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Boiling Springs Convention

Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Oak Grove Community, Sylacauga, Alabama

Sunday, July 11, 2004

The annual Boiling Springs Convention was held at Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church in the Oak Grove Community, near Sylacauga, Alabama on the second Sunday in July. Marlin Beasley offered the morning prayer.

A business session was held with the following officers elected or appointed to serve: Chairman—Elder Bufrey Dean; Secretary—Cynthia Dean; Arranging Committee—Daniel Dean.

Leaders: Elder Bufrey Dean 31t; Ed Thacker 47t; Margaret Thacker 569b; Floy Wilder 63; Marlin Beasley 101t; Gene Forbes 100; Jack Nelson 30b; Diane Moncrief 358; Janice Tapley 288 (in memory of her dad, James Foshee); Shelia Rigby 111t; Daniel Dean 77t; Virginia Futral 145b; Wendy Futral 491; William Futral 341; Edna Phillips 143.

RECESS

Elder Bufrey Dean brought the class back together leading 313t. Leaders: Kyle Blakeley 270, 82t; Douglas Conn 35, 74b; Brenda Dean 47b, 369; Deborah Ritch 220, 168; Ed Thacker 57, 400; Sylvia Wesson 147 (t? b?), 339; Stormy Britton 188, 490 (in honor of brother, Willard Frederick, and Thomas Futral); Myra Goss 145t, 170; Dana Williford 75, 396.

Elder Bufrey Dean asked that Maudie Frederick be remembered in prayer, having had triple by-pass heart surgery. Elder Bufrey Dean led 45t. Tom Ingram prayed a warm, loving dismissal prayer.

LUNCH

Elder Bufrey Dean brought the afternoon session to order leading 47b and 282. Leaders: Tom Ingram 58b, 491; Elder Jonathan Blakeley 81t (in honor of his dad, Waylon Blakeley), 213 (t? b?); Lacey Blakeley 29t, 108b; Floy Wilder 186, 373; Marlin Beasley 34t, 457; Jack Nelson 294, 274t; Diane Moncrief 405 (in memory of her mother), 170; Janice Tapley 340, 108t; Justin Dean 354b, 45t; Daniel Dean 36b, 27 (in memory of Elder Arthur Lee Beckett); Virginia Futral 566 (in honor of Nelda Henry, and in memory of Betty Forbes), 495 (OSH); William Futral 46, 98; Wendy Futral 496, 25; Lou Cotney 384, 358; Nellie Estes 40, 438; Elder Bufrey Dean 28b (by special request in honor of Lera Beckett).

Announcements were made. Elder Bufrey Dean thanked everyone for coming which indeed helped to bring the Boiling Springs Convention back to life again. Jack Nelson offered the closing prayer. The class sang 45t, and those who desired took the parting hand. The class was dismissed.

Chairman—Elder Bufrey Dean; Secretary—Cynthia Dean.