Palmerville Baptist Church

09/03/2026

Teach a Child -

Teach a Child And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children… (Deuteronomy 6:7). Teaching a child begins long before formal instruct...

08/27/2026

The Treasure of His Presence -

The Treasure of His Presence Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy (Psalm 16:11). Whether we realize it or n...

08/20/2026

Devotion instead of drifting - https://janicecolehopkins.blogspot.com/2026/08/devotion-instead-of-drifting-i-was-glad.html

08/13/2026

Your Value - https://janicecolehopkins.blogspot.com/2026/08/your-value-i-will-praise-thee-for-i-am.html

08/06/2026

Jesus Changed Everything - https://janicecolehopkins.blogspot.com/2026/08/jesus-changed-everything-for-i-am-lord.html

08/02/2026

In the early 1900s, developers began laying out streets, foundations, and even a rail spur for a planned industrial town called Whitney along the Yadkin River's Narrows in Stanly County. The plan called for a massive hydroelectric dam and a manufacturing hub built around it, and construction crews poured real infrastructure into the ground before the project stalled.

When Alcoa eventually built its dam nearby at Badin instead, the abandoned townsite of Whitney was left half finished, its foundations and streets slowly reclaimed by brush, and years later much of the site was submerged under the reservoir the dam created. What remains today is mostly visible only when lake levels drop low enough to expose old foundations and roadbeds beneath the water.

Whitney never got the chance to become the town its planners imagined, and instead became one of North Carolina's stranger kinds of ghost towns, a place that was drowned before it was ever finished. 🌊

07/30/2026

Saved by grace, moved by love - https://janicecolehopkins.blogspot.com/2026/07/saved-by-grace-moved-by-love-for-by.html

07/27/2026

Gerald Waller sent this. Isn't it a lovely sketch of the church?

07/23/2026

The number of new beginnings -

The Number of New Beginnings Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are beco...

07/16/2026

Generational faithfulness - https://janicecolehopkins.blogspot.com/2026/07/generational-faithfulness-tell-ye-your.html