Genevieve Parkhurst tells hearers that the camps exist so campers can become, in her own phrase, “a little chunk of yeast,” carrying the joy and prayer power of Christ back into their home churches. She retells John R. Mott’s blunt call to a generation grown too soft: “this is not an easy call.” And she credits believing prayer, offered on the night of a great international crisis, with helping avert catastrophe.
