Our wedding ceremony will take place in the Tabernacle at Joyner's Campground. Joyner's Camp Meeting is an old fashioned revival that takes place for one week in July each year. The Campground is very close to my (Rachel's) heart as my family has camped at Joyner's for generations, and I was baptized in the Tabernacle. We cannot imagine a more special place to begin our married life. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Joyner's, I thought I would share a little history of the Camp.

"Joyner's Camp Meeting is located in Fayette County where interdenominational camp meetings have taken place every year since the first one was held in a bush arbor in 1892. The following year the Tabernacle was built. It is a large building made of logs that is open at the back and both sides with hand- hewn wooden benches. Dirt floored, covered with sawdust, the Tabernacle remains much as it was when originally constructed, except that a tin roof has replaced the early wooden shingles and electric lights have replaced the lanterns.

In the early years, attendance reached as high as 2,000 for the nightly meetings and so many encamped during the week's services that the place took on the appearance of a small city with tents, cabins, a hotel, livery stable, and barber shop.

Today, fifth and sixth generation families still move into their cabins every July for a week of good preaching and singing, just as their parents and grandparents did before them."

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