Messages spoken at the 1973 Ohio CFO
Ohio CFO 1973:
11 messages.
The 1973 Ohio CFO met at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, from July 23 to July 28, 1973. The speakers were CFO Panel, Larry Daly and Ruth Robison, and they spoke on the subjects of Camps Farthest Out History, Christian Living, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Love, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Ruth Robison opens a week at the 1973 Ohio CFO with the circle a gardener digs around every shrub. This feeding area keeps the soil loose, so that whatever is put on top can sink in, and she asks campers to prepare such an area around their own souls. Her text is Ephesians 1:19, “How tremendous is the power available to us who believe in God.”
A stranger reached under an overturned car and held the hand of the woman pinned beneath it until help arrived, and a doctor told him that grip had probably saved her life. Ruth Robison asks campers to keep their own hands ready in that way. She also tells how a gravely ill child was restored, while a whole meeting of the 1973 Ohio CFO turned itself into one prayer group.
A caught heel sent Ruth Robison down five marble steps in a Pittsburgh pulpit on the morning she was to speak on healing. She waved off the ambulance, had the congregation pray her up, and finished the message where she had left off. Quoting Paul on “a tremendous power inside of you,” she uses that fall to press the campers at the 1973 Ohio CFO out of the crucifixion life and into the resurrection.
Ruth Robison props a cross on the platform and steps through it to the resurrection side, where, she says, hands can no longer hurt anyone. At the Ohio CFO in 1973 she gives campers a working test of that reversal. Her Richmond prayer group pooled coins, telephoned the White House while the president was in conference, and told six people down the line why they were praying.
This talk on taking the resurrection now opens with the Easter sunrise service on the Virginia shore near Ruth Robison’s home, where the yachts come up the river and switch off their lights to listen. At the 1973 Ohio CFO she tells of sending a twenty dollar bill to a millionaire who called himself an atheist, because the Holy Spirit directed it. She also passes on a friend’s question, “Have you reached the stage of Christian grace that you can thank God for interruptions?”
Carrie Rose had rheumatic fever and was told she would never do what other children do. So when she asked for a pony, Ruth Robison told the doctor to let her ride, and the girl later earned a track letter in high school. Stories like it ready campers for a healing and blessing service at the 1973 Ohio CFO, where the challenge is to seek not one cure but complete wholeness.
Closing the 1973 Ohio CFO, Ruth Robison hands out what she calls tidbits. Her husband Lee was called back from eight days unconscious by a family that refused to expect his death. There were tide pools of colored sea life below the rocks at Star Island, and a schoolgirl whose gift to her teacher was a crystal icicle catching the rainbow. “Do less and do it better,” she says.
Larry Daly insists to the 1973 Ohio CFO that renewal comes from genuinely withdrawing to meet God rather than from chasing signs, with a reformatory encounter group and a camp for handicapped children as his evidence.
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Larry Daly tells the 1973 Ohio CFO that the pictures a person holds decide what they become. A farm boy who became a pope, a bicycle that arrived after a boy let go of hating his father, and a museum of flawed glass still full of light are how he shows it.
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A CFO Panel drawn from Canada, Ceylon and India traces the movement’s spread before the camp joins the World Prayer Broadcast. A couple who painted three miles of picket fence to pay for the journey, and a broadcast from Star Island remembered against the summer of 1939, come into it at the Ohio CFO in 1973.
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Larry Daly takes 1 Corinthians 12 to the Ohio CFO in 1973, to argue the gifts are given for everybody’s good rather than for standing. A storefront church he was too well known to walk into, a teacher soaked with healing meant for somebody else, and a hog let back into a lean-to for warmth are how he puts it.
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