North Charleston, SC

Dad graduated in 1938 from Lee College, which is now Lee University in Cleveland, TN.  He was called to back to his home church Slater, SC.  The church on top of Holiness Hill was too small to sit all the people so they purchased property at the bottom on the hill and dad began to raise money to build a new church. 

The ladies Willing Workers would sell chicken plates and Slater Cotton Mill donated $5,000 and many other people donated as well.  The building began and soon a beautiful church was built that seated 300.  That was considered a large church back then. 

In 1939, the state overseer of SC, JD Bright, contacted dad and asked him to be the State Evangelist for the Church of God in the state of SC.  They gave daddy a tent that seated 500 people and a two- room trailer, which would be our home for the next 5 years.

Dad’s first appointment was North Charleston SC.  He set up his tent and began       n to have very large crowds of people.  God begin to bless, a great revival broke loose.  Many people would begin to know Jesus.  Of course the devil didn’t like that as well.  Dad got up one morning to find his Tent was down, the ropes had been cut and slits were cut in the tent.  Dad and a team of volunteers helped to sew up the holes and get the tent put back in place.

Shortly after this incident a police office came up to dad at the trailer and stated that we have caught the two teenage boys that cut your tent.  The officer asked dad if he wanted to press chargers or what he wanted to do and dad told the officer “ this is what I want you to do, take the two boys to their father and have the boys tell their father what they have done. “  In 1940 he went on to organize the N Charleston Church with 21 members. 

In later years he went back to Pastor N Charleston and got to live in a brick home and a nice brick church to pastor.  Every town back then would have a community ministerial association that would be all denominations of that city.  Dad would join that association in N Charleston and when he arrived he introduced himself to president of the Association wouldn’t you know the President of the N Charleston Association, the Pastor of the 1^st Baptist Church was one of those teenage boys that cut daddy’s tent all those years ago.  Daddy said he had never been treated with such royalty, the president sat dad down next to him at the front desk for the rest of the time he was in the association.  

Dad always treated people with love and tried to show them the same love, grace and mercy that his heavenly father extended to him.   This was just another example of how God’s favor was upon his life for all the love he showed to people over the course of his ministry.