Camps Farthest Out was founded by a man who had a vision of a peaceful world – the Kingdom of God on earth – brought about through prayer. Glenn founded the camps in order to bring together spiritually mature people to pray for world peace and the realization of God’s Kingdom on earth.

My understanding from reading Glenn Clark, is that he founded the camps to bring together spiritually mature people to pray for world peace and the realization of God’s Kingdom on earth." He visioned the camps as a spiritual training ground for practicing God’s presence and going further out in prayer as an athlete of the spirit, a place to learn to pray more deeply, listen for God’s voice, and practice unconditional love. He further held the vision that the camps would then transmit this love out to the world through the world prayer broadcast and ideally campers will also bring it back, in their own lives, to their homes and churches.

Jesus calls us to be the light of the world. At JFO, we recharge our batteries and polish our lamps so that our individual lights can shine more brightly in the world. A lot of little lights can dispel much darkness. This is what our nine o’clock prayer is all about.

I believe that Glenn Clark purposely stayed away from dogma, doctrines and creeds in his camps in order to achieve the harmony necessary to experience God’s powerful, loving presence and project it out to the world. When we get into discussions of belief systems, we inevitably focus on semantics and the differences that divide us. I believe Glenn wanted us to avoid that. In chapter XXI of "A Man’s Reach" we read how he founded the camps in reaction to religious camps he attended where there was disharmony and division.

Glenn wrote: "Every fiber in my being yearned to rush forth and start a camp of my own based upon Jesus’ promise the ‘where two or three agree together I shall be in the midst of you.’" And later in the chapter, ". . . another yearning pulled at all the fibers of my being to start a camp where all the leaders believed that prayer was the mightiest force in the world. . . .I yearned to see a camp where people ceased merely talking of and about God and the Kingdom – prepositions that too often implied separation – and started immersing themselves in God and the Kingdom, in every area of their lives."
We come together at JFO to enter God’s presence, pray more deeply, practice unconditional love, and – most importantly – transmit that love to the world through our world prayer broadcasts and in how we live our lives away from camp.

JFOers come from many Christian traditions and viewpoints. This was part of Glenn’s vision–that we put aside our differences and come together in harmony and love. This is the inspired difference between JFO and a church camp, and it is, I believe, how we can best experience the Kingdom of God.