p. 18 | Notes from the West Canadian Camp Meetings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1916

Notes from the West Canadian Camp Meetings

By C. F. McVagh

THE last camp meeting of the season in western Canada was held at Kelowna, in the famous Okanagan valley, in British Columbia. The city furnished us a splendid site for our camp, in the park on the shore of Okanagan Lake. Before the meeting began, I had the privilege of visiting our people and churches in Glenemma, Grandview, Vernon, and Penticton.

Our brethren and sisters were of good courage, and their attendance was about the same as at the coast meeting in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. We enjoyed favorable weather, and those not of our faith showed a fair degree of interest. No business meetings were held at the camp meetings, as the British Columbia Conference, which met last fall, adopted the two-year plan, and elected officers for that period. It has been decided to hold one central camp meeting in British Columbia next year, and have the conference session in connection with it.

On looking over my notes of the camp meetings this summer, I see that in the four provinces 1,725 persons attended the meetings, and 112 were baptized. More than $12,500 was pledged for home and foreign work, and more than $2,700 worth of literature was sold to our members for home mission work.

Altogether we can but feel that much good has been accomplished, and we thank God that we have had a part in the work. C. F. McVagh.