Louvell A. Anderson, DD, Receives the Star Treatment for Excellence in Ministry

    CRETE, IL, September 01, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Louvell A. Anderson, DD, has participated in The Star Treatment, a prestigious video series hosted by renowned lawyer and television personality, Star Jones. This premier video series is extremely limited — Marquis Who's Who qualifies 500 listees on an annual basis for this elite service. Backed by a storied career in media that spans more than two decades, Star works closely with Marquis listees to assist with networking goals and commemorative efforts that can be shared with a worldwide audience.

An impressive and unique voice in religious services, Dr. Anderson has made an impact on the lives of countless others through his dedication to the word of God. His unwavering spiritual devotion has encapsulated nearly the entirety of his life, sharing with Star, "I began at the age of 7, which is when I received the Lord, Jesus Christ, as my personal savior. At the age of 8, I received the call of ministry. So at this point, it's been 65 years of ministry, as I am now at the age of 74. For all of these years, I've done many different professional things, but ministry has been the highlight."

Over the course of his career, Dr. Anderson has reached the faithful around the world through the Old Camp Ground, an organization for which he has remained the director for more than 40 years. With the Old Camp Ground, he has been committed to returning the principles of worship to their original interpretations, telling Star, "The Old Camp Ground is an organization that I founded back in 1978. It was an organization that went back to such traditional things as gospel ministry. We believed that we had to go back to the real deal of just worshipping and praising God according to the scripture… Now, we are global… In India, we have five churches and five missions. In Pakistan, we have five churches and two missions. In the Philippines, we have one [mission], but we are all over the continent of Africa."

Dr. Anderson believes that Old Camp Ground stands out by offering their congregation with something beyond what is expected from a church in order to reach the disenfranchised and complacent, explaining to Star, "[The mission of Old Camp Ground is] to preach the gospel and to teach the word of God to believers in order to refresh and bring them back into a place of relationship… There's an old song that goes, 'I come to the Garden alone while the dew is still on the rose, and the voice that I hear calling on my ear, none other can disclose.' There are a lot of religious people, but there are not a lot of people of faith who truly believe in their hearts that they're in a place to move forward."

Dr. Anderson's singular mindset has also propelled him to turn the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic into an opportunity to build upon Old Camp Ground. In conversation with Star, he elaborated, "[The pandemic] has blessed us because months before, we held sermons in a building with a certain number of people. Now, with Zoom and conference calls, we have people throughout the United States of America who are calling in on Sunday to hear the message and to be taught in training school… We use our social media, including Facebook Live, talking to whomever is there to listen."

Dr. Anderson cites the utilization of technology as the latest step in Old Camp Ground's expansion efforts, regardless of the circumstances, stating to Star, "That's Matthew 28:19-20: 'Go ye to all of the world and preach the gospel, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and lo, I am with you always even until the end of the age.' That is exactly where we are. Old Camp Ground International Ministries have established ministries, and now they're operating and moving on their own since we can't visit them as we used to."

Though Old Camp Ground continues to find success through teleconferences and online sermons, Dr. Anderson heralds his international experiences among the proudest moments of his career, recalling to Star, "I have been able to visit many known parts of the world. For example, I went to Korea and I spoke to 30,000 Koreans for a week in the Prayer Mountain, which is about four and a half hours outside of Seoul. It was one of the most beautiful things in the world. I spoke no Korean, and they spoke no English, but we had interpreters who interpreted what we had to say. That was through Bishop Na at the Pentecostal Holiness Church. That was the highlight of my life."

Beyond the spoken word, Dr. Anderson is renowned as an author as well. During his interview with Star, he detailed the critical messages behind his publications, beginning with "Two Women to Avoid in the 21st Century and 1 Woman to Embrace into Eternity," stating, "This book is about Delilah and Jezebel, and this book is about deception... This book was written to give the idea that there is a lot of religions but there is only one church, and that church was founded, according to Matthew 16:18, by the Lord, Jesus Christ. He said the Gates of Hades would not prevail."

Dr. Anderson describes his second book, "The Adventure of Prayer and Forgiveness Through Spiritual Warfare," to Star as "a personal testimony of forgiveness and what it means to forgive people, regardless of what they've done to you through life. This book was written because of hurts that people have gone through and were not able to release those hurts because they have felt like that would give somebody the liberty to do it again. This book came out to build up their faith, to let go and to start their life over again."

Dr. Anderson continues onto his third book, "The Test of the Anointed Leadership in the Pulpit to Combat the Wolf, the Dog and the Pig," in which he turns his attention to falsities within certain ministries. "That book was given to me by the spirit of God because of the deception of the pulpit," he proclaims to Star, adding, "If you remember, the Bible says the wolves in the Pulpit will have on sheep's clothing, but inwardly, they are ravishing wolves. What that means is how it feels to hear people minister but not minister the truth. They're giving you what you want to hear but not what will change you in the end. So this book gives us the five-fold ministry: the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor and the teacher and their positions as a gift in the body of Christ."

Despite any obstacles he may have faced, Dr. Anderson has been steadfast in his faith and invites challenges as a way to reinvigorate his strength as a believer. "What we are doing now is building ourselves up in our most holy faith and being able to establish ourselves in the midst of our trials and tribulations. What I tell people today, and I've told them for many years: 'If you're not going through anything, you don't have anything...' The joy of the lord is our strength, so if you don't have any joy, you're not going to move through whatever it is you're going through... If you're stepping forward, you're not going backwards."

Looking toward the future, Dr. Anderson aims to reassure his congregation and the population-at-large to remain hopeful and embrace their faith in God. "No matter what you're going through, there's a way out," he iterates to Star. "I want to tell everyone all over the land: if you're constantly in fellowship with the Lord, he will constantly keep in fellowship with you. He will strengthen you and encourage you and bring you out of whatever situation that you're in." For his tenacious commitment to ministry, Dr. Anderson is a prime recipient of the Star Treatment!

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