Messages given at the Minnesota Koronis Camps Farthest Out
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Earl Tyson tells of a wounded Emmaus ministry teenager who said she felt like “white water on the inside” that people were trying to dam up. Her healing shows, he tells the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1990, that authority and wholeness only grow out of knowing you are loved.
A spirit without a body can do nothing, Starr Daily says. That is why the Holy Ghost given up on the cross had to wait until Pentecost embodied Him in 120 people. His talk to the 1965 Minnesota Koronis CFO traces threes through the New Testament and closes on the rule “ask, seek, knock.”
At the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1965, Starr Daily describes the night his prepared manuscript blurred on the podium and he could not speak a word. He surrendered and gave his prison testimony instead. It reached the one woman in the hall whose mother had just handed him a letter begging him to speak to her daughter.
Starr Daily sorts Christians onto four New Testament roads by temperament. There is the crowded Damascus road of the mind, the Jericho road of service, the mystic Emmaus road, and the Jerusalem road from Gethsemane to Golgotha, which he says is “never crowded.” At the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1965 he tells how Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, found in his prison cell, first woke a mind he had starved for years.
Starr Daily remembers a prison chaplain who preached on sin for nine years. The chaplain came back after his daughter’s name hit the crime headlines, told the men “I have nothing to say,” and laid a hand on each kneeling convict instead. Campers at the 1965 Minnesota Koronis CFO hear that God honors plain honesty as he honored Thomas, and that “the center of character is integrity.”
At the 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst reads Psalm 116 and walks through the five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, as things to thank God for. She then names worship itself as a sixth sense built into every person. She recalls her own childhood, learning the psalms as her father read from the Bible each evening. She closes by inviting campers into that same gratitude.
Genevieve Parkhurst takes the Old Testament question “What is that in your hand?” and turns it into a call to consecrate everyday work, whether cooking, welding, typing, or raising a family, as service to God. She points to her own granddaughter running a household while still in high school, and to a young missionary who once grilled hamburgers on a scavenged metal sign. No task done in love, she argues at the 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO, is too small to be full time Christian service.
Henry Hitt Crane retells how Peter drew a sword to defend Jesus and was told, “put up that sword into the sheath.” Crane cites sociologist Pitirim Sorokin on a coming third world war. Jesus, he argues, offers campers at the 1950 Minnesota Koronis CFO a third way beyond appeasement or war.
At the 1952 Minnesota Koronis CFO, Glenn Clark lays out a growth plan for the movement. He wants a trained organizer he calls a queen bee in every city, leading callers on shut-ins. He wants a paid national coordinator. And he wants local groups renamed as an interdenominational prayer fellowship rather than a closed circle.
Glenn Harding describes a door that slams itself shut, moved not by force but by a gentle, sustained breeze. He uses it to explain why following the Holy Spirit works better than pushing toward a goal in one’s own strength. He offered the picture to the 1952 Minnesota Koronis CFO.