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Although the local Episcopal church celebrated its Golden Anniversary only recently, an Episcopal service was held in Newport well over 100 years ago.
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Several years ago, a dear friend of mine, and a member (and deacon) in our Church, Joe Myers excitedly called to inform me that The Lord had impressed him and Juanita to get involved with the basically unreached tribes that inhabit a string of islands that are located in the Atlantic Ocean f…
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, located in the Grassy Fork community near the Tennessee-North Carolina state line, was already serving the citizens of that part of Cocke County when America found itself plunged into civil war.
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This Sunday on our church calendar has traditionally been the Sunday we celebrate “Pentecost”; which is a Jewish Holy Festival that dates all the way back to the Old Testament.
Recently, at our Memorial Day Observance at the Court House; one of the speakers was waxing eloquently when – you guessed it – a skein wedge of geese flew over in their annual pilgrimage to – where ever. And that got me to thinking!
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In my seven wonderful years in high school; I can clearly remember learning …; my razor sharp mind absorbed …; well, let’s see now, there must have been something I assimilated by merely being close to the spout of knowledge.
Open Door Church, located in the Reidtown community in western Cocke County, near the Cocke-Jefferson County line, will soon join many other area churches who have served worshipers for 100 years.
I hope this is not being written to a bunch of ole dinosaurs who have been living under that great big ole rock in the middle of the Frogpond for the past twenty-thirty-forty years or so!
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“Did you really spend three years in Bonehead English?” is a question I ran into recently. Actually, I was able to squeeze three years of Bonehead English and two years of Bonehead Math neatly into my seven years “on The Hill”; but who’s counting?
Pigeon Valley Baptist Church in Hartford was organized on October 26, 1889 during a meeting in the community’s log school building located on property owned by M. A. (Moses) Clark.
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“Law Enforcement Memorial Week” is rapidly passing by with hardly a ripple on the pond of national events!
Ok, I read about these three guys who were charged to get to a town named “Perfection”.
Unity Missionary Baptist Church, located at the intersection of Morrell Springs Road and Heritage Boulevard, first held services in Bryant Town Restaurant’s banquet room. Worshipers rented the space from Jerry Bryant.
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“Way back when” in those thrilling “days of yesteryear” our Church, First Baptist of Wartburg, in Morgan County, Tennessee had a semi-professionally produced television program on the local “cable access” channel. It covered the entire county – two counties, actually!
On May 23, 1943, a group of Christians in Newport began to meet as a congregation in the Cocke County courthouse. Earlier they had worshiped with the congregation in Morristown.
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To quote Ainsley Earhardt on “Fox and Friends”, “What in the world?”
Fowler’s Grove United Methodist Church stands as one of the oldest religious buildings still in use in Cocke County.
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Thank you!
Caution! This is going to sound like sour grapes, rotten apples, regurgitated prunes – all those metaphors; but it isn’t. Just bear with me, please.
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NEWPORT—Csilla Muscan, Christian solo artist, speaker, leadership coach, and author, will be the keynote speaker at the fifth annual Women’s Conference on Saturday, May 4, at Memorial Baptist Church.
NEWPORT—English Mountain Christian Church (Cosby Highway at 166 Epley Road) announces a series of events for the Easter season. Thursday evening, April 18, a Maundy Thursday covered dish supper, devotional by Larry Roosa, and communion service will begin at 6:00 pm.
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NEWPORT—A cooperative effort by several local church congregations will bring the Easter pageant, “Jesus—The Promised One” to the stage on Saturday, April 20, at 2:00 p.m. at Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church.
I recall one of my church members of yesteryear regaling me with stories of the adventures of his family. Seems they were city folks and wanted to live in the “Boone Docks”; and so they loaded up the truck and moved to the hills of East Tennessee.
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Unless you “ain’t from around there”, you are very familiar with the expression “You can’t get there from here”.
Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church
The parcel of land now the site of Cave Hill Missionary Baptist Church has been home to a religious edifice for over 150 years.
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WHITE PINE—The GoTell Crusade is a collective effort of Lakeway Area churches and ministries to proclaim The Gospel of Jesus. It will be held at the Walters State Great Smoky Mountains Expo Center in White Pine from April 28-May 1 at 7pm each night. Our heart is to see people who are searchi…
Bybee United Methodist Church celebrated the 100th anniversary of its first service in 2013.
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Several, several, I mean several years ago (seems like many, many, many years ago) I was asked to speak at a Patriotic Celebration on the Morgan County Court House lawn.
I took a couple of years of piano almost a century ago. It was so long ago, the ivory on the keys came from a freshly killed wooly mammoth.
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, located next to the Pigeon River in the Edwina community, was organized in May of 1838 in the log home of William Vinson.
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