Record High Number of Professions of Faith Recorded at Falls Creek By Chris Doyle/Baptist Messenger for Baptist Press
“To Him be the glory forever” – part of the theme Scripture for summer youth weeks at Falls Creek Conference Center – could also be the response from camp leadership, who saw God move in a powerful way during the eight weeks of camp.
Falls Creek witnessed 2,645 campers make professions of faith in Christ, the most recorded during a summer at the campground in the Arbuckle Mountains. More than 5,600 total spiritual decisions were reported, including 617 campers who surrendered to the call to ministry.
“Falls Creek 2021 is a wrap!” said Todd Sanders, Falls Creek program director, in a concluding email to Oklahoma Baptist leadership. “The stage is cleared, our missions areas are tucked away, the storage building is filled, and the truck is loaded, the rooms are empty, but what the Lord did lingers. There is much upon which to reflect.”
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Sanders also shared good reports from many church leaders: “This week has really hit home with our group. We needed this.” “I wouldn’t trade our week for anything!”
“So many comments just like these are what I heard,” Sanders said. “The Spirit was so present all summer. So many answers to the prayers we have been praying together.”
The results came despite the cancellation of camps in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as lower attendance in 2021.
“When we pray and ask the Lord to act, this is a prayer God wants to answer,” Sanders said. “Obviously, we ask of Him, and He brings the spiritual response. We prayed for Him to do what only He can do and not something we can orchestrate. We prayed to see 3,000 (professions of faith in Christ) this summer. We didn’t reach that, but we did see a record number of decisions. It’s not a failure point; it’s pointing out what God did.”
