Our next Refresher Call is coming February 25th. Here’s a message from Tanya Cothran, who will lead the call: Rhythms, or Devotion in Motion, as it is called around the world, is one the parts of camp that most sticks with me in the “in-between” months when I’m not lucky enough to be at camp…. Read more »
Did you see the movie?
We are excited to share the latest video showing the people and the experience of CFOI. We’ve had shorter versions of this, “Have you experienced love…Go further” but now there is wonderful new content, including interviews of campers from around the world, and lots of footage from the 10th International Camp in Peru last summer…. Read more »
Next Refresher Call Coming!
Here’s a summary of our Refresher Call on Meditation from October. We are trying to demystify Refresher Calls, and make you comfortable with the format. We hope that you join the next one, coming January 14th☺ Lana Runyan (of Koronis CFO in Minnesota) was the call leader and she started exactly on time. People joined… Read more »
Thanks for Dinner!
Old friends and new friends met for dinner last Saturday night in Southern California to learn about the Belt of Prayer around the world and grow the CFOI family. We enjoyed a video with fresh footage from Peru, and an inspiring talk about God’s technology (better than cell phones!) by Len Marinello. We sang together… Read more »
Refresher Session Coming Your Way
Ever since our CFOI meetings in Lima, Peru, the North America Region team has been talking about ways to share CFO principles, dreams and encouragement with you. We are now offering Refresher Sessions by free conference call, and you are invited to join:) Lana Runyan, a valued CFO leader, will guide the first call. Lana… Read more »
Welcome to CFO!
At our recent Training of Trainers in Peru, each Trainer practiced leading various parts of our daily CFO program. Along with Meditation sessions and Devotion in Motion plans, each one wrote an Orientation talk to introduce people to Camps Farthest Out. Here is a fine example of a talk given by Tanya Cothran, a North… Read more »
Masterpiece Available
By permission of Macalaster Park Publishing, we have now posted The Soul’s Sincere Desire, Glenn Clark’s first book on prayer. If you haven’t read it, please click on the link and get started. It will change your prayer life. If you have wanted to share it with friends but not give up your copy, here… Read more »
Hope is Built on Harmony
Here is an article from Colin Ray, past CFOI President and Chair of CFOI 10th International Camp: As I read Glenn Clark that is what I see – “If God can take our little visions, which two or three give to Him in the spirit of harmony and love, and bring fulfilment greater than any… Read more »
CFO International and Spirit in Action
I hope you all had a Happy Mother’s Day! CFO International is a mother to a daughter organization, Spirit in Action. Read on to learn more! This post is from Tanya Cothran, Adminsitrator of SIA and Board Member of CFOI. Tanya shares: “As hard as I try, it’s hard to keep the ‘further out’ feeling… Read more »
Draw the World Singing and Crowding
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… Read more »
CFO Worldwide Magazine
I’d like to link you up to CFO Worldwide for a stronger connection with CFO camps. Along with information and articles, there is a list of camps around the world, organized by dates. Have a look, and see who is meeting now, and consider praying the 9:00 prayer with a CFO at 9:00 in their… Read more »
Living Prayers
Living Prayers: I recently asked CFO leaders how camps help us to become living prayers, world changers and peacemakers. I’d like to share some of the responses and invite you to comment with your own thoughts on this. Our February issue of the Newsletter celebrates the 75th anniversary of the incorporation of Foundations Farthest Out,… Read more »
Colour My World
South America always seems to me to be a place of vibrant colours…bright reds, bright yellows, bright greens! The people that I have met from that part of the world have always coloured my world. I may not always understand what they have said to me, but I have known through their word, “Amigo” ,… Read more »
50th Anniversary in Adelaide
Colleen Dale was the Speaker at the 2011 Adelaide Camp in Australia. Marcia Brown was the Speaker at the 1961 Adelaide Camp, and Colleen was there as a first-time camper. Colleen is now involved in the Melbourne CFO Camp, and has stayed all these years because of the unconditional love she has experienced, and… Read more »
Tongan CFO in Aukland
Rev. Makisi had a dream of inviting Secretaries of Evangelism in the Methodist Church in Aukland to attend a CFO camp. The result was a camp with 80% first-time campers in Aukland, New Zealand. Gweneth and Colin Ray and Colleen Dale joined them from Australia and experienced an inspiring camp. The CFO program was done… Read more »
100th Birthday
We have received word that Jessie Banno, the founder of CFOI in Japan, remained safe through the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Thank you for your prayers for the people of Japan! Jessie will turn 100 in June, and we celebrate God’s gift of Jessie.
CFO Connections
Roland Brown, the son of original CFOI travelers Roland and Marcia Brown, is making connections with people from India who speak the Tamil language in Florida, USA. Copies of I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, translated into Tamil, are being provided to people in Florida who can now connect with CFO in their home… Read more »
Meet Your Fear!
“Go out and meet the thing you are afraid of – not with fear, but with love, and it will become your ally and not your foe.” – Glenn Clark, The Thought Farthest Out
Meant to Help Me
“I believe in sending out a prayer to the Father to draw to me those who are meant to help me and be helped by me in order to express my life together with them.” … Read more »
Rebirth of Jaffna Camp in Sri Lanka
Looking at a map of Sri Lanka, you’ll find Jaffna on a peninsula in the very north. Glenn Clark celebrated his 72nd birthday there in 1954, when the country was called Ceylon. Glenn Clark calls that first camp “One of the best we’ve had.” (On Wings of Prayer, p. 138). Some school girls who sang… Read more »