“CARTERS TO CELEBRATE THEIR 58th ANNIVERSARY”
(As it appeared in the Daily News in Middlesboro.
No date of publication given).
Pineville, KY – Rev. and Mrs. Thea O. Carter will
celebrate their 58th anniversary on August 18, 1996.
Rev. and Mrs. Carter were married at Wasioto, Kentucky, by
Rev. Harve Eads. They have one daughter and son-in-law, Gerald and Patricia
Baker of Pineville.
They also have three grandchildren, John, Savannah, and
Isaac.
Rev. Carter has been a minister for 66 years and was
recently given tribute in an appreciation service at Calvary Chapel Pentecostal
Church, Mill Creek, Kentucky.
In attendance were many of the ministers who came up under
Rev. Carter and also those who were saved and baptized under his ministry.
A plaque commemorating the event and his 66 years of
faithful service to the community was given to Rev. and Mrs. Carter.
He would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who took part in the service.
In 1930, Rev. Thea O. Carter was saved and baptized with
the Holy Ghost at the age of fourteen. Shortly
afterwards, he was preaching in many places in Tennessee.
He preached at Ferguson’s Ridge, where he was saved; also
at Big Spring Union with Rev. Levi Saylor; at Chestnut Grove with the Year’s
and Alph Parks’ people.
In Poor Valley he ministered with Rev. Robert Long, Frank
Newton, Buck Daniels and Dan Smith. At
Rose Hill, Virginia with Wright Cottrell and Uncle Charlie Wilson, an old
veteran preacher.
Also at Balls Chapel near Lone Mountain, Tennessee; and in
Harrogate and Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. There
were meetings in the home of Laura Stanifer, an old saint of God.
In Kentucky, Brother Carter preached in Bell, Harlan, Clay,
Letcher, and Perry counties; and in the area around Hazard.
In Leslie County, up and down the Middle Fork River, in
Owsley County at Booneville and at Lerose with the Amburgy’s at Hensley
Settlement in the early thirties when it was a large settlement.
There were wonderful revivals with many saved and filled.
In Covington and Newport, he had some great revivals at Brother Claude Ely’s church. Brother Ely had his first revival at the old Stoney Fork Church back in the fifties.
He has ministered in Cincinnati at Sister Bertha’s Church on 12th Street. There have been services in different places in Ohio, in Monroe and Detroit, Michigan; in Austin and Indianapolis; in Louisville and Chicago; and in the
southern
states of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
But Brother Carter loves the mountains because they are his
heritage.
He has seen hundreds saved and baptized.
As a boy he preached at the old school house in Mill Creek.
He eventually became the pastor and served at Stoney Fork
and Calvary Chapel for 27 years.
A few days ago, Brother and Sister Carter sat down and
wrote the names of over 100 people who were members at Calvary Chapel.
They have all gone on to be with Jesus. They’ve got it made.
Brother Carter said, “We had a great Church Board. Men who were first class number one pillars in the church. They were all loved. I thank God for them. It won’t be long till I and all the rest of us will be going to meet them and
to be with Jesus.”