(Photo by Okey L. King)

Peniel Pentecostal Holiness Church, Tuckahoe, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

The date on the cornerstone of the church building is 1923. Five miles south of White Sulphur Springs, Tuckahoe was once a stop on the C&O Railroad. Now, the church it is on the shores of Tuckahoe Lake.

photo by Woodson P. Cox

This is how the Peniel building appeared before the construction of the dam and Tuckahoe Lake.

This photo of how the building appears now is by Okey L. King

(picture of the lake coming soon.

photo by Ross Mines

This was the first Sunday after the well brought forth its first water. This meant the end of the little house on the hillside and the opening inside tolits. That's me with the hose.

photo by Okey L. King

The morning congregation gathers outside for a photo shot (circmid 1980s). Five in this photo have graduated to Heaven, and the little blonde girl (Sara White) has grown up and is now married and living in South Dakota.

photo by Okey L. King

There is usually at least one Sunday a year in which we do not get to have church because the "horse and buggy days" railroad underpass is flooded.

photo by Okey L. King

The new marker is the stone of Lizzie and Hillman Cox. Lizzie was a fathful member of the Peniel church who had the spiritual gift of hospitality. The two older stones are Lizzy's mother and father. Her father, Joe Sparks, was a Primitive Baptist Preacher who raised a large family On Big Ridge and rode horse-back to his churches. The sister in the background is my friend Mary Adwell who decorating the grave of her husband Elmer. Elmer was a special friend of mine who died a few years ago of lung cancer. I had his funeral at teh Peniel Church. It was a saint's funeral with that promise of hope that Jesus has given us.