According to this Atlanta newspaper article, the summer of 1923 was a good one for revivals. The Reverend J. Frank Snell led a Methodist revival at Ray City, GA; he had just completed two years as pastor of the Ray City Methodist Church. Reverend Albert Giddens and Reverend J.D. Poindexter led the Baptist revival at Beaver Dam Baptist Church.
Atlanta Constitution
August 24, 1923 Pg 7HOLD MANY REVIVALS NEAR MILLTOWN, GA
Milltown, Ga., August 23. — (special.)–The revival meeting season is still on in this section.
Rev, W. Harvey Wages, pastor of the local Baptist church, is conducting a revival meeting at Good Hope church in the southern part of Lanier county, near Naylor. Rev. Roy Powell, of Nashville, Ga., is the pastor of this church. The meeting began last Saturday and will go on through this week.
Rev. J. Frank Snell, local Methodist pastor, closed a ten-day revival at Bridges Chapel, in East Lanier, Sunday night, in which he was assisted by Rev. G. C. Powell, of Sparks.
Rev Albert Giddens, pastor, and Rev. J.D. Poindexter, both of Nashville, closed a two weeks’ revival at Beaver Dam Baptist church at Ray City Sunday night. Sixteen were baptized Sunday afternoon.
A revival service began Wednesday night at the Methodist church in Ray City. The pastor, Rev. J. Frank Snell, will be assisted by Rev. W.A. Tyson, of Swainsboro.
Rev. W.D. Reburn, of Remerton, is assisting Rev. J. Ed Fain, of Omega, in a meeting at Leila church, in Colquitt county.
Rev. E. Harvey Wages, of Milltown, pastor of the Stocktown Baptist church, and Rev. W.D. Raburn, of Remerton, pastor of the Stockton Methodist church, plan to hold a union revival in the schoolhouse at Stockton about the middle of September, each pastor preaching a week, the meeting continuing for two weeks.
This is a small town, and the churches feel they are unable to support separate meetings and this plan was devised.
Related posts:
- Reverend Joseph Frank Snell, Pastor of the Ray City Methodist Church
- Fifty Years of Methodist Ministers ~ Ray City, GA
- A Brief History of the Ray City Methodist Church
- Ray City Girls Retreat at Epworth on St. Simons Island
- Liveoak Methodist Church
- Luckie Stop at Ray City
- Chloe Johnson’s Bible and Census Records
- Wilmont Pierce and the Valdosta Baptist Association
- Love Story of Rebecca J. Fox
- Men at Beaver Dam Baptist Church
- A Brief History of New Ramah Baptist Church at Ray City, GA
- The Second Death of Reverend Robert Payne Fain
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