Camps Farthest Out Messages on the subject of the family
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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 describes a boy running in with a chocolate chip cookie that confirmed a word of knowledge. She then begins a line by line study of Ruth chapter 1, where Ruth clings to Naomi rather than turning back to Moab. The session was given at the 2000 Arkansas CFO.
Audrey Eddings describes a vision in which Jesus carries her up a mountain to introduce her to God the Father. She tells campers at the California Ocean Pines CFO in 1990 that the image healed a distorted picture of God, one rooted in an earthly father who could never say he loved her.
Anne Pierson opens the Lord’s Prayer line “Our Father” with a letter a young unwed mother once wrote her, ten years after leaving Anne’s home. The letter recalls how Jim pulled her onto his knee in their kitchen and wept with her, the day she came home from the hospital without her baby. The talk was given at the Florida Family CFO in 1995.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn opens Revelation’s warning to the church that has “left thy first love.” She tells how she quietly coached her own daughter back into closeness with her husband after a new baby had come between them, without either one learning she was the one who prompted it. She warns campers at the 1966 North Florida CFO that the same drift into “broad road” distractions, from psychic messages to claims of past lives, can pull any Christian from that first love just as easily.
At the Florida Family CFO in 1985, Johnny Johnson traces fear and love back to a child’s first two years. He illustrates it with his father’s claim that dark skin kept young Johnson’s brain cool, while sunlight overheated his white classmates’ brains and wore them out.
John Hobbs Jr. tells the campers that his own father’s rule, “it’s his job to spoil them and God’s job to fix them,” pictures a heavenly Father who wants to be enjoyed, not just obeyed. At the 2002 Florida Family CFO, he connects that picture to his brother and sister-in-law’s grief over their stillborn daughter, saying the Father grieves with those who suffer unjustly.
At the 1961 Pennsylvania Keystone CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst tells campers to look for God in ordinary snapshots. She points to a tired father, a devoted mother, and four army chaplains who give up their life jackets on a sinking troop ship. These are small close-up pictures of his sacrificial love.
In a Genesis 3 study at the Florida Family CFO in 1993, John Glenn traces how the serpent gets Eve doubting God’s word and fixated on the one tree she cannot have. He tells of counseling a wife to “pretend that your husband’s already saved” instead of pressuring him with self-help books.
In 1993, at the Florida Family CFO, John Glenn continues his teaching on the family from Genesis 2. He tells the campers that Eve was formed from a full half of Adam rather than a single rib. “Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh,” he says, means no camper can hurt a spouse without hurting themselves.