In any given year, 11% to 13% of all Oklahoma youth, 7th to 12th grade will
spend one week at Falls Creek.
21% of all Southern Baptist missionaries with ties to Oklahoma received
the call to service at Falls Creek.
The first tabernacle at Falls Creek was a 30 x 50 foot tent; there will
be 109,000 square feet of space in the new tabernacle.
The original Falls Creek property of 160 acres was purchased for $1,200.
J.B. Rounds personally provided $200 of his own money (borrowed from his wife)
to secure an option on the property.
The two-story, 2,500 person Conference and Training Complex will also have
a commercial catering kitchen.
A new "high road" entrance into Falls Creek will be built.
Rosalee Mills Appleby, long time missionary to Brazil, became the first
foreign missions volunteer while attending the 1917 Assembly.
Indian Falls Creek Baptist Assembly began in 1947.
More than 1.8 million campers have attended Falls Creek summer encampments
since 1917 with over 200,000 total decisions for Christ being recorded.
In 2001, almost 82,000 people attended camps, conferences or seminars at
Falls Creek.
In 2003, more than 75,000 people attended camps, conferences or seminars
at Falls Creek.
The Falls Creek Lake and dam was constructed in 1926.
The Moorer-Rounds Tabernacle was built and dedicated in 1929 and is the
core of the current tabernacle.
The proposed two-story conference and training complex will contain 43,000
square feet of space for 2,500 conference participants.
35% of all Oklahoma pastors, ministry staff, and evangelists were saved
or called to ministry at Falls Creek.
Falls Creek is the largest youth encampment in the world.
There are 145 cabins at Falls Creek, each independently owned by Oklahoma
Baptist churches or associations.
The existing cafeteria and the Falls Creek grocery store will be doubled
in size.
Falls Creek hosts the largest Single Adult Conference in the nation each
September.
Two large outdoor amphitheaters will be built.
Texas Week at Falls Creek began in 1963.
An average of 4,350 have registered annually over the past twenty years.
The new tabernacle will seat 7,056 people.
1,387 youth made a profession of faith at Falls Creek in 2002, while 1,702
rededicated their lives and 835 youth surrendered to special service.
1,213 youth made a profession of faith at Falls Creek in 2003, while 1,892
rededicated their lives and 638 youth surrendered to special service.
The current tabernacle will seat 4,800 comfortably.
The first permanent class pavilions were build in 1940 replacing the brush
arbor type.
