Work week at the Gospel of the Kingdom Camp Ground in Shepherdsville, KY

Once again it is time to pay my small contribution to the Lord, at the Gospel of the Kingdom Campground.  Workweek now happens once a year before the June camp meeting.  I always feel a little bit sentimental as I drive up the hill, thinking about all Gods people over the years that have helped and contributed monumental efforts to keep the doors open for all of us to gather in an open General-meeting environment.   God has been with our efforts to support the campground, but also he is “WELL PLEASED” with our ongoing and future efforts to make it a place of worship for all Gods people to meet.  I feel inspired to do some history about the campground and just a few of the folks that have labored to make it available for us to once again offer a sacrifice to our King on Shepherdsville hill.  I firmly encourage EVERYONE who participates in the services up there to help with the workweek efforts.  Even if you have never contributed time, money or labor to afford members of the body of Christ to continue meeting up there, I think it would be pleasing to the spirit of the Lord to not continue to dwell in your ceiled house while the house of the Lord lies waste.  Come up next week (May 3^rd thru 7^th) and help get the campground in working order.  If you can’t come send an ambassador in your stead and if that is not possible send an offering to help cover the meals and materials of those that are there.  I can’t  mention how much I appreciate all the people that fought so hard to keep this place available.  As I mentioned earlier in this post I am going to share some history about the campground and plan on making this available prior to the June camp meeting.  The song comes to mind “If You Want To Do A Great Work, Come And Go Along!”  Thank you Godfrey and Bro. Alfred Daves and ALL the other CHURCHES and PEOPLE that have sacrificed all those many decades that the bulk of our brethren did not support the campground or assist in maintaining it for use.

PS--Thank you once again to Bro. Dillon for allowing me to use his blog to share my thoughts.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. ~Aristotle~

My long time friend and fellow historian Dan Dillon has requested some assistance in keeping fresh content on his blog. I have some ideas about various issues that God's people are facing, but I am going to refrain from sharing those at this time.

However, since I do not want to leave Dan without content I will fall back on my favorite past time, which is the history of the body of Christ in the 20th century.

Back in the early 1990's I felt a burden to begin preserving our history as a body. Since that time, one hobby that I have thoroughly enjoyed is collecting old photographs. I am working on a book about William Sowders in which many of these pictures will be available to all. Who was he, where did he come from and what shaped his early life?

Well, in the mean time while I am composing this book, I will try to get on here at least twice a month to share a little bit of my findings. Anyone that has done any amount of research on a subject like history will recognize that it is VERY subjective. Sometimes I am unable to recall what I wore to church and ate for dinner on Sunday. Yet I am regularly asking people to recall dates and circumstances surrounding events that happened 50,60 and 70 years ago. There is plenty of room for error and perspective. We should all keep this in mind anytime we are reading one persons reflections. So please know that my names, dates, places and events are subject to be modified at anytime if I have more accurate and specific information become available. So some of the dates are an extrapolation based on other confirmed facts. I have spent a huge amount of time to validate and cross reference the material I have chosen to use. I hope it blesses you as much as it has me doing the research. I should have one bio ready by Sunday November 22^nd.

God bless,

Paul Farmer