Messages spoken at the Nova Scotia Camps Farthest Out
Nova Scotia CFO:
10 messages from 2 gatherings, 1971 to 1972.
Seventy-five people gathered from August 17 to 24, 1971, at the Atlantic Christian Training Centre in Tatamagouche for the first Nova Scotia CFO. There was no Council Ring at the start, but as the 1980 book explains, "Since we were so far from any other camp, a charter was granted." Carola Williams and Margaret Hatch came to help with the creatives.
For a time campers met at the Agricultural College in Truro, then returned to Tatamagouche in 1975 and gathered there until 1995. The recordings, from 1971 and 1972, include Tommy Tyson, Tick Watson and Bernice Gerard.
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Walk With the Guide, Guidance Follows
God did not wait for us to reach up to him but came all the way down in Jesus. That wedding of spirit and matter means a fishing net or a loaf of bread can teach the kingdom. Tommy Tyson closes at the 1971 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO with guidance, which he calls a byproduct of walking with a guide you love rather than something you can sit and wait for.
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Little Johnny and the Longest Walk
Tick Watson names his mood creative enthusiasm, from the Greek "enthos," meaning filled with God. He then tells the 1971 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO of a boy with a withered leg who is healed at a cathedral altar. Of the walk back down the aisle the boy says, "it doesn't matter anymore," once Jesus has touched him.
The Man Who Forgave the Custodian
Tick Watson opens on what he calls a brand new day at the 1971 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO. He is thankful for small mercies like a swallow's nest and a windshield that lets in light. He then tells of a wheelchair-bound nursing-home man who was told, "you're greater than you think you are." The man ends a five-year silence with the custodian he had fought with.
The Tape Recorder Under the Table
A father hides a tape recorder under the dinner table. Playing it back, he hears the small voice that twice whispered "pass the butter, please" before it finally shouted. Tommy Tyson opens the Nova Scotia, Canada CFO in 1971 with that story to say God prefers the whisper. Faith, he adds, is never our initiative but our response to a move God has already made.
A Christmas Turkey and an Easter Ham
At the 1971 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO, Tommy Tyson turns to the beggar at the Gate Beautiful, who had learned to expect only "a Christmas turkey, an Easter ham" from the worshiping community. He uses the beggar to show campers a ministry moved by the Father from within, rather than by the obvious need in front of it.
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The One Fish That Stood the Test
Tommy Tyson pictures the incarnation as a breeder crossing fish until one strain can survive the local waters. This highest seed of all was not left unable to reproduce, he tells the Nova Scotia, Canada CFO in 1971. The risen Jesus comes to live "in us, and as us."
Tommy Tyson admits that he once sat in a Sunday school class, waiting for an opening to share a fresh insight, and another man said the very thing first. He names his own faith problems plainly for the 1971 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO: a hidden fear of God, a hunger for approval, and a reluctance to let someone else bear the fruit of his labors.
Hazel Starts a Prayer Group Alone
At the 1971 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO, Tick Watson leads the singing of "Brighten the Corner Where You Are." He then illustrates gratitude and humor with a windshield note reading "expect a miracle." He also tells of a woman, paralyzed eleven years, who blesses passersby she sees only in a mirror.
Preaching from John 4 on the woman at the well, Bernice Gerard frames worship as needing two non-negotiables: it must belong to God alone, and it must come through Christ. She recalls praying with two Catholic nuns who each began speaking, as she puts it, "in a language that she had never learned." The message comes from the Nova Scotia, Canada CFO in 1972.
The Stopped Clock and the Torn Page
A friend dreamed of a stopped clock and a page torn into pieces. The dream convinced Tommy Tyson that he was marking time until he obeyed God about his own body, and he describes to the 1972 Nova Scotia, Canada CFO the five weeks in a hospital that followed. He also warns that reaching for the spirit world by any road other than Jesus is idolatry.