The General Epistles of the New Testament: A Paraphrased Bible Poem
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ISBN-13: 978-1615070534
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615070532
Publisher: Cross Books Pub
Print length: 240 pages
subtitle: Hardcover
author: T. Eugene Oody
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author T. Eugene Oody received the B.S. degree from Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee, in 1949. He received the M.A. degree in secondary education from Humboldt State College, now Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, in 1960. He also did additional graduate studies at Purdue University, summer of 1955, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1956-57, and Humboldt State University.Mr. Oody began his teaching career in 1949 at Loudon High School, Loudon, Tennessee, and has taught mathematics and/or physics in secondary schools in Tennessee, Kentucky, California and Liberia, West Africa. While in Liberia he and his wife, Betty White Oody, served as Southern Baptist missionaries over a period of sixteen years. He was principal and taught mathematics in the high school and junior college divisions while Betty served as school registrar.In 1955 Mr. Oody was ordained a Baptist deacon by the First Baptist Church Loudon, Tennessee. The following year he and Betty made their commitment to foreign missions, now called international missions. He served as deacon, Sunday school director, Bible teacher, and moderator of North Coast Baptist Association, California, and a member of the Executive Board of the California Baptist State Convention.It was in 1990 that Mr. Oody was ordained to the gospel ministry by the First Baptist Church, Aptos, California, where he served as bi-vocational pastor for more than five years. In June of 1963 he retired from teaching at Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, California, where he taught mathematics for eleven years. This ended a teaching career of forty-four years. Mr. Oody was pastor of Parkway Baptist Church, Cleveland, Tennessee, from 2000 to 2004 and is now pastor of senior adults at First Baptist Church, Loudon, Tennessee, his hometown.Mr. Oody is the author of the following books: For Rhyme or Reason, a book of paraphrased Bible poems, The Bible Goes to Kruka Town, a narrative poem describing how the Oodys helped in the starting of a Baptist mission in the village of Kruka Town, Liberia, From the Corn Field into God's Vineyard, an autobiography also written as a 420-page narrative poem, and most recently From A to Z with Psalms and Proverbs, a selection of 52 Bible verses, one for each week of the year, along with the lyrics of a hymn or gospel song to compliment the verse of Scripture for the week.The Oodys have two married children: Mrs. Stinson (Arvilla) Humphrey, Hawaii, and Thomas (Tom) Eugene Oody, Jr., Vestal, New York. Arvilla is married to Dr. Stinson E. Humphrey and they have three children: Rachel Humphrey Voorhees, married to Josh Voorhees, Dr. Carol Humphrey Campbell, married to Dr. Lance Campbell and Dr. John Humphrey, married to Dr. Katy Yongeward Humphrey. Tom is married to Debbie Beam Oody. Rachel and Josh Voorhees have our two great-grandchildren: Sadie Anna and Tyler Joshua.