Messages given at the Pennsylvania Keystone Camps Farthest Out
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Doing anything about the world’s suffering can feel like taking a bucket of water out of the ocean, Geraldine Conway told the Pennsylvania Keystone CFO in 1960. She quotes a missionary who answered, “I’m going to have my bucket,” and she urges the same sacrificial giving.
Geraldine Conway walks campers through the Lord’s Prayer as a pattern for approaching God. She closes with the vision of a new city whose streets shine like spun transparent glass, in a talk to the Pennsylvania Keystone CFO in 1960.
Genevieve Parkhurst retells the gospel story of a woman who touches Jesus in a crowd and is called “daughter.” She carries that image into the Pennsylvania Keystone CFO in 1961, where she tells of an army veteran and a pregnant mother, both healed after taking Holy Communion.
At the 1961 Pennsylvania Keystone CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst tells campers to look for God in ordinary snapshots. She points to a tired father, a devoted mother, and four army chaplains who give up their life jackets on a sinking troop ship. These are small close-up pictures of his sacrificial love.
At the Pennsylvania Keystone CFO in 1960, Geraldine Conway told of a woman she led out of alcoholism into a revival that filled an auction barn. She used the story to unfold the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit available to every believer.
Speaking to the 1960 Pennsylvania Keystone CFO, Geraldine Conway recalls telling businessmen on a long flight that she has something better than their cocktails. She then traces her growth from an unbelieving young wife into a life of bold, answered prayer.
Geraldine Conway describes the night an inner voice told her, “take off thy shoes, for the ground whereon thou standest is holy ground.” She obeyed it and rented a storefront in her hometown for neglected children. She recounts the episode at the Pennsylvania Keystone CFO in 1960.
At the 1960 Pennsylvania Keystone CFO, Brother Mandus preaches that the Holy Spirit heals instantly, not through struggle. He points to a dandelion as proof of God’s pattern in creation, and to Jesus healing a leper by seeing past the disease. Among the instantaneous healings he describes is a young woman whose deformed foot bones went “soft as jelly” in his hands and healed on the spot.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn unpacks the parable of the kingdom of heaven as treasure “hid in a field.” She then tells how she once asked God to empty her of her own tiredness before she prayed for a suffering neighbor, who was healed. She credits the healing entirely to God, not to herself. The talk comes from the Pennsylvania Keystone CFO in 1963.
Love is the only weapon strong enough to end war, Gertrude Dekock Keehn tells campers at the 1963 Pennsylvania Keystone CFO. She points to her vision of Jesus turning back an army with a searchlight beam from his mouth. She also points to a businessman who traded shady income for what she called “a nice big vacuum for the Lord to fill.”