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GAYLORD FORD PORTER
Pastor - Educator
1893– 1976
Ford Porter was born in Ottawa County, Michigan, February 5, 1893. The influence
of the family altar and the Godly lives of his parents contributed to Ford's decision
to receive Christ as his Saviour at the age of eleven. A year later he spoke to a group
of junior boys and girls at which time his pastor remarked that Ford could quote more verses
of Scripture than "any other person in town".
As a young man Ford served as a Sunday School
teacher and later assisted Dr. Ernest Reveal at the Evansville (Indiana) Rescue Mission. On
July 6, 1919 he answered God's call to preach after which he studied at Moody Bible Institute
in Chicago under Dr. Kenneth Wuest and Dr. James M. Gray.
In the years that followed, Porter served several churches in Indiana and was used of the Lord in various ministries. In 1947 he launched the BEREAN GOSPEL MINISTRY, (now LIFEGATE, INC.) which has become world-wide through the printing and distribution of Gospel tracts. The Berean Ministry included conferences, evangelistic campaigns, radio broadcasts, Children's Bible Crusades, Camp Berean, Vacation Bible School institutes, films, and the Indiana Baptist College. The most far reaching ministry of Ford Porter was the Gospel tract "GOD'S SIMPLE PLAN OF SALVATION," which he wrote in 1933. This tract has been printed in more than ninety languages and Braille. The World-wide distribution of over three hundred million copies has resulted in the salvation of thousands of people.
Ford Porter went to be with the Lord on November 20, 1976 at the age of eighty-three years.
CITATION BY:
Robert Ford Porter (son)
LIFEGATE, INC.
Martinsville, Indiana
1985