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CAMP MEETING MEMORIES
For some years in the 1940s the Iowa Conference camp meetings
were held in a church camp near Cedar Falls, Iowa. Since it was
quite a distance from the town, we stocked a small store with
some basic foodstuffs. Being the youngest “worker,” I was given the
responsibility of operating the store. I soon found that, with getting
the food from the town and keeping the store open at certain
hours for the convenience of the campers, I was not getting much
from the camp meeting. I went home that year feeling rather
empty.
When time for the next camp meeting approached, I began to
pray that I would receive some spiritual benefit along with the
other campers. God answered my prayer the first night. The speaker’s
theme was from the story of blind Bartimaeus. When Bartimaeus
reached Jesus, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to
do for you?” (Mark 10:51).
The message to everyone was “What are you expecting, what
are you here for?” When I answered the question in accordance
with my prayers, that camp meeting experience was spiritually fulfilling—store
and all.
—HAMPTON WHITE, REED CITY, MICHIGAN
ADVENTIST LIFE
When our son Jonathan was small, my husband, Dick, was taking
him for a walk in the park. Jonathan saw two teens up in a large
tree and knew just what to say: “Zacchaeus, you come down!”
—CAROLYN MILLARD, LOLO, MONTANA
When Harvey Byram, then principal at Dallas Junior Academy in
Texas in 1976, poked his head into the seventh and eighth-grade
classroom one morning, we all interrupted our activities to hear
what he had to say. “I have good news and bad news for you. The
good news is that we will have only a half day of school this
morning!”
Our soaring spirits were quickly dashed as he continued, “The
bad news is the other half of the day will be after lunch!”
—ED FRY, PINEHURST, TEXAS
© TERRY CREWS
PHOTO
SPLASH FOR CASH: When approached by the Associated Student
Body of Union College, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to help raise
money for an organization that works to prevent human trafficking
on three continents, John Wagner, Union’s president, jumped—that
is, dove—at the opportunity. He and four other faculty members
challenged the student body to raise money. The faculty member
who raised the most promised to do something, uh, memorable.
Wagner raised the most money, and fulfilled his pledge by diving
off the high dive in a suit. The money not only went to a great
cause, but Wagner saved $12 on dry cleaning.
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