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#3cccJournal2TwittBook I finally got baptized today, August 5th. It meant so much more after reading on baptism in Watchman Nee’s book, 0847

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..“Love Not the World”. Glory to God! Beth and Mark Crosby both accepted Jesus – her the 1st of August and he 0848

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the 2nd. We were all baptized together by Bill Hant, the evangelical Chalk artist from Daytona Beach. This 0849

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..took place outside the barn at Ray & Roe Hunter’s, following B.A.R.N. ‘74. The Holy Spirit has brought 0850

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..it’s comforting gifts many times since Cindy and I arrived at Joe & Marie Umidi’s in May 1974. 0851

#3cccJournal2TwittBook OCTOBER 11-14, 1974: Attended Camp Peniel, a pentecostal campground. 0852

#3cccJournal2TwittBook OCTOBER 22 1974: I proposed to Cindy and she accepted our engagement. Been living together so not so meaningful. 0853

#3cccJournal2TwittBook OCTOBER 24, 1974: Cindy and I were brainstorming, trying to think of ways we could minister to others so as to 0854

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..effect the most change. God only knows, the vast majority of Christians are in a rut. Cindy and I both broke 0855

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..free of our past, our friends and family, giving us a unique ability to accept and adopt to change. So, I got 0856

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..this idea for a Christian Survival Camp & wrote a one-page flyer (front and back). Here’s what our FLYER says: 0857

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: The purpose of this camp would be to help Christians renew their relationship with God. Being on a 0858

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..survival basis in the wilderness brings dependence on self (invariably revealing our weaknesses) and 0859

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..consequently can put us in touch with God’s presence in a unique way. When we are removed from the 0860

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..worldly pressures to do, we  have a chance to be; a chance to listen to God without anxieties that 0861

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..invade our prayers, our relationships with others, our life. Cindy Murphy (my fiance) myself and 0862

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..several close friends, will find a wilderness area near the sea, hike in with just a back pack and no 0863

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..food. We’ll bring the necessary survival gear and spend three months there. July thru September would 0864

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..be the best months for food foraging. Tentatively, the idea seems to be that we would come out to the 0865

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..beginning of the trail once a week, to receive incoming Christians, who would then spend a weekend, a 0866

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..week, or as long as was possible for them. During this weekly rendezvous we could receive information 0867

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..as to individuals or groups with special needs, news of responses to the program, and to let friends 0868

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..know how we are doing. This would also require a house nearby, to be used as headquarters and base 0869

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..camp. A liaison officer would live-in; there would be a phone and sleeping quarters for guests who may 0870

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..arrive a bit early or during inclement weather. This person would direct campers to the trail, handle 0871

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..inquiries, make sure campers have come sufficiently prepared, and handle any medical emergencies beyond 0872

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..our limited medical knowledge. To this end we will locate a local doctor willing to handle emergencies 0873

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..like broken bones, allergic reactions, poisoning, bad lacerations, heart attacks, etc. We will require 0874

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..each participant to fill out a medical statement. Persons not in good health will be eliminated from 0875

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..participation, including those with diabetes, epilepsy, a history of heart trouble, and women who are 0876

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..well into their pregnancy. We believe that such a survival camp will put into better perspective the 0877

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..coming reality of global disasters and, hopefully, bring renewed empathy for the starving millions who 0878

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..experience hunger on a continual basis. Especially during such wilderness experiences I notice how 0879

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..cluttered my life really is; how many luxury conveniences we have and take for granted. But more 0880

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..importantly, such an experience can reveal how TV, radio and stereos insidiously enter into, and 0881

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..sometimes control, our thought life. This  leaves little room for thoughts related to God’s will for 0882

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..our life. This reminds me of the 1st Psalm: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the 0883

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the 0884

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..law of the Lord and on his law does he meditate day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of 0885

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..water, that yields its fruit in season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does he prospers. 0886

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: When we are preoccupied with a head full of TV commercials and movie scenes we are walking in the 0887

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..’counsel of the ungodly’ and therefore are unable or unwilling to ‘meditate day and night’ on the ways 0888

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..of the Lord. Without the continual bombardment of worldly traumas there is a new awareness of just how 0889

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..out of touch with God’s presence we really are. We begin to understand how little time we have taken to 0890

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..think through and understand the forces of this world and how to overcome them, forces which have 0891

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..molded our cluttered, complex, anxiety ridden thought life. Publicity will be by word of mouth and 0892

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..letter (and maybe other means but we will not seek them out). To this end we will secure a list of all 0893

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..Christian conventions, conferences, camps and churches, to notify them of this camp and it’s purpose. 0894

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: We do not wish to bring any attention to ourselves (ALL GLORY TO GOD!) nor do we wish to see this project 0895

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..become anything other than a simple expression of faith for each participant. To that end we hope to 0896

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..have various resource people on hand each week, for exciting spirit-filled evenings around the 0897

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..campfire. It is our prayer that the forced fasting of a survival camp, the insulation from the worldly 0898

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..amenities that so easily distract us, and the fellowship with other spirit-filled believers, 0899

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FLYER: ..shall bring about a re-vitalized walk with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for all that attend. 0900

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