Messages spoken at the 1966 Indiana CFO New Year’s Retreat
Indiana CFO New Year's Retreat 1966:
6 messages.
The 1966 Indiana CFO New Year's Retreat met at Hanover College, Hanover and Indianapolis, Indiana, from December 30 to December 31, 1966. The speakers were Gloster Udy and Joy Udy, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Jesus, Joy, Prayer and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
Gloster Udy frames this New Year weekend, gathered as the 1966 Indiana CFO, as a withdrawal from the world. Campers pull back, he says, in order to return equipped to serve it. Drawing on a visit to an Air Force laser laboratory, he tells them that in Christ “light has come into the world” and “the darkness cannot put it out.”
Gloster Udy traces three phases of Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane: going “farther to pray,” “farther in prayer,” and “farther after prayer.” He then tells how a prayer lab with Roland Brown broke years of resentment toward a fellow committee member, in this session from the 1966 Indiana CFO retreat.
At the Indiana CFO retreat in 1966, Gloster Udy unpacks the beatitude “meek” through Hebrew, Greek, and French. He explains it as being “God molded,” “God tamed,” and “God trained.” He also recalls a discouraged young woman named Marge who is told, “he will lift up your head.”
Joy Udy follows the light of Christ from knowledge to guidance to healing at the 1966 Indiana CFO New Year’s meeting, opening with the King of England’s 1942 wartime message, “Put your hand into the hand of God.” The close remembers a California camp where hundreds of campers lit their candles one from another, the whole widening circle started by a single match.
Closing out the Indiana CFO in 1966, Gloster Udy tells campers that trusting Christ is like a glove that stays limp until a hand fills it. He draws on Stephen’s example in Acts 6 of being “full of faith” and “full of the Holy Spirit,” and on a boy who takes a leap of faith into his arms during a children’s service.
Gloster Udy links three connected promises for the 1967 Indiana CFO retreat: that God’s strength matches each day, that “underneath are the everlasting arms,” and that God is a refuge. He illustrates them with the interlocking roots of California redwoods and with an eagle teaching its young to fly.