Camp: California

Messages given at the California Camps Farthest Out.

Name the mask each one wears over old unhealed hurts, Agnes Sanford tells the California CFO in 1961. She uses the story of a minister whose defenses broke open like a struck iron drum once forgiveness finally reached those hurts.

In 1966 the California CFO heard Norman Elliott retell Elisha’s refusal to leave Elijah at Bethel, Jericho and the Jordan. He makes it a picture of surrender. He closes with an awkward duckling that discovers it was a wild goose all along, built to fly higher the harder it tries.

Teaching at the 1959 California CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst says the Holy Spirit gives both gifts and fruits. The gifts are like a bridegroom’s wedding presents. The fruits are the nine children of love, joy, peace, and more, and they remain even after any gift is lost.

At the 1959 California CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst tells of a mother who slapped her disrespectful son. The mother then realized she had really struck out at a brother she was never allowed to hit forty years earlier. Parkhurst gives the illustration to show how old, unforgiven hurts erupt onto those nearest us.