Fight, or Go Home

     "...who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.  Women received back their dead, raised to life again.  Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison.  They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword.  They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated- the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground." Hebrews 11:33-37

"The world was not worthy of them"; let that sink in for a moment.  How great is our faith today?

     On Monday January 28th, 2012 hundreds of Pickens County Residence came out to support student lead prayer at our Pickens County school board meetings.  An anonymous person made a complaint against our student lead prayer.  We don't know if this person is local or if they are from The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a foundation based out of Wisconsin. They said that we were violating the constitution of the 1st Amendment; separation of church and state.
     "The nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation works to educate the public on matters relating to non theism, and to promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state. The Foundation is the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and skeptics) with over 18,000 members.  Since 1978, the Foundation has acted on countless violations of the separation of state and church, and has taken and won many significant complaints and important lawsuits to end state/church entanglements."-ffrf.org

Jim Shelton

     I spoke with Jim Shelton (School Board representative for District 6, Dacusville Area) and he had a lot of great things to share with me about this matter.  First, you need to know that Jim voted to keep student lead prayer to continue at the school board meetings.  The vote was 3-2 to discontinue student lead prayer and to implement a non-sectarian prayer.  The board members that voted against the prayer wanted to be compliant to what they perceived to be federal law.

     This matter all started when the board received a letter from an anonymous person.  The letter was basically a threat that stated if we don't do some things that they think we should do then they might sue us.  It was a legal opinion (their opinion) from a thousand miles away.

     Majority of the board panicked when the letter came in.  They saw this as almost a personal threat to them because somewhere along the line they got the notion in their head if they vote to keep it then there could be some personal liability, and they could lose their house and their car, etc.  Jim stated, "This is not true because if this was true, you would see law suits across the country in every level of government". 

     The student lead prayer policy has been in place since 1971, the board has 10 meetings per year and a student comes on a volunteer basis.  The board picks a school and ask if there is a student that would like to lead the prayer.  That student comes as a volunteer with the permission of their parents and they compose and recite a prayer they pray themselves.  The board has no control over it other than they allow the opportunity for the student to come.  Jim said that he doesn't think that they are in a violation of the federal law or the establishment clause part of the 14th amendment because they are not telling the student what to pray or how to pray.  They are not putting any restrictions or limitations on the prayer what so ever.  If the child wanted to come there and read a poem, they are free to do that.  They haven't placed one religion over another religion.  The school board sits there and listens to a student say a prayer.

     The only gray area is where do you place the school board as a government body?
    
     The Freedom From Religion Foundation tries to threaten other school boards as well.  The same thing happened at Beaufort County.  The FFRF went down there with a similar situation and the school board ignored the threat and the FFRF went away.  Jim said that is what he thinks the Pickens County School Board should have done also.  Jim stated, "We shouldn't have done nothing, if they wanted to sue us then sue us."

     I asked Jim what was the involvement of the taxpayers in this decision.  He said that the Treasurer of the Taxpayer Association stood in front of the school board in January and said, "Fight it, we will get the money."  One month later, he retracts his statement.  Other people from the Taxpayer Association apparently said this is not the stance we want to take. The FFRF have gone to court with other situations and they have lost.  It might have cost the taxpayers if it went to court but only if we had lost.  Are the odds on our side, probably not but at least we had a fighting chance.  Jim said it's one thing to go down swinging, it's another thing to go down covering your head and we tucked our tails and ran.

     It was proof that the majority of the people of Pickens County wanted us to "fight" when hundreds of them came out to support the student lead prayer.  Jim said, "This is one more little piece of our civic pride and our freedoms that is going away because of small little groups of people that want to cause trouble."  Jim wants you to know that he is fighting and he is going to continue to fight till the end.  When the school board meets in two weeks to have the 2nd reading of the policy he's not backing down, he's not giving in, he's going to fight.  Jim wants you to fight with him by praying, writing letters, making phone calls, sending e-mails, showing up at the meetings and being as loud as you can.

     Why are we letting this group from Wisconsin come and dictate our lives?  Where is our Fight?

    
    
Mr. Jim Shelton District 6 Map
Term Expires 2014
1510 Hunts Bridge Road, Easley, SC 29640
630-0726  jimshelton@pickens.k12.sc.us  Mr. Shelton has represented the Dacusville area (District 6) since November 2006. He is graduate of Pickens High School and Clemson University. Mr. Shelton and his wife Ginger have two children: John, a PHS graduate who is enrolled at Southern Wesleyan University, and Caroline, a student at Pickens High School. Mr. Shelton is the past president of both the Dacusville Recreation Department and the Dacusville Business Association and currently serves on the board of directors for the Pickens County chapter of the American Red Cross. Establishing the School District of Pickens County as the academic benchmark by which other state school districts are measured is Mr. Shelton's goal. Mr. Shelton also serves as region 16 director of the South Carolina School Boards Association (SCSBA).

Pastor Mike Bowling's Testimony

   

Pastor Mike Bowling

     Mike Bowling is a recently retired Pastor that ran from the Lord for nine years when God called him to pastoral work. In 1972 he was 22 years of age and he had an attack of appendicitis and had to go to the hospital for surgery. He went to St.Francis now known as St. Francis Downtown. He was placed in room 417. They did his surgery and as he laid there he began to pray and the Holy Spirit began to deal with him. He told the Lord he would do more for him if he would see him through this because it was quite an ordeal with his appendix nearly rupturing. After the surgery he went home and really didn't think anymore about what he prayed about. Ten days later a cyst appeared that had to come out, he went to the hospital for a second time and they said they didn't have any more rooms available. They told him he was just going to have to lay there until they could get him ready after surgery. Finally they said they have a room.....room 417. This was the exact room that he promised God he was going to do a lot of things for him. He went home, and as he was recouping he was lying in the bed and about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning he woke up and he could see his self sorta like a vision standing in the pulpit of his home church; Rutherford Rd. Baptist Church. He saw his self preaching there.  All of a sudden the Holy Spirit just broke him and he began to cry and his wife  Charlene woke up and asked what was wrong now because she thought something else was wrong because he had 2 surgeries within 10 days apart.  He said the Lord is calling him to preach.  She sat straight up in the bed and asked are you sure?  He said he has never been more sure in all his life.

      So he began to prepare for the education to be a pastor.  He searched the schools and decided to go to North Greenville and since he was in the military, the GI Bill paid for everything.  From North Greenville he went to the University of Carson Newman in Tennessee, there he finished his bachelors degree, and he was going to go on to seminary but a church called the University wanting a young man to come over and preach because they didn't have a pastor.  The preaching professor asked him if he would go preach, he said yes he would go. He went and preached 2 consecutive Sunday mornings and Sunday nights.  That was 4 preaching opportunities in 2 weeks. He noticed the chairman of the pulpit committee and the chairman of the deacons got together and they were talking as they left the church and he was wondering what they were talking about.  He said he surely hope he didn't do something out of the ordinary or say something that was contrary to the bible for him just being a young student in the ministry.  He went home and he was a part time stock boy at TG&Y in Tennessee.  The pastor of the church came and asked him to be their pastor and Pastor Bowling said no, he couldn't do that because he is still in school and he doesn't have enough education or know how to be a pastor yet.  He told him no and turned him down because he thought he wasn't ready. That man came to him for 5 consecutive nights and asked him to be their pastor and all 5 nights he turned him down and it scared him and he thought what in the world am I trying to get into.  He then let the devil try to talk him into thinking that he needed to be a youth minister.  So he said he had enough education and that he is going to go home and be a youth leader, and that is what he did.

     He moved back home and he was a minister of youth leader and activities at Clearview Baptist Church in Travelers Rest.  He did this for two and half years and he was really running from the Lord even though he was doing some ministry, he did preach alittle bit.  Some people there in the church owned Carolina Tool and Equipment Company and they wanted to know if he would go to work for them doing inventory.  So he went to work there to be the national sales manager and for 9 long years he ran from the Lord doing other work other than what God called him to do.  Finally when Ron Riddly came to pastor at Clearview he preached a  series of messages on "Listening To God's Call" that got a hold of his heart again and he surrendered to the ministry after 9 years of running. Pastor Bowling was ordained and God began a work in him.  He knew God was in it when he sold a house in 6 days that he had bought in Travelers Rest.  It wasn't long after that he found out that Shiloh Baptist Church was looking for a pastor and a friend of his Wayne Hester and his mother Mrs. Hester was a member at Shiloh and he wanted to know if he could submit his name and he told him yes.  Then they began to talk to him and God just sorta lead them together and that was his first pastoral work at Shiloh Baptist Church in August of 1990.

     He pastored for 22 years and retired this past July of 2012 at the age of 62.  Now he is enjoying his retirement.  He has his name in to do interim work at different churches as they come available.  He fills in on Sundays for pastors on vacation.  During the time he was running from the Lord he learned a lot.  God gave him extra education when he went to Fruitland Bible Institute and took  Homiletics under Dr. Writings, he went to all kinds of seminars and took everything he could to enhance his education and further his knowledge of the scriptures since he didn't go to seminary.  He said preaching the bible is a very serious thing, God teaches his ministers to rightfully divide the word.  He feels like if he stands in the pulpit and preaches that an 8 year old couldn't understand him as well as an 88 year old he has failed.  He tries to be as simple as he possibly can in his delivery to get God's word across so that people could know and understand it.  He wouldn't recommend anyone to run because if God has called someone to the ministry, and it is a calling, and it has to be a calling that God deals with them directly to the point where he wants them to do what he has called them to do.  He's thankful that he did that and he is reminded of what Jeremiah said, he said he tried to run from the Lord and after a while he said God's word is like a fire in my bones and it was a burning desire to preach God's word, and Jeremiah went back and preached God's word.  A lot of times he thinks of Jeremiah when he ran for 9 years.  He didn't actually start his preaching till he was 40 years old and he preached till he was 62, he preached for 22 years, not counting the two and half years of youth ministry.  He was thankful for it, he lead a good many people into God's Kingdom, performed a lot of marriages and a lot of funerals.  He counts it a joy and privilege to be called from the highest calling of the Universe and that is...God Almighty.
    

Will You Answer The Call?

     Many times we feel like we can't do the things that God requires from us.  Moses was one that told the Lord, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."  Mike Bowling is a recently retired Pastor that ran from the Lord for nine years when God called him to pastoral work.  He was 22 years of age and he had an attack of appendicitis and had to go to the hospital for surgery. He went to St.Francis now known as St. Francis Downtown.  He was placed in room 417.  They did his surgery and as he laid there he began to pray and the Holy Spirit began to deal with him.  He told the Lord he would do more for him if he would see him through this because it was quite an ordeal with his appendix nearly rupturing.  After the surgery he went home and really didn't think anymore about what he prayed about.  Ten days later a cyst appeared that had to come out, he went to the hospital for a second time and they said they didn't have any more rooms available.  They told him he was just going to have to lay there until they could get him ready for surgery.  Finally they said they have a room.....room 417.  This was the exact room that he promised God he was going to do a lot of things for him.  He went home, and as he was recouping he was lying in the bed and about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning he woke up and he could see his self sorta like a vision standing in the pulpit of his home church; Rutherford Rd. Baptist Church.  He saw his self preaching there.  Pastor Bowling told his wife and then he began his education to be a pastor. While he was at the University of Carson Newman in Tennessee a church called the University wanting a young man to come over and preach, he went and preached 2 consecutive Sunday mornings and Sunday nights.  The pastor of the church then asked him to be there pastor and Pastor Bowling turned them down because he thought he wasn't ready.  That man came to him for 5 consecutive nights and asked him to be their pastor and all 5 nights he turned them down.  It wasn't until God spoke to him through a message his pastor gave about "Listening To God's Call" that got a hold of his heart again and he surrendered to the ministry after 9 years of running.  Pastor Bowling was ordained and God did a great work in him.  (I suggest you read his complete testimony in it's entirety, it is posted on the blog.) Click Here to Read More on Pastor Mike Bowling


     Robby Raines answered the calling that God set before him to be a police officer.  If God calls you to something he will "equip you with everything good for doing his will" Hebrews 13:21. God exposed Robby to police work at a young age. Robby's dad, Mike Constance was a police officer as well.  How cool it must be for a little boy to ride around in a police car with their dad.  But as an adult, did Robby answer the calling right away?  When Robby attended college he took industrial electronics, after his first semester he switched to criminal justice because of the nagging feeling that kept pulling at him.  He said he still wasn't sure what he wanted to do in law enforcement, he didn't know if he wanted to be a police officer or deputy sheriff.  He really wanted to be a game warden but because of the long waiting list he decided to be a police officer. Robby done an internship at the sheriff's office and was able to get out and ride with some older guys such as Keith Galloway who is still at the detention center, and Jody Cartee, Woodrow Kelly who are no longer there.  He got to see what it was really like to actually take part in police duties other than as a child.  Robby put it this way, "He got bit by the bug".

     We live in a world where danger is all around us, and we expect our law enforcers to be there for our safety when we need them.  I asked Robby how he deals with the fear that he faces each day as a police officer.  "It's not a job, it's a calling, it's not a job that everyone gets into.  God calls people to do this job."  He said that he has fear, he doesn't know how he suppresses the fear he has, he just does.  He also said that you have the fear but you don't let the fear control you.  I asked him about the danger of being a police officer, "There's danger every day I put the badge and gun on and get in my car and come to work because I am a target."  Robby and I touched base on the school shootings and on gun control.  He said that he is prepared if something happens because that is his job and that is what he was trained to do. Robby said that Pickens High School is safe, the doors stay locked and you have to be buzzed to get in.  He said that there are things here and there that can be fixed but over all it is a safe place.  I asked him if you can prevent school shootings and he said there's no way to prevent them because if someone wants to get in they will find a way.  Robby said all you can do is contain it and that is what he's here for.  He made this statement, "I am better than anyone coming in this school".  He made this statement not to sound cocky or arrogant but to be prepared, he said you have to think this way, you have to tell yourself this.  He also said he has to tell himself that he knows how good he can shoot and he knows how to do his job.  Robby said, "At the end of the day, I'm going to see my kids."  When I asked Robby about gun control he said don't get him started on that subject, however he did make this statement, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."


  "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established". -Romans 13:1  Robby acknowledges that all authority comes from God and that he has been placed in this role of authority.  He said that there are some people that wear a badge that don't need to have one and it doesn't take long till they no longer have their badge.  Police Officers have to see  some devastating things when on duty and Robby wants you to know that they have to cope with it the best way they can.  He said if you see police officers laughing or cutting up not to think that they don't care but this is their way of coping with all the things they deal with on a daily basis.  The best way to describe police work is when something traumatic happens everyone is quick to pray and ask God for help, but when everything is going great we want to kick God out of everything.  When you need help you are quick to call a police officer and they are there to help you.  Robby wants you to have that same kind of  respect for police officers when you are not in need of their help. 

     Robby was born and raised here in Dacusville, he said he loves the Dacusville community. He works at Pickens High School keeping our kids safe. Robby is very modest about telling of his accomplishments he has received.  I think he would want you to know his greatest accomplishments are his two children.  I asked Robby what was his most gratifying part about his job, he said,  "If I have made a difference in someone else's life."   

Check out "Behind The Badge" for some true police humor @ www.behindthebadge.net
    

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Could A Tanning Salon Be A Ministry?

     You may not see a tanning salon as a ministry, but what is a ministry?  Let me introduce you to a woman named Augusta.  Augusta is a fifty-five year-old, six-foot-tall, very serious Brazilian woman who speaks only Portuguese. It was a good thing that the owner of the house could understand Portuguese. Augusta was a housekeeper that loved to sing while she cleaned.  She would sing when she walked around the house, when she did laundry, and when she cooked.  Augusta would sing all day, every day, she would sing and sing and sing.  Every song she would sing was about Jesus.  In the middle of every chorus you would hear her sing Jeessssuuusss. The owner told her that she does a great job cleaning, however, could she sing about something else other than Jesus.  As soon as she asked this, Augusta busted out laughing hysterically.  Augusta told the owner that she was very glad that she noticed her singing and she didn't mean to sound disrespectful, but she told her it was quite amusing that she thought she was there to clean her house.  The owner then asked her "What do you mean you find it amusing that I think you are here to clean my house?  Why else would you be here?"  Augusta then proceeded to tell the owner that before she accepted the job with her, she went to church and the congregation stood and prayed with her.  There was a prophetic word spoken from the Holy Spirit; the word was that if she came and worked for her that one day her and her husband would come to Christ and eventually have their own ministry. That is exactly what happened, the owner of the house was Stephen Baldwin's wife.  You can read more about this story in "The Unusual Suspect"  by Stephen Baldwin and Mark Tabb.


      What is ministry?  Ministry is service to God and to other people in His name. "Christians should minister by meeting people's needs with love and humility on Christ behalf.  Christians are to minister to others out of their devotion to Christ and their love for others"- Kirk Whitaker.  Augusta was ministering by going about her daily work.  Pam Woody, owner of "Elite Tanning", spoke about experiencing God moments. What are God moments?  You experience God moments while going about your normal business and Jesus just shows up. Pam experiences a lot of God moments in her tanning salon because her walk with Christ comes out in her daily work. Pam states, "My job is to talk to others about Christ, and that is what I do here."

     Pam Woody is originally from Greenville and currently lives in Easley.  She has been married to her husband Kevin Woody for 18 years, together they have 3 children and 2 grandchildren.  Pam came to know our little town of Dacusville through a long time friend, Kelly Whitman.  Kelly invited Pam and Kevin to her church, Dacusville Church of God; now known as Lifechurch.  It was there that Pam and her husband came to know the Lord.  Every Sunday, Pam and Kevin would go past "Elite Tanning" to get to church, and every Sunday for 12 years as they went past the tanning salon Pam would tell Kevin, " I'm going to own "Elite Tanning" someday. She has now owned "Elite Tanning" for 2 years. I asked Pam what did she think about the people of Dacusville, she had this to say, "I love them, they are more personal, genuinely caring, and  down to earth people".  Pam said that when a customer comes into her shop she tries to make them feel as comfortable as possible.  She wants the customers to feel welcome; that they're not just money in her pocket.  Pam shared with me that all money goes back into the shop, that she may feed herself out of the shop ever once in a while.  God has blessed her husband with a good job which allows her to own "Elite Tanning".  Pam has been in the tanning business since 2003, she owned a shop in Easley; "Atlantic Cove".  Pam started at "Atlantic Cove" as a bed cleaner, when the owner wanted to sale the shop, Pam bought it.  Pam closed "Atlantic Cove" in 2011 and focused all her attention on "Elite Tanning".

Read the rest of this story on "Could A Tanning Salon Be A Ministry? Continued (Click Here) ..."

  

Could A Tanning Salon Be A Ministry? Continued...

       "Encourage, lift and strengthen one another.  For the positive energy spread to one will be felt. For we are connected, one and all"-Deborah Day.  Pam has faithful customers that come to her shop to tan.  She had customers that followed her from "Atlantic Cove", she has customers that travel from Greenville, Pumpkintown, Anderson, and her furthest customer is from Landrum.  I asked Janina Porter from Landrum why does she choose Pam's tanning salon when there are others along the way? She said, "I love Pam, she makes you feel good when you come to her salon, she has good prices, she's sweet, nice and friendly.  I would come a long way out of my way to get that kind of atmosphere."  I asked Pam why does she think she has such dedicated customers?  She said, "I'm good to them, I have clean beds, I keep the bulbs changed, I give fair prices to everybody, and I treat everybody the way I want to be treated."  When you enter "Elite Tanning" you're greeted with bright colors, sweet aromas, and  Pam Woody; who loves the Lord, loves church, loves her family, loves life, and loves people.  God tells us in his word, "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another"-John 13:35.  Pam said that if someone was to come into her shop and offer to buy it that she would sale it because she would know that the Lord is telling her that her time at "Elite Tanning" is over.  Pam puts all her trust in the Lord to keep the shop in business.  Pam is dedicated to Christ and she knows that he will place her where he needs her.


  What Pam Wants You To Know About Tanning:

• It's not the tanning that causes cancer; it's the burning that you think you have to have from tanning in tanning beds or outside that causes it.  You have to be smart about it, you have to have moderation, you can't think, "I'm going to get dark fast".
• Tanning is good for depression.
• You get Vitamin D from tanning.
• You have to moisturize, moisturize, moisturize! Dry skin doesn't tan at all.
• The tanning lotion you use is so important, Wal-Mart lotions don't work because they use Vaseline.  The Vaseline stops the rays from getting to the skin.  You really need to use a good salon lotion.  You are going to put $15-18 in a lotion, it needs to be a good lotion. Pam offers all kinds of lotions in her shop ranging from different prices.

*You can contact Pam at "Elite Tanning" at 864-246-5044
**If you go to Elite Tanning and tell them that you read this blog from "Dacusville, What's So "BIG" About    This Small Town?...." you will receive $15.00 off of any month you decide to tan, or you can get a bottle of lotion for half off. 

An Old Dacusville Landmark Becomes A New Church

 

    "A country without a past has the emptiness of a barren continent; and a city without old buildings is like a man without a memory"-Graeme Shankland.  Many things can bring back memories that we have created in our minds;  a song perhaps, a place we have visited, a picture that's been packed away, and old buildings in our neighborhoods.  If I close my eyes I can see even now as though it was yesterday the smoke filled room, the little paddles with numbers, and people packed in tightly with every seat filled while others had to stand around the room.  I also see workers moving quickly to give the items that were purchased to the ones that chose to out bid everyone else.  I smell the greasy foods that were being cooked back in the kitchen and wishing that my parents would buy me some because it looked and smelled so good.  I hear the man on the stage behind the table rambling off numbers and talking so fast that I don't see how anyone understands anything he is saying.  I remember my parents warning me to keep my hands in my lap because if I raised them the workers might think I am casting a bid.  Every Saturday night without fail this is what I would experience as a child, because it was the happening place in our small town of Dacusville at that time.  These are the memories that I think about when I see the old wooden building on Earls Bridge Rd in Dacusville; also known as Babes Auction Barn.   My generation remembers the building being an Auction Barn, while older generations remembers it to be a post office.  Since the Auction Barn there has been several other establishments in that old wooden building.  That old wooden building....it may not look like much from the outside, maybe it could use some new paint, maybe some new boards to replace the old ones, some may think that maybe it should  even be torn down. However, don't let the outside fool you, it's what is happening on the inside.

                Wings and Worship

                 Earls Bridge Rd.

                 Dacusville, SC.

                 Pastor Scott Smith

   





 "Wings and Worship" was established 8 months ago as an outreach ministry for the youth in our community.  Tommy Holinsworth had a restaurant in the building that was not quite as successful as he hoped it would have been, yet he didn't want to close down the building and have it just sit. Six people out of our community:  Scott and Pam Smith, Ken Smith, Roger Talley, Diane and Mike Knapp had a vision to see the building used for God, and that is how "Wings and Worship" was established.  First they were meeting only on Wednesday nights until just recently they have implemented a Sunday morning service also.  On Wednesday nights they served wings, played music and sung songs; hence the name for the church.  Now that it is no longer just considered an outreach ministry for the youth, but a church for the community their menu has changed and they serve meals on Wednesday nights; hot dogs, pizza, wings, etc. and it is with no charge to the community.  The food is pre-cooked, there is no longer a restaurant in the building.  The church accepts any donations and the money goes strictly to the functioning of the church.  To also help with the expenses of the church they have a yard sale on the 2nd Saturday of every month; rain or shine, if it is raining the yard sale will be inside.  The music is lead by a brother/sister duo from Marietta; Roger Talley and Diane Knapp, and Diane's husband Mike Knapp.  The music consist of cd's and singing as of right now, however, Roger Talley wants to implement instruments into the praise and worship. The stage is set up to allow picking, and music is played while you enjoy your meal.  After the meal has been eaten, certain people have been appointed to bring the message.  The 1st Wednesday of the month Danny Merck brings the message, the second Wednesday  Al Harris, 3rd Wednesday is Shannon Mckey, and the 4th Wednesday is an open night.

     W-willingness to go
      I- into our
     N-neighborhood to spread the
     G-gospel of Jesus Christ by
     S-serving others;
        AND to WORSHIP God by loving others as he first loved us. 

Our vision as a church is to continue the ministry that Jesus Christ had on earth, "to seek and to save what was lost." Luke 19-10


    

     Scott Smith was one of the original six that saw God's vision to reach out into our community for our youth.  Scott has always been apart of the Dacusville Community; minus the first two years of his life.  He is very active in our small town, he was youth pastor at Nine Forks Baptist Church and he served as a board member for the Dacusville Rec. for 5 yrs. He currently serves as youth minister at Peter's Creek Baptist Church. Scott studied at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute, and in February Scott was ordained as a Pastor under the ministry of Earl Reid (Pastor of Peter's Creek Baptist Church).  Earl had this to say about Scott,"Wings and Worship" is a prayer answered for brother Scott Smith to try to reach the youth who are unchurched. It started out on Wednesday nights and brother Scott felt like God was leading him to move forward. We are very proud of Scott and his family. I know God is going to do good things through Scott in Gods Ministry." Scott has been married to Pam Smith for 30 years.  Pam works at Dacusville Elementary as a teacher assistant for K-5.  They have 2 sons; Robbie and Joey Smith. Joey has the same passion as his dad to see the youth reached in our community, he once brought 20 youth to one of the services. Scott runs his own full time lawn care business that he has owned for 20 years, "SLC Incorporated".

     "Wings and Worship" is now averaging around 50 and just recently added Sunday morning service.  When you enter the building you will find the atmosphere to be very relaxed, and a comfortable place to worship God. The people will greet you with a warm Dacusville welcome and make you feel right at home.  Pastor Scott said, "The services have been so good and the speakers have been so anointed that it will make the paint come off the walls." 

 Be looking for this bright orange van in our community, it's "Wings and Worships" new direction of an outreach ministry.  Danny Merck had an idea to use this van to go around our community to take Jesus to the unchurched, he is accepting the calling to go out and spread the gospel. Our mission for our church is to have a willingness to go into our neighborhood to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ by serving others and to worship God by loving others as he first loved us.  We want others to experience God's love through this ministry.










 Please be in prayer for this body of believers that want to "seek and save that which is lost."  Jesus told his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into this harvest field." -Matt. 9:37-38  These workers are going after the harvest and they need all your support.  If you would like to make donations to the church  you can contact Scott Smith at 449-4882.  You also can follow them on face book at "Wings and Worship".  They would love to see you on Wednesday nights or Sunday mornings at that old wooden building on Earls Bridge Rd.