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Norman Elliott used the opening of the Annual CFO in 1971 to trace the movement’s roots. He argued from a famous book that sold barely two hundred copies in its author’s lifetime. Campers, he said, should trust an experience of God rather than chase popularity or a tidy definition.
Preaching on plowing and cultivation, Thelma Lee tells campers that God breaks up “fallow ground” in a life that resists him. For years she refused a friend’s prophecy that she had a healing ministry, and she recalls how she finally prayed for a Vernon, Texas man with emphysema. The talk comes from the Annual CFO in 1971.
Thelma Lee compares campers to living stones built into a growing spiritual temple, asking “what meaneth these stones.” At the Annual CFO in 1971, her call to the council rings is to treat the prayer tower and the overseas FFO camps as living parts of the same structure.