Robert Collver:  

Life Looking ahead to the new year. March 10, 2008 I lost my mom Ada Collver to Renal Failure as the result of Lymphoma Cancer. She will be missed by many. Mom was the Laundry Manager at Laurelwood from about 1968 to 1975. She also graduated from Laurelwood the class of 1944. Verla and I are currently involved in Marriage Ministry we are teaching Love and Respect, Reconciling Marriages, and other related Marriage Relationship topics. Occasionally I preform weddings and preach where ever God calls me to preach and teach. We are in the process of setting up our ministry by obtaining our 501c3 for Renewed Life Ministries. I have been licensed through Oregon Gospel Ministries Since 1997 as a licensed pastor. We have a message to the Church that it is time to save marriages. Divorce should not be an option. The divorce rate in the Church is the same as it is out side of the Church. We want to change that. We will travel to wherever God sends us and put on 9 to 14 week seminars. As most of you know Verla and I were married on August 9, 1970 and then divorced early in 1994. We got remarried in April 8, 2000 as a testimony as to the grace of God and what he has done in our lives, we want to teach others that divorce does not always solve the problem in our lives. We are proud parents of 2 sons Robert Jr. and his Wife Amanda with 2 girls and one son. Dale Gene and his wife Heather and 3 girls. Verla is the Residence Services Coordinator at The Village Retirement Center in Gresham, OR, and operates a online internet health and beauty business. I am retired due to chronic back pain/osteopina from an accident in 1975. I retired Jan 5, 2005. I have been doing some studying, were we duped or not. I am glad for the bible teaching that I received in the SDA Church school system but I am also saddened by the fact that we were taught things that were written by someone that did not follow the scriptures in context. And that most of the writings were pledgerized. I started my search for truth since Theology Professor Paul Grove at WWC told me that he would see to it that I would never be able to preach in the SDA Church. The sad part of all of this is he never gave me any reason for this statement. So I left college after my first year and never returned. I knew at the age of 5 that God had called me to be a pastor. I was not called by a church or by men as some are, it was and is a calling on my life. I have always wanted to know truth, to have more of God the Father, Holy Spirit, and Jesus in my life. My Junior and Senior years at Laurelwood Academy, Gaston, OR., I participated in the Theology Club, as a group leader, preaching and singing at various churches and my dad drove us to those locations. It was my Senior Year at Laurelwood that some of us guy's went up behind the boy's dorm and had a bond fire and we sang songs and prayed. I do not remember who all were there as it has been too many years and I lived in the village...Expand for more