Series: West Virginia Capon Springs CFO 1970

Messages spoken at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO 1970

Look Beyond the Hair and See the Heart

When two women got up and walked out of a rural church because his sons wore long hair, Tommy Tyson had to look past the hair and see the heart. Wanting God’s will, he told campers at the 1970 West Virginia Capon Springs CFO, means dying out to public opinion and opening a clenched hand. He pictured the street boy gripping a moldy bread crust while supper waited.

I Thought His Wife Dragged Him Here

At his first camp, Tommy Tyson sized up a stranger with a perfect tie and a diamond stickpin and decided the man’s wife must have dragged him there. Then he laid hands beside that man on a woman with rheumatoid arthritis, who got up and walked away healed. Opening the 1970 West Virginia Capon Springs CFO, he calls the camp a commitment to community where peculiar and diverse elements are wedded into one.