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Turning the Church Around

Loggerhead Church

This is a story I heard when I was a child living on the Middle Fork of Cow Run. I don't know if this is true or not but I do believe that there was a flood and I do believe that God does work in mysterious ways.

I will try to explain it the way it was explained to me as a child.

TURNING THE CHURCH AROUND

There was a dispute about whether or not children of God should chew tobacco. Some of the members considered it a sin and therefore members should not chew tobacco. So the theory the tobacco chewers put forward was that God was more worried about what came out of your mouth than what went into your mouth such as cuss words. Other members of the church who did not believe in tobacco chewing had a theory that if it gave one to much pleasure and was a habit it did not meet with God's approval.

If you have visited the old church site you know there is a small creek or in those days we called it a “crick”. The creek ran right behind the church.

When they built the church the tobacco chewers wanted the church to face down stream. The non chewers group wanted the church to face upstream. The tobacco chewers won the debate and the church was built facing downstream.

After the church was build there was much praying about the decision and it was determined that God would send a sign on which way the church should face. Eventually it was believed that God did send a sign. Sometime after the church was built there was a flash flood in that small stream behind the church. The flood picked the church up and turned it completely around on its foundation with the church facing up stream. The church was turned so perfectly that it did not have to be leveled off or adjusted in any way.

Don't ask me if this made the tobacco chewers stop chewing because I don't know.

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