Camps Farthest Out Messages on the subject of Inner Healing
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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.
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.
At the Missouri CFO in 1978, Anne Waite leads campers through a guided relaxation and a visualization of a clear stream where Jesus meets them. He washes away their burdens and says, “I am well pleased.” The campers then head into their prayer groups for the world broadcast.
Al Durrance teaches on the healing of memories at the Florida Family CFO in 1999. He moves from confession and the casting out of a spirit of anger to a house blessing, where his wife’s voice suddenly warns a departed stepmother she has no permission to stay. He sends her on in the name of Jesus.
Al Brock traces his path from a twin brother’s shadow and a father lost to alcoholism, telling the Florida Family CFO in 1985 that prayer counseling healed both griefs. The path leads on to a runaway son’s homecoming under trees draped in white sheets as a sign of welcome.
Annabelle Woodward continues the week’s ancestral line healing prayer at the California Ocean Pines CFO in 1982. She then illustrates surrender to God’s guidance with a mountain road accident that cured her habit of hurrying. She also tells of the replacement car she names “Mysterious Ways.”
Herb Nabb explains the prayer for healing of memories at the Iowa CFO camp in 1972. He describes how he asks Jesus Christ to walk back into a person’s memory and heal old wounds. He tells of a woman who stopped compulsively washing her hands after admitting she was teased as “toothpicks” as a child.
Ruth Carter Stapleton tells listeners at the camps that Christian growth is a process of being transformed into the image of Christ. She recounts how her sister was dialing for a prayer meeting when a quiet voice asked, “do you love me,” and was told to go iron her husband’s shirts first. She then leads a guided prayer of forgiveness reaching back to birth and early childhood.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn tells the camps how her mother warned her that a dark cupboard held Satan. The warning left her afraid of pitch dark rooms well into adulthood, until she finally named the buried belief and laughed it loose. She urges listeners to hunt down their own unexamined childhood beliefs the same way.
At the 2002 Florida Family CFO, John Hobbs Jr. is introduced as the son of a sockless traveling preacher. He teaches that Christians only truly know who they are when they see themselves as God sees them, rather than as they see themselves in a mirror, and he quotes James on the hearer who forgets his own reflection. Then comes his daughter Jordan, whom he helps trade the lie that she is “just a picky eater” for the truth of who God says she is.