Cody Coots is following in his father’s footsteps, serving as a pastor in a church.
Like his father, Coots is a snake
handler. And like his father, he was bitten by a rattlesnake while
leading a service in front of his Pentecostal congregation.
Fortunately for Coots, he survived the rattlesnake attack. His father, Jamie Coots, did not survive a 2014 snakebite, the Herald-Leader reported.
It’s unclear when Cody Coots was bitten by the snake, as shown in the newly released documentary called “My Life Inside: The Snake Church.”
Rattlesnake bites Kentucky pastor after father killed by snake | The State
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Monday, August 28, 2017
Touching Death: The Turbulent Life of One of America’s Last Snake-Handling Preachers - The Ringer
Cody Coots looks comfortable, standing in the spot where his father was
killed. Behind him sits a guitar, before him a glass of strychnine
poison. To his right there’s a drum set, to his left a few venomous
snakes. He’s at a lectern in a large room in an old house on a back
street in Middlesboro, Kentucky, deep in rural Appalachia. This is his
pulpit. Before that it was his father’s, and before that his father’s
father’s, and before that his father’s father’s father’s, all of them
pastors here at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, a church that
promises salvation but sometimes delivers death.
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Now the congregants kneel, and together they pray, all out loud, a cacophony of voices filling the room. When they finish, the music starts — Cody on guitar, his mother, Linda, on the drums, voices rising and feet stomping all across the room. They sing and they shout, songs about Jesus and about the Devil, about living right and doing good, about strychnine and serpents and heaven’s streets of gold. Soon a few start jumping, hopping up and down across the room with their eyes closed. A few more start speaking in tongues, a practice common in Pentecostal churches throughout the United States and much of the rest of the world, wherein worshipers utter a prayer language, often unintelligible to most listeners, that they believe emerges only when the Holy Spirit descends.
Touching Death: The Turbulent Life of One of America’s Last Snake-Handling Preachers - The Ringer
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Now the congregants kneel, and together they pray, all out loud, a cacophony of voices filling the room. When they finish, the music starts — Cody on guitar, his mother, Linda, on the drums, voices rising and feet stomping all across the room. They sing and they shout, songs about Jesus and about the Devil, about living right and doing good, about strychnine and serpents and heaven’s streets of gold. Soon a few start jumping, hopping up and down across the room with their eyes closed. A few more start speaking in tongues, a practice common in Pentecostal churches throughout the United States and much of the rest of the world, wherein worshipers utter a prayer language, often unintelligible to most listeners, that they believe emerges only when the Holy Spirit descends.
Touching Death: The Turbulent Life of One of America’s Last Snake-Handling Preachers - The Ringer
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Months after snake-handling preacher's death, his son recovering from snakebite | State | Kentucky.com
I just don't get it. Actually I do which is scary, but I still don't get it,,,
Snake-handling preacher Cody Coots got scared when the 6-foot long rattler bit his right hand early Monday.
Just three months ago, his father, Jamie Coots, died within minutes of being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service at his Middlesboro church.
The loss was still fresh for his family and friends, and Cody Coots, who took over for his father, had just been bitten by an even bigger rattler.
At first, "All I could think about — am I going to make it?" Coots said.
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"He's a brute of a rattlesnake," said Hamblin, who is familiar with Coots' reptiles.
Coots went inside his mother's house, and the call went out for fellow believers to come and pray for him.
Hamblin said he and more than 20 other people, including other snake-handling pastors, rushed to the house.
Hamblin said Coots had someone call for an ambulance so he could formally decline treatment.
People who believe they are commanded to handle venomous snakes during worship services typically refuse treatment when bitten, preferring to rely instead on faith and prayer for healing.
"I told the Lord that I wouldn't go to the hospital," Coots said.
The only way he would have gone for treatment, Coots said, is if his wife had approved it while he was unconscious.
Months after snake-handling preacher's death, his son recovering from snakebite | State | Kentucky.com
Snake-handling preacher Cody Coots got scared when the 6-foot long rattler bit his right hand early Monday.
Just three months ago, his father, Jamie Coots, died within minutes of being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service at his Middlesboro church.
The loss was still fresh for his family and friends, and Cody Coots, who took over for his father, had just been bitten by an even bigger rattler.
At first, "All I could think about — am I going to make it?" Coots said.
[,,,]
"He's a brute of a rattlesnake," said Hamblin, who is familiar with Coots' reptiles.
Coots went inside his mother's house, and the call went out for fellow believers to come and pray for him.
Hamblin said he and more than 20 other people, including other snake-handling pastors, rushed to the house.
Hamblin said Coots had someone call for an ambulance so he could formally decline treatment.
People who believe they are commanded to handle venomous snakes during worship services typically refuse treatment when bitten, preferring to rely instead on faith and prayer for healing.
"I told the Lord that I wouldn't go to the hospital," Coots said.
The only way he would have gone for treatment, Coots said, is if his wife had approved it while he was unconscious.
Months after snake-handling preacher's death, his son recovering from snakebite | State | Kentucky.com
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Coots' son takes over Ky. church, continues to handle snakes
It's been two days since a Middlesboro, Kentucky, pastor was laid to rest after a snake he was handling bit him, and now his 21-year-old son said he is taking over the church and will continue to handle snakes.
Jamie Coots died Saturday night after a fatal snakebite at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus' Name. Tuesday, family and friends said goodbye at Creech Funeral Home.
Cody Coots, Jamie's son, said following the wake, a smaller group went back to his father's church and handled snakes.
"I knew people were wanting to do church and we couldn't do that in the funeral home because that would be breaking the law," said Cody Coots. "I didn't want to disrespect the funeral home by saying 'hey, we're wanting to have snakes here.'"
While Coots has a permit to possess poisonous snakes, according to Kentucky law it is illegal to handle them, but Coots said it was one of his father's dying wishes to practice their faith until the end.
Coots' son takes over Ky. church, continues to handle snakes
Jamie Coots died Saturday night after a fatal snakebite at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus' Name. Tuesday, family and friends said goodbye at Creech Funeral Home.
Cody Coots, Jamie's son, said following the wake, a smaller group went back to his father's church and handled snakes.
"I knew people were wanting to do church and we couldn't do that in the funeral home because that would be breaking the law," said Cody Coots. "I didn't want to disrespect the funeral home by saying 'hey, we're wanting to have snakes here.'"
While Coots has a permit to possess poisonous snakes, according to Kentucky law it is illegal to handle them, but Coots said it was one of his father's dying wishes to practice their faith until the end.
Coots' son takes over Ky. church, continues to handle snakes
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