Messages spoken at the 1961 Southern California CFO
Southern California CFO 1961:
6 messages.
The 1961 Southern California CFO met at Redlands University, Redlands, from August 6 to August 11, 1961. The speaker was Frank Laubach, who spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Frank Laubach describes losing a Philippine college presidency to a Presbyterian rival and the illnesses that followed, until he saw the defeat as providence pointing him to the illiterate masses he later spent his life teaching, and urges campers to keep their channels open toward God, self, and others. The talk comes from the 1961 Southern California CFO.
Frank Laubach warns the Southern California CFO in 1961 that America faces “Pentecost or perish.” He urges the campers to remember Christ, to pray without ceasing, and to love one another the way the first disciples did before the Holy Spirit fell at the first Pentecost.
Frank Laubach opens with a young camper’s vision of a man stepping out of a house to save the world. This comes from the 1961 Southern California CFO. He then teaches that Christ must be invited to rule from within, illustrating the point with a story of New Guinea cannibals who, he says, eat for spirit rather than hunger.
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This talk comes from the 1961 Southern California CFO. Frank Laubach maps hydrogen armed missiles pointed at America over the North Pole as “the greatest sin in the world,” then contrasts communist literacy drives in Russia and China with Western neglect. He urges listeners to write Congress backing foreign aid and Public Law 480.
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Frank Laubach argues that hunger and illiteracy, not communism itself, are the real enemy the world must fight, tallying the churches, veterans, retired teachers and students America could mobilize into a literacy and compassion campaign. This comes from the 1961 Southern California CFO. He also describes a prayer group that set out to intercede for the hungry world and ended up arguing about family planning instead, all at a California CFO.
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Frank Laubach urges campers to keep their spiritual fire burning through daily prayer and Bible reading, and calls for “companies of compassion” that give a dollar a week to fund missionaries fighting illiteracy, poverty, and communism abroad, in a talk given near the close of a California CFO. Recorded at the 1961 Southern California CFO.
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