The first All Nations Youth Camp held this summer exceeded expectations of its organizers with robust attendance and a desire to keep a good thing going.
So Oct. 8, more than 100 youth from various cultures gathered for the first All Nations Youth Worship Night at Huntsville Baptist Church.
Kimberly Sandoval, a ministry assistant and part of the intercultural ministry team for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said that before the summer camp intercultural youth didn’t have a network of leaders in the state.
“We got together and wanted to plan something for the youth,” she said. “A lot of the students who had come to the camp were there.”
David Inestroza, who develops and resources Hispanic worship leaders in Alabama, said it was “a great time for different communities and cultures to come together and worship the Lord and also hear from the Word.”
“Events like this show that the church is all over and made up of people from all cultures,” he added. “Here in Alabama most communities have these cultures represented in them.”
Huntsville Baptist — a primarily Korean congregation — provided much of the food for the event, with Dewayne Rembert, pastor of Flatline Church at Chisholm, featured as speaker.
Sandoval said for her it was a picture of Revelation 7:9, with all nations and languages coming together for worship.
“This was our prayer from the beginning, that what we see and experience in heaven starts here,” she said.
The date for next year’s All Nations Youth Camp is set for July 26-29.
For more information, visit ibhalabama.org (in Spanish) or ibhalabama.org/en/ (in English).
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