Great Roots, Praise God

I had the most awesome day! It truly has been one of the best days of my life. My home congregation has been celebrating its 100 year birthday. We have been having service for a week, and the lessons have been good, but today was great! I have also learned about my roots. They are very strong in west Virginia. My great-great grandfather gave a piece of land to have the meetinghouse built in 1905. Today we had a great service there. We had an attendance of 159. That is a huge number for this small country church up on the hill. I went there until I went to college, and of course I still consider it my home congregation. The average attendance is 40-60 people. So, we were really excited and amazed. There were people even sitting on the floor beside the pulpit. To make it better james e. rine’s, my great-great granfather, great grandson gave the lesson. It was awesome to see so many people praising God with sincere hearts and seeing the descendants of those that have gone on before in the same place praising God. I can’t even describe how wonderful it was. I can only imagine how great it was for my grandma and my great aunts and great uncle. I feel extrememly blessed.