Category: Written

I was saved when I was about 8 years old during a fall revival at Sycamore Valley Missionary Baptist Church. The church is located in the southern part of Macon County, not far from the Smith County line. I was the youngest of four children. We were raised on a hillside farm not far from […]

I went to my daddy, and I was hoping he could help me. What did that mean in the Bible?   Well, every time he would tell me go to mama. He could not read very well, and I just thought that I would be bull headed and not tell mama. We had “Old year Out […]

Noah Webster Letter to Thomas Dawes, December 20, 1808: This candid avowal of your own opinions demands from me, a faithful and explicit exposition of my own, and the reasons on which they are founded. Being educated in a religious family, under pious parents, I had, in early life some religious impressions, but being too […]

I just feel like I need to thank the Lord for all His many blessings…The most important blessing I ever got was when the Lord saved me…I got saved on April 30, 1979…Maybe you don’t remember the date when you got saved but you will never forget where you were and what happened…I got saved […]

Brother Luther E Jent From a letter dated December 9, 1979 Dear Christian Friends, I was saved when I was about eleven years of age.  Our school teacher took our class to the revival at Red Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Allen County Kentucky.  She seated us toward the back of the building in the […]

In Late 1964, I was at True Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Springfield, Missouri during the fall revival. I was nine years old, and the revival had been going on for a few days. One night I was standing behind the front row of seats on the north side of the church, watching Diana Ingram […]

My earliest remembrance of religion goes back to the time when I was about five years old. My father was saved in an Missionary Baptist church way up a hollow in Kanawha County, W.Va. We attended that church regularly for the next two years until my fathers’ work moved us about 125 miles north to […]

I was fortunate enough to be born to parents who were old time Missionary Baptist. My Father is an old fashioned preacher. When I think about my childhood, I remember the revivals he helped in, especially at Capital Hill Church. Even at a young age, before I was accountable, I knew something special was going […]

        n 1935, after the long and hot summer ended and school began, a revival began at Caney Fork Baptist Church on Sunday night, September 1. The fourth day of next month I would be twelve years old. Services were conducted twice daily, at eleven o’clock in the mornings and then again […]

I was saved on June 25, 1994 at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Gallatin, TN. I was raised in Missionary Baptist Churches and had been lost for some time, but I was too embarrassed to go to the altar or to admit that I was lost. The Friday night before I was saved, I was […]