Series: North Florida CFO 1981

Barbara Ann Chase teaches campers to ask Jesus for guidance in the smallest daily choices, from a football game to a slow grocery store line. She also tells how she released a bronze sculpture called “As a Little Child” as a gift, only to see it reach thousands of viewers on television. The talk comes from the North Florida CFO in 1981.

Barbara Ann Chase traces her testimony from eight years as a Dominican nun to a chance meeting at a rock concert, where an Episcopalian stranger asked if she knew about Pentecost. At the North Florida CFO in 1981 she says the encounter left her speaking in tongues to nursery rhyme tunes the next morning, and later led her to found the Corpus Christi Christian Institute.

Barbara Ann Chase describes dancing in the Spirit at a meeting led by Gordon Benning. She then tells campers that being free to dance also means being free not to, and urges them to forgive parents who never let them pursue a buried gift or dream. The session comes from the North Florida CFO in 1981.

Barbara Ann Chase walks through Isaiah 58’s picture of a true fast: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and freeing the oppressed. At the North Florida CFO in 1981 she tells how weeping children at a camp communion spontaneously called out the names of orphans around the world.

At the North Florida CFO in 1981, Barbara Ann Chase walks through Psalm 84’s longing for the courts of the Lord. She closes on trusting God completely. Then she tells of her friend Gordon, who was shown heaven and could describe the Father with only one word, “home”.