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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:-
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PUBLISHED IN THE NOVEMBER 1981 EDITION OF THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST:
I am one of the sons of Elder Louis Jacob McCarty. I never cared much for the church until I was 16 years old.
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However, I feel that, for some reason, the Lord had a hand in my life. Before I ever had a desire to join the church, I had hoped for a wife and for her to be a member of the Primitive Baptist church. In 1927, at the age of 17, I had a desire to join the church and was privileged to be baptized by my father. In 1928, I was blessed with the one I had hoped for, her name being Floy Maye Webb. We got engaged, and, on June 6, 1928, we were married by my father near Hart, Texas, and have been happy ever since. We had one childnamed Evelyn Marie and she has been a blessing to us since her birth on July 26,1929.
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I began to feel that the Lord was burdening me to preach His Word. I thought surely He wouldn’t call one like me to preach, not having any education, so I began to rebel and run from the Lord for nearly seven years. But the more I ran,
the more condemned I felt. For two years, my family and I moved from Colorado to Texas, to New Mexico. All the while, the burden became greater and greater.
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So, in 1942, I moved on to California. I visited McFarland Church. When I got there, I met several good brethren that had known my father. The first three brethren I met asked me if I was a minister and I said “no.” But with this reply, each one said, “Well, you look like you should be one.” That was the fourth Sunday in March 1943. I returned two Sundays later and made my first attempt at preaching. From that time on, I haven’t looked back.
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I was set aside to the full work of the ministry in February 1948, and was called to pastor the Sacramento Church two Sundays a month. I was there a year when an Elder Lewis Barrow moved to Sacramento near the church and placed his membership with them. So, I thought it best that I resign, after which they called him to serve.
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The Bethel Church in Phoenix, Arizona, upon hearing of my resignation, called me to pastor there. I was there more than one and a half years and I felt the Lord was in the matter. I was privileged to baptize five and the in-gatherings were good.
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In the fall of 1950, we returned to California near San Diego where I worked in Convair Aircraft for a short time and filled appointments twice a month in Holtville, California, and organized a little church there. I pastored the San Diego Church for one year and baptized four people. |
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