Series: Iowa CFO 2007

Messages spoken at the Iowa CFO 2007.

At the 2007 Iowa CFO, Charles Fick tells campers how a stranger’s curse on his porch became a moment of correction. He then walks through Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers in Genesis 45. He closes with how he stumbled into a teaching job in the Bronx after seeking God’s calling.

Charles Fick reads a long passage from Glenn Clark’s own account of founding the movement amid the 1930 Minneapolis unemployment crisis. He then shows how the sword his counselor gave him at the Iowa CFO in 2007 stands for cutting down Satan’s lies about what God has done in a camper’s life.

Matt W. Leach retells creation in the style of C.S. Lewis: God gave Adam a “lease” on the earth, Satan later stole it through deception, and Christ’s hidden plan wins it back. He closes by urging campers to open what he calls “the yes door,” giving God permission to turn their failures, or “misses,” into good. The talk comes from the Iowa CFO in 2007.