Camp: Missouri

Messages spoken at the Missouri Camps Farthest Out

At the Missouri CFO in 1978, Anne Waite leads campers through a guided relaxation and a visualization of a clear stream where Jesus meets them. He washes away their burdens and says, “I am well pleased.” The campers then head into their prayer groups for the world broadcast.

Judson Cornwall speaks on reconciliation, explaining that the Greek word behind it means to move from enmity into friendship. At the 1979 Missouri CFO he also uses a flying lesson he gave his nephew to show that nothing a believer does can move beyond God’s control.

Judson Cornwall walks through Hezekiah’s charge that the priests stand before God, serve him, minister to him, and burn incense to him. He illustrates it with a young pastor who tried to credit him for his conversion, his marriage, and his calling. He gave the talk to the 1979 Missouri CFO.

At the Missouri CFO in 1979, Judson Cornwall teaches on the priesthood of all believers and distinguishes the gifts of knowledge from the gifts of communication. He then tells how his Korean interpreter was filled with the Holy Spirit mid-prayer, leaving him to guide the pastors by sign language alone.

Judson Cornwall contrasts King Ahaz’s substitute worship with Hezekiah’s reforms in 2 Chronicles 29. He then likens himself to a pruned vineyard branch, after a public prophecy that he would be “cut down” and the heart attack that followed. The talk was given to the 1979 Missouri CFO.

Iverna Tompkins opens a five-part Lamentations series at the Missouri CFO in 1979. She warns that America is a “sleeping giant,” less prepared for Christ’s return than any generation before it. The church, she says, holds an authority it no longer knows how to use.

Iverna Tompkins closes her Lamentations series, reading chapter five as the cry of a “prodigal nation.” She tells campers that God restores them not to what they once had, but to himself, so that Christ may be fully formed in them. She was speaking at the Missouri CFO in 1979.

Continuing her Lamentations series, Iverna Tompkins retells Christ’s Gethsemane prayer and tells the story of a troubled woman her congregation once helped restore. She insists that “judgment has begun in the house of the Lord” before it ever reaches the world. The teaching comes from the Missouri CFO in 1979.

At the Missouri CFO in 1979, Iverna Tompkins moves from Lamentations 1 into chapter 2. She warns campers that shifting doctrine and what she calls the “silence of the elders” reveal a loss of wisdom in the church. She contrasts Miriam’s simple tambourine song with Moses’ theological one, which few understood.

Iverna Tompkins recounts being falsely accused of an affair with a man on her brother’s church board, and how the Holy Spirit broke her bitterness with the words “I have forgiven you of more than you’ve ever been accused.” She also reads through Lamentations 4 and compares the church’s refining to gold tried in the fire. She brought that testimony to campers at the 1979 Missouri CFO.