Livestreaming Links (for evening meetings and Sabbath morning, including Sabbath School)
English language: YouTube
Spanish language: Facebook
Join us for in person (unless COVID-19 rears its ugly head again) on the campus of Gem State Adventist Academy, June 14 – 18, 2022.
We have a great lineup of speakers: Dr. Darold Bigger will start us off Tuesday through Thursday evenings, followed by Shawn Boonstra Friday evening through Sabbath evening.
If you can come during the daytime Wednesday through Friday, come and choose a seminar or two to attend. Want to learn more practical ways you can participate in Operation Exponential Growth? Come to Douglas Na’a’s seminar. Interested in how Ellen White spent the last 15 years of her life? Join Dale Galusha for an engaging seminar. Want to reach out more to your community, meet the needs of your neighbors? Sung Kwon will be sharing his passion for community outreach.
Pastor Mark Tamaleaa is the speaker for the Young Adults in the Tent (on the weekend). Pastor Robert Costa is the speaker for the Spanish language camp meeting, which is also June 14 – 18, 2022.
Dr Richard & Linda Sloop from Yakima, WA will be presenting our health seminars!
Sabbath afternoon we will finally (!) be graced with the beautiful harmonies of Victory Choir. You won’t want to miss the concert on Sabbath afternoon.
We’ll have programs for kids of all ages – Beginner through Youth!
Camp Meeting Map
Children’s/Youth Schedule
Adult/Spanish/Young Adult Schedule
Young Adults
Meeting on Friday evening @ 7 pm, Sabbath worship @ 10:45 am and Sabbath evening @ 7 pm in the Young Adult Tent.
Registration – for Lodging in Dorms/RV
The Victory Choir
The Victory Choir, a youth Rwandan refugee choir from the Oasis Seventh-day Adventist Church, is our Sabbath afternoon concert guest! You’ll be blessed by their beautiful harmonies!
Robert Costa, speaker for the Spanish Language meetings
A native of Uruguay, Pastor Robert Costa is the speaker/director of Escrto Está, the Spanish television program of It Is Written. Escrito Está is broadcast weekly via satellite, cable, and over 11,000 local channels and radio stations, reaching more than 138 countries.
Pastor Costa earned his college degrees in Argentina and the United States and has served as pastor since 1980 in South America and North America. His passion to share the good news of God’s Word has led him to conduct more than 300 evangelistic series around the world in the last 15 years. Presently, Robert and his wife Nancy live in Maryland where they actively serve the Lord together.
Pastor Mark Tamaleaa, Young Adult Speaker
Pastor Mark Tamaleaa currently serves as the Youth Pastor in Kansas City, MO at the New Haven Church. In the last 24 years, he has served as conference youth & young adult director, young adult pastor, teacher and principal.
Pastor Mark and his wife, Mindy, have been married for 25 years. They have four children. They have a heart for counseling young couples and leading young people to Jesus.
Join Pastor Mark in the Tent beginning on Friday evening. Young adults – please join the evening meetings with Dr Darold Bigger Tuesday – Thursday evenings.
Dr Darold Bigger
Darold and his wife Barbara began their ministry in the Idaho Conference working with the evangelist and pastoring. Since then they have been to the seminary in Michigan, graduate school and pastoring in California, and for the past 41 years Darold has pastored, taught, and is currently the Dean of the School of Social work and Sociology at Walla Walla University.
During his pastoral and teaching years, Darold was also a military reserve chaplain from which he retired as the senior chaplain of the Navy Reserve, overseeing religious ministry and programs in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Reserve.
Dr Bigger is our Tuesday – Thursday evening speaker.
Shawn Boonstra
Pastor Shawn Boonstra is speaker/director for the Voice of Prophecy ministry. His broadcasts and books have been a source of inspiration around the globe, and over the years, his live events have been presented on every continent except Antarctica.
Prior to coming to the Voice of Prophecy in 2013, Shawn served as an associate ministerial director at the North American Division.
He also served for seven years as speaker/director for It Is Written International Television. In his early pastoral career, he served as speaker/director for It Is Written Canada and pastored a number of churches in British Columbia.
He currently lives in Loveland, Colorado, and enjoys any activity that gets him out of doors and into the mountains, especially when his wife and two daughters join him.
Pastor Boonstra is speaking for Friday evening, Sabbath morning and Sabbath evening.
Dr. Sung Kwon
Sung Kwon, PhD, DMin, has served as the North American Division Adventist Community Services (ACS) executive director from 2001- 2021. He is an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He is currently an associate professor at Andrews University and program director of the MA in Leadership in Social Innovation. Though he grew up in a family with Buddhist and Catholic beliefs, he became a baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1991.
After becoming an Adventist, he served as the Executive Director of the Good Neighbor House, an ACS agency in Dayton, Ohio, for eight years. He was also the vice president and, later, president of the North American Association of Community Services Directors (NAACSD).
Dr. Kwon is one of our weekday seminar speakers and will be sharing on how to reach your community.
Dale Galusha
At a very young age, Dale Galusha felt God’s call and has spent his life in various aspects of ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. During his academy and college days, Dale spent summers working at youth camps in Northern California. After graduating from Pacific Union College, he became a youth pastor in the Northern California Conference before attending the SDA Theological Seminary at Andrews University. Upon completing the seminary, he returned to Northern California where he pastored and was conference evangelist. He has conducted evangelistic meetings and field schools of evangelism in a number of countries around the world.
Since 1995 Dale has ministered in different capacities at Pacific Press Publishing Association. He has served as president of PPPA since 2005.
Dale Galusha is one of our weekday seminar speakers and will be sharing on Ellen White’s last 15 years.
Douglas Na’a
Douglas Na’a is the Program Director for SALT, Soul-winning And Leadership Training, which partners with the evangelistic ministry of It Is Written on the campus of Southern Adventist University. Douglas has pastored churches, planted churches, and collaborated with churches in conducting evangelistic meetings. He is excited about bringing to SALT his years of experience to disciple and mentor mission-minded people.
Dr Richard and Linda Sloop
Richard Sloop is a neurologist in Yakima, Washington. He and his wife Linda, a registered dietitian, have been doing health evangelism at the Adventist church in Yakima for 20 years. For health, fitness and sanity, Richard and Linda enjoy the active pursuits of walking, cycling, hiking, backpacking, climbing and cross country skiing in the amazing beauty of God’s creation. They have 2 grown children and 3 amazing grandsons!
Dr Richard and Linda will be providing our weekday health seminars.