I remember when...

[Esther]

Originally Posted by pastorswife

I remember when women wore dresses to all church services and to funeral homes.
I remember when all women teachers wore dresses at school.
I remember when all the stores and gas stations didn't open on Sundays.

I remember all of that as well.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by kaymammy

What wonderful posts! I am new to AFF and I am truly enjoying this thread. What memories! I, too, grew up in MI and I remember the Hillsdale youth camps. My parents let me drive our station wagon and take a whole load of girls from our church. I also remember Chuck & Laurie Colgrove. I was about 10 or 11 when he did some work for my father who was in construction. We went out to eat and I HAD to sit in the front between Chuck and Dad! What a thrill! lol. Does anyone remember Bro. Helmuth from Three Oaks, or Bro. W.D. Ruff from Buchanan? Youth Rallys were the all important date in the month! You just didn't miss those. Remember youth groups going to small home mission towns to hand out tracts and invite folks to church? THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!

I sure do remember all of this...thanks for posting.

[simplyme]

Originally Posted by kaymammy

What wonderful posts! I am new to AFF and I am truly enjoying this thread. What memories! I, too, grew up in MI and I remember the Hillsdale youth camps. My parents let me drive our station wagon and take a whole load of girls from our church. I also remember Chuck & Laurie Colgrove. I was about 10 or 11 when he did some work for my father who was in construction. We went out to eat and I HAD to sit in the front between Chuck and Dad! What a thrill! lol. Does anyone remember Bro. Helmuth from Three Oaks, or Bro. W.D. Ruff from Buchanan? Youth Rallys were the all important date in the month! You just didn't miss those. Remember youth groups going to small home mission towns to hand out tracts and invite folks to church? THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!

Welcome to this neckof the woods Kaymammy! I love your post those memoreis sound wonderful I soooo wish I had memories similar to yours, I can almost imagine it, sounds like you had a blessed upbringing. To have grown up in this precious faith is irreplacable., but alas, my growing up years were far from it.
YET I am delighted and grateful, to be in this new more abundant life thanx to JESUS, now!

[OneAccord]

Originally Posted by OneAccord

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Later- I'll try to post about "Elvis Presley and the Blike Slice Condication"

Now, about the"Blike Slice Condication"

I use to work wiith a pastor who liked to write letters to celebrities about their souls. A favorite was Elvis. He wrote Elvis several letters, of which Elvis never responded.

Problem was, this East Tennessee preacher was all but illiterate. 4th grade education. Don't get me wrong, not making fun. Just stating facts. He'd write these letters and he'd have me (since I was his self-appointed secretary) to dress them up and correct his spelling. (Which was adventurous and time-consuming to say the least).

His letter had one sentence that, try as I might, I just couldn't decern: "Now, if you are in a blike slice condication...". Huh? What in the world was a "blike slice condication"???? I went to the brother and asked for clarification. Thats when I learned that a "blike slice condication" was....
































a "back slidden condition".

[lad]

Laying under the pew at church and counting all the gum wads...

Learning to PLAY the accordian - while sitting next to the pianist to watch her hands... (and yes, I had a "hand-towel" laying across my lap ....

Bro. TR Mack and Sis. Southern praying me through to the Holy Ghost in Nov. 1974 in the fireside room of the old Stockton Church on Cherokee Ln.... (children's church)

My dad baptizing me that same night (upon my insistence) in my dress clothes. They took me home in my coat and let Louis Davies daughter borrow my dress so she could be baptized also.

I remember Youth Camp at Camp Tehama (what great memories) .... and choir wearing out "I'm Gonna Be Gone" year after year.

I remember when the orneriest kids at Senior Camp were from Fresno....

I remember Racko and Scrabble (and all the good food) at Grandma Nonie's house.... Boy, do I miss her!!!!

I vaguely remember at one Campmeeting many years ago ( I was probably only 2 years old or so) ... a demon-possessed women literally floating down the middle aisle, screaming out... "When I speak , When I speak, you listen!" Needless to say, those old time preachers got ahold her!

I remember being apart of several of those Sheaves for Christ walk-a-thons... and peanut-brittle, cherry stands, Teddi-pops and Meadowfresh...

I remember many of those old songbook songs (as we say "..two songbooks ago..")

I remember singing in the children's choir at Stockton under the direction of Tim Ayers (while my Dad was evangelizing)

I remember as a little girl riding around on Wendell Elm's shoulders at Farrel's Ice Cream Parlor in Stockton (sometime in the early '70s at WABC)...

I remember Richard Gazowski singing .... "He Promised Me Gold" with all the sound effects....

I remember Saturday Fellowship Meetings with "dinner on the grounds" and then another evening service.... with every pastor/preacher taking turns preaching for a few minutes (some took loooooooooonger than others!).... OH yeah, and everyone would send up requests for differents singers to sing specials... like Arlon Royer ("Down From His Glory") and Bro. & Sis. Stephens (It's Me Again Lord)...

I remember Lee J. Muncy saying.... "I know when I'm preachin' and when I'm foolin' around!"

I remember Monkeyman as "Chachi"...

The memories keep comin'...........

[OneAccord]

...and great memories they are! And some, not so great. Baptizing in the Tennessee River when we had to break the ice and "lower the candidates into the water." Pastor Waller saying, "Come on in, Brother the waters not cold". Thats when I discovered preachers sometimes stretch the truth out of shape!

Or when brothers, otherwise godly men who had preached and prayed together, argued and nearly came to blows because one baptized in the Name of "Jesus", while the other did so in the Name of "Jesus Christ".

1974. Vanntown, Tennesee, a tornado hit an Apostolic church filled with many of my friends. The Pastor was killed instantly while the church was swept off its foundation.

But the good memories... having the priviledge...the honor of washing the feet of Bishop Boyd C. Lawson while he wept in the joyous Presence of God.
Baptizing my first wife in the name of Jesus Christ down at Easley Ford River in Bradley County, Tennessee.
Hearing T. Grady Reece, in his quiet unassuming voice, teaching the truth about the Kingdom of Heaven.

The word of the LORD ....Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation. Joel 1:1-2 May the memories of our shared Pentecostal Heritage live forever!

[Sweet Pea]

Originally Posted by lad

I remember being apart of several of those Sheaves for Christ walk-a-thons... and peanut-brittle, cherry stands, Teddi-pops and Meadowfresh...


I remember Monkeyman as "Chachi"...

The memories keep comin'...........

Meadowfresh - how could I have forgotten!!!

And I also remember "Chachi"

[Raven]

I remember when the "hairdo's" looked like this!

[Raven]

I remember LAD from Civil War days!

[OneAccord]

Originally Posted by Raven

I remember when the "hairdo's" looked like this!

Thats back in the days when I actually thought Pentecostal women shrank as they worshipped the Lord. They came in to church 7 foot tall (2 feet was the hair on top of their head). After praising God and working the altar (or, in some cases, preaching), their hair came down and they were only 5 foot tall!

That is if they didn't visit the Pentecostal Beauty Shop (Ladies restroom), at some point, where, with 2 cans of hair spray, 500 bobby pins, and whatever else they used to perform reconstruction, and, like Lazuraus, all the hair rose again!