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Also, in a ''Letters of Interest'' issue from 1953, John W. McEwen wrote, "God has visited his people in Matoaca and the neighboring assembly of Petersburg. On Feb. 8, brethren Gordon N. Reager and Paul Plubell began gospel meetings which at the time of writing were then in their fifth week, with nine having professed to be saved. The gospel hall in Matoaca, a community of about 750, was built 58 years ago. It seats 117, and has been nearly filled each night of the current series of meetings."
Since 1991, Matoaca Gospel Hall has sponsored an annual conference in early March, either at the Hall or at the Matoaca Elementary School. In the Spring of 2009, several families came out from the Amish religion in the southwestern part of Virginia. A few of them were saved, and in early March of that year, they attended the annual conference at Matoaca and five more professed in March and April of 2009. The two ex-Amish families began driving 2 1/2 hours to visit the [[Denver Gospel Hall, NC]], and on Oct. 9, 2011, 13 local believers in Crandon gathered to remember the Lord for the first time in a building they had acquired and renovated with the help of brethren from NC. See [http://truthandtidings.com/2018/06/assembly-history-crandon-assembly Crandon assembly history] for more on this.
==First Wedding==
* Grover Cleveland Skinner +1927+ (b. 1885 Lunenburg, VA - d. 1958 Pembroke, Petersburg, VA);
* Samuel Moody McEwen, Jr., 213 River Rd. +1936-1969 (b. 1903 Matoaca, VA - d. 1976 Petersburg, VA)
* [[John Paul Rockey]] 1970-1975 (b. 1926 Norfolk, VA - d. 2015 Cedar Falls, IA)* Samuel McCracken Ellison @ Petersburg 19761975-1980 (b. 1895 Belfast, Ireland - d. 1982 Petersburg, VA)
* John Nobles 1981-2020+
