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Gospel singer and Holocaust survivor at Bethany Baptist
Bethany Baptist Church, 215 Wilkinsville Hwy., will host Keith Plott, a Southern Gospel bass soloist, on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 11 a.m.
Plott has sung bass for Danny Funderburk and Mercy's Way as well as Brian Free and Assurance. He has to his credit multiple Southern Gospel Music Fanfare awards and a Southern Gospel Music Association Dove Award. He received the Arkansas Traveler from the governor and the Kentucky Colonel Award. Plott has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and the National Quartet Convention. He is known for his wide vocal range and smooth style.
Originally from Kannapolis, N.C., he currently lives in Conway with his wife, Bobbi. They have two children, Adam and Elizabeth. Adam and his wife, Jobeth, have two daughters, and Elizabeth, in her fourth year of college, is preparing to be a missionary.
At 5 p.m., Sylvia Rex, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, will speak of her experiences during the Holocaust. Rex was eight years old when a Christian family put her inside a wooden box and took her in their home. She spent 95 days hiding in a cramped apartment with 14 family members in Budapest. Fifty members of her family were killed. She speaks of the inhumane treatment that was received in an effort to educate people today so history will not repeat itself.
Rex and her husband moved to New York in 1956 and stayed two years before moving to Spartanburg, where her husband started working. She is a former folk dance instructor with the South Carolina Arts Commission and is part of a dwindling group of Holocaust survivors who can - and are willing - to share their experience.
A community wide finger food fellowship will be held at 6 p.m. following her presentation.
The public is invited to attend. For more information, call the Rev. Roger W. Ham, pastor, 864-488-5553.







