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Fields of the Wood


The 2006 summer has been very busy at Fields of the Wood. Our staff has been working hard to keep the Park presentable for all our guests. The gift shop and café have served hundreds of people with their gift-shopping needs and hunger pains. It has been an exciting experience to meet our visitors from across the U.S. as well as guests from Canada, Central America, South America and many other countries from around the world. We enjoyed a wonderful time in the Lord on Heritage Day Celebration commemorating June 13, 1903. Our General Overseer, Bishop F.S. Fisher Sr. was present and blessed everyone with his word of encouragement “Vision Now” – “Spirit Driven”. Peerless Road Pastor, Bishop Tim Coalter delivered an inspiring and uplifting message. We were also blessed to have Tennessee Harmony from Cleveland, TN lifting up the name of our Lord in song. Although it was a very ‘hot’ day, it was a glorious day.

Various events this season have included gospel singings in observance of Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends as well as Fourth of July celebration of our Independence as a Nation and our Dependence on God through Jesus Christ our blessed Savior.

There were a good number of our church people visiting Fields of the Wood before, during, and after the General Assembly in August. Thanks be to God that they were able to visit the place of their church’s heritage.

Of course, there is always the ongoing maintenance, repairs, grass cutting, weed trimming, painting, and etc. On September 16th our local High School Girls basketball team along with the Girls basketball team from a college near Johnson City, TN converged on Fields of the Wood to donate their time and labor as a mission project. WOW! What a day it was! We supplied them with scrapers, brooms, paint brushes, paint, rollers, etc. and they went to work. These young ladies, along with their coaches scraped, cleaned and painted all of the steps on Ten Commandment Mt. and Prayer Mt. as well as the arch ways to both mountains. We are very thankful for their acts of kindness, hard work, and blessing toward the ministry of Fields of the Wood.

Our baptismal pool has been busy this summer as well. While it is impossible to monitor and keep a record of the number of baptisms that occur, I can report that this facility is used every week almost without exception. To mention a couple of events; on the weekend of July 22nd there were 33 people baptized and on the weekend of September 16th there were 8 baptized.

Worship services may happen at any given time especially on weekends by various local church groups visiting the Park. It is a joy to say the least, to worship with God’s people as they visit here at Fields of the Wood. Bishop Wayne Hall, FOW Director

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