As CFOI comes close to our 10th International Camp, we are working with concrete details, as well as our faith-filled dreams for the gathering. Campership money generously donated is now being sent around the world. We are using our reserve fund to bring Regional Vice Presidents to the meetings. CFOI is trusting God to sustain us as an organism. We are all in.
But before that international meeting comes my own home CFO camp. Every year I get reminded about why I love to be a CFOer when I return to the camp where I learned about a lifestyle that is prayer all day long, allowing God in and giving Love out. At CFO I get to be a child, and also go farther out in the Kingdom. I’m preparing to lead Devotion in Motion, and here are some of Glenn Clark’s reflections on Devotion in Motion at the very first CFO camp. It’s all about being 100% dedicated:
“Another discovery made at the Camp Farthest Out was that to truly pray, to pray with the greatest abandon and with all of one’s power, one should pray with all one’s being. For that reason it was early discovered that if there was to be any technique of prayer it must be a technique that would include one’s body as well as one’s mind and one’s soul, a laying of one’s self completely and totally upon the altar of God.
“Therefore an hour was set aside for the study of rhythm and physical coordination in order to find a technique that one could depend upon and use for praying with one’s body – a technique by which one could make himself sensitive, radio-like to the Unseen, open himself body and soul to God.
“It was discovered that as one relaxed his body tensions, his soul and mental tensions grew less. People of forty and fifty and sixty had the wonderful experience of growing young again. When people turn and become as little children they have taken the first step toward entering the Kingdom. Until we provide people with a definite technique for praying with their bodies as well as with their souls, it was discovered, of lighting up their bodies with God, so to speak, we are not going to draw the world singing and crowding into our churches.” (The Lord’s Prayer, p. 29)
What parts of your own CFO camp experience inspire your life? Do you see people grow young again, and draw the world in singing? Are you all in?
