Appalachia Story of the Old Country Churches

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A look back at our history of the old country churches across the Appalachia's and our nation. Remembering the time of our elders and how they worshiped the lord. Thanks for watching friends. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts

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@urbancornbread5500 2 года назад

It was a beautiful culture back then. Poverty erases an awful lot of the silliness of society we see today. And you're right Mr Donnie, color didnt matter back in the mountains. We were all just as poor as the next family up the holler scrapping for something to put on the table. Thank you sir for preserving yet another part of our nations bygone history.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Well said! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend

@johnkegley7762 2 года назад

Yip

@jan9659 2 года назад

What a beautiful video from start to finish!

@kesmarn 2 года назад

"Poverty erases an awful lot of the silliness of society we see today." You got that right! Thank you!

@denane44 2 года назад

Awesome video! What the world needs now is getting back to the importance of the church and worshipping our Lord! Not letting the church be a stage show like most are doing. It’s not about us but only HIM!! Thank you for this video. 🥰

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend

@jasonrunyon2663 2 года назад

Amen!!!!

@larryduvall316 2 года назад

I couldn't have said it any better thanks,,,

@paulabrown5243 2 года назад

truth

@debluetailfly 2 года назад

Yeah, I know of people who go to 'churches' for the entertainment, not because of a conviction to their Saviour.

@sharonmccomas4173 2 года назад

Donnie I loved this one so much. Thank you for sharing your baptism so amazing. I could listen to you all day. Thank you for all you do

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@nolanpahmahmie8934 2 года назад

My grandma still has an old country Potawatomi Pentecostal church in KS in Mayetta Kansas. 75 years old and still preaching.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

God has blessed him my friend. Thanks for sharing.

@1CathyHendrix 2 года назад

I consider it one of my greatest blessings to be raised in the Bible Belt. Growing up in a little country church made me the person I am today. Sometimes I sit and think about all the members of that church that have passed on. I know they prayed for me from the time I was small until they left us. I am so very thankful for each prayer they said for me. I am thankful for the example they set...the things they taught me...but most of all for the love shown to me. Thanks for sharing this Donnie. It has touched my heart more than you could know. God bless.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome, your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

@davidjordan6378 2 года назад

I grew up in such a church as these. It was built in the 1850’s and torn down in the early 2000’s to make room for a new bigger brick church. I still have pictures and great memories of this church building.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend

@terryfinley7760 2 года назад

My son was baptized in the river near an old Methodist church in 2004 I believe it was. Right before he went in the Marines and went to Afghanistan. The whole congregation came down to the river even though most of them didn’t even know him. That really touched my heart that day. Thank God he made it through and made it back home! I now have four beautiful grandchildren and he is a preacher!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@cynthiaswearingen1037 2 года назад

So many people accepted Jesus in these small churches and were baptized in these rivers and creeks...times were simpler, back then. I enjoyed your baptismal footage.. Thank you for sharing this, Donnie. God bless you.🙏💖

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Well said! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@Rangemaster362 2 года назад

This brought back precious memories of the church I went to during the summer when I stayed with my grandparents. The church was founded by my paternal grandmothers father. Thank you.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@CelebratingAppalachia 2 года назад

So enjoyed this one Donnie! I miss those old churches from my childhood. Those old photos brought back so many memories-even a few of getting took outside for some hickry tea 😀 I was baptized in a creek and am lucky to have a photo, but wow your video is something else. So glad you have it Donnie and thank you for sharing it!!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

That's awesome Tipper. Thank you so much for sharing that. Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.

@stephenoneill2931 2 года назад

Hi Celebrating Appalachia , Hi Donnie Laws Both of y’all great channels, a great blessing to many. I am from Texas. I am 44 years old, single, and don’t have family in East TN. A few years ago, before Covid, I was struggling bigtime and decided to take a couple journeys driving to TN. I ended up near Newport TN and couldn’t believe the beauty on I40 between Hartford, TN and Asheville, NC. This may sound like a ridiculous question but I really would like to move out there, but the Appalachian area seems so hard to break into socially unless you have an already built in place family living in that area. People are so nice but family is everything. Is there any tips to recommend where might be the best place to try to move anywhere Knoxville or East of Knoxville. If you were in my position, what would you do?

@sugadrops4998 2 года назад

@@stephenoneill2931 go out and start by meeting the people of the area let them know who you are from inside your soul people don’t take kindly to out siders you have to show them who you really are as a person don’t be fake show the real side of you and if you are truly one of them you will fit in remember don’t be fake be who you really are I know from experience been there if you are true they will except you for who you are just don’t be fake best wishes to you.The power of prayer remember that if you show any thing different they will know who you are.That’s how God works.

@TennValleyGal 2 года назад

Tipper, you may have to explain 'hickory tea' to outsiders. I've had a dose or two of that 'special' tea and it sure makes you dance. LOL! Love your channel as much as I love Donnie's.

@TennValleyGal 2 года назад

@@stephenoneill2931 Stephen, the chances are good that your ancestors left Tennessee for Texas. East Tennessee and Eastern Texas share the same mountain accent. So, come back home. Hope to see you soon.

@topofthepalm 2 года назад

how cool to have footage of your baptism, thanks for sharing!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

I got lucky on finding this. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend

@cjtn1746 2 года назад

Oh Donnie, that was special! And really important for the times we are living in. God bless you Sir!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@MarkWYoung-ky4uc 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing Donnie. That was back when those churches were the center of life in the community. Back then, the farmers used to try to have their crop laid by before revival time.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that friend.

@mrwilliams6626 2 года назад

Started out in the ozarks of Missouri went to a Pentecost church my Uncle was a preacher I remember those well I remember the brush Harbor's preaching Thank you Donnie appreciate the memories God-bless you too and your family

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend

@billmoore4984 2 года назад

@@donnielaws7020 donnie i thank you for all ur videos i still live this way in southeast ok in kiamichi moutains wouldnt have it any other way

@iainmelville9411 2 года назад

That was beautiful, Donnie. I teared up toward the end. Thanks for sharing this.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Wow, thank you. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@accousticdecay 2 года назад

I am a tuff old bird and I cried a lot at the end.

@AppalaShane 2 года назад

God Bless you Donnie sir. I remember the old wooden shack churches me and my fellow Presbyterians used to attend in West Virginia. I still go to one up here but the others are either si gogglin or in the dirt. Becoming a pastor of the Lord soon and I hope to build my own church. Grace and love of the Lord be with you sir.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless you.

@deborahfoster3928 2 года назад

Donnie, I love listening to your wonderful stories. Your voice and way of talking reminds me of my elder family members who have gone on. I remember well them sitting around talking and us kids sitting and listening to every word. We revered our elders and loved their stories. I was blessed to have good christian family and upbringing. Please, keep bringing us your stories. Thank you. ☺️❤️

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@homesteadingpastor 2 года назад

Mr. Donnie, I’ve watched a many of your videos my friend, but for me this one has to be one of my favorites. LOVED IT FROM START TO FINISH!! 🙏🏻👍🏻😇🙌🏻

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome, thank you! May god bless you my friend..

@jerrybee98 2 года назад

What a precious episode. Makes me so grateful for my raising. The best thing my folks passed on to me was their faith, and they got it right in those little mountain churches. I’ll have to watch this one every little bit.❤️. Thank you!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your welcome my friend. God bless.

@reginawilliams226 2 года назад

This is such a beautiful video. My aunt and I were talking today how so many people used to believe in the Lord and now folks don't even take their families to church. God bless you and your family, sir!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@andreamills5852 2 года назад

Thank you Mr. Donnie.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend

@JanetWilham 2 года назад

oh how I miss those days, so simple and pure.. where people had honor and respect and taught their children that way. God help us we have lost that.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

AMEN! Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@michaelmauro9335 2 года назад

I wish I could hear your stories everyday. They take me back to a better day . I'd rather live peacefully back then than have the evil technology we have today. Thank you donnie !

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing.

@accousticdecay 2 года назад

My grandfather was a Mauro, killed in a mine explosion, 1929.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

@@accousticdecay I'm so sorry my friend. God bless you.

@michaelmauro9335 2 года назад

@@accousticdecay oh wow! my grandparents came from Sicily just b4 ww1

@ftc22 2 года назад

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@janeanepesantes2375 2 года назад

I love seeing the churches and Thank-you and God bless you too 🙏❤❤🙏

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@caryglatczak4989 2 года назад

I love all your videos and I'm so grateful you're are taking the time to tell these stories. We live in Maynardville and there are so many little old churches in these hills. I stop to gaze at their beauty every time I come across a new one I hadn't seen beore. My son Ezra started salvaging church pews from some of these old churches. He recently saved 14 pews from a 124years old church. The wood is so beautiful once refinished! Thank you again for all your hard work with these videos.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.

@WolfEggsWithSpikes 2 года назад

I’m 33 with a wife and 7 kids. Got a business, 5 employees, can’t ever stop thinking about Wilkesboro, NC. Only lived there when I was a kid but visited twice a year until 10 years ago. I’ve seen all your videos because it reminds me so much of talking with family during visits. Shared them with my dad (y’all sound just alike) and he’s taken back just as much. I miss it so much but the people are gone and you, sir are the only person that keeps me feeling like I’m ‘home’. Besides my kids of course haha thanks for your videos man. Really.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing your story my friend. God bless you.

@joyceedwards9652 2 года назад

Our church still sing the old hymns, those old folks knew where the power was from!!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

They still do my friend.

@Jetjetson 2 года назад

Thank you mr Laws for a great tribute to our shared history. We also have some of those old churches here in Canada all up and down these old rural roads in southern Ontario. And just like you said across America. I love every one of your videos. 💚

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks my friend and Thanks for sharing God bless you.

@terrybaker7412 2 года назад

Could listen to this man read the phone book

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you friend.

@urbancornbread5500 2 года назад

Mr Donnie's voice is a gift from God

@fightneagle1255 2 года назад

Yeah he sure has a voice for 📻

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

@@urbancornbread5500 God bless you friend.

@StarDreamMemories 2 года назад

Thank you Donnie for the wonderful distraction from my busy life. I always enjoy your videos. They are very entertaining. I still go to Sunday school and Service at an old country church. A few years ago my oldest son was baptized in the River in our neighborhood. Those pictures and video are great memories.I just realized how lucky I am for our Church. I love living in the country.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend

@markdiulio2245 2 года назад

Great story brings back so many memories of my younger days

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@chrismmmm7776 2 года назад

Another great video.. God bless you friend

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks so much my friend. God bless.

@chazbell754 2 года назад

Another great video and lesson Mr. Laws! I treasure the memories and the feelings that you bring back to me. Hard to decribe,but can describe it with one word. "HOME" no more. No less. A person just had to live it to understand it. God bless you sir!!!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Well said! thank you friend. God bless you.

@pilgrimm23 2 года назад

Donnie: when I was a teen in the 60s my parents used to farm me out to my Grandad's ranch in Central Texas. While there I took a opportunity to make a little money bucking hay with a team in our county for the local ranchers.. All the rest of the team were black. We worked together, ate together, and one Sunday, I went to a Black Baptist church with the guys. That was an EXPERIENCE as a kid I will tell you. They were far more outgoing then what I was used to and all seemed to sing and dance. I was accepted and had some fine fine cooking after Church too. Hard hard work, but I made some good friends. Thanks sir.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@judywhetsel8341 2 года назад

Love those little country churches. All day singing and dinner on the ground...God Bless you Donnie and yes we will see them again in the sweet by and by

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks my friend. God bless you.

@accousticdecay 2 года назад

I never heard the hymn Precious Memories or had chicken & dumplings until I went to one of those all day homecomings. I was 30 at the time.

@judywhetsel8341 2 года назад

@@accousticdecay I'm glad you finally got the experience I was born and raised in one of them little country churches..

@deefreeman5478 2 года назад

I appreciate so much the time you take with videos such as these….this one actually brought me peace…I grew up in a small church on a gravel road. I have nothing but precious memories from that place…thank you again for your time and this channel.😊❤️

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

That's awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@richgouge4960 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. Eternal blessings are truly on "all those who call upon the name of the Lord."

@williamenright1129 2 года назад

So beautiful

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you so much.

@mollymae2005 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing these memories with us. I recall scenes like these back in the 50's when I was a child. There was such a warm presence of The Holy Spirit. I have seen the Alter full of people praying and weeping out loud all at the same time. I was saved at an old time Revival Meeting . Jesus is such a wonderful Saviour Greenbrier, Arkansas

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome, Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless you.

@larryduvall316 2 года назад

I loved seeing old church's back through out the years of drivinh an 18 wheeler,,, I went on many many pig trails in Tn, Ky, WV, VA,,, I loved it then and I really miss thoughs times,,,, we had church in peoples homes back in the day too,,, Thanks again Mr Donnie for these video's !!!! Evertbody I knew that were baptised was done at a river or like me,,,, was in the number 6 mine,,,, it was an old iron ore mine,, it had been raing the day before and the water was muddy,,, but when I came out of the water,,,, I felt so clean,,, Thank you Lord !!!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome story my friend. God bless you.

@catherine4970 2 года назад

Excellent video! God and country should be everyone’s priority.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen my friend.

@melmore1405 2 года назад

One of my favorite videos.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you friend. God bless you.

@stephenmayne4886 2 года назад

Thanks Donnie for sharing another great story of the past.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

@johnkegley7762 2 года назад

Donnie once again you've brought back precious memories of a time we so much miss

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless.

@matthewh117 2 года назад

Hey Donnie. What a beautiful video. How plain, simple, and pure those churches are. Just like God's love for us through Christ Jesus. It brought a huge smile to my face and tear to my eye watchin you get baptized. Thank you so much friend, and God bless.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you so much my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing. God bless.

@raymondbradley6788 2 года назад

Thank you Donnie God bless you sir🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@cgarrand78 2 года назад

Some great history and beautiful pictures Donnie. Thank you,and God Bless you too!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@johnhughes6074 2 года назад

Amen Brother Donnie, AMEN.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you friend. God bless you.

@sonnyjordan1911 2 года назад

Loved it Donnie it gave me joy in my heart thank you very much

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend

@lyndareed563 2 года назад

This was a time when people still truly loved each other in church I so miss this era 💕! This video is exceptional Donnie! People was there for each other everyone was family rather you were related or not ! America 🇺🇸 was God fearing back then and we were a Blessed nation ! God bless you Donnie for your testimony 💕

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless.

@beverlyrobertson6796 2 года назад

GOD BLESS YOU, YES WE WILL SEE THEM SOON ,AND A BIG AMEN AMEN THANK YOU.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@msw00 2 года назад

Beautiful story. I love driving out in the countryside and seeing all the old stores, churches and one room schools...you have to look but they are not hard to find. Then reminisce of better times gone by. The tiny hamlet I grew up in had one church, two country stores, and one two room schoolhouse built around a grist mill and creamery. Lots of memories.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.

@bettydavis9519 2 года назад

Howdy Donnie. Thank you so much for this recorded history! This is my second time watching this one. Brings me peace and settles my soul. Praise Jesus! Thank you for including your dear father.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@tammyevans7333 2 года назад

I lo v e Old Country Churches, they were the best, bless you for this, love it😃Great memories

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@renebrock4147 2 года назад

Mr. Laws, I was 9 when I was baptized into our little church. This brings back so many memories. thank you.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome my friend. God bless you.

@loridavis5582 2 года назад

That was awesome. Our family was one of the few that started Davis Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Tazwell. Late 1700s. Such a great video you did. It means a lot to us.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

That's so awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@DaveCollierCamping 2 года назад

Love the story

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you Dave.

@TennValleyGal 2 года назад

Oh, Donnie, this one really speaks to the heart. I loved going to church and was baptized in the cold free-flowing waters of the Holston River. I'd like to return to those days when we loved our neighbors no matter what color they were; we respected other people's property, obeyed our parents; practiced our Christian faith and loved our country. God made America great. Bless you for this message.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@tracicomstock6525 2 года назад

Donnie, I was very touched by your baptism.

@TBoss3313 2 года назад

😭😭😭OMG! Tears streaming down my face! One of the most beautifully filmed and narrated ever!!! Sharing your baptism!! Put me over the edge! It was so beautiful Thank You!🥰😘💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your so very welcome my friend. God bless you.

@louparry7721 6 месяцев назад

Such humble and gracious people. God fearing and God revereing souls would gather every week faithfully. God bless each and everyone of them. This was a very nice testimony to these precious little churches.Thank you for this, Donnie. Your friend, Louise

@donnielaws7020 6 месяцев назад

Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.

@magesalmanac6424 2 года назад

Thank you for another video. You always find the most interesting photos. I loved the one of ladies in their pretty Sunday hats. 👒

@charlieporch3181 2 года назад

I remember that well. Great times.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend

@audramatney1148 2 года назад

Luv those little churches friend wish our country would go back to them days God bless America thanks for the memories⁰

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen, Thanks for sharing my friend

@peggyhill7283 2 года назад

CONGRATULATIONS, Mr. Laws. Glad to know you're going to Heaven. Thank you for showing this. Went to a Church like this growing up. God needs to be seen, heard, & felt more in our Country. You're a blessing!!!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@Wendy-ou1jz 2 года назад

Awesome Donnie thank you love.😋😋

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend.

@Benjamin-bq7tc 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful video. It makes me think that financial prosperity and industrialization took a real toll on American's spiritual values. How I wish I could go back in time and sit in some of these old country churches and sing with the congregation and listen to the preaching.

@donnielaws7020 6 месяцев назад

Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you.

@jimmymalone3494 2 года назад

Great store on the the old Country Churches I enjoyed it very much and God Bless all.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thank you! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@josieowl5094 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing this video,I really appreciate you telling all your stories

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@johnkelley6278 2 года назад

I attended one of these small country churches as a child where the music was great and 70 year old church members would roll around on the floor like they were kids not having pain or a care in the world. I long to go back to one of those services . Thanks Donnie !

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

WOW,, your welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing.

@deborahmusgrove90 2 года назад

What a beautiful tribute to a time gone by and to our elders. We still go to a little country church just 3 miles outside our town. We can see the Poteau and Sugarloaf Mountain range so clearly. Thank you Mr. law for a beautiful tribute to churches in the, "Wildwoods."

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your so very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

@denverbevins4052 2 года назад

Thank you so much, Mr. Laws. My Daddy is buried in those hills too, on the border of KY & WV. They cannot come to us, but someday we may go to them. Amen.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen. Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing that.

@constanceladystormtracker2952 2 года назад

Thank you Donnie for showing this video. Way too much distraction in the world today. We need to get back to the simple life, and most of all, to Jesus.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen my friend.

@lorrettacrowley5922 2 года назад

Simply Wonderful 🤝

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks a lot my friend. 😊

@tonniecrane3726 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this video 😊 thank you so much for sharing God Bless you and yours

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@ginamacdougall9012 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing your baptism with us and thank you again for taking me back to a time When despite the struggles we cared about others.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@arthurpeterson246 2 года назад

Thank you Donny for these wonderful pictures, them old churches man the power of God was all in them buildings because those people were real true heart praying folks I miss those old buildings these big brick churches make me sad in a way we grew up when it was different.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@regina805 2 года назад

My Deepest Sympathy to You Concerning Your ❤️🕊️❤️ Beloved Father ❤️🕊️❤️ One Glorious Day. 🙏 You are going to See Him Again. Plus All Your Loved Ones. I Really Enjoyed The Little Rebel of the Gap Stories.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thank you so much.

@regina805 2 года назад

@@donnielaws7020 You're Welcome, I'm looking forward to meeting Your Stellar Father in Heaven. God Bless You and Yours Everyday.

@angelawheeler7825 2 года назад

Thank you so much from my heart for this beautiful video

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend. God bless.

@cdeshields9631 2 года назад

Donnie I sure do LOVE 💕 your videos they bring back such good memories of my childhood 😊😊😊😊😊

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome my friend

@tracicomstock6525 2 года назад

Brought back sooo many memories.

@p.t.815 2 года назад

God bless you sir shalom.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks my friend. God bless you.

@Highlander9740 2 года назад

God bless you too. I live next door to my little Methodist church that is from way back in the 1800s. We have our weekly service and what a blessing to able to walk next door to it. I am so grateful to have been able to raise my kids next door to the church. I even found an arrowhead in the church yard last December.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@mikefannon6994 2 года назад

What a lovely and loving video! Brought back so many memories. My paternal grandparents' church near Duffield VA didn't have a regular preacher, one came about every six weeks and would always eat Sunday dinner with us afterwards. Other Sundays they just had Sunday School. My Aunt June always taught the kids. At the end all would sing hymns together and one by one stand and recite a bible verse. Little ones would each say "Jesus wept" - the Bible's shortest verse. My maternal Grandfather donated land across the road for their church and helped buIld it. Both of these churches still stand today. Thank you Donnie.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your so very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing your story.

@dwayneoliver1659 2 года назад

Great video Donnie. Thank you so much for creating this video. And thank you so much for talking about being baptized. I’m so glad that you was baptized. Our society now is scared and shamed to even speak of baptism. Its Gods own words and instructions all we got too do is obey is commands and do what he tells us to do and have faith. Baptism is a burial cleansing of one’s sins. My God bless you for being a brave solider in Christ.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@MyFathersBusinessLLC 2 года назад

Praise the Lord! We still serving Him there today!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen, God bless you

@reginabell475 2 года назад

Me and My Husband had our pic taken in the lil church in Cades Cove Easter weekend.... We sang Amazing Grace in there.... Thank God for me being raised back then when people feared the Lord and kept his commandments..... Awww those Revivals that lasted a month at a time.... Makes me want to go back to those days of my Childhood..... Being in church with my Daddy and Momma and Grandparents..... Makes me homesick for Heaven.... God Bless u Mr. Donnie

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@garyglanville1158 2 года назад

Thank you again Donnie for this video. My grandfather build the Kelly Holler Baptist Church in Dayton, Tennessee back in the 1930s. I used to love going to these small country churches when we would go to Tennessee in 1950s to this day. Donnie the Lord has taught you well how to pull at our heart strings. All of these videos are such a blessing. Thank you again from and old Baptist pastor.God Bless you

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

That's so awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you my brother.

@sugadrops4998 2 года назад

Great video Donnie I have one of these churches in southern Ohio last friday me and my son drove past that little church he said what is all of these cars doing parked in the lot. I told him it’s friday night prayer meeting so now he is going to take his daughters to that little church.It’s just out side of our screen doors. A way of life lost just out the screen door. God bless you and yours Donnie.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@cliffmesser9307 2 года назад

Thank you 💕 Donnie I am sixty four years old and I can remember all the old time way of these things. We use to set up with people who had passed away. And neighbor looked after neighbor. I sure miss the old time way of doing things

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Well put. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

@howardsiebel5229 2 года назад

Thanks Mr Laws.God Bless You too. I think it's so special that You have that home movie of You getting Baptized.It looks like Your Daddy had one Beautiful last ride through the Gap.About a month ago I went back up the mountains where I got Baptized. An old wooden church from the 1820s. I was very sad to see it closed. They even took the Cross down.I think they should have left the Cross up. Still, that will always be a Special Sacred spot to me forever. It's the place where God let me be His child.God Bless You Mr.Laws.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that friend. God bless you.

@davidbass7593 2 года назад

I loved these old small country churches I remember the older people that attended I remember them like yesterday they are all long gone now but the memories go on and on and I miss all of them dearly💕

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing that my friend.

@robinhaupt9119 2 года назад

Wonderful, thank you Donnie. Yes, I remember those country churches and river baptisms.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

@tammieculberson3107 2 года назад

Amen brother.We will see our loved ones again and GOD BLESS YOU,BROTHER DONNIE!

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Amen my friend.

@sueyoung8697 2 года назад

This reminded me so much of home where I grew up in a mining town of widen wva, we had a post office, a grill, a church, schools, and just lot of houses, there nothing left there hardly now, I miss it still today. Thanks for the memories

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.

@robbsmith1560 2 года назад

Another great video.went to a small church it was called a farmers church.almost all the people were farmers.i worked on the family farm went to church as soon as the milking and the chores were done.what wonderful memories.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.

@robbsmith1560 2 года назад

Thank you so much for replying back.

@debroahisaacs2452 2 года назад

Oh if the walls could talk, people got saved, they raised their hands in praise of our God and Jesus our Savior. There were happy tears and sad ones, babies born, funerals. Where I live there is a small old church where people have moved on, but memories are gently placed throughout and when we get to Glory we'll have some wonderful conversations.

@corablue5569 2 года назад

Yes, my friend, you will be with those loved ones again ❤️ I was baptized in the Jordan Lake, in NC. Somehow, knowing my precious Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan made the moment all the more sweet. I haven’t thought about that day in years. Thank you for the sweet walk down memory lane☺️

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

So true! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.

@rev.randall2292 2 года назад

May God Bless You too Mr. Donnie. Thank ya again.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome my friend. God bless.

@charlotteshifflet4422 Год назад

God bless you too Donnie. Love the old small churches. Our Methodist church is small. Love the smaller congregations.

@donnielaws7020 Год назад

Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

@gregoryj.m.8985 2 года назад

Brother Donnie...your Baptism footage , and this sweet video brings back so many dear memories of the little Assembly of God church i grew up in, and got saved and baptized in ...He is coming back...Thank you for the video , and God Bless you and yours Brother.

@donnielaws7020 2 года назад

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that friend. God bless you.