BIBLE CLASS CAMP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 66, 21 April 1944, Page 3

BIBLE CLASS CAMP

OUTING AT OHOPE

EASTER WEEK-END

Easter 1944 marked the resumption of the Combined Young Women's and Young Men's Biblte Class camp at Ohope. The camps had been discontinued for war security reasons.

District Committee President, and his colleagues face'd many difficulties, but the S3 campers voted the camp first class un every way.

No professional cooks were available for the permanent cookhouse, but Major and Mrs G. R. Yeoman, of Taneat.ua, ran the meals, like professionals, and the varied menu was much appreciated.

At the other end the Very Rev. J. G. Laughton was a tower of strength. He took the Leader's Study Circle, and also addressed the three mass 1 meetings in the Bible Class Hall, on the one. text—

I'. Follow me

If. And I will make you 111. Fishers of men. • Hearts were stirred to the call for lives of Christian Service. Rev. A. C. Hampton, senior minister in camp, dispensed the Sacrament at the Communion Service on Good Friday morning, while, the youngest minister, the Rev. E. Melville of Te Puke, proved himself an efficient and popular Camp Dad. Opotiki won the sports banner by a narrow margin from Wliakatane Other classes represented in the wide, area of the Presbytery were Pongakawa, Taneatua, Edgecumbe, Matata, Awakeri and Reporoa. Mr lan Murray, the new camp secretary, did a, line job. Mrs A. C. Hampton, of Opotiki, made an excellent Camp Mother. Throughout, the camp at Ohope, youth is given every chance to express i'tself in things grave and gay.