Chronology of Christ's Life and Ministry

Bethlehem

- Jesus' birth

 Nazareth

- Jesus was raised here

Bethabara

- Jesus' baptism

Wilderness

- Jesus' temptation

Cana

- Jesus turns water into wine at a wedding

Jerusalem

- Cleansing of the temple

- Discussion with Nicodemus

Sychar (Nablus)

- Woman at the well

Cana

- The Nobleman's Son healed

Jerusalem

- Lame man healed at the Bethesda Pool 

- Rejection by religious leaders

Nazareth

- Rejected in Nazareth

Capernaum 

- Fish Catching Miracle

- Demoniac healed in the Synagogue

- Peter's Mother-in-law healed

- First healing of a leper

- Healing of paralytic brought through a roof

- Call of Levi Matthew

- Plucking of grain on the Sabbath

- Healing of a man's withered hand

- Appointing of the 12

Mount of Olives

- Sermon on the mount

Capernaum

- Healing of The Centurion's Servant

Nain

- The Widow's Son at Nain is Healed

Galilee region

- Blind mute demoniac healed

Sea of Galilee

- Sermon by the sea (with parables)

- Calming of the sea

Decapolis

- Demoniacs of Gadara healed

Capernaum

- Woman healed by a touch of faith

- Jairus' daughter raised from the dead

- Two blind and mute demoniac healed

- Inquiry of John's disciples

Bethsaida

- Feeding of the 5000

 Galilee region

- Walking away on the lake

- Sermon on the bread of life

- Contention about hand washing tradition

Region of Tyre and Sidon

- Phoenician Woman's Daughter healed

Decapolis

- Deaf mute healed

- Feeding of 4000

Bethsaida

- Blind Man Near Bethsaida healed

Caesarea Philippi

- Peter's confesses Jesus is the Christ

Mount Tabor (east of Nazareth)

- Transfiguration

Galilee region

- Demon possessed boy healed

- Temple tax miracle

- Instruction on humility

Jerusalem

- Teaching at the temple

 - Woman caught in adultery forgiven

- The light and the truth

- The Man Born Blind is Healed

- Jesus, the good shepherd

- Appointing of the 70

- The Good Samaritan 

Bethany

- At Mary and Martha's home

Judea region

- Instruction on prayer

- Blind and Mute Demoniac Healed

- The lamp of the body is the eye

- Woes to the pharisees

- Folly of riches

- Watchful for the Master's return

- The barren fig tree

- the crippled woman healed

- The narrow gate

- Jesus weeps over Jerusalem

- Being a humble guest and inviting the needy

- The cost of discipleship

- The lost sheep, lost coin, and the prodigal son

- the dishonest steward

- The rich man and Lazarus

Bethany

- Jesus raises Lazarus

Judea region

- Healing of the 10 lepers

- The unjust judge

- The two worshippers

- Marriage and divorce

- Blessing of the children

- The rich young ruler

- Laborers of the vineyard

- Ambition of James and John

Jericho

- Blind Bartimaeus healed

- Jesus goes to Zacchaeus' house

Bethany

- The Nobleman and the Pounds

- Simon's feast

Jerusalem

- Triumphal entry

- Fruitless fig tree

- Second cleansing of the temple

- "Go work today in my vineyard"

- The Wicked Husbandmen

- The Man Without a Wedding Garment

- Paying tribute to Caesar

- Marriage and the Resurrection

- The Great Commandment

- Woes upon scribes and pharisees

- Widow's mites

- Signs of Christ second coming

- The 10 virgins

- The Talents

- The Sheep and Goats

- Passover, foot washing, and last supper

- The Coming of the Comforter

- The True Vine

- Gethsemane

- Arrest and trial before Sanhedrin

- Trial before Pilate

- Trial before Herod

- Second trial before Pilate

- The Crucifixion and burial

- The Resurrection 

- The walk to Emmaus

- Appearance in the upper room

- Restoration of Peter

- The Great Commission

- Christ's Ascension

PA Camp Meeting Meet Ups

Camp meetings are a great way to meet up with friends and meet some great speakers. I used to be more socially withdrawn for much of my life up to the year 2017 and didn't think much about it. I believe Steve Wohlberg was a speaker at PA camp meeting in 2017 and I heard that he was dealing with some kind of mental crisis. Ironically, I started going through one myself that year too, so I found that really relatable. Here is a list of speakers I met at camp meetings so far: Doug Batchelor (2018), Mark Finley (2019), John Bradshaw (2019), and David Asscherick (2022).

Many of the friends I meet up at camp meetings are ones I met at a church at some point in time. I have a friend named Joshua Fleming who's originally from New Jersey, lived in Pennsylvania for a while, moved to West Virginia to go to medical school, and now is doing his residency over in Texas. I met him in 2017 at my church, we connected on Facebook and he helped me through my crisis with encouraging words from the bible and Spirit of Prophecy. I got to meet him again in 2018 and 2019 during camp meeting. 

Funny story that happened in the 2019 camp meeting: I was on my way to the car of my friend who brought me and then the alarm of the car next to it suddenly goes off. Next, I kid you not, John Bradshaw comes to that car and turns off the alarm. So apparently he had parked right next to my friend's car. What is the chance of that? haha

There was no camp meeting in 2020 due to the pandemic, but I did get to meet many new Adventist friends online though. See my other post about how the pandemic became a blessing. In 2021, I didn't really think to meet up with any speakers, but I did get to meet up with the Adventist graphic designer, Andrew Carroll. Andrew is also involved with an online ministry that I'm also involved with. I got a new pastor that year, but I got to meet up with my previous pastor (Tom J Stone) at camp meeting too. This pastor was also a great help for me too during my crisis.

I got to meet up with my previous pastor again during this year's camp meeting. I also met up with Andrew Carroll, Lee Givan (musician), Jason Miller (from Hope Sabbath School) and the guest speaker David Asscherick. I've met Lee G before, he did a concert at my church. My friendship with Jason started with a Facebook conversation. I didn't know he was at camp meeting and he didn't know I'd be there either, but he found out because of my Instagram stories. He messaged me and we got to meet up for a bit. 

As for David Asscherick, the first time I've heard of him was on some cassette tapes my dad bought about 20 years ago. David was the first English speaking Adventist evangelist that I've ever heard of before, so it was really cool to finally meet him. 

Thank God for Online Ministry (Updated)

Social media became the source of much fear and anxiety since four years ago, but ironically, everything changed last year when God led me to an online ministry on a platform called Discord. This platform allows you to create or join private chat groups called "servers" and they can have various "channels" for text or voice chat (voice chat also allows for camera and screen sharing).

I'm thankful to be part of an online ministry and community on an alternative social media platform because it has become a great way for me to escape from all the troubles that other social media platforms have been causing me. I'm also thankful for the awesome new laptop that this online community helped me to receive. One of the members of that community, Ernie Hernandez, came over to my church in November to do a concert (he's more of the sound guy that deals with the instrumentals, his wife is the singer).

I'm also thankful God provided me a job three months ago, which helps to have more real life social interactions (other than once a week at church) and keeps me from being on the internet all day.  I made a friend at work who struggles with anxiety. We connected on Discord and I shared with her some encouraging bible promises that have helped me. This is a great example of connecting with people online in order to help them in their real every day lives.