Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Marshall Baptist Association
Favorite Verse: Matthew 16:24
Favorite Hymn: “I Don’t Know About Tomorrow”
Hobbies: Cooking
Family Status: Widowed after 60 years of marriage to Raymond, three children, six grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren
As a little girl, Maggie “Tince” Will Teal sat at her grandmother’s feet and listened to her read from the Bible. Later Teal drove her three sons to church on a tractor when there was no other means of transportation. Now two of her sons are pastors and the other serves as a chairman of deacons.
Q: How did you come to know the Lord?
A: I was 12, visiting Bethany Baptist Church, and the pastor started the altar call quoting Matthew 16:24, saying, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” I thought he was talking especially to me.
Q: How have you been involved in church through the years?
A: I have been involved [with] youth more than anything. I taught them Sunday School. I still help, mostly just by loving them. I just have a great compassion for the youth.
Q: What have you gotten from the ministry?
A: I can’t even explain what the church has meant to me and the blessings I have gotten out of that. Teaching the youth has meant a great deal to me. I don’t know how else to explain it.
Q: What difference has being a Christian made in your life?
A: It has meant the difference in heaven and hell. It has meant so much to me. I married an unbeliever. I did not try to talk him into going to church but lived in front of him. He became a believer when he was 26, and we had a great life together.
Q: What has been your favorite church experience?
A: Vacation Bible School. I have been a teacher or director every year since the 1950s. That is my favorite thing to do.
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