Messages given at various Camps Farthest Out by Kevin Hoffman
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At the 2020 Ohio CFO, Kevin Hoffman opens a series on 2 John with his own testimony. He describes a desperate turning point at fourteen that led him into a life-changing camp meeting. He also revisits the “mountain, mountain, move” declaration his mentor Priscilla Bear once taught.
Teaching on hospitality from 3 John at the 2020 Ohio CFO, Kevin Hoffman tells of receiving a goat and a chicken as gifts from new believers at a Kenyan church. Then he turns closer to home, to a breakfast program his congregation ran in inner-city Dayton. Guests there were served on real china, to restore their dignity.
Kevin Hoffman preaches from the book of Jude at the Ohio CFO in 2020, listing six images for false teachers, from dangerous reefs to wandering stars. Then he turns practical, describing how he prays for the mechanic at his regular Firestone shop and befriends the tellers at his bank as everyday “salt and light.” He closes by leading the room through a four-word rhythm, “build, pray, wait, keep,” paired with hand motions.
Kevin Hoffman opens a four part series on 1 John at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 2019. He begins with his own testimony of addiction as a teenager, and of the inner healing prayer that changed him at his first camp in 1972. He teaches that God is light with no darkness in him, and he illustrates it with a tornado recovery effort in his home city.
Kevin Hoffman teaches on the new commandment to love one another from 1 John 2, tracing it back to his own childhood in a home marked by alcoholism and his mother’s brittle bone disease. He credits his recovery to the Alcoholics Anonymous saying “Trust God. Clean house. Help others.” He was speaking at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 2019.
Kevin Hoffman teaches from 1 John 3 that love must be shown in action. As a young man he finally apologized to his alcoholic father and heard him say “I love you” for the first time, a moment that opened the way to his father’s own sobriety. He also describes organizing tornado relief for his home city, and he calls campers at the 2019 Minnesota Koronis CFO to four hugs a day.
In the final talk of the 2019 Minnesota Koronis CFO, Kevin Hoffman teaches from 1 John 4 that God is love. He illustrates it with a Kenya mission trip where a village pastor gifted him a goat during a worship service and two women were healed of pain after prayer. He also tells the love story of meeting his wife, and the song he sang at their wedding.
Kevin Hoffman tells how his friend Tim Stromstead, paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, coined the phrase “believe, obey.” He also tells how he counseled his grandson to remember “whose you are and who you are” before starting middle school. The talk closes a weeklong series on 1 John at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 2019.