Camps Farthest Out messages on the subject of The Holy Spirit.
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Barbara Ann Chase resumes her testimony for the Arkansas CFO in 2000. She starts with the vision of praying in the world’s languages that came with her baptism in the Holy Spirit as a Dominican nun, then moves to the chance meeting in a Seattle department store that opened thirty years of ministry in Scotland. She closes with the Glasgow street boy who later phoned just to say “cheerio.”
Bernie Warfield tells the camps that no one’s prayer life can be copied from someone else. He says, “you’ve got to make it for yourself.” He points to an elderly woman he calls “old lady Yancey” as proof that a plain, unschooled prayer can carry the unmistakable power of God.
Audrey Eddings recounts an audible voice that warned her mid-book against a novel later linked to a teenager’s suicide pact. She also describes a dream that named a mole on her toe for a doctor to remove. She offered both to the 1990 California Ocean Pines CFO as examples of how God speaks.
Anna Marie Sheffield and Jack Sheffield lead a healing service at the Arkansas CFO in 2004. Anna Marie opens with her testimony of learning to “seek my face” through visions of reunited loved ones. Jack follows with the story of a skeptical senior warden whose hands catch fire in prayer. The couple then lay hands on campers for arthritis, numbness, and other pain.
Al Durrance preaches under the marquee title “Turkeys Unite” at the Florida Family CFO in 1986. He warns against the chicken yard instinct to peck an already wounded bird. He calls campers to answer the Holy Spirit’s three questions: whether they are willing to be led, changed, and used.
Steady rain had campers ready to pack up and leave. Ruth Robison asked anyone who could not pray in agreement to step quietly into the next room, and the sun broke through before the prayers of thanks had ended. She uses that to open a list of the ways Jesus used his Father’s power, from scripture and the spoken word to weather, food, and healing. She tells campers of the movement that no one ever leaves home, since home is wherever the Lord is.
Ruth Carter Stapleton describes a moment when her home Bible class at Fort Bragg broke into spontaneous prayer for one another, an experience she likens to a game of “fruit basket turnover.” She also recounts a fulfilled prophecy, and a prayer partner who quietly interceded in tongues for the movement while teaching piano lessons back home.
Ruth Robison once sat on a lawn reading a book rather than listen to Glenn Clark, until he asked whether that was fair. A single morning talk on prayer then remade her praying and drew her into the movement. Telling that on an opening night, she urges new campers into every part of the week, warning that “a watcher in the kingdom will never experience divine power.”
Agnes Sanford made her weekly communion for one year of her life at a time. Working back that way, she came upon a childhood illness at the age of three that changed how she understood her own nervousness. She gave that account to the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1972.
Ruth Robison reads Luke 8 on Jairus and the woman who touched the tassel of Jesus’ garment. She calls “waiting and looking for him” her recipe for receiving. She urges campers toward a sense of well-being and tells them that healing a child means healing the household. She also warns that forty well-meaning visitors can drain a recovering boy’s strength.