![]() ![]() Good morning, family and friends of Ruth Van Buren Stevens. The more, the merrier! □ I hope you are all doing well and focusing on what you want to create in your life, since that was my mom’s greatest desire for the people she loved! Here is the eulogy: When you happen to think of a special memory with my mom, please feel free to email it to me at your leisure. Since she had so many significant experiences over the years with people other than me, I anxious to compile some of them for my children to read as they grow up. One of my mom’s greatest desires and biggest concerns was that she would remain an important influence on her grandchildren. If you have had any great experiences with her, please email them to me at Once I post everything that is sent to me, I will make a book out of this, my mom’s blog, which I will keep for my children to read. I actually thought more people would do this. At some point in the near-ish future, I will also post the pictures and thoughts that people have emailed to me about my mom. I will probably be writing things about my mom for months and maybe years to come, but I will most likely do so on my personal blog, which you are welcome to follow. Also, I realize that for me, writing is therapeutic. I wrote the rest along with Patti and Bruce Spencer, who gave the eulogy. My mom’s sister, Sharon, wrote the first part. ![]() I thought that you might enjoy reading her eulogy. She is the first female in the 70-year history of the council to serve in these six positions.I know mom has a lot of friends that would have loved to have been at her funeral service last week. In July of 2012, Bishop Larry Jones elevated her to the office of Suffragan Bishop. District Elder Dickson (by elected vote) assumed the role of Chairman of the MDC- PAW. In the summer of 2007, Pastor Dickson was honored by her Diocesan, Bishop Alphonso Scott, with an appointment to the position of District Elder. Pastor Dickson has served this fine organization in many capacities of instruction and leadership including Auxiliary Director, Vice Chair and Chairman of the Pastor’s Advisory Board. In July of 1993 the Midwestern District Council, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World received the membership of the Radiant Life in Christ Apostolic Church. Pastors who were under her ministry have successfully established five churches. Pastor Dickson has also been given the mantle of training Ministers. The church also gives support to an orphanage in Haiti and a church in Nairobi, Africa. The first Apostolic assembly to hold regular services in the Harbor Lighthouse of the Salvation Army, Radiant Life Church continued to minister monthly services and to provide for the homeless is involved in community service to orphans and the homeless, through the One Church One Child Program, the Post Dispatch One Hundred Neediest Cases and the Salvation Army Harbor Light House. Under her leadership in Radiant Life Church, two hundred souls were baptized in Jesus’ name and over 150 filled with the Holy Ghost before the church left the basement sanctuary of her home. Louis Extension licensed and ordained by the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Evangelist Dickson has been summoned to speak all across the nation. ![]() Dickson acknowledged her call to the ministry and served her home church faithfully in many leadership capacities including usher instructor, Sunday school teacher, Vice President of the Ministers Board, Pastor of the Children’s Church, director of the children’s choir & vice- president prison outreach for nineteen years.Ĭertified with honors in ministerial studies by the Aenon Bible College, St. ![]() Dickson also served as principal of the Pentecostal Christian Academy for 3 years. Louis Public School System, she is the recipient of six awards as outstanding teacher. Louis.Ī recently retired teacher, having spent 33 years in the St. Pastor Dickson holds a bachelor's degree from Harris Teacher’s College and a master's degree in education from the University of Missouri St. DICKSON, is the wife of nationally acclaimed businessman Reginald Dickson for 51 years, she is the mother of 3, adoptive parent of 3, the grandmother of 7, and she is the Pastor and Founder of the Radiant Life in Christ Apostolic Church. ![]()
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