This is kind of a trick question…actually the bell has almost never announced meetings at the church. It is more likely to have announced that a service was over and that children were tugging at the rope, while parents (for some reason embarrassed to have the neighborhood know that something was happening at the church) tried to pull them away. If you dig down to expose the top of the concrete footing, you will find the date 4/14/79. when the bell was put in place on the framework built by Donnie Abbott. Though the bell is much older than that, it was purchased just a few months earlier from Paul Bryar’s Junque & Treasure shop on Gaines Street. (Paul Bryar was also a popular weatherman and announcer for a local TV station.) The purchase was prompted by a remark of Aggie Jackson, wife of Rev. Les Jackson, that all this little country church lacked was a bell.