YOU CAN DO PERSONAL WORK ~ OTIS GATEWOOD ~ CHURCH OF CHRIST ~ HARDBACK ~ 1956

Description: *** Please visit my eBay Store for many more great selections *** TITLE: "YOU CAN DO PERSONAL WORK"***** Please see pictures for Table of Contents & Preface *****AUTHOR: Otis Gatewood (see bio sketch below) DATE PUBLISHED: 1956BINDING: HardbackPAGES: 217CONDITION: Good. Previous owners name. Does have some marks. NOTES: Please email me with any questions you may have about this books condition or contents before buying. *** Please visit my eBay Store for many more great selections ***Dr. Otis Gatewood L.L.D.1911-1999Otis Gatewood was born in Meridian, Texas, the second child of Wallace Edmund Gatewood and Fannie Doty Gatewood. Otis' sister, Vella Gatewood Garrett Price, preceded him in death. When Otis was born at 10 AM on Sunday morning, his father said, "Another preacher has been born." When Otis told me that, I was a little surprised that the new baby Otis didn't insist on going to church that first morning. Two of Otis' first cousins are with us today, Willodyne Gatewood Brooks and Velma Gatewood Birchfield. The Gatewood family moved from Meridian to Hico, Texas and then to Rotan, Texas by the time Otis was four years old. The family moved to Roby, close to Sardis, about a year later.In 1918, when Otis was 6 years old, there had been no crops to harvest that year. Otis said his Mother died of pellagra, which Otis called starvation. W.E. Gatewood moved to Fort Worth for a year and worked for Swift and Company. Otis' father married again and they had one son, Harvey Gatewood. Otis also had a step brother, George, who was adopted by W.E. Gatewood. Otis said that he grew up in a dance hall run by his father; I don't have any other information about that. Otis always felt very close to his sister, Vella, because she became his mother-substitute when his own mother died. The Family moved to Meadow, Texas, between Lubbock and Brownfield, when Otis was 13 years old.During the first months that Otis lived near Meadow, he went by the Church of Christ building during a worship service, but would not go in. He was standing on the outside looking in through a window, when one of the men came out and invited him to come in for the service. Otis was baptized about two years later and started preaching.After graduating from Meadow High School, Otis entered Abilene Christian College in 1932, and earn a B.A. degree in 1936. Later he earned a M.A. from Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. Pepperdine awarded him an honorary LLD a few years later. Otis also attended university classes at Texas Tech, the University of Utah, and the University of Frankfurt.Otis attended college before the age of scholarships. He sold Bibles for the Southwestern Company of Nashville, Tennessee, in the summers and scrubbed toilets during the school year. Norvel Young, talking about Otis' influence at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the German Mission Work, said, "It was during the depression and Otis always had money; and he had his own car. One summer Otis convinced Batsell Barrett Baxter and me to sell Bibles in his crew. He took us to Kansas during the depression, where there had been a crop failure and they were having a heat wave. We were not too successful at selling Bibles but Otis was."Otis Gatewood and Alma Morgan were married December 25th, 1936 in Abilene. Otis and Alma were always partners in their work in New Mexico, Utah, Lubbock, Germany and Michigan. Alma died in January 1963 and her memorial service was conducted in this auditorium.Otis started preaching at age 15 in Meadow. As a college student he preached at Roby, Texas in 1933 through 1935, where he had lived as a boy. He also preached at Rochester, Texas in 1935 and 1936. Around 1937 Otis established the church in Eunice, New Mexico. G.C. Brewer was the Minister for the Broadway church in Lubbock at the time the elders sent Otis to Las Vegas, New Mexico to establish a church. This was probably the first fully supported missionary among our brethren to work in the United States.In 1939 Otis and Alma moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, also supported by the Broadway Church, to establish the church. They worked seven years in Salt Lake City, 1939-1946. During this time, one of Otis' converts was Jacob C. Vandervis, who returned to his native Holland after World War II and helped to establish the church in his home land.Otis' original dream was to be a missionary in China, but providence had other plans. Otis and G.C. Brewer had a vision of taking the Gospel to Germany after the war. When the war started Otis saw hundreds of Mormon missionaries return from Europe. Otis was appalled that there were no missionaries of the Church of Christ coming home from Europe. When Norvel Young came to the Broadway church to serve as Minister in 1943, he caught the vision and encouraged Otis to plan on taking the Gospel to Germany.In 1946 Otis Gatewood and Paul Sherrod, a Broadway elder, made a survey trip through Germany to determine the best place to start mission work. This was only one year after the end of the war and the nation was still devastated. The two men met with General Lucius Clay in Berlin. General Clay was the Deputy Military Governor of the occupation forces in Germany. As a result of their survey, they decided the best place to start the work was in Frankfurt and they received permission for Otis and Roy Palmer to enter Germany in 1947. These were the first two religious workers allowed into post-war Germany. Roy Palmer, who has done mission work not only in Germany but in Africa, is with us today. During the first few years of their work in Frankfurt, over 600,000 individuals, including the Lord Mayor of Frankfurt, were helped with food and clothing.For a while, Otis and Alma lived at a bombed-out air field with a large number of Germany orphan boys, one of whom, Dieter Goebel, is now a professor at Abilene Christian University. Roy Palmer, Otis and others organized a Bible training school and trained many young German preachers, some of whom are still active in church work.Otis worked in Germany from 1947 to 1957. When he returned to the States, he was the Founding President of Michigan Christian College, 1959-1963; Chancellor of Columbia Christian College, Portland, Oregon, and Professor of Missions at the Harding Graduate School of Religion. In 1970 Otis moved to Vienna, Austria where he was the founder and first president of European Christian College which is now The International University. He worked in Vienna for 19 years, until 1989.Otis Gatewood and Irene Johnson were married in Lubbock, at the Broadway church, October 4, 1981. When Irene wrote that they were going to be married, I wrote her and said, "O.K. I'm here in Lubbock, what do you want me to do?" Otis told people that I was the producer and director of his wedding. Irene Johnson had been active in the mission work in Frankfurt for over 20 years and had worked closely with Otis and Alma and all of the other missionaries. Many of you know that Irene is suffering with Alzheimer's and is not able to be with us today. During the years 1947-1957, Otis traveled throughout the United States and spoke in hundreds of churches to inspire workers to go to Germany and to raise money for the German work. Paul Sherrod was his co-worker during this period. Brother Sherrod would make all the arrangements with the churches and Otis would travel and do the speaking. Nine permanent buildings were built with a value (at that time) of over a million dollars.. The buildings today would be worth four to five million dollars or more. J.C. Moore bought blocked marks and got three or four times the exchange rate for the American dollars.Otis Gatewood became possibly, the most well-known and loved missionary in our brotherhood. He taught congregations to give for mission work. He helped Christians have a world-view of the Gospel and he was admired and respected because he not only preached evangelism, he lived it. God opened doors of opportunity into 57 other nations for Otis to tell the world of saving grace. Otis made his first trip to Russia, in 1958 with George Bailey, Jerry Tindel, Joe Schubert, and David Gatewood. In all, he visited Russia 25 times.Otis wrote several books: You Can Do Personal Work, Gatewood-Farnsworth Debate on Mormonism, Wichita Forum Sermons, Preaching in the Footsteps of Hitler, There is a God in Heaven, and commentaries on Acts and Revelation. During his supposed years of retirement, both Otis and Irene were busy writing. He was the founder and Editor of CONTACT, a magazine for International News with a Directory of Churches Overseas, including congregations of US military people. It was a great help to Christians in the military. Therestorationmovement.com Memorial Service For Otis Gatewood September 21, 1999 3:00 PM University Church of Christ Abilene, Texas Harvie M. Pruitt keyword church of christ, christian, christ, christian church, disciples of christ, church history, sermons, church poetry, christian poetry, RESTORATION MOVEMENT

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