Elkhorn City Baptist Church

Spring Avenue North, P.O. Box 851 • Elkhorn City, KY 41522 • United States • (606)754-3144 • SBC

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A Spiritual Experience in a Scenic Setting

The Elkhorn City Baptist Church exists to exalt the Savior, evangelize sinners and edify the saints. We are located in Eastern Kentucky near the Virginia border. Just a few miles from the Breaks Interstate Park (phone 1-800-982-5122), we are in the midst of mountain splendor and scenically situated on the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River. Our rugged rural setting is often overlooked by tourists, but it is worth the journey. If you are in our area please come and worship with us. RECOMENDED WEBSITE: Experiencing God http://swcbc.com/exp_god ( You can access the Exp.God study by typing this address in the Address Box above and pressing Enter. The links below will help you Scripture Surf...)

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Pastor Mike's Personal Testamony

I was born near Pineville, Kentucky and grew up in the Detroit area. My mother moved to Michigan when I was four years old. She raised me, my older sister and brother, and my younger sister while working as a waitress. Mom remarried when I was ten years old. Soon afterward twin sisters were born. My step-father was a hard working small business owner. We moved to a comfortable home in Lincoln Park, Michigan, when I was twelve. Around the age of thirteen I became involved in drug use. I started with pot and pills, got into LSD, and was using heroin intravenously by age fifteen. As my dependency on drugs and alcohol increased, I searched relentlessly for purpose and peace in life. I traveled to New Orleans and bummed around Florida for several months in 1971. In `72 I settled out in Santa Barbara, California, near some old acquaintances from Lincoln Park. I survived by selling drugs and communing with several hippie groups. It was a miserable time in my life. I wanted to get clean but I couldn't seem to break old ties. After nearly two years of self-effort in quitting drugs I began to associate with some friends at a Christian coffee house. I met people who had a peace and contentment that didn't come from drugs or booze. I learned that their happiness came from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I was beginning to grasp the reality of Christ's death on the cross as punishment for my sins. My friends told me that if I would repent of my sins, believe in Jesus as Lord, and ask Him to forgive me and become my Savior, He would give me a brand new life now and a home in heaven when I died. All this sounded too good to be true, but also too good to refuse. On December 3, 1977, I trusted in Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and Lord. That date was also my 23rd birthday. A great sense of gratitude accompanied my conversion experience. I had an intense desire to serve God more devotedly than I had served sin, self and Satan. But the hold that the drug culture had on me was incredible. On January 6, 1978 I went to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission and sought rehabilitation. I made a commitment to their 90 day program and actually stayed there six months. Daily Bible study and learning to care for the least, the last and the lost helped me realize the meaning of serving Christ through serving others. God's call to ministry was as intense and real as my salvation experience. In June of 1978 I got a job, moved in with some Christian friends and united with Temple Southern Baptist Church (now Grace Baptist) in Santa Barbara through believer's baptism. My pastor encouraged me greatly in my calling and suggested I attend a Baptist college in California. I was, however, extremely homesick for my family and felt the need to be reunited with them. The Lord opened the door for me to return to my birthplace, Pineville, KY, and enroll in Clear Creek Baptist Bible College( http://www.ccbbc.edu ) in late August 1978. Here I met Carolyn Mowdy, the Christian woman who was to be my wife. We were married August 3, 1979. God has blessed us with three wonderful children and given us the joy of serving Him.