Oct19
Fall revival begins
7:00 PM · Sanctuary
Brother Ezra Caudill of Carr Creek preaching through Thursday night.
Laurel Fork
Since 1911
A white church up the Laurel Fork, with the door open and a seat for you.
We're about seventy people on a good Sunday: farmers and nurses, retired miners and their grandchildren. Brother Harlan preaches from the King James, we sing from the red hymnal, and there's usually a cake in the fellowship hall.
From the pulpit
You'd be welcome here
Folks sometimes tell me they'd like to come back to church but they've been gone too long. There's no such thing as too long on Laurel Fork. Come in whatever you drove up in and sit wherever there's room.
We still have a Wednesday prayer meeting, a Sunday night singing and dinner on the grounds every Homecoming. If you need a ride, call the church phone. It rings at the parsonage and I'll answer it myself.
Sunday morning
Sunday School at ten, preaching at eleven
Sunday School classes meet in the four rooms off the fellowship hall, divided about how they were in 1975: young'uns, young people, the women's class and the men's class.
Preaching starts at eleven with three hymns and a special, and lets out around a quarter past twelve.
- One step at the side door, and a ramp to the fellowship hall
- Nursery for babies, with Opal's granddaughter in charge
- Large-print hymnals on the back pew
- Coffee from 9:30 in the fellowship hall
Over the pulpit
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1–2Painted over the pulpit in 1952Coming up
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Oct26
Bean supper
5:00 PM · Fellowship hall
Soup beans, cornbread and fried apples. Proceeds to the heating fund.
Nov2
Lord's Supper and foot washing
11:00 AM · Sanctuary
Our autumn communion service, held twice a year.
Dec21
Christmas program
6:00 PM · Sanctuary
The young'uns' pageant, then treat bags for every child.
Nothing in that category this month.
In their words
Why we keep coming up the hollow
I was baptized in this creek in 1961 and married at that altar in 1968. I'd like to be carried out of here when it's time.
We moved back from Ohio when Mom got sick. The church brought supper every night for a month.
I didn't know a soul in Knott County. Now I've got forty grandmothers.
Heating help starts November 1
Heating oil, a box of groceries, a ride to the clinic in Hazard. Call the church phone and you'll get a person.