Deep Branch tent meeting celebrates America

Deep Branch Ministries had its third annual tent meeting Sept. 10-11 at Deep Branch Family Campground near Milton. The revival included music and speakers with the theme History, Heroes and Hope. Featured speakers included the Rev. Bill Sammons Sr., founder of Eagles Nest Fellowship Church near Milton; the Rev. Carl Vincent, founder of Connections Church in Laurel; and the Rev. Andrew Betts of Crossroad Community Church near Georgetown.

The event included a special ceremony in remembrance of 9/11.

“Being a witness for God is what will change this nation,” Sammons said. “We need to win people to Jesus Christ not by the walk, but by the talk. Let’s get involved, be committed and get radical about this.”

He said democracy is an offspring of Christianity. “To God, we are an experiment,” he said.

Vincent was on a Calvary International mission for seven years to Russia following the fall of communism in the early 1990s. “When the wall came down, crusades were started and missionaries were sent,” he said. “People were looking for answers. Some great churches came out of those years.”

Russia was an atheist nation where religion was considered an opiate of the people, Vincent said. “The people were like orphans. They had put faith in their government, and the government promised utopia. But they had nothing – the shelves were bare,” he said.