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Reading Eagle: Natalie Kolb | Douglas E. Batchelor delivers a sermon during a camp meeting of the Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists at Blue Mountain Academy, Tilden Township, on Wednesday.





Reading Eagle: Natalie Kolb | Douglas E. Batchelor delivers a sermon during a camp meeting of the Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists at Blue Mountain Academy on Wednesday.

Bruce Posten | Reporter
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Bruce R. Posten is a freelance reporter for the Reading Eagle.


Saturday June 16, 2018 12:01 AM

Pastor shares his life-changing story at Seventh-day Adventist Church camp meeting


Douglas E. Batchelor turned to Christianity after years as a rebellious child.

Written by Bruce Posten
Tilden Township, PA —


Earlier this week, on their way to the annual camp meeting of the Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tilden Township, Douglas E. Batchelor and his wife, Karen, flew from the West Coast to Philadelphia, a bit weary and with their luggage yet to be united with them.

While a bit disappointed with airline foul-ups, Batchelor, 61, pastor, Christian author, evangelist speaker and leader of a worldwide ministry, seemed resigned and understanding, not angry.

He wasn't a man venting spleen publicly (think road rage) at those deemed responsible for his plight and lateness, evoking what is often seen as frustration to modern-day systematic mishaps that just seem to happen, brushed aside as nobody's fault.

"I strive to be a Christian about it," he said, patiently being interviewed in the chapel at Blue Mountain Academy, site of the camp meeting, and less than two hours before his scheduled speaking engagement in the high school auditorium.

He gave generously of his time, yet he obviously needed to freshen up, change and get ready for his presentation.

Batchelor of Granite Bay, a suburb of Sacramento, Calif., is senior pastor at Granite Bay Church and the president of Amazing Facts ministry, which involves a television program, "Amazing Facts Presents," and the "Bible Answers Live," a radio broadcast.

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