"An ambassador for Christ to the ends of the earth"
Quote describing Geraldine Conway
Geraldine Logan Conway, a former Lucasville
resident, was born July 13, 1917 in Lemoore, California, a daughter
of Millard and Beulah Nesbitt Logan. She died November 9, 2012, in
Reidsville, North Carolina.
Geraldine was an evangelist and a businesswoman. She was founder of Geraldine Conway and Associates, a non profit charitable corporation. Licensed as a lay speaker of the Methodist Church, she directed her evangelical work at all denominations with an emphasis on prayer and brotherhood.
Conway carried her Christian message
worldwide speaking in numerous churches and to many civic and service
organizations. She traveled extensively in the United States, South
America, and Cuba. She also did missionary work in the Far East, the
Middle East, and Europe. Geraldine served with, among others, Dr. E.
Stanley Jones, recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award, and Billy Graham,
widely considered one of the most influential Christian leaders"
of the 20th century.
During the Vietnam War, Geraldine took
her inspirational message and team of musicians to the troops in
Vietnam where General Eifler made her an honorary member of the first
logistic command. She traveled to Saigon to speak to U.S. and
Vietnamese troops preparing for battle and convalescing in hospitals.
While in Vietnam, Conway also visited
restaurants, bars, and other places where soldiers gathered to
present her program of unconventional evangelism. At the invitation
of Army chaplains, she traveled within a 25 mile radius of Saigon
with a team of musicians and entertainers who also served as
evangelists. The group paid its own expenses but were also supported
financially by those interested in the project.
Geraldine Conway was of the Methodist
faith, a member of the Lucasville Chapter of the Order of Eastern
Star, and a 1934 Valley High School graduate.
I found this article about Conway titled “Scioto Native Will Address Prayer Group” in the Tuesday, February 7, 1961 edition of the Portsmouth Times. It speaks of her taking part in the First Lady's Prayer Breakfast during the administration of John F. Kennedy.
You can also hear Geraldine Conway deliver sermons on various online streaming sound files. For example, her "The Harvest Field of Vietnam" (1969) and “How Weak I Am, and How Strong God Is”
(1966) works are available. Here are two active links:
She was my mom's first cousin and to know her was to love her!
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