Singing, sweating and saving souls in West Virginia (reporting from Parkersburg, W.Va.). Page 1 lead.
PARKERSBURG, W.VA. – The heat was on.
That’s what happens when you take 90-degree temperatures, on-fire-for-the-Lord church members and a 1950s-era high school field house with no air-conditioning — and put them all together.
Hundreds of hand fans fluttered, volunteers passed out ice-cold bottled water and sweat-drenched Christians wiped their foreheads with towels as the makeshift congregation assembled in this industrial, working-class city of 32,000 souls.
Thirteen Churches of Christ in West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee supported the recent “Christ Is The Answer” door-knocking campaign and gospel meeting, working alongside volunteers from We Care Ministries, Sojourners, the “In Search of the Lord’s Way” television ministry and Ohio Valley University.
“The Mid-Ohio Valley churches have not had this type of cooperation and attendance since the 1960s,” said Alan Stephens, one of the campaign organizers.
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