Dunbar's Chapel Free Will Baptist Church

07/05/2025

01/09/2025

Asbury is located on Leatherwood Creek. It was an early settlement and was named in honor of a Methodist bishop. A church was established at Asbury from its very beginning, but has not be active in a few years since the consolidation of the Methodist churches in the Leatherwood community. In the early 1920's W.H. Lane operated a grocery store there. It had a good school and Mr. Scarborough gave the land for the school. The school building is now used for a community center. Friends and neighbors meet once a month for a pot luck dinner, country music and fellowship.

Some of the families who lived in this community were Settles', Rainwater's, Lane's, Warden's, Tomlinson's and Stavely's.

Sources:
1. Information via Stewart County History Book Volume I, page 42. (1980)
2. Photo of Asbury School via History of Stewart County In Pictures, page 58. (1989)

12/19/2024

Yes!

11/17/2024

10/23/2024

It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in people.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in princes.
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Vote for your posterity...
Not just your pocketbook.

My enemies did their best to kill me, but the LORD rescued me.

10/23/2024

VOTE.
NOT PARTY.
NOT PERSONALITY.
VOTE PRINCIPLES!
✝️

10/16/2024

We are all deeply moved and troubled by the devastating loses than Helene brought to eastern Tenneee, as well as N. Carolina, Georgia, and other states...realizing that if the storms track had been just a hundred miles or so west - our area would have suffered a similar fate!

That is why we are banding together ths Sunday to give a sacrifical offerig to relief efforts...especialy in Tennessee.
We are ot a lage or earthy congregation, but we will honor God as He provides. Hopefully, this gesture of love and compassion will encourage others to do the same.

"Others"...including you, dear reader! As God has blessed you, give...in His honor, for His glory...so that others will bless the Lord God - because of us!

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10/08/2024

Asking for a prayer.
We are getting an online prayer circle going.
My love to everyone who reads this.

Let's pray for each other and all of those affected
by hurricane Helene & incoming Milton
because prayers are needed right now.

If I don't see your name, I'll understand.
I ask my family and friends wherever you might be,
to post this status,,
to whisper a prayer for all of those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, or worries of any kind
and just need to know that someone cares.

Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune.

I hope to see this on the walls of my family and friends.
I did it for someone else,
and you can too !

💜🙏🏻💜

I copied & posted to my wall.

Done!!
Prayers ongoing.

09/26/2024

Today is the 76th anniversary
of the day in 1948
When my father and mother
Said, " I Do"!

And they did...
Till death finally parted them
In 2011.

But for the last 6 years,
They have been together again...
With Jesus!

O, I long to see them!
All three of them!
❤️ 😃

09/11/2024

From "Guideposts" Daily devotional,
for today - September 11

Devotion for September 11th
Brian Doyle

I pray it becomes a day to remember courage and grace and love.

Devotion for September 11th: I pray it becomes a day to remember courage and grace and love
Credit: Chip Somodevilla

Pray for each other so that you may be healed…. James 5:16 (NIV)

A haunted day, September 11, here in the States that are still United in the wild idea that interindependence is possible and glorious. A shivering day. It always will be.

I pray it never becomes a mere anniversary, an event only to remember murder and terror and fire and fear—or even worse, a day only to celebrate vengeance. No, I pray it becomes a day to remember courage and grace and love. I pray that will someday be the story of September 11.

To remember right is to pray right, says my dad, and he knows about murderous souls; he fought against Hi**er.

He says to remember the roaring courage of the people who rushed to help, and the people who helped others out of the fire and ash, and the people who used their last minutes on earth to call their families and say “I love you. I love you. I will love you forever,” is to pray for them and us and even for the poor silly murderers, themselves just lanky, frightened boys, in the end, bloody boys terrified of a free world.

He says to remember the firemen who ran up, knowing they would never come down, the passengers storming the cockpit, the sergeant who ran out of the Pentagon to catch women leaping from high windows is the way to erase the name of the chief murderer.

He says that if we remember right, if we pray with our hearts in our mouths, maybe someday no one will remember the architect of ruin, but everyone will remember a day when the courage and mercy and glory of human beings rose to such a tide that no one will ever forget. That could happen, says my dad, and who will gainsay my dad? Not I.

Dear Lord, for the murdered, our prayers. For the murderers, our prayers. For us, frightened and muddled, prayers. For the courage to remember right, to witness and sing grace under duress, to someday find the country of forgiveness, prayers.

09/09/2024

The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others.
Their own feet have been caught in the trap they set.

The wicked will go down to the grave.
This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God.

The Lord is known for his justice.
The wicked are trapped by their own deeds.
But the needy will not be ignored forever;
the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed.

Arise, O Lord!
Do not let mere mortals defy you!

Judge the nations!
Make them tremble in fear, O Lord.

Let the nations know they are merely human.

🙏 👏 🫴

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=
Ps.9.15,Ps.9.17,Ps.9.16,Ps.9.18,Ps.9.19,Ps.9.20&version=NLT

The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others. Their own feet have been caught in the trap they set.

09/08/2024

Happy grandparent's day...
To all you who are!
💕

The Lord bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of Jerusalem All the days of your life.