Our little country church had a Homecoming today. That means we gathered to celebrate one more year of being a Christian family of brothers and sisters in Christ who meet to worship the Lord at the Goshen Baptist Church. The church was established in 1812. …
Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. Our church, Goshen Baptist, had a homecoming yesterday. We celebrated the church’s 204 years as a church. To put that a little in perspective, I looked back into history. Of course, 1812 was when the United States fought the War of 1812. It’s also when Louisiana became the 18th state. …
October 6, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Whew! Homecoming is over. What a Sunday! Everybody and his brother was there. The church was jam-packed. We even had to set chairs in the aisles and open up the doors to the Sunday School room next to the pulpit to let people sit there. Dad couldn’t stop smiling. He …
Have you ever eaten banana croquettes? Chances are if you’ve been to a church dinner in Kentucky, you’ve had the opportunity to give them a try. My little country church had Homecoming Day today. Once a year we invite everybody who has spiritual roots in the church to come “home” for a special service. That can be a lot of …
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” Goshen had a great 200th birthday celebration today. Our church was overflowing, something that hasn’t happened our way for a long time. A lot of people who grew up in the church came back to celebrate and remember …
This is the little country church I attend – Goshen Baptist. On Sunday we are going to celebrate our 200th year. To give a little perspective on how long that is, when Goshen first began meeting, the members couldn’t sing the national anthem because the “Star-Spangled Banner” had not yet been written. They couldn’t claim to live in Anderson County …