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Families are not social conveniences but covenant trusts, and scripture charges parents to impress the Lord’s words upon their children at home, on the road, at night, and at dawn.
With that mandate in view, my family and I are preparing to depart after Sunday services at George County Baptist Church in Lucedale, Mississippi for a Family Camp hosted by Pilgrim Baptist Church in Cookeville, Tennessee, an event crafted for focused time together, sweet fellowship, and preaching from the word of God.
This is our second consecutive year participating, a small yet earnest investment toward the larger aim of building strong and godly families in the fear of the Lord. While many forces conspire to fragment the Christian household, the call remains unaltered: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Family Camp is designed to help families slow down, unplug, and attend to the first duties of love—worship, instruction, and shared joy—so that the home becomes a workshop of grace rather than a warehouse of distractions. As fathers lead and mothers labor in wisdom, children are received as a heritage from the Lord, like arrows fitted and fletched for faithful flight in God’s service.
Our Lord’s pattern for parents is tender and firm: “bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord,” a charge that refuses both neglect and severity. The schedule at Pilgrim’s Family Camp supports that pattern through daily worship, meals in common, and wholesome activities that strengthen affection, conversation, reverence, and provide great memories.
Practically, services at George County Baptist Church remain in their usual cadence with an afternoon service at 2:00 pm on Sunday and midweek service on Wednesday at 6:00 pm, with guest pulpit supply in both services while we travel. Please pray for traveling mercies, for the preaching at camp, and for families to return with renewed purpose and spiritual vigor.
As a church, our aim is not novelty but fidelity, not spectacle but substance, trusting that steady obedience in the household will yield a durable witness in the community. May the Lord establish the work of these days and make our homes little sanctuaries where His word is believed, taught, and lived.
Pastor Thomas Irvin
Victory Baptist Church
Coden, Alabama
