Messages spoken at the Midwinter Advance CFO camp.
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Evelyn Carter Spencer describes cooking a full turkey dinner alone one Christmas, trusting God to send her a guest. At the Midwinter Advance CFO in 1975 she recalls the young man who arrived at the exact hour she expected, still mourning a mother he had lost on that same day two years before.
Bernie Warfield tells campers how his congregation’s stalled plan to buy a new parsonage moved forward only after he prayed to release his own wish for it. He preached that lesson at the Midwinter Advance CFO in 1961 as “if you lose it, you’ll find it.”
Evelyn Carter Spencer retraces her childhood habit of talking to God the way she talked to her own father. She also describes the vision at her bedside in which she turned from a silent figure in black to choose Jesus. At the 1975 Midwinter Advance CFO, she closes by leading campers to claim, hand over hand, the peace and faithfulness Jesus promised, calling them “double fisted believers.”
Ruth Robison wears an orchid, the flower her young son handed her at the train station before the first camp she ever attended. She asks prayer groups to arrive already filled with power instead of empty, and she wants Christians experimenting in eternity as boldly as chosen men experiment in space. She is speaking to the Midwinter Advance CFO in 1961.