Messages given at various Camps Farthest Out by Jo Kimmel Chestnut.
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Jo Kimmel Chestnut recalls the tongue-tied young camper who once met Glenn Clark, and marvels that she has grown into an invited speaker. Speaking to the 1979 International CFO, she leads campers through a visualization of Christ entering through an inner door to dwell within them. She shares the promise that “Christ in you” brings “the hope of all the glorious things to come.”
Jo Kimmel Chestnut teaches on abiding in the vine from John 15. She leads an exercise in which campers hold hands and step apart until each one stands alone as a branch cut off, then step back together again. She recalls introducing Francis McNutt to prayer ministry, and closes with a healing and blessing service at the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1982.
Jo Kimmel Chestnut compares trying to force someone to change to prying open a rosebud before it is ready to bloom. Speaking to the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1982, she describes raising her three daughters alone after her husband Ted’s death. She teaches campers to relax their jaw and breathe slowly instead of reacting in anger.
Jo Kimmel Chestnut recalls a college group praying around the clock for a young woman left comatose after a car crash. They asked that “the mind that’s in Christ Jesus” be in her until she fully recovered. She also describes discovering a “gift of options” while counseling suicidal women in a singles ministry, and she traces that gift to her own baptism in the Holy Spirit. She was speaking to the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1982.
Jo Kimmel Chestnut says a spiritual fire needs fresh twigs added, or it goes cold once campers go home. At the 1982 New Hampshire Winni CFO, she recalls unexpected gifts that arrived for her after a man named Clyde left and took her savings, among them a debt-free lake house to use.
At the 1982 New Hampshire Winni CFO, Jo Kimmel Chestnut tells campers how she used Glenn Clark’s exercise of drawing a tree of prayers for people, places, and things rooted in love. Of the thirteen items on one such tree, she reports, eleven came true. She also recalls praying as a child for a bicycle and receiving it only once the ground had dried out enough to ride it, an example she offers of God’s timing.
At the Montana CFO in 1970, Jo Kimmel Chestnut teaches campers to pray as a channel for God’s love. She recounts a woman healed of bursitis in a prayer circle, and a girl healed of Bell’s palsy after she and the girl’s mother prayed together. She borrows comedian Bill Cosby’s “Noah” routine for her own refrain in prayer, “just me and you, Lord.”