No Buy, No Sell Wilderness Training

CLINTON, ARK. – The Clinton Seventh-day Adventist Church hosted a “No Buy, No Sell Wilderness Training” event in Van Buren County, Ark. this summer. Thirty-one attendees from three local Adventist churches participated in hands-on learning sessions. Participants learned how to identify and forage for wild edible plants, grow their own food, propagate plants, purify water, kindle and keep a fire going, cook on a campfire, set up a camp, establish cover, take care of hygiene and trash needs and survive hot and cold environments. 

Training coordinator Jerry Hampton said, “As I read the book of Revelation, I see many signs that the second coming of Jesus is very close. I am reminded of Revelation 13:17. … Our goal in this training is to prepare our brothers and sisters for what the prophets have warned will come to fruition.” 

Ellen G. White notes in Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, “The time is not far distant when, like early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. … the decree enforcing the papal Sabbath, will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains.” In an age of high-speed technology and every imaginable creature-comfort and convenience, humans are ill-prepared, even ill-trained, to survive in the wilderness ahead of our Savior’s Second Coming.

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By Lisa Hostetler

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