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Ringing the Bell on Seventh Street

At the 1954 Nebraska CFO, Glenn Clark remembers returning as a grown man to his boyhood home on Seventh Street after his parents had died. He rang the bell and sat down to talk with the stranger living there. He offers the memory as proof that campers should hold on to whatever revives them when life turns flat and stale.

Toki Kneels and Japan Surrenders

Glenn Clark asked a young Japanese camper named Toki to kneel in her own quiet unconditional surrender to God. The next morning word broke into the meeting that Japan had surrendered. He weaves that memory into a survey of prayer he believed had shifted the course of a war, for the Nebraska CFO in 1955.

The Donkey That Saw the Angel

Glenn Clark tells the camps that living in the kingdom of heaven starts with trusting the body’s own warnings. Balaam, he says, had to trust a donkey that saw an angel he could not see. Clark also recounts praying at the bedside of a student who was left without pulse or breath after a car crash.

The Boy Who Begged Him To Keep Reading

Glenn Clark teaches the camps about love through two classroom memories. One is a boy who begged him to keep reading a story rather than stop for the bell. The other is a lonely graduate student who came alive only when the talk turned to Shakespeare. Both, he says, show the enthusiasm and the stillness it takes to love God.

A White Rag On Every Branch

Glenn Clark preaches the prodigal son to the camps. He describes a young man who wrote ahead asking his family to tie a white rag to the willow by the tracks as a sign of forgiveness. As his train neared home, the young man found every branch on every tree in the yard wrapped in white rags.

He Is Near

Praying together means surrendering to enemies as well as friends, Thomas Carruth tells the camps. He describes an Ohio group whose members took turns in a chair to hear hard truths in silence. He also describes a Mississippi meeting where a woman seated between two believers finally whispered, “He is near.”

Cotton and Silk Do Not Mix

Roland Brown draws on George Washington Carver’s line that “cotton and silk are two incompatible fabrics.” Worldly habits, he argues, cannot mix with life in Christ. To the Illinois CFO in 1966 he teaches diet, rest and gratitude as disciplines of creative living.

The Headache That Left Unnoticed

God’s love, not eloquence, is the basis of effective prayer, Roland Brown tells the Missouri CFO in 1965. He pictures a stranger whose headache vanishes after she sits near someone filled with that love. He also recalls his own prayers with men in jail.

Let Your Mother Worry

Roland Brown opens with a mother’s escalating warnings to a daughter headed off to college, capped by a boy’s teasing “let your mother worry.” He then preaches the Beatitudes to the Missouri CFO in 1965, along with the command of Jesus to rejoice under persecution.

The Skater Who Trained Seven Hours

Roland Brown urges campers to become doers of the word, not merely hearers. He illustrates the discipline it takes with a champion skater who trained seven hours a day before her Olympic tryout, in a talk to the Missouri CFO in 1965.

Even As He Loves

Walking John 13 through 17 and 1 John with the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1981, Marcia Brown builds a list of scriptures for matching Jesus point by point rather than admiring him at a distance. She reads Mrs. D.T. Niles’s prose poem about a rescuer who must first learn to swim, and closes on what she calls “spiritual high-fi.”

Fear and Love

A diving accident into four inches of water opens Marcia Brown’s account of what depth of experience does for fear: her husband’s stroke, her own health scare, and the flying phobia he lost somewhere between a 1947 flight to Hawaii and a landing gear emergency over Paris. An A-to-Z exercise on perfect love casting out fear closes the morning at the 1981 Minnesota Koronis CFO.

The Morning the War Ended At Prayer

At the 1986 Minnesota Koronis CFO, Marcia Brown runs through a personal list of scriptural laws of prayer. She then turns to camp memories: a cottage kitchen fire beaten out with a single bucket, and the moment word of Japan’s surrender reached an all-night vigil in the chapel.

My Whole Being Becomes a Church

Marcia Brown recalls arriving at her first Minnesota Koronis CFO as a frightened young preacher’s wife. She closes her account with a poem on prayer, one line of which she made her own: “my whole being becomes a church.”

The Cow That Interrupted the Unity Service

Marcia Brown recalls a Ceylon service on Christian unity where a cow wandered onto the platform in the middle of the message. She closes for the Minnesota Koronis CFO with J.B. Phillips’ young angel, who is shown “the visited planet.” That planet is earth, singled out because the Prince of Glory once walked it.

The Giants We Only See From Below

A four-year-old once told Glenn Clark that grown people are like giants whose faces go unseen, and only their legs and feet show. Marcia Brown brings that story to the Minnesota Koronis CFO. She also recounts reading Clark his own words on the blood of Christ in the hospital, days before he died.