Messages given at various Camps Farthest Out by Emily Binning
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Emily Binning and Gordon Binning share stories of Jesus delighting them. They tell of a dog that loved catching fish and of weathered barn boards salvaged for their house. In a snowy car crash, Emily found a card reading “let the fruit of your mouth be thanksgiving unto your God.” Speaking at a Minnesota Koronis CFO session, Gordon closes with how he learned to submit to his minister.
Emily Binning and Gordon Binning draw on their marriage to work out the mutual submission Ephesians 5 asks of husbands and wives. Their examples include swapped salt and pepper shakers and a six o’clock morning fire built in obedience. Emily closes by describing trading blue jeans for dresses at a Minnesota Koronis CFO gathering.
At the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1982, Emily Binning recounts a three month mission trip into East Europe. Hotel rooms were bugged, meetings were held behind pulled blinds, and she once rode a tram pressed against soldiers carrying machine guns. She frames the fear and scarcity as the discipline God uses to train a soldier.
Emily Binning traces how she has come to know Jesus in different roles over the years. He was the provider when a prayed-for kitchen stove arrived with every item on her list, then the healer, then the coming bridegroom, pictured in a vision that moved from a mountaintop covenant to a quiet bedchamber to an ordinary kitchen in an apron. She dates this hunger to know Christ personally to her honeymoon, when her new husband first took her to the camps.
Emily Binning describes a vision in which a china teacup is broken and remade into a farm cream can. She walks campers at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1982 through her own struggles with size, schoolwork, and self-image. She urges them to stop making excuses and to declare, as Joel says, “I am mighty.”