Messages spoken at the 1966 Southern California CFO
Southern California CFO 1966:
6 messages.
The 1966 Southern California CFO met at Redlands University, Redlands, from June 22 to June 27, 1966. The speakers were Gloster Udy, Joy Udy and Thomas Carruth, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Inner Healing, Jesus, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
At the 1966 Southern California CFO at Redlands, Joy Udy contrasts the Yosemite firefall, burning logs pushed over a cliff that the wind scatters and that soon goes out, with the waterfall thundering nearby from a source that never ends. Campers can carry either one home, and John 15 points to the second, an abiding in Christ that sends “rivers of living water” out into the world.
At the Southern California CFO at Redlands in 1966, Gloster Udy retells the raising of Lazarus. He shows how Jesus said “remove the stone” and “loose him and let him go.” He pairs the story with an Aboriginal man’s testimony of forgiving the policeman who once jailed him.
Gloster Udy walks through Psalm 73’s steps out of despair. He tells of a widow whose husband died suddenly sixty years ago, and who still wakes to sunlight on the words she scratched into her windowpane with her engagement ring: “This is the day the Lord has made.” The talk was given before the Southern California CFO at Redlands in 1966.
Gloster Udy takes Paul’s refrain “this one thing I do” as his text at the 1966 Southern California CFO at Redlands. We forget past successes and failures, he preaches, in order to press toward Christ. He anchors this in the story of the singer Roland Hayes, who met a hostile Berlin crowd with prayer and love until their hissing turned to applause.
Thomas Carruth pictures a woman who begs the beheaded body of the apostle Paul and buries it in a flower garden. She still prays there to the man whose testimony cost him his life. He invites the Southern California CFO at Redlands in 1966 to “meet me at Calvary.”
Thomas Carruth walks through five widening circles of prayer: self, family, group, church and community. For the Southern California CFO at Redlands in 1966 he uses a match struck in a room of hydrogen and oxygen, showing how two people praying together make a third thing neither had alone.