Mount Olivet Update:
The Year 2000 and Beyond
As the camp entered the twenty-first century, Dr. Victor Reasoner became the director of the camp. He had been the camp board secretary for many years. Vic received his doctoral degree from Asbury Seminary, and pastored the Wesley Chapel in Beckley, West Virginia and served as dean of the Fundamental Wesleyan Bible Institute for many years. He now pastors a church in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
The 2005 camp marked the 90th annual campmeeting, and the governor and secretary of state for West Virginia made special proclamations in honor of the camp. Many new people participated in the camp, and attendance reached 168.
After serving for a four-year term, Dr. Reasoner announced that he could no longer serve as camp president due to his living at a distance from the camp, and Tommy Mounts became the new president. Tommy is a United Methodist pastor who lives next to the camp, and has been serving as a board member of the camp for many years. He has been successful in encouraging people to participate in the camp.
It is hoped that in the months ahead Rev. Mounts will make available details of campmeetings held in the last couple of decades, to be added to this web page. You may want to write to Rev. Mounts and encourage him to make available the historical details about the campmeetings from 1985 to 2004. His address is: Rev. Tommy Mounts, HC 80, Box 36, Hinton, WV 25951. And of course consider attending the 2006 camp--the details are in his greeting for readers of this web page. Click here for his greeting.
In spite of the turmoil and struggles that have occurred periodically during the camp’s long history, it has been used by God for his glory.
Mount Olivet Campground (2005)
Madam Creek, near or at the campground (2005)
The New River, a few miles from the campground (2005)
The last three, large photographs were taken by Ruth Brandt, sister of Donald Ratcliff, daughter of Clarence and Lois Ratcliff, and granddaughter of the founders of the camp.
If anyone has further details or pictures from the camps from 2000 to the present time, please email me at don@ratcliffs.net. I would love to add more to this page!
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