THOMSON, Ga. - It is a church where cowboy hats are Sunday's best and the offerings are collected in a bucket.

NBC Augusta 26 News visited the Cowboy Church in Thomson to see how the days of old are still alive.

It's the Wild West with a twist, right in the heart of the South and Chris Smith is the cowboy in charge.

“The Old Frontier came directly from the Lord,” Smith said.

Smith's Christian campground called the Old Frontier is 85 acres of land dedicated to teaching kids about the Lord by taking them back to the good old days.

“It's a simple life families got together and prayed together. They studied the Word together,” Smith said.

On Sundays, at the Old Frontier, Smith and a small congregation come together to study the Word at the Cowboy Church.

“We're breaking down the barriers of denominations and go by what the Bible says of worshiping Jesus Christ and it can be in a horse barn, metal building,” Smith said.

“I think it's great there's nobody out here that's worrying about a building or worrying about what we're wearing,” church member Chris Pelly, said.

The nondenominational church preaches acceptance and asks members to come as they are.

Members say the church is based on how cowboys worshiped in the Wild West.

"They would come in after wrangling cattle and they would be dirty and wouldn't have time to clean up and they would just come sit and have somebody up there talking," Stephanie Reeves said.

Although the name and some of the attire might suggest it, being a cowboy is not necessary.

“You don't have to have cowboy boots or cowboy hat. You don't even have to be a cowboy,” Reeves said.

“It's just that we're trying to look back to the way it was when there were cowboys. Nobody cared about how they were dressed or where they were from back in those days everyone was out to help one another,” Pelly said.

The church holds service every Sunday starting at 10:30 a.m.