Gus when he was in his younger years back in the late thirties, used to race old motorcycles around Pleasant Garden...
(The photo above is just to give you an idea of what the motorcycle looked like. This isn't the actual bike...)Gus was inside a building working and his friend Johny Gamble decided to take a joy ride on his friends bike, knowing that he wouldn't mind...
There was a tragic accident, and Johny Gamble died the next day. A man named Mr. Foster began to visit Johny's family members and friends. Interesting to note: Mrs. Gamble was not a believer and Mr.Gamble was an Atheist... With this being said, they were broken and their world was shattered, so they began meeting with Mr.Foster for prayer meetings. They gave their lives to Jesus and the future of this area began to change.
Meeting from houses to building small meeting places to their first chapel then to their current building today... But this old brown building has a special place in my heart... Its the place where back in 1992 I received confirmation to go to John Wesley Bible College.
Currently this church is struggling to not close its doors. Its sad to see churches struggle and close, and I pray it doesn't, but this church was already special to me because its where I received my "confirmation" to Ministry, but I didn't know its humble beginnings until Gus invited me to church and then saw that I was driving my motorcycle, and decided to share with me the story of how the church begun.
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