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Camp meetings are often the setting for special workshops held for attendees from the Portland congregation and branch churches who are involved in Sunday school, music departments, or other phases of outreach activities. Sometimes during the camp meeting, representatives from international branches of the work, or those who have visited a foreign branch church, give presentations telling what God has done in distant places. These sessions are always an inspiration to those who attend.

An octet performs a vocal selection in 2003.

On the final Saturday morning of the camp meeting, an ordinance service is held. This special time always concludes with many hugs and tears, as the Spirit confirms the unity and harmony among people of diverse race, culture, and nationality. In the afternoon of that same day, a water baptismal serv­ice is held in the church sanctuary across Duke Street. Each year, many converts, young and old, are immersed.

Veteran ministers Dick Taylor and John Friesen baptize a young boy in the 1980s.
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