Messages given at the Tennessee Camps Farthest Out
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Thelma Lee leads a healing and faith service, recalling how a stranger’s word of knowledge once called out her name before she was willing to accept a healing ministry. She testifies that a man’s emphysema and another man’s twenty-year siege of chills both ended after she prayed for them. The service came at the Tennessee CFO in 1972.
Genevieve Parkhurst tells about Martha, who was slapped as a small child for picking flowers meant for her mother’s table. Martha is freed from that hurt when she pictures Jesus meeting the child within her. The story is part of a call, at the Tennessee CFO in 1966, to forgive those who wounded us when we were young.
Genevieve Parkhurst opens on the need for rest, then delivers a set-piece talk on trees. She recalls leaning against a giant redwood in California. She tells of a housebound man who regained his health after a summer spent outdoors under a tree, living on raw vegetables from his own garden. She offers it to campers at the Tennessee CFO in 1966 as a picture of creation’s healing power.
Speaking on the last evening of the Tennessee CFO in 1966, Genevieve Parkhurst describes the Holy Spirit brooding over creation “like a mother hen.” She invites campers who still want the Holy Spirit’s baptism to seek it before the week ends.
Genevieve Parkhurst teaches campers at the Tennessee CFO in 1966 to use “levers” when praying for healing, things to take hold of and pull. Her examples are the woman who touches the hem of Jesus’ robe, an army officer’s trust in a single spoken command, and a daily communion of consecrated grape juice.
At the Tennessee CFO in 1966, Genevieve Parkhurst describes Dr. Hans Selye’s experiments, which showed that mice living under a cat’s constant threat develop stomach ulcers from stress. She then teaches campers to release their worries to God the way she “encapsulates” a troubled person in the light of his love.
Genevieve Parkhurst uses a childhood memory of a neighbor grafting fruit trees and sealing each bud with wax “that no rain could get in.” Healing, she teaches campers at the 1966 Tennessee CFO, comes from staying grafted into Christ through love.
At the 1970 Tennessee CFO, Anne White reviews the barriers to healing. A small prayer group kept a two-week vigil for a dying man, but the church and the family did not carry it on, and, in her words, “the water wings of this little faithful group were withdrawn.” She closes with a boy whose tumor was gone by the morning of his surgery.
Anne White teaches that campers must confess sin before praying against the enemy, as an electrician puts on insulated gloves before a live wire. She tells how a man with multiple sclerosis was healed after asking himself “what is it I don’t want to do.” She also tells how a friend rescued her own book manuscript from a publisher’s sabotage. She gave the message at the Tennessee CFO in 1970.
A broken clock kept striking past midnight, until a child said it was “later than it has ever been.” Corrie ten Boom uses the image to warn campers at the Tennessee CFO in 1971 that the signs pointing to the coming of Jesus were multiplying fast.