Ohio Furnace Enterprise Baptist Church will host its first Fall Festival and Gospel Sing on Saturday to raise money for the yearly teen youth camp.

The festival will be at the church, 3132 Haverhill Ohio Furnace Road in Ironton, and will begin at 11 a.m. and last through the evening.

The festival will include vendors with crafts and food, a petting zoo, inflatables, hay rides, pony rides, face painting, cotton candy and many others. Representatives from Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital will be there doing free health screenings. Musical entertainment will be provided by the group “Sunday Drive.”

Admission is $1. Vendors are also encouraged to contact the church for space. The fee for vendor space is $25 without electricity and $30 for spaces with electricity.

“We need a lot of crafters to come with their fall crafts,” said Kyle Stormes, assistant youth pastor of Ohio Furnace Enterprise Baptist Church.

The proceeds from the event will be going to support the yearly teen camp at White Oak Enterprise Baptist Youth Camp in Gallipolis. The church doesn’t charge the teens for going to the camp so that no one misses out because of financial difficulties.

“The camp is very important for the kids, because it gets them away from their everyday things, and we go up there and are all focused on God. No TVs, no radios, and no distractions,” Stormes said. “It helps them grow closer to God.”

Stormes said this year’s camp was great.

“We saw several souls saved and several rededicate their lives,” Stormes said. “We had about 40 kids this year.” The camp costs anywhere from $5,000 to $6,000 to put on each year, so fundraising is starting early.

In July of this year, the church experienced damage to the fellowship hall and totaled their two vans from the area flooding. The fellowship hall has been repaired, but the church is transporting people in personal vehicles until vans can be purchased.

Rather than worry about their own needs, the young people of the church decided to use the money they had raised for camp already to help people in the community who were affected by the flood.