I remember when...

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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'...........