See the Day Approaching!

October 22 – 24, 2014

Fall is in the air, and it’s time for Camp Meeting! With camp meeting music and soul-stirring preachers, a blessing is coming your way.

See the Day Approaching. We do many things when we gather at this annual event. We worship, pray, learn, fellowship, meet new brothers and sisters, strengthen our relationships and much, much more. This year, we want to make sure that we think about the approaching return of Christ. You know that it's easy to get caught up with keeping up with all the demands on us, our families and our churches. It's possible to spend all our time and energy maintaining a routine. But we know that the world will not go on the same forever. Christ will come back for a people prepared and watching for His return! So let's take time to think about how this should stir us to action!

 

 There will be much to do this year in addition to the services. Dorms are available. A snack bar is open after each evening service for people to fellowship. Free breakfast and lunch are served Thursday and Friday. There is golf and a women's outing on Thursday afternoon, as well as an open singing time and game time on Friday afternoon.

Plan on attending Fall Camp Meeting and bring as many from your church as you can! Full schedule here.

Music

Evening Services Praise and Worship led by Pastor Dewayne Klepper

Morning Services Praise and Worship led by Rev. Brad Davis and SCU

Speakers

Bob Ely — evening services

Bob was born and raised in Anadarko, OK. Edith was born and raised in Norman, OK. Both came from divorced (broken) families. Bob was raised Nazarene and Edith Pentecostal. They met at the 1st Pentecostal Holiness Church in Norman, OK, where Edith was attending and Bob was saved, sanctified, baptized with the Holy Spirit and called to preach. They were married in that church on March 27, 1965. Edith worked as a medical transcriptionist/secretary so Bob could finish college. He attended the University of Oklahoma for two years, graduating from Southwestern College (now Southwestern Christian University) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion in 1967.

Out of their union two children, Steve and Stephanie and five grandchildren, Jessica, Talmadge, Jennifer, Devin and Jayden were born. Edith has faithfully supported Bob in all ministry endeavors for more than 44 years, especially in administrative/secretarial work and in her own singing ministry. In March 2014, they will celebrate 49 years of marriage and ministry together.

Bob brings wealth of ministry experience to the table. He has effectively ministered on local and national levels. He pastored two churches (University PH in Norman, Ok and First PH in Apache, OK). He has served as Conference Church Education Ministries Director (Pioneered the CEM Dept. in the West Oklahoma Conference), and Conference Superintendent (elected at 28 years of age, Bob served 12 years as Superintendent of West OK Conference). On the national level he has served on several denominational boards, including the General Board of Administration, the General Executive Board, Church Institutions Board, Evangelism USA Board, General Retirement Board (where he helped restructure the denominational program), several task force study committees, and President of the National Association of Pentecostal Holiness Evangelists. He was President of Southwestern Christian University for eleven years. He has also traveled extensively as a full-time evangelist.

Bishop Chris Thompson — Thursday morning

Bishop Thompson holds a Th.B. degree from Holmes Bible College, B.A. degree from Campbel University and Master of Ministry degree from Southwestern Christian University. Rev. Thompson currently holds the position of Executive Director of Evangelism USA for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the IPHC. He also serves as the Superintendent of the ACTS2Day Conference, Home Missions for the USA.

Prior to this election, Rev. Thompson served the North Carolina Conference of the IPHC as Evangelism Director (4 years); Evangelism/World Missions Director (11 years); Assistant Superintendent (7 years) and Conference Bishop for over (8 years).

He has a heart and passion for Church Planting, as is evident in his efforts to introduce new cultures and unchartered demographic areas into the denomination. He also has been instrumental in helping plant over 200 churches.

Rev. Thompson is a native of Wayne County, North Carolina and is married to Betty Richardson Thompson of Virginia. They are blessed with three sons and five grandchildren.

Terry Tramel as John the Revelator — Friday morning

Dr. Terry Tramel has been a minister in the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for over 35 years. He has preached and taught in numerous camp meetings, Bible conferences, and local church revival meetings across America. For the past twelve years he has served as a professor of Bible and Theology at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma. He is also a recurring writer for One Accord Resources Adult Teaching Guides. He is the author of "The Beauty of the Balance: Toward an Evangelical-Pentecostal Theology." He has a B.S. in Pastoral Ministry from Mid-America Christian University in Oklahoma City, a M.A. in Theology from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma, and a D.Min. in Leadership from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri. He and his wife Beckie reside in Norman, Oklahoma.