As we start a new week, ABC thanks the Lord for the many blessings during our Homecoming and 75th Anniversary activities that we had over the last couple of weeks. We want to thank all the local press and the Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce who attended our 75th Aniversary Press Luncheon. At the luncheon, we recognized the Register-Herald newspaper for their role in getting ABC to move from the Pettus Baptist Church in Whitesville, WV to their current location in Mount Hope. | Appalac

Appalachian Snake Handling Church Service: I made this video in 2013 of a small Holiness church located in LaFollette Tennessee with a little pocket sized digital camera. I got to know pastor Andew Hamblin, when he started buying DVD movies from my store in 2013. Hamblin, invited me to attend his church and I said “I would come if I could make a video of the service” and he agreed to let me. I ended up documenting Hamblin for about three months and recorded many different videos with him. I have