#Lester Roloff

[wutbju]

And Bob Jones III announced the BJU honorary for 2023 at ~35:00:

Mr. President, our honoree was born in Arizona, grew up on a Navajo Indian Reservation where his mother served as missionary. After graduating from BJU, where he was greatly influenced by Doctor Richard Rupp and Dr. Earl Nutz of the Bible Faculty and Cecil Tune, his aviation instructor, under whom he earned his pilot's license, which has been valuable in his ministry to those who live on reservations. His summers while a BJU student were spent at Camp Ironwood in California and the Roloff Homes in Texas with men who struggled with addiction.

After getting a Bachelors of Arts in Practical Christian Training from this institution in 1984, he returned to Arizona to the ministry he has never left. He serves as a missionary to Native Americans at Regeneration Reservation in southeastern Arizona. He founded and continues to pasture Regeneration Baptist Church while serving as president of the Regeneration Mission Board. Our honoree and his wife Kathy, along with several other missionaries, all Bob Jones University grads and including their son Nathan, minister in a variety of ways including a home and Christian education for Apache children at the reservation to build redemptive relationships within the local community. He has served as volunteer with the fire department and the county Search and Rescue.

His family earned Black Belts in martial arts, which have opened numerous doors for ministry. Their summer camps, comprised of horsemanship, martial arts and rock climbing, have opened other doors to the hearts of young people. For four decades, he and his team continued to make evangelistic visits to preach to those in tribal jails. They use biblically based recovery materials, which they have written especially for the Native American community. Our honoree serves on the Apache Bible Committee, tasked with translating God's Word into the heart language of Apache people. Currently, he and his team are working at recording the entire New Testament in Western Apache. At the request of tribal leadership, our honoree hosts a weekly radio program that reaches over 30,000 people onto Apache reservations. He established and coordinates a partnership of Native American leaders called Today's Native, which are committed to developing evangelistic and discipleship resources. This platform of reaching Native Americans and indigenous people groups with the Gospel consists of audio, video and print resources. They have reached each of the Nation’s 574 tribes and have placed the Gospel in more than 125,000 native homes. Additionally, he is Vice President of the Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises, where he has been a board member for over 30 years, and since 2016, he has overseen the Family Altar radio program emanating from that ministry and is heard daily nationwide and in many foreign countries. Scott and his wife Kathy, a 1984 graduate from BJU with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Missions, have four children and one granddaughter.

I might add that as an example of his persevering commitment to God's calling, I remember visiting Scott in the mid 1980s, near the inception of his ministry. [He said that] they would consider their ministry to have been a success if they had seen only four Navajo families get saved, become disciples and remain on the reservation to live transformed, biblically sanctified lives without spiritual or moral failure among their people. Today, for Scott's unrelenting efforts to bring the Gospel of Christ to an often overlooked group of people through a lifetime of dedicated ministry, Dr. Pettit, it is my purpose to present to you, my friend Scott Murphy, as recipient of Doctor of Humanities.

Where do we begin? Bob Jones University has supported Lester Roloff in all his iterations from the beginning. WMUU carried his radio show. Bob Jr. spoke at his funeral. Bob III made affirming statements at the time:

And the proof of Lester Roloff's abuse is everywhere:

And the abuse of indigenous children is rampant and still coming to light.

Why, why, why is Bob Jones University endorsing these kinds of practices still in 2023?

This is Bob Jones University. This. Right here. On Steve Pettit's watch, btw.

[agungrichardelvonscestmavie]

_"Tak seorangpun jadi bangga karena telah diselamatkan, mereka hanya sekedar berterimakasih."_ ~ Lester Roloff, fundamentalist, Baptist preacher.

[rateaquote]

''Faith' Him When You Can't Feel Him.' -Lester Roloff | Click here for more quotes.

[walkswithmyfather]

“The Bible talks a lot about heaven, and as believers, it’s a place that we all dream about and look forward to. Christians throughout the centuries have written about heaven – that glorious place where God lives and where one day we will join Him.” —Pastor Jack Wellman (Christianquotes.info)

Here are three quotes:

“I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.” —Martin Luther

“For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him.” —William Barclay

“I have all that I need here and heaven hereafter! How much richer could anybody want to be?” —Lester Roloff

[Read more quotes about Heaven at the link here.]

[goodolewoody]

SERMON: "REPENT OR PERISH" - LESTER ROLOFF

SERMON: “REPENT OR PERISH” – LESTER ROLOFF

SERMON:  “REPENT OR PERISH”

https://goodolewoody.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/repent_or_perish.mp3

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[gfbrradio1611]

The Shepherd Has Two Dogs

“The Shepherd has two dogs that follow the flock.  The name of one is goodness, and the name of the other is Mercy.”  

---Bro. Lester Roloff

Psa 23:6 (KJB) (6)  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

[nj-stone]

Decades after an abusive Christian boarding home closed, women are searching for the children they were forced to give up for adoption.

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/bethesda-home-girls-stolen-babies/index.html

[independentbaptistcom]

Excellent message from Lester Roloff on not quitting.

[commonsenseatheism]

It was October 2011, and Captain Charles Kennedy, a veteran policeman, was in the main office at the Restoration Youth Academy (RYA), a Christian home for troubled teens in Prichard, Alabama, when he caught a glimpse of something shocking on a close-circuit monitor: a naked boy crouching in a 6-by-8-foot isolation room as a light bulb burned overhead.

One of the most common types of private programs for errant youths are the virtually unregulated religious schools, many of which push fundamentalist Christian beliefs and employ violently harsh discipline against enrollees. Inspired in part by the programs of a fiery Baptist radio preacher, the late Lester Roloff, purveyors of these programs have been exposed for whippings and beatings and accused of rape. Perhaps the largest alliance of such ultraconservative churches is the far-flung Independent Fundamental Baptist organization with thousands of churches nationwide and numerous boarding schools that cite the biblical importance of breaking the will of the child. “If you're not bruising your child,” a pastor declared in a 2007 sermon captured by ABC News’s 20/20, “you're not spanking your child enough.”

One lawsuit featured affidavits from 16 girls saying they were whipped with leather straps, severely paddled and handcuffed to pipes. “Better a pink bottom than a black soul,” Roloff famously declared at a 1973 court hearing.

Erin Rodriguez, now 18, once a pill-­popping runaway in suburban Atlanta before her father sent her to RYA and later to the Saving Youth Federation until she was freed in the 2015 raid. “They would whip me,” she says. “They stripped me to my underwear and bra and took out a belt and hit me until I bled.” Back home trying to rebuild her life, she still has nightmares about her experiences at the facilities.

[wutbju]

In the April/May 1980 issue of Lester Roloff’s Family Altar magazine, Roloff identified what he thought was “wrecking” America:

Divorce.

Dope, liquor, cigarettes, rock music, television, immorality, pornography and the news media.

No discipline or standards.

No home worship. There ought to be three altars - the personal altar, the family altar and the church altar.

Dead churches and a lack of Gospel preaching.

The humanistic religion presented in our educational systems.

Communism, which endorses the ERA and children's rights in an effort to break up the traditional American home.

Riiiight, Les. Forget all kinds of abuse. It’s the ERA that’s ruining America.

[dearmuphryslaw]

“Thanks to the legacy of a Texas pastor named Lester Roloff—and a glaring lack of oversight from state and local authorities—religious "schools" for troubled teens often operate with impunity.”

[T]he Southern Baptist Rebekah Home for Girls had...been the subject of state investigations spanning the previous decade, instigated in part by parents who witnessed a girl being whipped at the facility...

After losing his last Supreme Court appeal in 1978, the Rebekah Home for Girls became the site of the “Christian Alamo,” where religious leaders formed a human chain around the place to defend against attempts to remove girls from Roloff’s care...

Though Texas laws were changed amid the Roloff saga, many other state governments around the country lack the legal power to oversee religiously affiliated residential schools. 

Unlike personal religious exemptions, where an individual might argue that a law requiring, say, medical intervention, vaccination, or anti-discrimination violates his or her religious freedom, these facilities don't need to apply for special treatment. In many states, such exemptions are written directly into the laws meant to regulate residential youth facilities—that is, religious schools are never subject to the rules in the first place...

Thus, many states allow religiously affiliated boarding schools to operate without registration, educational standards, background checks, or instructional certifications—even when institutions have long histories of abuse reports alleging Roloff-esque whippings, isolation rooms, and Bible memorization.

[rateaquote]

''Faith' Him When You Can't Feel Him.' -Lester Roloff | See more daily motivational quotes at Jar of Quotes.

[yourqueerstory]

Tweeted

Check out a quick clip of our new episode dropping tomorrow! A clip about Lester Roloff along with the obedience song @ebnjsandwich1 was forced to sing growing up. More coming tomorrow. #Cult45 pic.twitter.com/N4ViQlZcoS

— Your Queer Story (@YourQueerStory) August 11, 2020

[reverietruecrime]

Bethesda Home for Girls

Available wherever you listen to podcasts!

Episode 10 is up! The Bethesda Home for Girls - a Lester Roloff founded home in Petal, Mississippi that was abusive and horrible.

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[christianworldf]

New Post has been published on Christian Worldview Institute

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