Series: West Virginia Capon Springs CFO 1969

Estelle Carver takes Christopher Fry’s line “thank God our time is now” as her text. She traces it back through her Jamaican childhood home and through Micah’s charge to “do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly” with God, in a talk to the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1969.

At the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1969, Estelle Carver retells the Green Pastures scene where God tells Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, “boys, I’m in a fix.” She urges campers to become the “A number one specimen” he can use for a sick world.

A teenager asked Estelle Carver bluntly why she never married. She tells how her fiance’s dying note, “courage, princess,” carried her through his death five days before their wedding. She presses campers toward that same steady faith at the 1969 West Virginia Capon Springs CFO.

Estelle Carver signs her letters “SJC,” for servant of Jesus Christ, just as her father once had. She unpacks Peter’s claim to be Christ’s bondservant for the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1969, and weaves in a Norwegian bishop’s defiant reply to his Nazi captors.