Messages spoken at the South Florida Camps Farthest Out.
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At the South Florida CFO in 1972, Geraldine Conway walks campers through David’s refusal to take a threshing floor for free. David asks, “shall I offer the Lord that which costs me nothing?” He pays seventeen shekels of silver for the altar that stopped a plague.
Geraldine Conway tells of a prince who disguised himself as a ragged beggar, to find a wife who would love him for himself alone. He then arrived by royal carriage to claim the woman who had nursed him. At the 1970 South Florida CFO, she likens the prince to Jesus in his hiddenness.
Geraldine Conway tells the story of Paul’s shipwreck on Malta, applying it to a young minister cast out of his church, who cried to her, “praise the Lord, give me a plank.” When a life breaks apart, she says, God turns the wreck into rescue. She brought the story to the South Florida CFO in 1972.
Geraldine Conway defends her outreach to addicts and runaways. She likens herself to an evangelist who carried a sign reading “I am Christ’s fool,” and on its back, “whose fool are you?” She also describes confronting a ring of officials preying on young men. She spoke at the South Florida CFO in 1972.
At the 1972 South Florida CFO, Geraldine Conway retold how townspeople hunted for a lost child on the prairie. They found him only after they finally joined hands to sweep the fields together, and by then it was too late. “Why didn’t you join hands before?” came the cry. She applied the story to families.
Evelyn Carter Spencer preaches from Hebrews 13 that God has said “I will not fail you.” The whole weight of the Godhead stands behind that promise, and chewing on it, she says, is as sweet as sucking a honey drop. The talk closes out the South Florida CFO in 1974.
The night before, at the 1974 South Florida CFO, Evelyn Carter Spencer preached outdoors under stage lights. She describes trusting God the way she trusts food to digest without her help, and tells of a fogged-in flight she was told in prayer she would miss. She also tells of a teenage boy whose hands shook with power the first time he prayed over her twisted ankle.
Evelyn Carter Spencer tells campers to put on their spiritual armor and then stand still, because, as she puts it, “the battle ain’t yours, it’s mine.” She calls them to be strong in the Lord rather than in their own strength, and to carry that same devotion home into marriage and daily chores. The talk closes the 1974 South Florida CFO.
Evelyn Carter Spencer urges hearers to stop believing they are “no good” and to let their minds be renewed instead. She pictures that change as a move from the basement of old thinking up to the penthouse of new consciousness. Her example is a preacher who loses his audience by explaining a message from his own memory instead of letting the Spirit interpret it. She was preaching at the South Florida CFO in 1974.
Evelyn Carter Spencer builds her message on a play of her own coining. Jesus is not a “PMD,” a powerful medical doctor, but a preserver, maintainer, and deliverer. He secures believers the way an orange tree keeps bearing fruit long after the man who planted it is gone. This talk follows the one she gave the previous night at the 1974 South Florida CFO.