Messages given at various Camps Farthest Out by Mary Light
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Mary Light tells how a distant friend prayed the Lord’s Prayer over a girl before surgery, putting her name into every line. At that same moment the doctor’s flashlight found the leaking vein, which was mended that same hour. She teaches campers across the movement to make every request known to God with thanksgiving.
Mary Light recalls turning her own self-pity over to God after a friend twisted a loving letter against her. A line from the ninety-second Psalm restored her to joy. She quotes a fellow believer’s description of God as “the world’s greatest un-messer,” a lesson she carries to the movement.
Mary Light recounts a whirlwind tour that had her sleeping in eleven different beds in two weeks. She also knelt beside a stricken traveler whose pulse had stopped, and prayer brought it back by morning. She urges campers across the movement to become clear channels for God’s healing power.
Real service means giving full joy to the small tasks in front of us, Mary Light tells the camps. She traces how a guiding vision moved her family and led her to raise two troubled boys sent from overseas. One of them took pride in being the worst boy in the school, until discipline and steady prayer turned him around.
Mary Light tells the camps about a seminary student who kept asking why she had to go to church. Mary Light helped her see that Sunday worship gathers God’s family the way her own father loved having everyone home. She also reads an image of a congregation as a muddy shore swept clean by the incoming tide.
Mary Light tells how she came by her name and her ministry: an orphanage childhood, a friend’s migraines healed on the spot, meeting a Scottish accountant called Curly, and a commissioning in Argentina where a printer’s bill was met to the peso by an offering. A vision of British Columbia moved the family to Vancouver, and two wild Irish nephews came right in the end. All of it is told to the Iowa CFO in 1975.
Mary Light assures campers that when he guides he always provides. She traces how giving up a cherished apartment freed her family for two years of travel. She also retells one man’s journey from an empty pocket into a lifetime of relief work, in a talk to the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1974.
Mary Light tells about a young boy whose severed fingers grew back whole, nails and all, after months of prayer. She also tells about a friend whose headache vanished the moment she forgot her prayer book and simply asked for healing. She brings both stories to the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1974.
At the Iowa CFO in 1975, Mary Light retells how a young man left home with almost no money. At each stop he asked, “how far can I go with this,” until the funds appeared. They carried him the whole way to Shanghai and into a lifetime of relief work.
Mary Light tells campers about a young woman walking home alone who was attacked in the dark. The woman could remember only one line of the ninety-first Psalm, “he shall cover you with his feathers.” She shouted the word until her attacker fled, leaving her shaken but unhurt.