Series: Iowa CFO 1969

Messages spoken at the Iowa CFO 1969.

At the 1969 Iowa CFO, Geraldine Conway admits she used to check people over before deciding whom to accept. She then tells of three bearded hitchhikers her godson brought home. Afterward her husband could only mutter, “I’ve seen everything.”

Geraldine Conway tells her godson’s story: a suicidal runaway now working with troubled youth. She sets it beside Elijah, who drenched his altar of twelve stones with water before fire fell. She brought this message on healing the breach between parents and children to the Iowa CFO in 1969.

Geraldine Conway describes her call to take a musical team into a war zone. She frames the war as a battle for the human heart rather than for territory. A poet’s line, “affairs are now soul size,” becomes her charge to the 1969 Iowa CFO.

Geraldine Conway reads a tailor’s testimony of sinking in a pit. Preachers, committees and philosophers each fail to pull him out, until Jesus climbs down into the mud himself. She gave the Iowa CFO in 1969 that image for salvation as rescue rather than advice.

At the Iowa CFO in 1969, Geraldine Conway answers questions about her wartime ministry. She describes preaching to a rowdy crowd of young dockworkers overseas, telling them there is “a picture hanging in your heart of the good boy that you really want to be.”