By SIMONE JOINER

The Natchez Democrat

VIDALIA — Recreational vehicle campsites can become worlds unto themselves, as people from all over the nation hitch their motorhomes up to a particular campsite and make it their home for a while.

Within those campsites some residents take on jobs, thus the world of Workamping, in which RV enthusiasts, often retirees, work part-time jobs in RV campsites.

When The Dart landed on Riverview RV Park in Vidalia on Thursday, David Embry and his wife, Linda, were making plans to say goodbye to their temporary neighbors after spending the past five months there preaching the Gospel as “workampers.”

David, a non-denominational circuit preacher, and Linda, of Kentucky said they have been traveling all over the world to preach the Gospel ever since he retired a few years ago from pastoring a church and heading up a prison ministry.

“After much prayer,” David said, “the Lord put it into my wife and my hearts to go out and to preach the Gospel and to travel.”

David said the couple own a motorhome and had taken a missionary trip while visiting Mexico a few months prior to them temporarily living at the Riverview RV Park.

“When we got back from Mexico,” David said, “we had this hunger in our hearts to continue,” David said.

Linda said they learned about workamping as they traveled the country in their motorhome.

“We were on the road for about six months, not workamping and then we started thinking we should consider that,” Linda said. “When summer came, we contacted a park up in Colorado, and we spent the summer there workamping and that was our first experience.”

David said he and Linda send resumes to different RV campsites and then pray and let the Lord guide them to where they need to be, which is how they ended up at the Riverview RV Park.

“We want to stir people’s hearts and challenge them and what they know,” Linda said.

David said he wants to help people who might have fallen away from the church get back to God.

“A lot of us have gotten lax,” David said. “Not many of us open our Bible anymore. Not many of us pray. The Lord is coming back, but wouldn’t it be a shame if he came back right now and we weren’t ready?”

The couple, David said, planned to depart today for their next stop, an RV Park in Galveston, Texas, where they will workamp, preaching the Gospel.