Thirteen teams of six gathered expectantly, awaiting the start of the 2019 Pathfinder Bible Experience. They’d been ready to “compete” a week earlier, but the event was postponed due to the Willamette valley’s “snowpocalypse”.

For years, we’ve made audio recordings available for most worship services and seminars at Gladstone Camp Meeting.

This past Monday morning, 280 people gathered at Holden Convention Center in Gladstone, Ore. in anticipation of welcoming family members they hadn’t seen in 10, or more years.

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At 8:18 am, the text message came. “We’re evacuating Paradise as a precaution.”

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Let’s take a step back and answer a few basic questions about the process itself.