Messages spoken at the 1966 California Healing CFO
California Healing CFO 1966:
5 messages.
The 1966 California Healing CFO met at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, from October 2 to October 6, 1966. The speakers were Brother Mandus and Genevieve Parkhurst, and they spoke on the subjects of Camps Farthest Out History, Discipline, Faith, Healing, Inner Healing, Prayer and Spiritual Growth. Choose a message below to listen.
In an opening-night orientation to the California Healing CFO at Asilomar in 1966, Genevieve Parkhurst explains how Dr. Glenn Clark founded Camps Farthest Out. She argues that the same “great wisdom” that guides migrating swallows is at work as “the life within” the body, which does all real healing, doctors included. She notes that “one verse in every seven in the Gospels pertains to a physical healing.”
On the second morning of the 1966 California Healing CFO at Asilomar, Genevieve Parkhurst opens with John 15’s vine and branches. She recalls a childhood memory of watching a gardener graft and wax-seal a fruit tree bud as a picture of the new birth. A loosened wax seal, she warns, lets water and decay back into the graft the way sin lets decay back into a life. She closes with the line “God has no grandchildren”: no one enters God’s family except by a will of their own.
Brother Mandus jokes that years earlier, at a different camp, a fellow camper found him scrubbing his shirts by hand in the tub and told him simply to wear the shirt in the shower, his picture of how Christians overcomplicate a simple faith. He closes his address at the 1966 California Healing CFO by leading prayer for a young camper named Harry, and an elderly woman recovering from a fall.
Genevieve Parkhurst describes finding a personal “lever” for healing prayer at the 1966 California Healing CFO at Asilomar. Her examples run from a woman’s faith in touching Christ’s hem to a Roman officer’s trust in his own authority. She closes with Edith Leonard’s eleven-month recovery from a diagnosed brain tumor.
Genevieve Parkhurst tells of a Jewish man who survived a concentration camp as a boy. Years later, on Armistice Day, he suddenly smashed a store window display holding a German officer’s helmet. She pairs his story with that of a woman still shamed by a childhood piano recital gone wrong. Both show, she tells the 1966 California Healing CFO at Asilomar, how Jesus can heal hurts still felt beneath the surface of an adult life.