Editing Snake handling in Christianity (section)

== Known snake-handling churches ==
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'''Alabama'''
* Old Rock House Holiness Church, [[Section, Alabama|Section]] (sometimes "Old" is omitted or "Rock House" written as a single word)<ref name="hm"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/m-6196 |title=Pastor Billy Summerford in Section |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama}}</ref><ref name="cgg" />

'''Georgia'''
* Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, [[Kingston, Georgia|Kingston]]<ref name="evans">{{cite news |last=Shelton |first=Steve |title=Taking up serpents |date=28 June 1996 |newspaper=Augusta Chronicle |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1996/06/29/met_198795.shtml}}</ref>
* New River Holiness Church, [[Enigma, Georgia|Enigma]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/1/18/19153948/news-capsules|website=Deseret News|date=18 January 1995|title=News Capsules}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/01/29/newswatch/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831222202/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/01/29/newswatch/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 August 2023 |title=Newswatch |last=Zucco|first=Tom|date=3 October 2005}}</ref>
* Wades Chapel, [[Cartersville, Georgia|Cartersville]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/snake-handlers/|newspaper=New Georgia Encyclopedia|date=8 July 2013|last=Kelle|first=Brad|title=Snake Handlers}}</ref>

'''Indiana'''
* Highway Holiness Church of God, [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]] (sometimes written as "Hi-Way")<ref name="hamblin"/><ref name="nyt">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/11/us/jolo-journal-when-the-faithful-tempt-the-serpent.html |title=Jolo Journal; When the Faithful Tempt the Serpent |date=11 September 1992 |work=The New York Times}}{{author missing|date=September 2021}}</ref>

'''Kentucky'''
* Church of Jesus Christ, [[Baxter, Kentucky|Baxter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/02/13/Woman-killed-by-snake-in-mountain-religious-service/2134508654800/|title=Woman killed by snake in mountain religious service|date=13 February 1986|work=United Press International}}</ref>
* Crockett Saylor Pentecostal Church, [[Crockett, Kentucky|Crockett]]<ref name="ky"/>
* East London Holiness Church, [[London, Kentucky|London]]<ref name="long">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-08-snakebite_x.htm?csp=34 |title=Woman fatally bitten by snake in church |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[USA Today]] |date=8 November 2006 |access-date=13 January 2014}}{{author missing|date=September 2021}}</ref>
* Free Pentecostal House of Prayer, [[Gray, Kentucky|Gray]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/snake-handlers-appalachia-changing-practices|title=Appalachian snake handlers put their faith in God—and increasingly, doctors|website=National Geographic|last=Duin|first=Julia|date=2021-02-01}}</ref>
* Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, [[Middlesboro, Kentucky|Middlesboro]]<ref name=knox/>
* Mossie Simpson Pentecostal Church, [[Jenson, Kentucky|Jenson]]<ref name="brock">{{Cite web|url=http://wate.com/2015/07/28/kentucky-man-dies-of-snake-bite-at-church/|title=Kentucky man dies after snake bite during church service}}</ref>

'''North Carolina'''
* Unnamed church, [[Marshall, North Carolina|Marshall]]<ref name="cnn">{{cite news |last=Cabell |first=Brian |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9902/12/snake.bite.family/index.html |title=Custody of 'snake-bite orphans' split between grandparents |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=12 February 1999 |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref>

'''South Carolina'''
* Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name, [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Morrow |first=Jimmy |title=Handling Serpents |publisher=[[Mercer University Press]] |year=2005 |pages=8 |isbn=0-86554-848-X
}}</ref>

'''Tennessee'''
* Apostolic Church of God of the Lord Jesus, [[Greeneville, Tennessee|Greeneville]]<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436553/summary|title=Charles Prince: Martyr for His Faith?|last=Kimbrough|first=David|journal=Appalachian Heritage |year=1994|volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=31–38 |doi=10.1353/aph.1994.0026 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* Cobb Creek Church of God, [[Thomasville, Tennessee|Thomasville]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Reid |first=Michael |date=December 2013 |title=COBB CREEK CHURCH: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES IN A SERPENT-HANDLING CONGREGATION IN EAST TENNESSEE |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3865&context=utk_gradthes |website=Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange}}</ref>
* Edwina Church of God in Jesus Name, [[Del Rio, Tennessee|Del Rio]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.themountaineer.com/news/haywood_history/history-of-serpent-handling-fraught-with-danger-exultation/article_dd81ef20-abee-11ea-ba8a-c3b4b6a0877d.html|title=History of serpent handling fraught with danger, exultation|first=Kathy|last=Ross|date=13 June 2020|publisher=The Mountaineer}}</ref>
* Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name, [[Carson Springs, Tennessee|Carson Springs]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/06/archives/they-shall-take-up-serpents-serpents.html|title=They shall take up serpents|first=Lisa|last=Alther|date=6 June 1976|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
* House of Prayer in Jesus Name, [[Morristown, Tennessee|Morristown]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/bluefield-daily-telegraph-jul-16-1991-p-1/|date=16 July 1991|newspaper=Bluefield Daily Telegraph |title=Bluefield Daily Telegraph Archives, Jul 16, 1991, p. 1 }}</ref>
* Tabernacle Church of God, [[LaFollette, Tennessee|LaFollette]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303816504577309570173259662|title=Reviving Faith by 'Taking Up Serpents'|first=Julia|last=Duin|date=7 April 2012|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Smietana |first=Bob |url=http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120603/NEWS06/306030069/Snake-handling-believers-find-joy-test-faith?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1 |title=Snake-Handling Believers Find Joy in Test of Faith |date=3 June 2012 |access-date=3 June 2012}}</ref>

'''Virginia'''
* Arthurs Chapel, [[Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia|Rose Hill]]<ref name="Google News">{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=20040415&id=0UIgAAAAIBAJ&pg=4663,6449700&hl=en |title=Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Google News Archive Search }}</ref>

'''West Virginia'''
* Church of the Lord Jesus, [[Jolo, West Virginia|Jolo]]<ref name="duin">{{cite news |first=Julia |last=Duin |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/in-wva-snake-handling-is-still-considered-a-sign-of-faith/2011/10/18/gIQAmiqL9M_story.html |title=In W.Va., snake handling is still considered a sign of faith |date=18 October 2011
|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Dorgan |first=Howard |url=http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/manuscript/coll116/serpent.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908161603/http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/manuscript/coll116/serpent.html |title=Serpent Handling at Jolo, West Virginia and the Legitimacy of the Marcan Appendix |publisher=[[Appalachian State University]] |archive-date=8 September 2006 |access-date=29 October 2008}}</ref>
* House of the Lord Jesus, [[Matoaka, West Virginia|Matoaka]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duin |first=Julia |url=https://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/01/death-of-snake-handling-preacher-shines-light-on-lethal-appalachian-tradition/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603205251/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/01/death-of-snake-handling-preacher-shines-light-on-lethal-appalachian-tradition/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 June 2012 |title=Death of snake handling preacher shines light on lethal Appalachian tradition |date=1 July 2012 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref>
* House of the Lord Jesus, [[Squire, West Virginia|Squire]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huckmag.com/article/robert-leblanc-photos-west-virginia-snake-handling-church|title=The passion of West Virginia's last snake-handling church|first=Miss|last=Rosen|date= 9 February 2023|publisher=Huck}}</ref>
* Lord Jesus Temple, [[Mile Branch, West Virginia|Mile Branch]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bdtonline.com/local/x1647292521/WEB-EXTRA-1983-Daily-Telegraph-story-detailing-the-death-of-Wolford-s-father-also-from-a-snake-bite|title=WEB EXTRA: 1983 Daily Telegraph story detailing the death of Wolford's father, also from a snake bite|website=Bluefield Daily Telegraph|date=2012-06-01}}</ref>