The Bad News & The Good News

Last evening I was blessed to sit under the preaching of Rev. Stan Key at the Malaga, New Jersey Camp Meeting. Rev. Key is a holiness preacher from Wilmore, Kentucky. But honestly, I really came to hear him preach because he is the son-in-law of Dr. Dennis Kinlaw.

Rev. Key preached on what John Wesley called “The Bad News of Sin and The Good News of Holiness.” I am so grateful that I was able to be here last evening and Lord willing, I will get one more dose of this good holiness saturation again tonight. 

Dr. Dennis Kinlaw used to say, “We need camp meeting to correct spiritual slippage in our lives.” Well, he would’ve been proud of his son-in-law last evening because it was like a spiritual examination. Any spiritual slippage certainly was corrected.

I did not grow up attending camp meetings. However, I did grow up in the spirit of revival. But I must say, I think camp meetings will be more a part of my future than they have been part of my past.

Below are some photographs I took on the 149-year-old grounds of the Malaga Camp.

The chapel. 

Old barn 

Road sign 

Amphitheater Cross

Stained glass on interior front porch door of a cabin

Cross in Tabernacle

The book shop

Sign on preacher’s cottage

Preacher’s cottage 

Theme of Rev. Stan Key’s message

Old kid’s fire truck like I had as a little boy

Photo someone recently found of me at Free Grace Church where I was raised in the Spirit of Revival. 

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Pastor Kerry Willis