tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449895699816031428.post1535637311043921361..comments2024-01-06T17:45:26.720-05:00Comments on Anything and Everything!: Sunday School RallyStarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11685930880024437696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449895699816031428.post-82237800466366631532008-07-28T08:51:00.000-04:002008-07-28T08:51:00.000-04:00Dad was telling me all about the days he attended ...Dad was telling me all about the days he attended and said it was really good.<BR/><BR/>Camp meetings have become almost obsolete, so it's wonderful to see places that still do them.<BR/><BR/>I was curious about the history of the camp meeting and found it to be very interesting:<BR/><BR/><I>The camp meeting is a phenomenon of American frontier Christianity. The movement of thousands of persons to what had previously been trackless wilderness in the 18th century in America had led to something of a religious vacuum. Not only were there few authorized houses of worship, there were even fewer ordained ministers to fill their pulpits. The "camp meeting" was an innovative response to this situation. Word of mouth told that there was to be a religious meeting at a certain location. Due to the primitive means of transportation, if this meeting was to be more than a few miles' distance from those attending, it would necessitate their leaving home for its entire duration, or as long as they desired to remain, and camping out at or near its site, as usually there were neither adequate accommodations or the funds necessary to obtain them. At a large camp meeting, many came from over a large area, some out of sincere religious devotion or interest, others out of curiosity and a desire for a break from the arduous frontier routine, although many in this latter group often became sincere converts as well.<BR/><BR/>Freed from their daily routines for the duration of the meeting, unlike traditional religious events these meetings could provide their participants with almost continuous services; once one speaker was finished (often after several hours) another would often rise to take his place. These sorts of meetings were huge contributing factors to what became known as the Second Great Awakening. A particularly large and successful one was held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky in 1801, where the Restoration Movement began to be formalized. They gained wide recognition and a substantial increase in popularity in the aftermath of the American Civil War as a result of the first Holiness movement Camp Meeting in Vineland, New Jersey in 1867. Ocean Grove, New Jersey, founded in 1869, has been called the "Queen of the Victorian Methodist Camp Meetings." At the end of the nineteenth century, believers in Spiritualism also established camp meetings throughout the United States.<BR/><BR/>In 1815 in what is now Toronto, Ohio, the Rev. J. M. Bray, pastor of the Sugar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, began an annual camp meeting that, in 1875, became interdenominational upon its purchase by what is now the Hollow Rock Holiness Camp Meeting Association. The association, which still runs the camp, claims that it is the oldest Christian camp meeting in continual existence in the United States.<BR/><BR/>Camp meetings in America continued to be conducted for many years on a wide scale and some are still held today, primarily by Pentecostal groups but by some other Protestants and Spiritualists as well. The revival meeting is often felt to be a modern-day attempt to recreate the spirit of the frontier camp meeting...</I><BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_meetingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449895699816031428.post-15686731111376642452008-07-28T08:01:00.000-04:002008-07-28T08:01:00.000-04:00The skit idea is great. We've talked for a while ...The skit idea is great. We've talked for a while about having a youth rally at our church with other churches and this would be a GREAT idea!! I'll be filing this one away in my brain!!<BR/><BR/>~KristiKristihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06373672946044787468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449895699816031428.post-33798020149665188222008-07-27T17:46:00.000-04:002008-07-27T17:46:00.000-04:00I love the idea of that skit!I love the idea of that skit!Rita Locahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09961929692808138092noreply@blogger.com