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| For 150 years, Kentucky church serves community |
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This church was built in the 1860s when there were five churches constructed in an eight-mile area around Canmer, Ky.
Originally a Methodist Church, it was closed and vacated after 100 years of trials and tribulations in this rural community.
In the early 1970s, the building was to be sold and opened as an antique mall. W.E. Hedgepeth and Lindell Sexton had a vision to reopen the church as a non-denominational church that would accept all people regardless of their background.
The church Hedgepeth and Sexton imagined was started in 1972 and continues today with only one set of guidelines and that being the Bible. The church is active in the community and takes a strong stand against sinful things that creep into our area. The church simply named the “Church in Canmer,” which actively supports, four missionaries, the Galilean Children Home and the Gideon’s International.
There have been seven young ministers plus a Gideon speaker called by God from this small congregation. The church continues to espouse the principle that all people are created equal no matter their position in life. The church has built a youth center across the street and looks forward to working with the young people.
In March, after preaching at the church for 37 years, Hedgepeth was called home at the young age of 80. During this month we were elated to have the first young minister called from our church to come back and be the pastor.
“Our congregation is determined to carry on his legacy of our church,” said Hedgepeth’s son, Larry. “Our church has survived the Depression, a fire and two terrible storms, so with God’s help we can endure and preserve.” |
| 5/26/2010 |
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