Category: Events

The Good News Seventh Day Baptist Church is one of the newest SDB groups.  Located near Raleigh, NC. They began meeting in homes about a year ago and have been meeting at The Pointe Church in Apex, NC since last September.

This church group is a church-plant from the Shepherd’s Fold Seventh Day Baptist Church in Johnson City, TN which is located about 4 1/2 hours away.

In June 2018, at their annual meeting, the SDB Appalachian Association voted to provide some funding to this new group.  Our church, Pataskala Seventh Day Baptist, has designated our Building Up the Temple mission offering for Jan-Mar for the Good News SDB Church to help with promotion, rent, materials, etc.

You can find more information about the Good News Seventh Day Baptist Church at their website https://goodnewssdbchurch.wixsite.com/gnsdb or contact them at goodnewssdbchurch@gmail.com. Be sure to stop in and worship with them if you are in the Raleigh, NC area any Sabbath!

A member of the Good News SDB Church was featured in the January 2019 issue of the Sabbath Recorder magazine.  Follow this link to see the article.

Plans are underway for a fun afternoon of games, prizes, food, and even a hayride!  Join us at the Pataskala Seventh Day Baptist Church located at 12161 Broad Street SW in Pataskala, OH.

The classrooms will each have a different “carnival” type game (think throwing & tossing) to win tickets redeemable at “THE PRIZE TABLE”.  Sloppy joes, chips & drinks will be available when you’re ready to take a break. Relax and spend time with someone you know or make a new friend.

There will be a hayride for all those interested in participating loading up about 3:30pm.  Join us for this family & kid-friendly afternoon.  It’s free and fun for all ages!

Women from Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Alabama Seventh Day Baptist churches and guests joined together at Camp Joy in Berea, WV the weekend of September 28-30, 2018.  There were six women attending from the Pataskala Seventh Day Baptist Church, Becky Van Horn, Monika Martin, Susie Fox, Marge Patrick and Marge’s two sisters Erlene and Marilyn.  All together there were 22 women from several different churches attending.

The weekend was planned and led by the women from the Salemville, PA church, along with help from other churches for meals and clean-up. We studied the book A Confident Heart by Renee Swope.  Using video clips by Renee, the teaching sessions were led by Amanda Barbee and Kristin Camenga. Due to time constraints, we were only able to get a brief touch of the book’s main points, but the women received copies of the book to take home.  The information covered helped us all learn “how to stop doubting yourself and live in the security of God’s promises” which is the subtitle of the book.

In addition to the 4 insightful lessons, we had some great meals and snacks, time to relax in beautiful rural West Virginia, meet new friends, worship in a church that’s over 200 years old, and got to sit around a campfire at night to sing songs & play games.

Reminder, the retreat is always the last full weekend in September.  Maybe you can join  on September 27-29, 2019 for next year’s retreat!

Here are some additional pictures from the weekend:

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NOTE: For those women wanting the recipe for the Fruit Croissant Puff served for Sunday morning breakfast, follow this link. (this recipe was tripled)

There was canoeing & crafts….there were chores and Bible Science and morning flag raising…..there was swimming and July 4th fireworks…..there were quiet evening vespers in the hills of West Virginia…..morning Revele and evening Taps…..and so much more!

Fifteen campers (grades 3-5) and eight counselors under the able direction of co-directors Pastor Robert Van Horn and Susie Fox had a GREAT time at Junior Camp Joy July 1-5, 2018 in Berea, WV.   Three of the campers (Emma Van Horn, Arabella Lear, and Abigail Lanzer) represented the Pataskala SDB Church as well as the directors and Peter Fox as a counselor.

The theme was “Choose Joy” with Bible lessons each day about ways we can do that.  The campers were divided into four work groups with a different “chore” to do each day: wash dishes, clean the lodge, plan evening vespers, and plan campfire activities.

Everyone was surprised the first night when the electricity went out just before bed-time due to a thunderstorm resulting in no showers or fans or lights after a long hot day.  We had a chance to “Choose Joy” instead of fear, complaining, and irritability!

We had daily cabin inspections which motivated the campers to keep their bunk areas cleaned up as well.  We awarded the “Clean Cabin Award” to a different cabin each day.  Although we also had the “Stinky Sock Award”, there were surprisingly not any cabins that deserved that award throughout the week!

It was HOT, so the “Slip-n-Slide” during recreation time was a big hit and two afternoons swimming at North Bend State Park as well!  During our “rotation” time each day, the campers were divided into three different groups and one third of the group did Recreation, one third went canoeing, and one third worked on some pretty neat crafts.  Every 40 minutes we switched to the next activity until everyone had done all three things.  Each evening after supper, Professor Solomon invited us into her laboratory to explore interesting Bible Science experiments!

Thanks to our cooks (Chip & Michael Thorngate, Hannah Smith, and a little help from Dusty Davis), we had delicious food for 3 meals and 2 snacks a day along with plenty of liquids to keep us hydrated!

Enjoy these pictures from 2018 Junior Camp Joy: 

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[We also had one camper from our church, Lily Van Horn, attend Middler Camp Joy the previous week June 24-July 1, 2018 and Kym Goodson helping cook at Senior Camp Joy the following week July 8-15, 2018.]