Messages given at the Arkansas Camps Farthest Out
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Barbara Ann Chase resumes her testimony for the Arkansas CFO in 2000. She starts with the vision of praying in the world’s languages that came with her baptism in the Holy Spirit as a Dominican nun, then moves to the chance meeting in a Seattle department store that opened thirty years of ministry in Scotland. She closes with the Glasgow street boy who later phoned just to say “cheerio.”
Barbara Ann Chase continues her line by line study of Ruth, following her from gleaning in Boaz’s field to the threshing floor and the city gate. There the nearer kinsman hands over his sandal so Boaz can redeem both land and bride. The Bible study was given to the 2000 Arkansas CFO.
At the Arkansas CFO in 2000, Barbara Ann Chase preaches from the book of Jonah, tracing his flight to Tarshish, the storm, and the great fish. She dwells on the worm God appoints to destroy Jonah’s shade plant, using it to show that Jonah’s anger at Nineveh’s mercy cannot outlast the compassion of God.
Barbara Ann Chase closes a session at the 2000 Arkansas CFO with Judges 4, tracing Deborah’s word to Barak and Jael’s killing of Sisera with a tent peg. She then uses Corrie ten Boom’s image of a ringing bell to teach forgiveness as a decision, not just a feeling.
Barbara Ann Chase describes a boy running in with a chocolate chip cookie that confirmed a word of knowledge. She then begins a line by line study of Ruth chapter 1, where Ruth clings to Naomi rather than turning back to Moab. The session was given at the 2000 Arkansas CFO.
Barbara Ann Chase teaches on communion as a sign of Christ’s presence in a message to the Arkansas CFO in 2000. She weaves in the history of hymnals and the widow in 2 Kings 4, who fills borrowed jars with oil until it stops.
Anna Marie Sheffield describes a dream of a vine choking a live oak tree, which showed her a root of rejection planted by offhand remarks from her mother and grandmother. At the Arkansas CFO in 2004, she tells how her dying mother’s hand on her face later fulfilled Isaiah 61’s promise to “rebuild the old ruins.”
Anna Marie Sheffield tells how she was healed of a year of anger after her young son’s death. She then describes a dream in which Jesus swaps her old, cluttered truck for a new one carrying jeweled necklaces, a picture of intimacy through prayer. She shared it at the 2004 Arkansas CFO.
Anna Marie Sheffield and Jack Sheffield lead a healing service at the Arkansas CFO in 2004. Anna Marie opens with her testimony of learning to “seek my face” through visions of reunited loved ones. Jack follows with the story of a skeptical senior warden whose hands catch fire in prayer. The couple then lay hands on campers for arthritis, numbness, and other pain.
Alex McCullough closes the servant themed week at the Arkansas CFO in 1999 by telling campers that they cannot take the camp home with them, only what it made of them. Following God, he says, is a matter of obedience, not convenience. He then plays a wordless “Testimony Musical” on saxophone and clarinet, the same instruments he set aside, unplayed, for ten years after becoming a Christian.