Garden Of Eden Church

07/20/2026

The prayer focus on our website this month is for our country and government leaders. It brought to mind this wonderful picture. Our prayer is for more doors to open.

07/11/2026

07/10/2026

From our friend Richard Betteridge, the Naturist Pastor: -

As I was preparing my Daily Bible Study, a sentence spoke deeply to me and I thought I needed to share it with my Christian-Naturist brethren here. This morning, while looking at Revelation 18, this thought was implanted in my brain.

As Christians, as naturists, and as exiles, we recognise something deeply personal in Revelation’s call:
to live differently, desire differently, value differently.
To refuse Babylon’s glamour.
To resist her promises.
To step out of her imagination and into God’s.

Because for us, naturism has never been rebellion.
It has never been spectacle.
It has never been shock value.

It has been a quiet refusal of Babylon’s imagination.

Babylon teaches people to desire performance, image, status, curated bodies, curated lives, curated faith. But we have learned to desire presence, truth, ordinary embodiment, unmasked humanity.

Babylon teaches people to value power, hierarchy, and the illusion of control. But we have learned to value belonging, honesty, gentleness, and the unadorned self.

Babylon teaches people to live through fear — fear of exposure, fear of judgment, fear of not being enough. But we have learned to live through freedom — freedom from shame, freedom from pretense, freedom from the costumes Babylon demands.

So when Revelation says,
“Come out of her, my people,”
we hear it not as a warning, but as recognition.

We’ve already been doing it.

We’ve already stepped out of Babylon’s imagination.
We’ve already refused her glamour.
We’ve already resisted her promises.
We’ve already chosen a different way of living, desiring, valuing.

We didn’t leave the old systems because we stopped loving Jesus.
We left because we stopped believing Babylon’s imagination about Jesus.
We didn’t embrace naturism to shock anyone.
We embraced it to live without the fear Babylon taught us to carry.

We didn’t become exiles because we were angry.
We became exiles because we were honest.

Revelation — read through the eyes of the exile — finally gives us language for the journey we’ve been on.
It tells us that stepping out of Babylon’s imagination is not failure.
It’s faithfulness.
It’s freedom.
It’s healing.

And it’s the beginning of seeing the world — and ourselves — clearly again.

On Substack
Richard Betteridge

04/04/2026

Join us this year on October 9-11, 2026 for our 13th annual Christian Naturist Festival (CNF) at Lake Como Family Nudist Resort, where like-minded Christians gather to share worship, testimonies, study the word, and fellowship together in celebration of God's wondrous gifts.

Our theme this year is "Knowing God". We will be focusing on building a closer relationship with our triune God through prayer, study, and worship.

"And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3 NIV

We hope and pray that you will join us this year. For information on costs and/or to register follow this link, you will be redirected to the Lake Como website.

https://new.lakecomonaturally.com/happenings/cnf/

02/21/2026

A regular here at the GOE Church just posted this on her wall and we just had to share!

“If you went for a walk in the woods, but then decided to wander off the path, and found yourself surrounded by a thicket of thorns and poison ivy, who would you blame? Would you blame the person who built the path? No, of course not. Instead you’d blame yourself if you were honest, because you alone were responsible for wandering from the path. In a far deeper way, this is what happens when we decide to leave God out of our lives. For a time, it may seem like wandering away from Him doesn’t make any difference; it may even seem easier and freer. But eventually it catches up with us—just as wandering off that path and into the thicket caught up with you.” —Billy Graham

Brings to mind Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

So much depends on choosing the right path through life. It is rarely the popular path but it is always the path that brings you closer to God and living a Christlike life.

02/02/2026

Cold in Florida right now but a few hardy souls came to church today for Pam's message. We love our naked pastor!

01/27/2026

All Christians have an obligation to be students of truth. In fact, we are called to develop a love affair with the truth. It is ultimately truth, not knowledge or skill, that really sets us free and makes us wholly creative. Truth is a strong word. There is something almost numinous about it. We should not speak of it lightly or casually.

Knowledge is quite different. It is something we can gain, something we can control, and something we can use. Knowledge, when we gain control of it, becomes ours, and we profit from the acquisition of it. Truth is another matter. Truth should gain and control us instead of being controlled by us. There is an element of unrelenting moral demand in truth; it is other-centered. It matters not whether we have mastered truth and can use it; it matters only whether we have surrendered to truth and are willing to obey it.

From "This Day With the Master" by Dennis F. Kinlaw

01/07/2026

Most organized churches believe this mantra—“More Clothes = Less Sin”—even though we all know this doesn’t work. We are told to dress modestly, but like all sin, immodestly is a state of mind, not a state of dress. True modesty comes from within, not from the clothes or jewelry we wear.

In cultures where nudity was common and sexual sin rare, missionaries brought this mantra with them and introduced the concept that the naked human body was sinful. The result? Sexual sin became more prevalent. Throughout history there is a vast amount of evidence to show that in our fallen world humans tend to sexually objectify whatever parts of the body society requires to be covered.

Once this is done entire industries then arise that create unattainable fantasy images to promote a multi-billion-dollar industry to alter, shape, adorn or expose to achieve and/or objectify that false image while at the same time denigrating the reality of human diversity evident in our God given, unaltered, physical appearance. The end result is that billions of humans have been indoctrinated to hate their bodies and seek to hide or change them. Many fear their body being seen by anyone.

Is this what we want? With God’s help we believe we can do better than this. Here at the GOE church we believe—“Less Clothes = Closer to God’s Plan”—He created us to live n**e, and saw it as very good, but he gave us the choice. Adam and Eve chose to believe Satan’s lies and see the body as something unclean and perverse. Whose vision will you use? Free yourself from the lie and present yourself whole and complete, without need for covering or adornment, and you will discover what it really means to see through God’s eyes.

01/01/2026

One of our favorites, and a great prayer for the new year.

Isaiah 40:31
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

12/25/2025

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)

From the Garden of Eden Church to all of you as we celebrate this day the birth of our Lord and Savior, may this promise fulfilled be your living reality in all things. The best gift you can give is a life wholly surrendered to him. May God bless you all now and forever.