Joyner's Campmeeting

Joyner's Campmeeting Joyner's Campmeeting meets once a year in July. Due to facilities, the grounds are not available for outside individual rentals. The owners, John T. Mrs.

Joyner's Camp Meeting will celebrate its 118th Anniversary during the summer of 2011. A landmark in Fayette County in Joyners Campground, 9 miles north of Somerville, where interdenominational Camp Meetings have taken place every year since the first one was held in a bush arbor in 1892. Reverend Robert Venerable Taylor started the meeting in that year. He wanted a place in the northern part of Fa

yette County where a tabernacle could be built and people could meet and worship God for days and nights in succession. To do this, he needed water, and was successful in finding this ground that had two springs on it, shady and cool. Joyner and his wife Henrietta, agreed to donate 5 acres for this site. Priscilla Jackson also donated 2 acres from her adjoining land. The place was named in memory of the Reverend Thomas Joyner, a pioneer Methodist preacher in North Mississippi and West Tennessee. The Tabernacle was build the next year (1893), a large shed-like building of logs, open at the back and both sides with hand-hewn wooden benches. Dirt floored, covered with sawdust, the Tabernacle remains much as it was when originally constructed, except that a tin roof has replaced the early wooden shingles and electric lights have replaced the lanterns. Several of the old lantern wires are still hanging from the Tabernacle rafters. Attendance in the early years reached as nigh as 2,000 for the night meetings and so many encamped during the week's services that the place took on the appearance of a small city with tents, cabins, a hotel, livery stable, barber shop and shoe shine shop. Today, fifth and sixth generation families still move into their cabins on the campground every July for a week of good preaching and singing, just as their parents and grandparents did before them. They are still called to service by the blowing of a cow horn, a long-standing tradition. The first cabin built, called the "Singer's Cabin", still stands.

Join us on July 27th - August 3rd for this years Joyner's Campmeeting!Please share and spread the word!
07/14/2025

Join us on July 27th - August 3rd for this years Joyner's Campmeeting!

Please share and spread the word!

Let’s see your tie-dye!!!
08/03/2022

Let’s see your tie-dye!!!

05/08/2020

Joyner’s Campground is a private campground. There are no RV facilities/campsites at this location for public rental.

06/28/2019

If you already know you'll be dining with us at the Hotel the week of Campground, July 22-26. Please send your reservations by July 7th to [email protected]. $12/ adult and $6/children. Meals will be served Mon, Tues, Thur, and Fri. Guests are always welcome to join us for dinner and worship!

06/12/2019

Check your email everyone. I just sent out info for hotel dinner reservations. Reservations need to be make by July 7th. If you didn't get the email or want to be on the email list send a message to [email protected]. Thanks!

11/09/2018

When we were passing out the t-shirts during camp meeting my mom gave Leslie Morrisette's shirt to somebody to deliver. Now she can't remember who she gave it to, and Ms. Morrissette would like to have her shirt. Does anybody have the missing shirt?

If you would still like to have a 125th Celebration t-shirt, we are putting together a second order for both short sleev...
08/08/2018

If you would still like to have a 125th Celebration t-shirt, we are putting together a second order for both short sleeve and long sleeve. You can take a look at our page's pictures to see the design. The due date will be Friday, Aug. 17 at 10:00 pm. Follow these instructions to get one:

- Go to www.jcgstore.com
- Choose "University of Mississippi" as the college and click "Submit"
- Scroll down to find "Joyners Campground Foundation" and click on the link.
- The password is camp
- Click on the shirt you want and order normally.

Rounding out this beautiful day with good worship and volleyball.
07/25/2018

Rounding out this beautiful day with good worship and volleyball.

07/18/2018

Hi Fellow Campers!
For the “Storytelling component of our Sunday afternoon celebration from 5:00 to 6:00, we have come up with the following categories and basic outline for sharing memories:

Beginning History of the first 50 years.
Worship and Spiritually Significant Moments.
Continuing History of next 50 years.
Creek and Recreation.
Lastest 25 years.
Cabin and Table.

This sharing will take place in the Tabernacle, interspersed with some Campground hymns. As there is only an hour for this part of the event, we ask that you condense your contributions to 2-3 minutes. We are looking forward to hearing many wonderful memories. Hope this will jumpstart your memory bank!
Blessings. Jay, Mark, Alice

07/16/2018

One week away!!! Campers please get your reservations for dinner during the week to Katherine by the end of the day. [email protected] See you there!

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Joyners Campground Road
Somerville, TN
38068

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