In Loving Memory of our Friend, Frank Hammond by Glen Miller

On March 17, 2005, our dear friend, Frank Hammond, went to join his wife, Ida Mae, my wife Erma, and Jesus. Frank and Ida Mae have ministered here at the campground many times and we have been with them when we all used to go to Camps Farthest Out in Eatonton, Georgia. We played a great part in their early ministry.

In 1971, we were at the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship Convention in Denver, Colorado. Erma was managing the book table and I was recording all of the services. That was the year John Osteen took Frank to his hotel room and Frank received the Holy Spirit. John told Demos Shakarian about this Baptist that had received the Holy Spirit in his room that night.

Erma was sitting in the back of the room by a big column, so she would be near the book table that was out in the hotel lobby. A man came in and sat down beside her.

Demos said from the podium, "Will the Baptist pastor that received the Holy Spirit in John Osteen's room last night, please come to the platform." Just Frank and Erma were sitting in the back of the auditorium - only she does not know it is Frank Hammond until he gets up and moves over behind this big column that they are setting beside, so that he cannot be seen from the platform. He did not go to the platform.

A couple of weeks earlier, we had been to Christ for the Nations, where Erma had taken care of the book table for Freida, and I had recorded all the services for Gordon Lindsey. This was in 1971, the second Christ for the Nations Campmeeting. We had also helped with the first Christ for the Nations Campmeeting in 1970. Derek and Lydia Prince were there (who we later traveled with and helped in many of his meetings and they stayed in our home when in the Los Angeles area.) He was the main speaker in 1971 at Christ for the Nations, and taught a series of messages on "The Inheritance of the Saints in Light".

In Denver, Erma was telling someone about this wonderful series of messages that Derek Prince had preached in Dallas at Christ for the Nations. A lady was standing by the book table listening, and she asked "Can I get a set of those tapes?" Erma said, "Give me your name and address, and when we get back home to Northridge, California, I'll send them to you."

This lady was Ida Mae Hammond and they were pastoring a small church in the Colorado mountains. That winter they were snowed in for a couple of months and they played the set of tapes (7" reels) over and over, and said "until we almost wore them out!" This was the beginning of their deliverance ministry and the basis for the book - "Pigs in the Parlor" and the schizophrenia revelation. We are blessed to have had a part in the ministry that God called the Hammonds to.

See all of Frank & Ida Mae Hammond books and tapes that Lake Hamilton Bible Camp offers.

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