Spent the last two mornings speaking at Laidley Uniting’s camp in Mount Tamborine. We were staying in the Presbyterian Lodge at the Keswick Convention Centre.
Being there is like going back into Evangelical history in Queensland. The Keswick holiness movement started in the Lakes District of the UK, in 1875. It spread all over the world, including Australia and New Zealand. I’ve been to the convention sites in Pounawea and Rotorua. The Belgrave Heights Conference Centre in Melbourne was deeply influenced by the movment.
Walking around the site you see all the lodges started by various movments: WEC, Baptist, Presbyterian, Triumphant Life (Wesleyan), Church Missionary Society (CMS), OMF (now Pioneers), and SIM. I haven’t heard of any conventions being held at Mt Tamborine recently but most of the camp sites are in use.
I’m wondering if anyone ever wrote a history of the Keswick movement in Australia.