Preparing For The King | Camp Meeting 2021

2212 Jordan Lane Southwest,Huntsville AL 35805

14 July, 2021

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Camp Meeting 2021, “Preparing for the King,” begins Wednesday, July 14 and ends Sunday, July 18. Each day will be filled with sermons, songs and hour-long seminars designed to prepare a people for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the impending dangers ahead and God’s present truth for our day! Sunday, July 18 8:00am – 12:00 noon will conclude the meetings with sales of products from electronically recorded messages, hand-outs, flyers, posters, books and food. We will provide one meal for all attendees each day. We invite you to come to this event and experience the blessing God has in store for you. This meeting is at no cost, the only thing that you will be responsible for is your longing and breakfast, lunch will be provided. The main speakers Include: 1. Pastor Lawrence J. Smith 2. Pastor Sean D. Davis 3. Pastor Gerard Johnson 4. Pastor Michael Martin 5. Pastor Kenny Shelton 6. Pastor Patrick Herbert 7. Dr. Timothy Perenich 8. Bro. Lamar Mauldin 9. Pastor Mamon Wilson And More What is the purpose of campmeeting? To Train Church Workers Properly conducted, the camp meeting is a school where pastors, elders, and deacons can learn to do more perfect work for the Master. It should be a school where the members of the church, old and young, are given opportunity to learn the way of the Lord more perfectly, a place where believers can receive an education that will help them to help others. { 6T 49.2} Those who have considered themselves qualified to bear responsibilities in the churches, should seek to obtain light and a knowledge of how to prosecute their work at this time in the cities, north and south, east and west, that are calling for a knowledge of the truth for this time. Our campmeetings should do a more thorough work in preparing the laborers for the work that is to be done in every place. { LLM 191.5 In connection with our camp-meetings in past years, God’s servants have improved many precious opportunities for instructing our people in practical methods of presenting the saving truths of the third angel’s message to their friends and acquaintances. Many have been taught how to labor as self-supporting missionaries in their home communities. Many have returned home from these annual gatherings, to labor with greater zeal and intelligence than hitherto. It would be pleasing to God if far more of this practical instruction were given the church members who attend our camp-meetings, than has usually been given in years past. Our general workers and our brethren and sisters in every conference should remember that one of the objects of our annual gatherings is that all may gain a knowledge of practical methods of personal missionary work.—Testimonies for the Church 9:81. { ChS 195.2} By engaging in work at the camp-meeting, all may be learning how to work successfully in their home churches.—Testimonies for the Church 6:49. { ChS 195.4} Health Reform To Be Taught The light on the subject of health reform was given by the Lord, and we are not to depart from it. The Lord has put into the minds of some a knowledge of how to prepare wholesome articles of food. But it is not His design that this knowledge shall be confined to a few. In every family there should be those who understand the science of healthful cooking.... { TSDF 98.1 } We should put forth greater efforts to teach the people the truths of health reform. At every campmeeting an effort should be made to demonstrate what can be done in providing an appetizing, wholesome diet from grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables. In every place where new companies are brought into the truth, instruction should be given in the science of preparing wholesome food. Workers should be chosen who can labor from house to house in an educational campaign. { TSDF 98.2 } To Arouse The People Of God The camp-meeting is one of the most important agencies in our work. It is one of the most effective methods of arresting the attention of the people.—Testimonies for the Church 6:31. { ChS 194.1} In our work we have been perplexed to know how to break through the barriers of worldliness and prejudice, and bring before the people the precious truth which means so much to them. The Lord has instructed us that the camp-meeting is one of the most important instrumentalities for the accomplishment of this work.—Testimonies for the Church 6:31, 32. { ChS 194.2} Our camp-meetings have another object.... They are to promote spiritual life among our own people.... God has committed to our hands a most sacred work, and we need to meet together to receive instruction, that we may be fitted to perform this work. We need to understand what part we shall individually be called upon to act in building up the cause of God in the earth, in vindicating God’s holy law, and in lifting up the Saviour as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29. We need to meet together and receive the divine touch that we may understand our work in the home.—Testimonies for the Church 6:32, 33. { ChS 194.4} Preparation For The Latter Rain The convocations of the church, as in camp meetings, the assemblies of the home church, and all occasions where there is personal labor for souls, are God’s appointed opportunities for giving the early and the latter rain.—Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 508 (1897). { LDE 188.1} For more information on camp meetings and how to prepare please read Testimonies For The Church Vol. 5, Chapter 15—Our Camp Meetings.