Showing posts with label bible study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bible study. Show all posts

Saturday 7 December 2013

Eldon Wesley Booker fell asleep in the hope of the resurrection


Texas State University: central promenade with...
Texas State University: central promenade with Old Main at the end. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dear brothers, sisters and friends:

Eldon Wesley Booker

Wesley was born June 25, 1951, in San Saba, Texas, the second son of Eldon S. Booker and Ruth Hatcher Booker. He was baptized into Christ by the Christadelphians of Lampasas, Texas, on June 28, 1970, and remained faithful to the gospel for the remainder of his life. He fell asleep in the hope of the resurrection, in Austin, on December 4, 2013, at the age of 62.

Wesley was married to Mary Ellen Miller in 1976. He has two children, Elizabeth Ruth Booker Hudson (of Austin) and Daniel Thomas Booker (of Oakland, California), who survive him. Wesley is also survived by his brother George Booker, his sister-in-law Barbara Booker, and his nephew Adam Booker, along with Adam's wife Wallesha and their daughter Miriam (all of Austin). He will be remembered with love and fondness by many others, both in Austin and around the world, whom he touched by his preaching and practicing his Bible-based faith.

In 1974, Wesley graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University)
in San Marcos. For almost 30 years he taught school, mainly in the Round Rock ISD and mostly fifth-graders. He often said that teaching 11 and 12-year-old students helped him develop his method of teaching people of all ages, by the simplest means possible. He developed the facility of making difficult subjects easy to grasp, following the principle that you can teach anyone almost anything if you make it as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Many of his summer vacations were spent training young Christadelphians how to present the gospel message to others, while leading them in the "Truth Corps" program -- putting what they were learning into practice by teaching vacation Bible schools and talking to interested friends and family about the Bible and its simple message. Many of the graduates of that program returned to their homes in North America and elsewhere, to continue the work of teaching Sunday school and outreach to others.

Wesley had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the Bible, quoting verses practically at will, and invariably relating each verse to its immediate context without the need to consult his Bible. Even though he taught a simple Bible message, his eagerness to learn more about the Bible made him quite capable of carrying on more detailed and advanced discussions about its message and teachings. In 1985, Wesley entered a national Bible knowledge competition, in which he won a regional competition. Out of quite a number of competitors at the national tournament in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he placed second. The winner, after talking with Wesley for a while, admitted that he envied Wesley's good knowledge of the Bible and its message -- whereas his own knowledge (aided by what he called a photographic memory) was confined to facts without practical application.

In characteristic fashion, Wesley then donated his prize money to a couple of Christadelphian charities.

After his retirement from teaching, Wesley devoted himself to preaching and teaching the Bible in various places, along with pastoral work and some prison ministry. Many Christadelphians throughout the United States and Canada met Wesley and became his friends during that time.

While in Austin, Wesley served as a volunteer delivering meals for Meals on Wheels. He also used his ability to teach in various ways. He was an expert tennis player, and he often coached young people in the sport. In later years he taught retired folks to play bridge at the senior center in south Austin. In addition to his natural family and his faith-based family of Christadelphians, he had what might be called his "tennis" family (with whom he played regularly until the last few months), as well as his "bridge" family (with whom he also played regularly). While a strong competitor in all sports and games, who won much more often than he lost, he was a gracious and humble person, without pretense, of whom many people speak well and absolutely no one speaks ill.

Wesley was in practically perfect health for his entire life, and the brain tumor (a glioblastoma multiforme) which took him came on suddenly and without warning. His illness, while not lingering, did take away his wonderful mind over the course of several months, step by painful step. As long as he could, however, Wesley read his old Bible, well-marked with his own comments and cross-references, while taking time to watch his beloved Atlanta Braves in the baseball playoffs. He died in the sure hope of the return of Jesus Christ to this earth, to raise and judge the dead and to establish God's kingdom. He will be laid to rest at the Johnson Family Cemetery in Stonewall, Texas, alongside his father and mother, and near his grandmother and his great-grandparents.



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Those who would like to donate to a charity in Wesley's name may send their contributions to: Agape in Action -- U.S., 521 Valmont Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016. Agape in Action builds and operates homes and schools for orphaned and poor children in Africa and India.

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Thursday 30 May 2013

New Video Resource Centre

New Video Resource Centre. 

For meeting the needs of very small ecclesia’s, those in isolation, and preaching.
The Rugby ecclesia have an extensive library of video material on their YouTube prophecy channel 
www.youtube.com/user/RugbyChristadelphian

This includes amongst others: Public presentations and Bible studies, Thoughts for the Day, Prophecy days, Bible in the news and Don Pearce'€™s Spotlights -Bible Prophecy in World news series. 

The technical quality is very high and ideal for preparing DVDs for all purposes including preaching.

Exhortations are also stored on YouTube, however, these are not made public, but access can be made available upon request. 

Given the production standards they are quite suitable for use in small ecclesia memorial meetings.

Please contact the under signed for further details.
Bro Art Courtonel ( On behalf of the Preaching group at Rugby UK)
therugbychristadelphians@gmail.com

Your Brother in Our Shared Hope
Stu Art Courtonel 
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Thursday 22 October 2009

Bible studies by A.Buzzard in livestream

From now onwards you can listen to Bible studies led by Anthony Buzzard from the Restoration church of God on Sundays at 10.45 a.m. EST at www.livestream.com/rkitect

Sunday 16 August 2009

Prayer, important aspect in our life

"No aspect of our life in Christ is more important than is prayer; a prayerless life is a Godless life. Without prayer Bible study becomes mere academic exercise, fellowship mere social intercourse, preaching a kind of religious politics and life like a dusty imitation flower - lacking colour and fragrance. On the other hand, the man of prayer is seen to be a man of action! For him there is access to perfect wisdom and all power - nothing is impossible! The age of open miracles may be past, but God's arm is not shortened nor His power diminished. In its fulfilment, prayer is the sum total of faith and fellowship with God."
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Brother Cyril Tennant
Prayer - Studies in Practice

Dutch transtlation /Nederlandse vertaling > Gebed belangrijk aspect in ons leven

Tuesday 21 July 2009

How do you become a "Virtual" Bible School attendee?

How do you become a "Virtual" Bible School attendee?  It's easy.  Here are three steps:
 
1. Obtain a set of Bible School CDs or audio tapes.  If  you or your ecclesia don't have an audio library, know that the WCF has a large selection of recordings that will allow you to listen in on some wonderful past Bible School classes.  Here is a link to the section in the WCF Resource Center where you will be able to order from literally hundreds of subjects, speakers, and even hymns and songs.  http://www.facebook.com/l/;https://wcfoundation.org/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7  
 
2.  Set aside a specific time each day to listen to the classes.  If you commute to work, listen to your classes on the way to and from the office each day.  If you are at home, consider playing the classes at the same time your brothers and sisters might be sitting in on "live" classes at Bible School.  
 
3.  If at all possible, make a point to get together with another Brother or Sister during the week.  Meet for coffee.  Invite them over for dinner.  Plan your own "ice cream social".  Find ways to encourage each other as we see the day approaching.  If you're like me, one of my favorite parts of Bible School is the fellowship shared with friends.   
 
Have a great week.

Friday 19 June 2009

Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home Without Permit

Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.

"On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county." David Jones told FOX News.

"We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all," Jones said.

A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited "unlawful use of land," ordering them to either "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit," the couple's attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.

But the major use permit could cost the Jones' thousands of dollars just to have a few friends over.

For David and Mary Jones, it's about more than a question of money.

"The government may not prohibit the free exercise of religion," Broyles told FOX News. "I believe that our Founding Fathers would roll over in their grave if they saw that here in the year 2009, a pastor and his wife are being told that they cannot hold a simple Bible study in their own home."

"The implications are great because it’s not only us that’s involved," Mary Jones said. "There are thousands and thousands of Bible studies that are held all across the country. What we’re interested in is setting a precedent here — before it goes any further — and that we have it settled for the future."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C522637%2C00.html
+ Sweeping issues of religious freedom and governmental regulation are swirling around Pastor David Jones' house in rural Bonita, attracting attention from as far away as China and New Zealand. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/30/1n30bible00100-county-wont-force-permit-bible-stud/?metro&zIndex=108046