| Author | Message | ||
| Wolfgang Registered user Username: Wolfgang Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2005 |
I was wondering if anyone here is in Battle Creek or close to it that would be interested in bible study,I actually live north of BC a little ways,I work at the hospital(of coarse). Dawn | ||
| Jtree Registered user Username: Jtree Post Number: 218 Registered: 5-2000 |
umm..I'm from Kalamazoo, but I'm not home at the moment.. I'm in China. | ||
| Wolfgang Registered user Username: Wolfgang Post Number: 23 Registered: 10-2005 |
kalamzoo huh? I have been attending the Thornapple valley Church on 43 right outside Delton,its kinda like a willow creek church,maybe youd like to visit after you get back from china,I would be interested in your exodus out of adventisim. Blessings! Dawn | ||
| Catalyst Registered user Username: Catalyst Post Number: 83 Registered: 6-2005 |
My wife and I used to live in BC - Capital Ave SW to be exact and worked at the hospital there as well. We have been gone a number of years. | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 264 Registered: 5-2004 |
Isn't Battle Creek where EGW used to live? My husband's family is SDA, and when he was little, they used to take him on "pilgrimages" for lack of a better term, every year or so, the where EGW used to live. They took pictures at her place etc. And his uncle is quite proud of having built a "Steps to Christ Forest Walk" up there somewhere. I guess you walk thorught he woods and read stone markers with EGW quotes on them, contemplating what she meant etc. The whole thing kind of gave me the creeps, when I heard about it. And looking back on it, from outside SDAism, it gives him the creeps now too. HIs question is "where was God in all that!?" Sorry for the tangent, but my original question still stands... was EGW from the Battle Creek area? -tanya- | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 386 Registered: 8-2004  |
She was not FROM there, but she DID live there for several years. She was from Maine. Blessings, Mary | ||
| Wolfgang Registered user Username: Wolfgang Post Number: 27 Registered: 10-2005 |
yes BC is where they had a huge sanatarium until it burned and hen Kelleog built another,there is Adventist village that the original pioneers used to live in and its like a recreation of the pioneers. | ||
| Jtree Registered user Username: Jtree Post Number: 220 Registered: 5-2000 |
She happens to be staying in Battle Creek for a bit. She lives in Oak Hill Cemetary in Battle Creek. http://www.thecemeteryproject.com/images/Famous%20Dead%20People/White,%20James%20and%20Ellen%20-%20Battle%20Creek%20MI%201.jpg http://www.thecemeteryproject.com/images/Famous%20Dead%20People/White,%20James%20and%20Ellen%20-%20Battle%20Creek%20MI%206.jpg | ||
| Jtree Registered user Username: Jtree Post Number: 221 Registered: 5-2000 |
Dawn, I never was an Adventist. I am first and formost a Christian, Baptist by doctrine. My spouse (now former) was an Adventist. I lived with the "teaching" over 20 years. I would not bend my knee to it, for to do so. I was too well grounded in Biblical truth, to be swayed away. I did that once..and I vowed to God, I would never do that again. | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 265 Registered: 5-2004 |
Adventist pioneer village, huh? Sounds like that might be what he was talking about in Michigan. But there was something in Maine that he talked about having visited as well. Is there some EGW memorial thing in Maine as well? -tanya | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 175 Registered: 3-2005 |
I believe you are thinking about the Washington, NH SDA Church. That is where those who would become SDA began keeping Saturday Sabbath (Rachael Oakes Preston, etc.). EGW visited there aften and the Church Graveyard has many SDA notables it it. We were members there many years ago and it was interesting to be where so much SDA history took place. We were a very small congregation and in the winter,when it got too cold (even snowsuits weren't enough!), we met elsewhere - in homes or the community center. I think I read somewhere that they had restored the Church and grounds now, and that there was some kind of "walk" made. I haven't been there for many years! I did love that old Church with its simple style and rural location. My kids spent many hours playing in the graveyard. We took care of the cleaning and maintenance. We had no plumbing or electricity, just an outhouse and a spring for water. I played the old pump organ for Church. We still used those old "Hymns and Tunes" hymnals which had some old time songs that I love. I have many good memories from there. And then some not so good - One time there was were a couple of hunters (neighbors of ours) that were accosted and tied up in the Church when they interupted an escaped convict trying to steal their truck. One of the tied up men got out of his restraints and attacked the convict. Shots were fired and the Church got all shot up. The men beat up the convict (to incapacitate him) and then went for help. The escaped convict had been in prison for killing a cop, but those hunters were charged for beating him up! You'd think they would have been heros for capturing that escaped convict!! I think eventually they were let off, but they had to go through a lot of grief over that. When we moved away you could still see the bullet holes in the walls and pews. While there we were isolated from all the "turmoil" of the Rea, Ford era. We didn't have a regular pastor. We just worshiped together and in the summer we asked visiting SDA pastors, missionaries, etc. to share their experiences with us. It was a shock to find out about all that after the fact! The funny thing is that Rea was my pastor as I was growing up, Ed Zacrison was the youth pastor. Rea was the minister that performed my first wedding. I did hear something about "discontent" with Rea from my parents, but didn't really know what it was all about. I had always respected him so had a hard time understanding why anyone was upset with him! Only much later did I put two and two together! -tisha | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2209 Registered: 3-2004  |
I know thw name Ed Zackrison. I think he attended La Sierra when I was there. I have not heard that name for a long time. Diana | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 266 Registered: 5-2004 |
Yes, my husband just confirmed that the Washington NH church is the church they used to do "pilgrimages" to. He says that this is also where his uncle built the "steps to Christ" nature walk. His brother lives neer Battle Creek, so I got the two places mixed up. -tanya- |
