In January, 1946, Sister Vantrease, having learned there were several families which had been transferred to Wilmington, Delaware from the Old Hickory, Tennessee congregation, went up and talked to Brother Joe Sobel, asking him to see if he could help get them started again in Seaford. However, we retained the building for some time. After he (Brother James Smyth) left us, we continued trying to carry out the worship, but having no experienced brothers to help us, the sisters, hesitating to take part publicly, and too, some of us living in Laurel and Bridgeville, the meetings were discontinued. Banks, Edgar Broyles, Jr.) and the third was the husband of Sister Disbrow (Durrel Brisbow).Īfter the meeting, Brother Hall sent a young boy from David Lipscomb College to work with us for the rest of the summer. During that meeting, there were three baptisms, two were sons of members (T.A. We rented a building on Pine Street, Seaford, Delaware, bought some song books and financed the meeting without any help from outside members. Hall, requested by Sister Boswell, consented to hold a two week meeting, with the song leader being Brother James H. In 1941, the six sisters continued to meet, laying by in store. After a few months, sister Hill moved to Martinsville, Virginia. In Seaford, Delaware, late in 1940, seven women, Sisters Betterton, Broyles, Boswell, Disbrow, Banks, Vantrease, and Hill started meeting in their homes for Bible study and partaking of the Lord's supper. (I Corinthians 2:2) “To Know Him, and make Him known” We invite you to attend any of our service times and look forward to welcoming you, and pray that you might find a home here with us at Laurel, and with God in Heaven as his child. Our plea is that we all might be one in Christ (John 17:21) and strive to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:3) and serve the Lord faithfully unto death to receive our crown (Revelation 2:10). It is our prayer that all would come to a knowledge of the truth and partake in that divine fellowship in the body of Christ, being immersed for the remission of sins, and beginning life anew with Christ as Lord (Acts 2:38, Romans 6:1ff). The congregation seeks to uphold the doctrine and practice of the first century church using the only true standard, the bible, as our guide (2 Peter 1:3). We have been entrusted with the Gospel (1 Thessalonians 2:4), and so it is that we speak. We are an autonomous body, with Christ only as our head, and elders shepherding the flock of God (Acts 20:28). The body of Christ in Laurel, Delaware is a family of believers knit together in love (Colossians 2:2), striving to serve God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)Īnd carrying the gospel to the lost (Matthew 28:18).
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