![]() ![]() By 1910, Lucky was the second largest church in the conference ( McCoy, 1910). Watts did pastoral evangelism especially around Lucky and Fort Smith. The church continued to prosper and grow rapidly and at the twentieth annual session of the Arkansas Conference in July 1907, Lucky was admitted as a church ( Record, 1907). The members had already built a little church in a pine grove between the two families, which was not quite finished but they were meeting in it ( Griffin, 1906). Parker held meetings at Lucky, and in November, Elder Griffin baptized some and organized a church of seven members, mostly from the McCoy and Ewing families. In the fall of 1906, Elder Henry Clay Griffin and H. Seventh-day Adventist ministers would visit occasionally, among whom were Elders Beckner and Ellington Beck Hopkins ( McCoy, 1910). Soon Charley Ewing and his family began keeping the Sabbath. They brought in their neighbors and friends with their children and studied the Bible together. Following that, he and his wife with their three boys, organized the first Sabbath school in this area. ![]() Joseph was arrested and persecuted for violating the Sunday laws that were in effect at that time. He then sent for Adventist tracts, papers, and books, and accepted the third angel’s message. Joseph, had begun keeping the Sabbath from reading his Bible. There, Joseph married and raised his family. The work in this area really began when Joseph Franklin McCoy moved from Louisville, Kentucky, to Lucky, Arkansas, in 1878. L to R: Earl, Arthur holding Jewell and Joe, Arnold, Ava holding Avalee, and Prue (Ancestry, 2017). Arthur Lee McCoy and Ava Etta (Hopkins) McCoy with their family. ![]()
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