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Jesus Christ Contents MAY 2006 In Every Issue 3 | Editorial 4 | Newsline 6 | Potluck 11 | Resource Guide 8 12 | Visitor Blog News & Features 13 | Healing Ministry 2006 Camp Meeting Issue Newsletters Our camp meeting issue usually focuses on the needs and inter - 19 Allegheny East ests of adults. But this year's features are for the children. Be sure to share them with a child you know. 21 Allegheny West 25 Chesapeake 8 | Gilbert Goes to Camp Meeting 29 Mountain View And Why You Should Too! 33 New Jersey Lori Peckham 37 Ohio Hey kids, have you ever been to camp 41 Pennsylvania meeting? It's a spiritual oasis (retreat) from 45 Potomac your busy school and church life—where 49 Blue Mountain Academy people from all the churches meet to wor - 51 Columbia Union College ship God and learn more about Him. In this story Gilbert learns about camp meet - 53 El Telescopio ing, how it started, and why he should go. 55 Shenandoah Valley After reading it, we hope you'll want to go too. Academy 10 | Camp Meeting 2006 60 | Bulletin Board What’s in it for Kids? Tanisha Greenidge 63 | Last Words With interesting Bible lessons, safaris, swimming, crafts, and much more, camp meeting is a wonderful Christ-centered experi - ence for children. Check out the action with this inside peek at this year's camp meeting plans around the Columbia Union. 19 | Camp Meeting Previews About the Cover: See what your conference has scheduled for camp meeting this year, Illustration by Brandon Reese and make plans now to attend and bring a friend or family member. 2 | VISITOR Editorial STACEY BONDURANT Camp Meeting—The Gift That Keeps on Giving ou wander into a room and see an eight-foot orca whale hanging from the ceiling, with fish and seaweed climbing the walls. Then you notice a 22- Yfoot-long Noah’s Ark, complete with moving waves. Where are you? You’ve entered the children’s division at camp meeting. Just visit any of these wonderfully decorated rooms and you’ll discover the excitement children experience. There may be an eight-foot tall giraffe or Egyptian pyramids, towering in the corner next to a golden Pharaoh’s throne, with costumes for kids to have their pictures taken. Combine that with friendly welcoming smiles, warm hugs, and laughter. Then you get to sing uplifting Christian songs with fun hand motions, led by kids belting out their love and adoration for Jesus Christ. To youngsters camp meeting has all the excitement, magic, and wonder of Disney World! The main difference is the added spiritual dimension and the emphasis on how special they are to God. So spe - cial, that this issue of the Visitor is dedicated to children’s camp meeting. In every children’s division there are fun activities—to learn teamwork, get exercise, or demonstrate a lesson—planned each day. Craft projects are a beautiful way to teach them about God’s love. Puppet shows illustrate Bible stories or modern day situations. Animals show kids God’s awesome creations. And skits make them laugh and learn. There are also other activities like swimming, horseback riding, or nature walks. Older kids might participate in white water rafting, rock climbing, obstacle courses, song service, group discussions, and problem-solving activities. The Best Part These are just some of the things I’ve observed at camp meeting in the Chesapeake Conference. I’ve heard many testimonies of wonderful programs at other conferences too, and witnessed incredible dedication from camp meeting leaders who coordinate dynamic children’s programs. My kids haven’t missed a year and look forward to reconnecting with buddies they’ve met over the years. They phone their camp meeting pals so they can share Pikesville (Md.) church Pastor Roosevelt a cabin at summer camp. My daughter emails new - Marsden and his daughter Daedre-Ann pose found friends, and we have them visit in the summer in Egyptian costumes during Chesapeake's for a day of fun or a sleepover. Great relationships are 2005 children's camp meeting. made at camp meeting! But the best one, for young and old alike, is the one forged and strengthened with God. If you haven’t been to camp meeting recently, you and your family are missing out on an incredible experience! There are seminars and gifted, inspirational speakers for adults and a smor - gasbord of spiritual delight for the kiddos. Just think, a trip to the beach would cost you a bundle, but camp meeting is an affordable retreat. It’s the gift that keeps on giving long after the suitcase is unpacked. Plan now to bring your kids. Stacey Bondurant, a wife and mother of two, is Children’s Ministries director at the Chesapeake Conference. MAY 2006 | 3 Newsline CELESTE RYAN BLYDEN re-elected Zill as treasurer (pic - Mountain View Members tured with their wives). They voted to increase the size of the Elect New President conference executive committee from 13 to 15 and voted new members to serve on it and the n the last Sunday in March, challenges; and “retaking the board of education. They also 200 delegates and guests torch” through aggressive soul O voted to refer the executive sec - gathered at the Summersville, winning, evangelism rallies, lay retary vacancy to the executive W.Va., church gymnasium to training, and increased member committee. After lunch, the del - participate in the 67th Business involvement. As a result of these egates spent over an hour work - Session (Third Quadrennial concerted efforts, the conference ing through changes recom - Session) of the Mountain View experienced an increase in tithe mended by the constitution and Conference of Seventh-day (3.45 percent in 2005) and bylaws committee and adopted a Adventists. Soon after the meet - membership (329 baptisms). new conference purpose state - ing began, Kingsley Whitsett— “This is the highest number ment. president from 2002-2005— of baptisms since 1983,” noted At the close of the session, surprised some attendees by Whitsett, who has served the Boggess, who has served in announcing his retirement. conference for 20 years as a Mountain View since 1989 as a pastor, departmental leader, pastor, evangelism coordinator, and administrator. ministerial director, and execu - During his financial report tive secretary, shared his vision to members, Victor Zill (intro - duced as the “youngest officer in the North American Division”) thanked members for their sacrificial support. “God has richly blessed this confer - ence with faithful members; we Columbia Union president and are much stronger than we were session chair Harold Lee leads two years ago. And for a small attendees in applauding Kingsley conference of 2,350, we really Whitsett and his wife Nancy for get a lot done!” he said, drawing 40 years of dedicated service. delegate applause. After the Kingwood church was Next attendees received voted into membership, delegates reports from the nominating warmly welcomed these members. “I am announcing retirement committee, as given by its from church service, but not secretary, Jonathan Myers of for the future. “I see a church from the Lord’s service,” he reas - Morgantown. They elected exec - on fire with Holy Ghost sured them in his report to con - utive secretary Larry Boggess revival; a church involved in stituents. Using PowerPoint, (right) to serve as president and ministry,” he declared. He out - Whitsett recounted some of the lined “Vision 2009,” which conference’s achievements dur - calls for the conference to ing the last four years. This reach 3,000 members by 2009. included “rekindling the flame” He then invited attendees to spiritually among members; participate in this mission. “communicating the vision” Those who accepted were given through newsletters, area meet - a special sharing packet. ings, and a 2006 calendar; “refu - Boggess closed the meeting eling the vision” by addressing with a prayer of dedication. the conference’s financial 4 | VISITOR Newsline Ohio Officers Re-elected and Hispanic congregations. There are also 900 students at 20 schools. The president’s video report, themed “This is our Story,” Adan Ramos, 23, a first-time highlighted the efforts of the delegate who attended with fel - conferences 93 churches to low church mate and first-time spread the gospel in Ohio. delegate Earl Caulley. Both “Our churches have taken (pictured left) are members of the newly planted Worthington t the 39th Regular Spanish congregation. On the AConstituency Session of the other end of the spectrum was Ohio Conference last month, Willis Adams (pictured above), president Raj Attiken, executive pastor of the Springfield and secretary Hubert Cisneros, and New Carlisle congregations, treasurer Joanne Rude (pictured who sounded a bit nostalgic. above) were re-elected to serve “After 40 years of service with from 2006-2010. the Adventist church, including Over 430 delegates and 23 in Ohio and 11 at my pres - guests packed the Worthington seriously the call of Christ to ent churches, this will be my church sanctuary for the ses - provide ministries in our com - last constituency as an sion. They learned that from munities,” Attiken announced. employee ,” he noted. 2002-2006 Ohio welcomed The video told of day-care By lunchtime, the meeting 1,358 new members, enjoyed a centers, thrift shops, community was adjourned. tithe increase of 5.5 percent to picnics, food pantries, coat $9.3 million, planted 11 new drives, work with halfway churches, and opened three houses, and many other activi - new schools. The conference ties. “May God bless you as has English-speaking, you look for more ways to ‘tell Ghanaian, Korean, Hungarian, the story’ in your communi - Serbo-Croatian, French-Creole, ties,” Attiken concluded. Following the reports, dele - gates voted a new slate of mem - bers to serve on the conference executive committee, conference “At MVA, fostering spirituality association board, and the Mount is our number one objective,” Vernon Academy (MVA) board.
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