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CHURCH OF GOD CAMP MEETINGS. How are they doing in their attendance over the years? Actually, the attendance seems to be dwindling each year,. I recommended a friend to stop in TX and be in the Texas CoG Camp Meeting at few years ago. I was sure there would be several thousand in attendance since Texas is such a large state. He reported back to me that just a few hundred is all they had in attendance. This seems to be happening in many areas of the country. CoG CAMP MEETINGS use to be held in large outdoor tabernacles where thousands of CoG people gathered. Something has happened. Today, the majority of CoG Camp Meetings are held in local churches, no doubt due to low turn out. The CoG in Ohio sold its old Camp Ground and Tabernacle in the late 1960’s. (At one time, the CoG owned three Camp Grounds, all at the same time.) In 1968, the CoG in Ohio conducted its Camp Meeting at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Even then though, we had a good number of people in attendance. My future wife, Roberta Wheeler Harter and I are there, in the back. LOL See how many people you recognize in this pic?
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Tx Cog tabernacle will not even hold a thousand. So, don’t think u were informed correctly. It’s always full. We have just about the best!
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Certainly true of Tennessee Campmeeting
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Seems like the CoG forgot their roots. Wanted to be uptown. Now they are struggling to exist. …..letting societal change take center stage. Sad. Used to love camp meeting and the move of the Spirit.
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They wanted AC
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I don’t see any of the women with “bobbed hair,” or wearing “earbobs” or “jewelry” in this pic. Why not? Because they were Church of God.
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Well good ole camp meeting! What a great time I used to have when getting to attend! AR camp meeting!! I remember the tabernacle scene from back in the day! Saw dust flooring, folks using hand fans, maybe a large fan going on each side of stage! They sold our property & went the AC route also! Even broke it up in districts! So no it hasn’t been the same! Especially when my mind goes back to receiving the Holy Ghost lying in that good holy saw dust! I miss that setting & the way God moved! Oh yes I like AC too! However I think I could do without it for a while to feel the real camp meeting fever again?
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