Camps Farthest Out messages on the subject of Faith.
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Betty Malz calls herself a survivor, recounting near-fatal illnesses, a 28 minute death experience, and the loss of her first husband. She keeps a rock marked “Giant Killer” in her purse as a reminder that all she needs is God. She gave the talk at the Florida Family CFO in 1991.
At the Florida Family CFO in 1991, Betty Malz tells campers that a hurricane gives two weeks warning, but a tornado flattened her new home in twenty seconds. She also recalls her daughter, afraid alone during the Gainesville murders, and telling her to carry Psalm 27:5, “in the time of trouble he shall hide me,” against her heart.
Betty Malz tells campers to pray for results, not for show, and she opens each day by declaring “Yes, Lord” before her eyes are open. She points to a neighbor who built trust at his bank through years of small deposits, so a single large withdrawal was honored without question. That is a habit she carried into the Florida Family CFO in 1991.
Bertha Jarrett recalls being teased as one of the “big Berthas,” after the German cannons of the first war, because she outgrew her classmates as a girl. Years later her husband’s sudden death sent her into the Beatitudes and the teaching on the mount for the first time. She tells the camps that seeking the kingdom first, as Jesus taught, opened every door that followed.
Bert Kerley describes the nervous breakdown that followed his infant son’s death and years of hidden strain. Speaking at the 1990 Southern California CFO, he then describes a shoulder tap from an old friend. It led him to a retreat bookshop, where he found the book that began his healing.
Bert Kerley recounts a lunch appointment canceled during the Northern California CFO in 1982. It led him, through what he calls “no such things as chance,” to a chance meeting with Hope Peale, a relative of Norman Vincent Peale. He then turns to teach that Christ dwells within every believer.
Barbara Ann Chase continues her line by line study of Ruth, following her from gleaning in Boaz’s field to the threshing floor and the city gate. There the nearer kinsman hands over his sandal so Boaz can redeem both land and bride. The Bible study was given to the 2000 Arkansas CFO.
Barbara Ann Chase teaches on communion as a sign of Christ’s presence in a message to the Arkansas CFO in 2000. She weaves in the history of hymnals and the widow in 2 Kings 4, who fills borrowed jars with oil until it stops.
At the Florida Family CFO in 1995, Anne Pierson teaches on “give us this day our daily bread.” She describes how she once gave away sixty dollars saved for curtains as a missionary offering, and how a check for five hundred dollars arrived days later, folded inside a curtain catalog.
Alex McCullough continues the servant themed week by turning healing into the week’s quiz-and-answer refrain, “why were we healed? To serve.” He then explains that he once prayed a headache away while driving with one hand on the wheel. Only “a BB’s worth” of faith was needed, he tells the Arkansas CFO in 1999, to see six weeks later that his lifelong hay fever and cat allergy were gone.