SUMMER CAMPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 306, 27 December 1929, Page 5

SUMMER CAMPS.

GATHERINGS AT HUNUA. ADVENTISTS AT AVONDALE. GROWTH OF MOVEMENT. Summer camps are being conducted at Hunua by the Workers' Educational Association and the Y.M.C.A., and at Avondale by the Seventh Day Adventists. Mr. George Adair, director of the boys' division, is in charge of the Young Men's Christian Association gathering. Tiie camp was opened last Friday, and at present there are 70 boys under his care. As the holidays advance it is expected that the number will be doubled. Mo>t of the lads belong to Auckland, but some have been sent from Rotorua, Paeroa and Papatoetoe. A party of ten is due from Whangarei, while Wellington is represented by one boy. The boys are comfortably provided for in Lodge Hunua, which stands on an area of 10i acres, and is within easy distance of the picturesque Hunua Gorge, and sleeping accommodation is provided in tents. W 7 ireles« 'S laid on at the lodge, and there is a wide variety of pastimes to keep everyone occupied. The Workers' Educational Association camp is the fifth to be held. The mornings are devoted to lecture courses, and the afternoons to sport and leisure. About 100 Bible students are in camp at Brown's Bay until January 3. The Seventh Day Adventists' camp meeting opened last night at Avondals racecourse, when Pastor W. G. Turner, president of the conference, screened upwards of 100 coloured slides depicting the development and progress of the movement throughout the world. A number of interesting experiences :n many lands and providential openings for the proclamation of the advent message were related. Figures were quoted showing that to-day Seventh Day Adventists were operating in 135 countries, and proclaiming their message in 349 languages. Baptisms for 192S throughout the world totalled 25,000. The amount given for the support of the work equalled upwards of £S per capita for the year. The denomination practises tithing, and by this means gave more per capita than any other religious organisation to the cause of world-wide missions. From small beginnings it was stated the movement had consistently grown, until to-day its missionaiies were in more countries than any other body, preachimr in more languages and printing in more tongues. The burden of their message was the second advent of Christ, and members believed through studying prophecy that the coming of the Lord was near. ,■*