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ABOUT US:
Dr.
Sharon Rathbun Ministry Information:.
PO Box 617, Blanchard
OK 73010.
Contact By Phone: (405) 344-8028
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Prophetess/Dr. Sharon
Rathbun
Co-Founder and Vice-President Of Hebron Life Bible College And Seminary |
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Dr. Sharon Rathbun
was born into a family that included many workers in the Kingdom of God through
four generations. Her grandparents were Walter Webster Hall and Rosa Etter
Cadwalder Hall. Rosa and her brother, Hugh Cadwalder, were part of the original
founding fathers of the Assemblies of God. Rosa, a strong and daring Believer in
the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, was ordained with the Assemblies of God in
1917 and was especially noted for her great gift of faith and devout prayer
life. Rosa was one of the Pentecostal pioneers and itinerated with Scheumacks,
founders of the very first Pentecostal Church in Austin, TX.
After she married the Rev. Walter Webster Hall, she continued to help him in
their ministry as they added to their family with the birth of eight children -
seven daughters and one son. Two children were lost before they were grown: a
daughter, Dora, and their son, Paul, who was killed by a drunk driver while
playing on the sidewalk in front of their home. Rosa Hall lost her life to
Bright's disease at the youthful age of thirty-nine, leaving six young
daughters.
Sharon's grandfather, the Rev. Walter Webster Hall, was one of the first in the
state of Texas to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost under the Rev. Charles
F. Parham in 1905. He began to travel across Texas, ministering with the early
Pentecostal "bands". Later, he was a part of those that established
the original Constitution and by-laws of the Assemblies of God Church. He also
established and pastored more than twenty-nine churches in Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana, as well as evangelizing in these states. Rev.
Walter Webster Hall was used mightily in the gifts of healing and of the
prophetic gifts.
After he lost Rosa, he married a young evangelist, Lennie Mae, and had seven
more children. Years later, the Rev. Walter Webster Hall, in conjunction with
his son-in-law Rev. Frank Lindblade, were instrumental in helping found the
Pentecostal Church of God. All of Rev. Hall's surviving children were involved
in some capacity of the ministry, from missionaries to Bible teachers, singers,
musicians and translators.
One of the daughters of Rev. Walter Webster Hall and Rev. Rosa Etter Hall, Naomi
Lehman, ministered in the evangelistic and pastoral ministry before she married
her husband, Rev. Hal Lehman. She and her husband became missionaries to Ghana,
Africa. They worked amongst the natives for thirty-four years, establishing the
Northern Ghana Bible School and teaching there for thirty years. For ten years,
they also managed the printing press that produced Gospel literature in nine
different languages. Hal and Naomi Lehman also helped to translate the Gospel of
John into Kusal (a language spoken in upper Ghana) while serving on the
government committee that drafted the Dagbani-English Dictionary. During the
tedious revision process of translating the New Testament into the Dagbani
tongue, Naomi Lehman typed the entire thing TEN times on an old manual
typewriter. After mastering the computer while in Dallas, she typed the Dagbani
New Testament for publication by the Wycliff Bible Translators, which was then
distributed by the Foreign Bible Society.
After retiring, Aunt Naomi returned to college at Southwestern University,
graduating at the age of seventy-nine with a "summa cum laude and in
recognition of her contribution to missions Aunt Naomi received her first alma
mater from Bethany College in 1999 with its Founder's Award."
Another daughter, Lois Ruth Hall, evangelized and pastored with her sister Naomi
for a short time. After her sister married, Lois traveled as an evangelist until
she became a full-time secretary for the PCOG as well as stenographer and
accountant for the denomination. Because of her work on the The Pentecostal
Messenger in the early years, it is still thriving today. Later on, Lois Ruth
Hall married the Rev. Frank Lindblade, who had participated with her father, the
Rev. Walter Webster Hall, and other founding fathers of the Pentecostal Church
of God in establishing the PCOG across America. Rev. Frank Lindblade established
and pastored over six churches and authored five books as well as evangelized
across America.
John Hall, Rev. Walter Webster Hall's youngest son, became a renowned Gospel
singer.
Sharon does indeed hail from a rich Christian heritage. She was born in Fort
Worth, TX. She accepted Jesus as her personal Savior and Lord and received the
baptism of the Holy Ghost at the tender age of five. She rededicated her life to
Jesus and responded to His calling to the mission field at her church in October
of 1959. By the age of nineteen, she was assisting her brother, the Rev. R. W.
Brown, in his ministry as his worship leader and morning speaker
It was after teaching the young married class and being a song leader for eight
years that she responded to the reason why she was born and went into the full
time evangelistic ministry. By the time she was twenty-five, she had made her
first trip overseas, which was only the beginning of her ministry overseas.
While traveling across America, preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,
she continued to preach abroad in over fifty countries also. She is used
mightily in the gifts of the Spirit, especially in the gifts of healing and the
prophetic gifts. She has been in the ministry for forty-two years of preaching
and teaching, but in full time ministry for thirty-four years.
Her ministry has seen the direct results of nine churches being founded and
established in Cushing, Lawton, Norman and Lindsay, OK. Also included are
churches in Zanesville, Fremont and Defiance - all in Ohio - LaFayette, IN, and
Tampa, FL.
While pastoring for ten years at Faith Cathedral - the church she founded in
Cushing, OK - she had two different thirty-minute television programs weekly in
Oklahoma City and Tulsa called "From the Heart". She also had a radio
program five days a week for five years called
"Deliverance Revival".
Sharon and her husband, John, founded the Faith Cathedral Academy - a school
including grades kindergarten through the 12th grade. They presided over the
school for three years. Yet there was still a passion in her heart for the
evangelism.
After resigning from Faith Cathedral, she went back on the road for another
seventeen years and she still uses every chance she has to preach here and
abroad.
She has graduated from the Billy Graham School of Evangelism and earned her
Masters Degree and Doctoral Degree from American Bible College and Seminary in
Oklahoma City. The past five years have not only been spent in college, but John
and Sharon are pioneering a new work called Hebron Life Bible College &
Seminary - between Blanchard and Lindsay, OK. This is by far the greatest
challenge that they have ever faced. While traveling across America, they saw a
need for a place of learning the Truth for those who have a genuine call into
the ministry. In April of 1997, God began speaking to them to do something they
had never done before. Then in August of 1999, they purchased forty-one acres to
begin this new vision that God has destined for them to do. Each step has been
an absolute miracle that they have received by faith in the God Who gave them
this promise. Plans are for classes to begin in the Fall of 2004.
Dr. Sharon Rathbun has also just completed her first book, Unlocking the
Mysteries of the Voice.
Dr. Sharon R. Rathbun has two dedicated daughters, both of whom love the Lord
with all their hearts and are married to fine ministers of the Gospel. Angela
Rose Pollock is married to the Rev. Ted Pollock and they have four children -
Princeton, Domonique, Grantlan, and Isabella. Roberta Jean Sharp is married to
the Rev. Michael Sharp and they have two daughters - Victoria and Olivia. All
six grandchildren hold a very special place in their grandmother's heart. |
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Dr.
Rathbun recently published a book called "Unlocking
The Mysteries Of The Voice". |
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Box 617, Blanchard OK 73010. (405)
344-8028
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