Messages by Dr. Bill Reed

Messages given at various Camps Farthest Out by Dr. Bill Reed

Dr. Bill Reed

About Dr. Bill Reed

Dr. Bill Reed, an alumnus of the University of Michigan Medical School and a trained surgeon…

Dr. Bill Reed, an alumnus of the University of Michigan Medical School and a trained surgeon, spent many years running a private general surgery practice in Tampa, Florida before answering the call of God on his life to teach on how to receive and minister healing to the sick.

He founded the Christian Medical Foundation and led it as president for five decades. During his career, he also developed a unique medical philosophy known as “Logopsychosomatic Medicine,” which integrated spiritual and psychological elements into physical healthcare.

Dr. Reed wrote several books, including A Doctor’s Thoughts on Healing, Surgery of the Soul – Healing the Whole Person: Spirit, Mind and Body, and Poetic Thoughts of Life and Hope, a collection of his original poetry.

In addition to his books, he contributed regularly to Christian Life Magazine as a columnist and wrote numerous articles and editorials featured in both medical and faith-based journals. His reputation as a speaker took him across North America and internationally—he lectured in countries such as England, Scotland, Holland, Switzerland, Poland, and various parts of Central America. He was also a familiar and cherished voice at events held by the Order of Saint Luke, Camps Furthest Out, and The Healing Center in Orkney Springs, Virginia—a location especially dear to his heart.

Much of Dr. Reed’s surgical work focused on cases deemed beyond hope by conventional medicine. For his lifelong commitment to faith-driven care, he was honored with the President’s Heritage Award by the Christian Medical & Dental Association. This award recognized his unwavering dedication to serving both healthcare professionals and patients across the U.S., Canada, and Ethiopia. His compassionate and spiritually grounded approach to medicine continues to leave a lasting global impact.

His ministry continues today through The Healing Center.

Messages Given By Dr. Bill Reed

The Aide Was Praying Too

Speaking to the movement, Bill Reed tells how he revived his infant son Robbie after finding him blue and not breathing. He recalls a hospital aide who prayed silently beside him over a dying toddler. He also remembers sensing in prayer that a colleague’s leukemia diagnosis was wrong, which led to the discovery of Felty’s disease instead.

The Church With a Withered Heart

Bill Reed reads the healing of the man with the withered hand in Mark 3. He says he prefers to call it the story of “the church with a withered heart.” He urges the movement to make healing prayer as ordinary as coming to communion.

The Night the Plane Lost a Door

After his plane loses a door in flight, Bill Reed arrives late to the 1962 Oklahoma Ardmore CFO. He preaches on joy as the fruit of the Holy Spirit and ties it to Isaiah 61 and John 16. He describes an arthritic woman who shakes under a prayer table and rises healed.

God Took Away Her Two Canes

Bill Reed preaches on Abraham’s binding of Isaac and the uncounted cost of discipleship, warning that half-hearted faith cannot save a family or a nation. At the 1962 Oklahoma Ardmore CFO camp he adds that an elderly camper was healed of needing her two canes. She is now younger in her eighties than she had been in her seventies.

The Trees No One Knew Were for Healing

In his farewell address of the week, Bill Reed tells the camps of a patient given up as a hopeless case of leukemia. Prayer revealed a different, treatable illness underneath. In thanks, the family planted trees at his home church, a memorial to the healing that no one there was ever told about.

The Chest X-Ray That Came Back Clear

Bill Reed tells campers at the 1960 Oklahoma Ardmore CFO camp about a patient whose chest x-ray was clouded by a spreading lung lesion. The morning after he prayed “oh, blessed Jesus, come into her,” the x-ray showed nothing. He then adds accounts of two uncles with leukemia who responded differently to prayer over the years.

The Woman No One Would Pray With

Bill Reed argues that campers must give away any blessing rather than keep it for themselves. He then recounts praying for a woman with skin cancer, who had told him “no one wants to pray with me” because she was Jewish. The talk comes from the Oklahoma Ardmore CFO camp in 1960.

She Left Her Water Jar Behind

Bill Reed preaches on the woman at the well, telling the camps how she left her water jar behind to tell the town about Jesus. He then turns to the healing of a man born blind. Spiritual blindness, he argues, is worse than physical blindness.

He Remembered That Someone Prayed

Bill Reed tells of a comatose Oklahoma City teenager and of a minister’s son unconscious with hepatitis. He urges families in the movement to pray aloud at the bedside. He believes even unconscious patients can hear and later remember it.

The Doctor Who Was A Hopeless Alcoholic

Bill Reed tells of praying for a four-year-old girl with leukemia, and he warns that childhood illness can follow strain between divorced parents. He then relays a doctor’s testimony of recovery from narcotics and alcoholism. He closes the address to the movement with an altar call.