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Revival Worship Center in Culloden helps mentor pastors and offers a Tuesday night Bible study and a Sunday morning service.
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Ministry fulfills needs By Kelly Stadelman kelly@theputnamstandard.com
A ministry in Culloden has a unique method it uses to mentor new pastors. “We started with a service on Friday night where people who felt the calling and have never spoken before could showcase their gift,” said Jamie Wright, pastor of Revival Worship Center. “We work with these new and young pastors and help train them.” Since Wright-Way Ministries opened its doors in September 2013, it has seen attendance at the monthly revival meetings grow. “We have about 25 to 30 people who come on revival night just to support one of the young men or women preaching,” Wright said. “We weren’t thinking of starting a church but wanted to focus our efforts on establishing a revival center where we could work with new pastors.” But that changed in January, when a friend of Wright’s served as a guest speaker on a Sunday morning. “The attendance was great,” he said. “We prayed about it and on SEE MINISTRY ON PAGE 4
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Midland softball outlasts rival Spring Valley
The Cabell Midland High School Knights softball team claimed the Class AAA, Region 4, Section 4 trophy after beating Spring Valley and Huntington. Photo by Jack Withrow
By Matt Gajtka
matt@theputnamstandard.com
HUNTINGTON - It wasn't technically a winner-take-all game, although it might as well have been. With the Cabell Midland softball team one victory away from a trip to the regional semifinals, host Spring Valley rallied three times to tie Game 2 of a sectional doubleheader, including twice in
its final at-bat. In the end, though, Mandi King's two-run double in the top of the ninth held up as the winning hit, as Midland vanquished Spring Valley 11-9 on May 8 to claim the Class AAA, Region 4, Section 4 trophy. "It was super-intense," said Midland second baseman Makalya Waugh, "but it was what we expected. Spring Valley is a big rival of ours. We just kept calm
and played our game." The third-ranked Knights (237) went 3-0 in the sectional tournament, starting with a 12-1 win over Huntington on May 7. That set up a best-of-three battle with Spring Valley, which had just beaten Midland in the Mountain State Athletic Conference title game six days prior. "Coming in, we played three times and they beat us twice," Midland coach Jeanne Lunsford
said. "It's a very even matchup. Whoever is on their game and makes the fewest mistakes wins.” This time around, it was Midland prevailing in a big contest or two of them, to be exact. Junior pitcher Jenna Marsh anchored a 6-2 triumph in Game 1 with seven strong innings, striking out nine, but the Knights needed another win to avoid a return trip to SEE SOFTBALL ON PAGE 7
Milton man hauls in state-record blue catfish By Matt Gajtka matt@theputnamstandard.com
As local lakes, rivers and creeks warm up with the weather, prime fishing season is about to arrive. However, Austin Hoffman might say it’s already well underway. Hoffman, a 22-year-old Milton native, hauled in a state-record blue catfish April 26 on the Ohio River near Apple Grove in Mason County. The new standard was confirmed by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Hoffman’s catch measured 47
¾ inches long and weighed nearly 53 pounds, shattering the old records by approximately four inches and eight pounds. He used cut bait to pull in the historic catfish just south of the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam. “I knew as soon as I brought it to the surface that it beat the heck out of the record,” Hoffman said. Hoffman was “drift fishing” on his boat in the middle of the Ohio, with plans to cast lines from multiple locations. A biology major at Marshall University, Hoffman used some skipjack tuna he’d SEE CATFISH ON PAGE 5
Austin Hoffman set a state-record when he caught a blue catfish April 26 on the Ohio River near Apple Grove in Mason County.
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