Dr. Tom Stebbins will preach the Friday, Saturday and Sunday services. Dr. Stebbins is currently the EE Global Ambassador and represents EE International on all seven continents and speaks in Vietnamese churches almost every weekend promoting EE, enlisting pastors and winning souls to Jesus Christ.

He has spent 25 years as a missionary in Vietnam and Hong Kong and 25 years in the USA as an EE pastor in Nebraska and Florida. Dr. Stebbins was called to ministry in 1950 as a missionary and launched EE in Hong Kong in 1977. He graduated from Nyack College with a BS in Theology and in 2000 was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity by Trinity College in Florida. Dr. Stebbins and his wife Donna have four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

During 2006 and 2007, Dr. Stebbins taught Vietnamese EE clinics in France, California, Texas and China. His 2008 plans include more EE clinics in China, Atlanta and California.

Pastor Wayne Bray will be preaching the week night services of Campmeeting. He is senior pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia. Prior to Beulah, he served the Oak Hill Baptist Church in Millen, Georgia, for five years. Pastor Bray and his wife Amy have four children, Will, Jake, Zach, and Emmie.

Pastor Bray received his Associate’s degree in Pastoral Ministries and his Bachelor’s degree in Christian Education from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary College of Undergraduate Studies. He then earned his Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the Columbia Biblical Seminary, a division of the Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina. Later, he completed his Master of Divinity from the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, a school of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Pastor Bray is currently completing his Doctorate of Educational Ministry in Leadership at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

He has also authored several devotional books, including Hidden Treasures, The Rock that Blooms, and Living to Die/Dying to Live. He is currently in the developmental stages of a new ministry called “Church IQ,” which will help lead congregations to experience a sustained sense of ecclesiastical unity, to develop an effective strategy for ministry leadership, and to bridge the generational divide currently overwhelming the Christian community.

Kathy Lamon is the weekday morning Bible Study leader. She is the Associate Minister of LaGrange First United Methodist Church at the North Georgia Annual Conference. Prior to her move to LaGrange she served as the Associate Minister at Aldersgate UMC in Augusta, Georgia and served as the pastor-in-charge of the Little River Charge, a three-point circuit in Washington, Georgia.  Kathy graduated in May of 2004 with a Master of Divinity degree from Emory University Candler School of Theology. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Mercer University in Atlanta. She is a native of Georgia and has two adult children. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Pastor's School, the North Georgia Conference Vocational/Career Life Planning Committee, and is on the Advisory Board for Harmony House, a domestic violence shelter in LaGrange, Georgia.  She has also served as the Augusta District representative for both the Office of Church Development's Small Church Commission and the Connectional Ministries Disaster Response Committee for the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Prior to entering the ministry Kathy was the Senior Vice President and Division Manager at a national software company. 

Lanier Gable will be our Campmeeting song leader again this year. He is Minister of Music for Sunset Hills Baptist Church in Douglasville and conducts seminars on directing congregational singing.

Betty Sharpe is a familiar face to Smyrna. She has been our Campmeeting Pianist for over twenty years! A former elementary music teacher, she is currently Director of Handbells for Park Place Baptist Church in Snellville.