The year was 1933 and our country was in a depression.  Times were very hard and money was scarce, but there was hope in the hearts of some Christians in the Badger and General Irwin Sunday Schools as they met together in their homes to study God's Word under the direction of American Sunday School Union Missionary, George R. Graves.  During one of these Bible studies, in the Robert and Ermma Stedman home, they began to dream of some kind of a camp meeting.  An area was selected, poison ivy and brush were removed, and a brush arbor was constructed.  In 1934, the first camp was held with about ten families camped in their tents.  "And on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river-side where prayer was accustomed to be made," Acts:13a.  Riverside was born.  It is doubtful that any of the initial group could have foreseen what God would do in the multitudes of young people who would find the Lord here and go out to share the Word of God in many areas of the World.