Messages spoken at the 2001 Iowa CFO
Iowa CFO 2001:
12 messages.
The 2001 Iowa CFO met at Riverview Park, Cedar Falls and Hidden Acres Christian Ctr., Dayton, from July 21 to July 27, 2001. The speakers were Barbara Ann Chase and Javan Ommani, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Guidance, Healing, Joy, Love, Praise & Thanksgiving, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Javan Ommani retells the story of Mephibosheth, who was dropped and lamed by a frightened nurse. He sets it beside his own hungry, malnourished childhood and his mother’s daily prayers, which carried him into a seat in Kenya’s government. He warns listeners not to drop the child, the stranger, or the small gift in their hands, a lesson he preached at the Iowa CFO in 2001.
Javan Ommani calls the 2001 Iowa CFO to intercede for the nations and for the persecuted church in Africa. He tells of a Rwandan girl of twelve who forgave her parents’ killers, and of a beaten headmaster who went back to evangelize his attackers in prison.
Javan Ommani tells how a friend’s testimony, after a prayer meeting in a mud walled house, led to his own conversion and baptism in April 1962. To the Iowa CFO in 2001 he brought that story alongside the burning bush of Moses, an ordinary thing God sets alight to call attention. When a market crowd in Kenya would not stop to listen, he preached the gospel instead to a passing chicken.
Javan Ommani closes on Habakkuk’s resolve to rejoice when nothing is going right, recalling for the 2001 Iowa CFO malaria healed before his flight out and feeding Ugandan refugees near Kakamega.
Javan Ommani makes unexpected turns the shape of trust: a stranger in Seattle telling him to smile because Jesus loves him, and a man named Emmanuel who sheltered him at gunpoint during a Nigerian coup. He tells both stories at the Iowa CFO in 2001.
Barbara Ann Chase reads 2 Timothy 1 on stirring up the inner power a believer already carries, on faith inherited through a family, and on the authority carried in a name. She has reclaimed her own name from its barbarian root, she tells the Iowa CFO in 2001.
At the Iowa CFO in 2001, Barbara Ann Chase teaches identity settled in Christ as a river flowing from the throne rather than something to be earned. She remembers mistaking a banner in a Texas town for an ocean sunset.
Javan Ommani tells how his mother explained God as one who goes about fixing broken pieces of doors. He sets that beside his father’s search through the bush after losing ten children, and reads the restoration of Peter in John 21 to the Iowa CFO in 2001.
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Speaking to the Iowa CFO in 2001, Barbara Ann Chase draws on two mission trips to Kenya. She tells of customs officials who remembered her a year later, a stranger who ran off with her suitcase and led her straight to the bishop’s house, and a bishop told in advance that she must not stay in a motel.
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Ordinary labor done with a pure heart is itself prayer, Barbara Ann Chase argues, reading an old English poem on the subject. She turns to Deborah, Barak and Jael, whose names mean honeybee, lightning and mountain goat, in this teaching for the Iowa CFO in 2001.
Barbara Ann Chase retells Jonah’s call and flight as God cultivating his own compassion for Israel’s enemies. At the 2001 Iowa CFO, she notes the wind that loved its assignment, and sailors crying out to a god with a small g.
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Opening the book of Ruth for the Iowa CFO in 2001, Barbara Ann Chase sets the meaning of Bethlehem against the famine that drove Naomi’s family into Moab, after describing a vision of wind blowing everything toward a wedding canopy.