2017 Kentucky-Tennessee Camp Meeting Hidden in Christ Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Highland Academy Portland, Tennessee May 26-June 3, 2017 WELCOME! Steve Haley Steve Rose Douglas Hilliard President Executive Secretary Treasurer ike many games from years ago, I don’t think children play it now as much Las they did when I was growing up. In an era when there was no internet, no video games, and television broadcast a total of four channels, urban kids like those in my neighborhood had to be creative in order to have fun. Most of the time, our fun took the form of being outside playing games. It seems that there were a lot of positives to spending afternoon hours playing basketball, football, and coasting on homemade skateboards. Yet it was after nightfall that we sometimes played my favorite game: “hide and go seek.” If you’ve ever played it, you remember the simple rules. One person looks while all the other’s hide and when opportunity provides, those who are hiding race to the home base before being tagged. It was exciting for me to hide and try to avoid capture. I never minded the minutes lying still behind a row of hedges or standing motionless behind a tree waiting for the moment to race home, and in my neighborhoods version of the game, shout “free” meaning you had won the round. For King David, hiding was not a game; it was a spiritual necessity. In the Psalms David often expressed the desire to hide, not from, but in God. Here are a few of his thoughts and appeals for God to hide him: “You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble . .” Psalm 119:114 “You are my hiding place and my shield; I wait for Your word.” Psalm 17:8 “Hide me in the shadow of Your wings” Psalm 27:5 “Rescue me from my enemies, Lord, for I hide myself in you.” Psalm 143:9 Do you sense the common theme of David’s prayer to God to be hidden? In Him, there is protection. In Him there is peace. In the often desperate and dangerous world that David lived in, like our own, it is no wonder he often cried to God to hide him and rejoiced in that in the midst of trouble, the Lord was a place of strength and protection. Praise God, He still is! Like the Shepherd King, we too can rejoice to be hidden in Him; but there’s more to the biblical theme of hiding than the blessings of protection. Perhaps the most remarkable passage of hiding in God is not found in the Old Testament, but in the letter Paul wrote to the Colossians. In the teaching of the Apostle, hidden in Christ is more than protection; it is a metaphorical image 2 CONTENTS Adult Program Schedule..........................................................12-13 Afternoon Seminars (Daily)......................................................14-16 Camp Meeting Personnel..............................................................23 Children...........................................................................................18 Earliteen..........................................................................................19 Evangelism......................................................................................11 Food Services.................................................................................24 General Information.......................................................................22 Highland Academy............................................................................5 Madison Academy............................................................................5 Map..................................................................................................24 Prayer Room...................................................................................21 Speakers & Presenters.................................................................6-9 Special Events................................................................................16 Trust Services.................................................................................20 Young Adults...................................................................................21 Youth...............................................................................................20 for spiritual renewal. In Colossians 3:1-4 we read, “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ, in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” Notice how Paul states his observation. Not in words of “if” or “maybe.” He doesn’t offer this experience as an unlikely possibility of a hoped-for dream. Instead he declares it as a great reality- a stated truth - for the follower of Christ. In referring to the death and resurrection symbolism associated with baptism, Paul tells us that we ARE dead to the old life, and raised with Christ to the new. Because of that fact, our lives are lifted heavenward. No longer living for planet earth, we now live for heaven. Notice the past-tense declaration of our re-birth, and its present tense results: we HAVE been raised with Christ, and therefore we ARE hidden with Christ in God. That’s good news! But it gets even better! The words that conclude Paul’s thoughts in verse 4 are also stated as an absolute promise. We who are hidden in Jesus, can be assured, that “when He appears, we will also appear with Him in glory!” What an amazing gift for those who are hidden in Him! In the childhood game of hide and seek, the best moment came when I would race home and shout “I’m free.” Paul’s words remind me, that very soon, we will shout and sing those words together with the redeemed of all the ages, safely home with Christ, forever free at last. Steve Haley, President 3 4 Madison Academy Seeker | Scholar | Servant 615.865.4055 www.madisonacademy.com 5 SPEAKERS & PRESENTERS THOMAS BENTLEY is an ordained minister in the Kentucky-Ten- nessee Conference with theological training at the Adventist Theological Seminary, combined with graduate and postgraduate degrees in Engineering. His many years of experience working in applied science provided him with an engineer’s eye to the creation/evolution debate. Bentley has two books written about science and creation. Have you Swallowed the Hook and How to Think About Science in the Age of Evolution have been broadcast on Amazing Discoveries and Better Life Television. GORDON BOTTING is the financial educator and stewardship direc- tor for the Pacific Union Conference. In this capacity, for the last twenty-two years he has developed money management mate- rials and regularly conducted financial workshops and steward- ship seminars both statewide and nationally. Botting is a widely published author and has developed a number of practical money management seminar workbooks. In addition, he has written nu- merous practical money management articles for both American and Australian magazines. For over twenty years, he has pro- duced and written a monthy bulletin insert the Stewpot. He lives in Lincoln Hills, California with his wife, Margaret. They have two married children Tim and Angela and five grandchildren. ROCKY DAVIS began full-time canvassing right out of Mt. Vernon Academy. At 18, without a car, his adventure started in the Mt. View Conference. Since that time, he has accumulated a total of 33 years in the literature ministry. The first 17 years in the adult literature ministry, then 13 years in the student magabook minis- try, with 11 of those years as the Youth Outreach Coordinator for the Southern Union. He now serves as the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Publishing and Religious Liberty Director. He is married to Rachel Oleta and is the proud father of 2 adult chil- dren and two boys, 10 and 12. ALBERT DITTES is a semi-retired, freelance musician/writer living in Portland, Tennessee. Dittes has written about local Adventist history, including two books about the Madison College pioneers and one on early Adventism in Kentucky and Tennessee. His lat- est book, Three Adventist Titans: The Significance of Heeding or Rejecting the Counsel of Ellen White, profiles three prominent founders of Adventist medical work. 6 JIMMY FRANCE had worked for McKee Foods Corporation for 24 years when, at God’s nudging, he left the security of that job to do what he loves, being a seminar presenter of Bible prophecy, other biblical topics, and personal finance. The material he will share in his seminar comes from his 30 years of studying Daniel 2’s stone and God’s character of love wrapped in the Great Controversy theme. Now he wants to share the life-changing truths he’s found with everyone who will listen. He and his wife, Monica, have two children and live in Tennessee. CLIFFORD GOLDSTEIN was born in Albany, New York. He was raised a secular Jew, but became a Seventh-day Adventist in 1980. He received a B.A. from the University of Florida and an M.A. in Ancient Northwest Semitic Languages from Johns Hop- kins University. Goldstein edited the journal Shabbat Shalom from 1984 until 1992. He was the editor of Liberty magazine from 1992 until 1997 and the editor of the adult Sabbath School lesson in 1999. He also wrote the 2006 third quarter edition, en- titled The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment. Goldstein and his wife, Kimberly, have two children. RICHARD HALVERSEN spent years battling drug addiction until he had a powerful conversion experience and accepted God’s calling into pastoral ministry. He is passionate about evange- lism, church