Messages spoken at the 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO Retreat
Minnesota Koronis CFO Retreat 1964:
3 messages.
The 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO Retreat met at Lake Koronis Assembly Grounds, Paynesville, on February 8, 1964. The speaker was Genevieve Parkhurst, who spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Family, Love and Praise & Thanksgiving. Choose a message below to listen.
Genevieve Parkhurst tells of a hostess on an airplane who impulsively kissed a stranger seated near her. She was moved by the radiant goodwill he carried after reading a book on Christian love. Parkhurst uses the story, at the 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO, to describe what she calls the power of love going out to the campers and to a hurting world.
At the 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst reads Psalm 116 and walks through the five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, as things to thank God for. She then names worship itself as a sixth sense built into every person. She recalls her own childhood, learning the psalms as her father read from the Bible each evening. She closes by inviting campers into that same gratitude.
Genevieve Parkhurst takes the Old Testament question “What is that in your hand?” and turns it into a call to consecrate everyday work, whether cooking, welding, typing, or raising a family, as service to God. She points to her own granddaughter running a household while still in high school, and to a young missionary who once grilled hamburgers on a scavenged metal sign. No task done in love, she argues at the 1964 Minnesota Koronis CFO, is too small to be full time Christian service.