The Jacksonville Assembly

The year was 1953 in the month of June. Everyone was happy and excited because it was camp-meeting time in Shepardsville, KY, at the Campground. Not only were the people happy and excited, there was one big question: What kind of meeting would it be without Bro William Sowders, who had passed away in October [...]

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It’s Sunday night, and Elder Dyal is at the pulpit, giving announcements.  He begins to head down thesubject of how to raise Christian families, and all are silent as everyone listens to him speak on this serious subject. Suddenly someone in the congregation speaks.  Elder Dyal stops  for a moment as a microphone is handed [...]

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A Good Life In the beginning, the year 1933, Oct. 21, there was born a baby girl to a couple in Wayne County in the town of Fairfield, Ill.  The couple was Bro. and Sis. Kelly Eckleberry, who named their baby girl Loretta May Eckleberry.  Her father was a business man who owned a furniture [...]

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Precious Memories In the early part of the last century, God spoke to a man and told him to preach “HIS gospel.”  This man was Bro. William Sowders, who was a common, hard-working man. As the Lord continued to talk to Bro. Sowders, he became more and more interested in what God was saying at [...]

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Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Else has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, Someone did far more than a normal person’s share [...]

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Another One Passes… Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated [...]

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