09 February 2009

Camp meeting enlists 825 new members to church’s roll

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cambodia (CAM) holds a yearly camp meeting bringing together hundreds of church members and their friends to fellowship and praise. This year’s camp meeting, February 9-14, had more than 2,500 attendees coming from all over the country. The camp meeting was held at Wat Prey Yesu (Salt Center), in Siem Reap.

The participants were feted to a spiritual feast as they listened to messages delving on the theme, “God’s Word Brings Hope.”

“Last year we committed ourselves to double our baptism of 400 new believers and indeed, we fulfilled that promise. This year we brought in 825 new believers who were baptized on Sabbath,” said church members.

A very active and enthusiastic team from the USA joined the camp and led out with the children’s program as well as with health screening.

Dr. Dan Augsberger presented the morning devotional talks while the local pastors were assigned to give the evening worship talks.

The management of the camp reiterated their appreciation to these guests who came to make the sessions alive and worth repeating. They also thanked the team from Cambodia Adventist School for translating the messages given by the guests as well as helping with the children’s program.