CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 10

CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS

CAMP FOR 1500 AT CHANEYS PASTORS BUSY ERECTING TENTS Ministers from almost every Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Island are at present assembled at Pascoe Park, the Adventists’ permanent camp site at Chaneys, eight miles from Christchurch. Preaching and the regular work of the ministry have been set aside for a few days, and hands unaccustomed to manual v/ork are becoming blistered as the ministers of the South New Zealand Conference of Seventh-day Adventists drive about 5000 steel tent pegs, weighing 14 tons, and busy themselves with preparations for the opening of their 10-day annual conference session this evening.

At the main meeting of this year’s session, it is expected that about 1500 persons will be present. To accommodate those who will be living at Pascoe Park, 200 tents are being erected. Each tent will hold six persons. For the larger meetings of the session, a four-pole canvas pavilion has been erected with a seating capacity of more than 1500. The superintendent of the camp preparations is Pastor A. C. Ball, of Timaru.

Special overseas delegates to this year’s conference will be Pastor L. E. Froom, from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Washington, Pastor F. G. Clifford, of Sydney, president of the Australian and New Zealand division of the General Conference, and Pastor W. E. Battye, president of the Trans-Tasman Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.