Messages given at the California Redlands Camps Farthest Out
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Gloster Udy walks through Psalm 73’s steps out of despair. He tells of a widow whose husband died suddenly sixty years ago, and who still wakes to sunlight on the words she scratched into her windowpane with her engagement ring: “This is the day the Lord has made.” The talk was given before the California Redlands CFO in 1966.
At the California Redlands CFO in 1966, Gloster Udy retells the raising of Lazarus. He shows how Jesus said “remove the stone” and “loose him and let him go.” He pairs the story with an Aboriginal man’s testimony of forgiving the policeman who once jailed him.
At the 1966 California Redlands CFO, Joy Udy contrasts the Yosemite firefall, burning logs pushed over a cliff that the wind scatters and that soon goes out, with the waterfall thundering nearby from a source that never ends. Campers can carry either one home, and John 15 points to the second, an abiding in Christ that sends “rivers of living water” out into the world.
Gloster Udy takes Paul’s refrain “this one thing I do” as his text at the 1966 California Redlands CFO. We forget past successes and failures, he preaches, in order to press toward Christ. He anchors this in the story of the singer Roland Hayes, who met a hostile Berlin crowd with prayer and love until their hissing turned to applause.
Thomas Carruth pictures a woman who begs the beheaded body of the apostle Paul and buries it in a flower garden. She still prays there to the man whose testimony cost him his life. He invites the California Redlands CFO in 1966 to “meet me at Calvary.”
Thomas Carruth walks through five widening circles of prayer: self, family, group, church and community. For the California Redlands CFO in 1966 he uses a match struck in a room of hydrogen and oxygen, showing how two people praying together make a third thing neither had alone.
Gloster Udy preaches from Revelation 3:8 on the “open door which no one can shut.” Roland Brown prayed over his hands at a Sydney tollgate; a troubled young woman was told that Christ accepts her as she is. The talk was given to the 1965 California Redlands CFO.
Reading Paul’s charge to present your bodies a living sacrifice, Hannah Hurnard asks campers at the 1960 California Redlands CFO to notice their own breathing. Every breath is a reminder that God is offering his life to them. With each one they are to become Christ conscious rather than self conscious.
Hannah Hurnard walks through the Beatitudes one by one, showing how each is mirrored in a part of the body. Clear eyesight rewards those willing to see another person’s point of view, and joints stiffen when long suffering is refused. She gives this teaching at the 1960 California Redlands CFO.
A doctor once warned Glenn Clark that he could do only a third of a man’s work. He tells the 1954 California Redlands CFO how he then pulled his own anger and fear out by the roots. He took his cue from a football player who threw his ballast out the window and said there was “a big barn to clean.”