Estelle Carver calls the tomb “the womb of life.” She presses campers in the movement toward what she names the “way of discipline.” She recalls how a young woman’s need for fifty dollars was met by an unsolicited check the next day.
Messages given at various Camps Farthest Out by Estelle Carver
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Estelle Carver calls the tomb “the womb of life.” She presses campers in the movement toward what she names the “way of discipline.” She recalls how a young woman’s need for fifty dollars was met by an unsolicited check the next day.
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.
At the Colorado CFO in 1973, Estelle Carver traces Jesus’s first recorded sayings. They run from “I must be about my Father’s business” to his telling Nathanael, in effect, “I am Jacob’s ladder,” the link between heaven and earth. She asks campers to follow him every step of his earthly journey.
At the Kentucky CFO in 1967, Estelle Carver confesses that she sold her car and sent the savings abroad as food parcels to war-stricken families. She called herself “a well-fed donkey in a paddock” while others went hungry. She then works through three movements of daily spiritual discipline.
Estelle Carver mourns the collapse of family devotion. She recalls how her own mother eased a childhood terror of hellfire by sitting up with her through the night, and she asks why so many campers say no parent ever spoke to them of Jesus. The talk was given at the Kentucky CFO in 1967.