In September, 1938, the Rev. W. J. Green came to the Greenlee Pentecostal Holiness Church. Four months later, Mr. Green was asked to accept a teaching portion at Emmanuel College, Franklin Springs, Georgia, to fill in for the remainder of the school term.
     Therefore m January, 1939 the Greenlee Church secured a supply pastor and his bride, the Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Dunlap. Upon their arrival, a revival meeting was being conducted by the conference superintendent, the Rev. W.W. Carter. The weekend the meeting closed a district conference was conducted in the church.
     The Greens returned to the Greenlee Church in the spring of 1939 and in November their first child, Donnie, was born. While pastoring the Greenlee Church Mr. Green was a graduate student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, where he later received his master's degree. He had previously received an A. B. degree from Roanoke College.
     In 1940 a new block parsonage was built at the rear of the church. The Greens lived in the basement of the church whale the parsonage was being built. Mr. Green reminisces about one outstanding occasion in connection with this ...

   "One night during an exceptionally rainy period, the water started pouring into tie coal bin of the basement where we were living. In a short while several inches of water had covered the entire living area. Several families came in and dipped water and mopped all night long. They brought food and the women cooked and we took turns dipping out water - and eating. I think of that night with pleasant memories."

D.F. Bennett

     The Rev. D. F. Bennett was assigned to the Greenlee pastorate in 1944. Since at this immediate time many men were involved in the war, he found advantages to provide a bus for church transportation. Also at the first part of this pastorate a son, Daniel Hilley, was born in the parsonage.
     The sanctuary floors were refinished and a furnace was installed. Also the church purchased new pews, church furniture, and metal chairs for the choir.
     Mr. Bennett recalls many humorous incidents widely occurred ... For half a day he helped a deacon chase a cow which he thought was his own, but later found out it belonged to the deacon's neighbor. After Mr. Bennett married a couple, the groom asked how much he owed for the service. When Mr. Bennett told him whatever he thought she was worth he said "Preacher, I don't think I have a quarter."
     In retrospect, Mr. Bennett tells of his trip to Natural Bridge . . . .

    "I first went to Natural Bridge in the year of 1932. Brother Malcolm Selvey was the pastor. At that time, the people was worshiping in the old church across the river, but the present building was under construction. I, along with the Rev W. W. Carter, A. D. Wiley, and J. B Daugherty, spent the night at Natural Bridge with some of the church members. The next morning brother Selvey joined the group and went with us to Durham North Carolina to attend their annual conference. From Durham I went to Greenville, South Carolina, and entered Holmes Bible College. I look back on these things and cherish them very highly."

A.H. McGhee

     From September, 1947 to August, 1952, the Rev. A. H. McGhee served the church.
     One of the most memorable events of this period of time was the changing of the Home Missions Society (organizational for men and women) into the Woman's Auxiliary in the fall of 1947. Mrs. A. H. McGhee was the first president. Charter members of the auxiliary were

• Mrs. Harry Reynolds
• Miss Viola Firebaugh
• Mrs. A. H. Fainter
• Mrs. M. L. Puckett
• Mrs. L. H Firebaugh
• Mrs. W. G. Fainter

     Another "first" for the church was the installation of sanitary, indoor rest rooms in the basement of the church. In connection with this is an interesting comment made by Mrs. John Davidson, principal of the Elementary School . . . "For that improvement I'll have to take my hat off to Rev. McGhee!"
     A tower was built onto the front of the church in which electric chimes were installed in April, 1952. The chimes in the belfry seemed to be a welcome addition to the surrounding area, as many residents commented on the hymns and the chiming of the bells each Sunday morning. (The original steeple is yet in existence in the community of Natural Bridge Station.) The improved church front was complemented by a new porch, banisters, door and shrubbery.
     For six months, starting February 20, 1949, the church sponsored a 15-minute radio program every Sunday at 8 a.m., over station WREL in Lexington, Mr. McGhee, who was the first Pentecostal minister to speak over this radio station, feels that the broadcast was well received in the area and many souls were reached thereby. (Probably the most unpleasant memory of this undertaking was when the Holmes Bible School Quartet sang on the program and it was not transmitted over the air.)
     During this period McGhee, (with the help of several church members) was able to see the Cave Mountain Mission work greatly aided. This was accomplished by manual labor on the building itself, and by spiritual guidance. Some members whom Mr. McGhee names as helping in the Sunday afternoon services are Mrs. W.G. Fainter, William Blackburn, Lawrence McDaniel, and Mrs. M. L. Puckett.
     Summer vacation Bible School has always seemed an important part of the Natural Bridge Church work. Some special V.B.S. workers were the Carter sisters in 1950, the Johnson-Houser party in 1951, and Shelby West party in 1952. Since Vacation Bible School was then held in the morning, special revival services were conducted at night.
     Mr. McGhee recalls that during the time he was pastor the church averaged four revivals a year. The Elliott evangelistic party held a four-week revival which started in January 1948. During this revival Mr. Elliott suggested that the church's name be changed from "Greenlee" to Natural Bridge Pentecostal Holiness Church; this was done in February, 1948, with the name remaining the same up to the present date.
     The church voted to support, and Mr. McGhee took an active role in the Weekday Religious Council in which public school students are instructed weekly in Bible Teaching. Since that time the church has continued to give financial aid (presently $125 a year) to the cause now known as Weekday Bible Council. Also the church has cooperated with the instructors in permitting them to use sanctuary for special services such as at Christmas or at Easter.
     Mr. McGhee retains the memory of a miraculous healing as being outstanding. When one of the church members (Mrs. G. T. Firebaugh) was seemingly slipping out into eternity, Mr. McGhee prayed and a miracle was performed.
     Once when an out-of-town Pentecostal Holiness minister inquired about the church of his denomination in the community, he was told by a businessman at Natural Bridge Hotel, "The Pentecostal Holiness Church is the leading church in the community." Other instances Mr. McGhee brings to mind are . . . The liquidation of the debt for church pews, the Class "A" Banner earned by the Sunday School most of the time, and the wedding of Martha and Clifford Watkins.
     In 1948, a daughter, Barbara Lee, was born to Mr. and Mrs. McGhee. The baby lived only three days and was buried at Glasgow.