Wednesday, January 8, 2014

This is 1933 and dad was Pastoring his first church at Slater & traveling back and forth to Glassy Mountain.  His fame began to spread from the SC mountains to the NC mountains so much so that one day a preacher from Rosman, NC came to ask him if he would hold a meeting in Rosman. This man had obtained the old movie house on main street to have the meeting in.  Dad said he would be happy to come hold the meeting.

God was opening doors for daddy to receive a helpmate in his evangelistic work and he didn't even know it.  The meeting started and immediately he had a breakthrough, people began to receive the Holy Ghost, Healings and lives were being changes.  In the small community word of the meeting began to spread all over the mountain area.  E.D. Randolph, my grandfather, was a music teacher for Stamp School of Music in Dallas, TX.  He and his daughter, Leota wanted to go to the meeting because he had heard about it.  ED was in charge of 5 singing conventions in Transylvania County at the time.  Frank Stamp attending my grandfather's music school and would travel around to his conventions and sing with his Quartet, The Stamps Quartet.  He made this comment that " ED Randolph was the best theory and harmony teacher that he had every studied under.  All off ED children's were musicians, Violin, Guitar, Accordion, Piano.  He was known in Transylvania County as the Music Man. Well E.D took his daughter Leota to dad meeting and they asked them to sing.  Leota played the piano and grandpa stood next to the piano and sang.  Dad was impressed with what he saw.  He like what he was hearing and seeing in Leota.

The local pastors were warning their people to NOT go out to these meeting because Carl Cox would sprinkle powder on their heads and cause them to have fits and roll in the floor.  The revival broke loose and lives were being changed.  ED's wife Nora received the Holy Ghost and her sisters and other family members came to the meeting and their lives were changed by the power of God.  After two weeks of revival meeting, one night a young lady, wearing a beautiful white coat fell under the power of God and started rolling in the floor and her mother came up to her and tried to pull her up out of the altar and daddy saw what was happening and said to the girls mother and said, lady do you know what your doing, do you know that God could strike you dead for what your doing.  She quickly turned and ran back to her seat.  The building was overflowing people were having to stand in the doorways and hallways to observe and watch what was going on.  Everyone wanted to see what this Holy Ghost was about.  Dad had got word that some of the people that the local preachers had told not to come to the meeting were standing in the hallway watching and he made his way to the front door so he could talk to the preacher.  When he made his way to the front door the preacher had already moved out of the building and dad saw him running down the street as hard as he could run.  Dad said he could see his coat tail in the air. He was scared dad was going to sprinkle those powders on him and cause him to have a fit. After 3 weeks daddy organized the Rosman Church of God with the new members from the Movie House.

Nora Randolph's family asked dad to come to Wolf Mountain and hold meetings there.  During this time dad started dating Leota and they would sing together at the meetings. Shortly after having a great revival, he organized the Wolf Mountain Church of God in 1934.  Over the next the year dad and mom dated and sang at the meetings between Rosman, Wolf Mountain & Slater. Dad proposed and she said yes so in May 1935 at Treemont Ave Church of God during a state prayer conference Dad & Mom were married by Rev Zeno C Tharp with over 1,400 people in attendance and the Greenville Daily News had an article the next day about the wedding being the largest wedding in the History of Greenville County.

Now they were ready for Evangelist Work that would take them over the next 7 years, organizing Church of Gods and dad was known as the New Fields Evangelist for the Church of God at that time. 






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