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A Biographical Sketch of our Evangelist
Edward E. Werner
Ed was born, the oldest son Edward S. and Iona
Werner, on March 27,1939 and reared on a farm near Deweese in south central Nebraska.
He has 2 brothers, Gary and David, and one sister, Linda. His father, mother
and 2 younger brothers, Timothy and Billy have passed into eternity. Eight
years of elementary school were spent in a one-room country schoolhouse in Nuckolls
County district #3 near Deweese. He graduated from nelson
High School in Nelson, Nebraska
in 1956.
He became Christian in 1955. He graduated from the
Midwestern School of Evangelism on Ottumwa, Iowa
with a B.S.L. in 1960. He has done post-graduate work and earned his B.Th. and M.S.L. degrees from the same college. Part of
this involved hosting two tours to Israel
including Anthens, Corinth,
Petra, Rome
and Egypt.
While in college, he preached in two country
churches known as Hebron and Concord
in Northeastern Missouri, alternating Sundays between
the two churches. He spent the summer of 1960 helping establish a new
congregation in South Portland, Maine.
He then moved to Los Angeles, California
at the invitation of Marion McKee to teach in a small Bible
College (West
Coast School of
the Bible). sponsored by the Church on Imperial Highway in Inglewood,
California He taught most of the New Testament Epistles, Life of Christ,
Bible Geography and Greek I from 1960-1965. The last 5 years in California
were spent establishing a new congregation on Grevillea Avenue in Lennox.
Because of cultural changes in that community, the church has become a
Spanish congregation of the church
of Christ (Iglesia
de Christo).
On July
28th, 1967, he was married to Sharon Herren
of Lennox (a suburb of L.A.),
California. She graduated from Lennox
High School and had completed one
year of classes in the Northwest College
of the Bible in Portland, Oregon.
In the spring of 1970, Ed and Sharon with their one-year old daughter,
Shirley, moved to Portland, Oregon
to be the evangelist of the Montevilla
Church at 550
N.E. 76th Ave. He preached two and a half years
for that congregation. While there he taught some classes in the Northwest
College of the Bible.
They moved to Lincoln,
Nebraska the end of July, 1972 to
establish a new congregation there. They began with a newly-wed couple and
one other lady. Ed preached there for 17 years.
In October, 1989, the Werners
came to Coos Bay
to minister to this congregation. They live in the country south of town near
Coaledo on Highway 42.
Since November, 1986, Ed has worked with Churches of
Christ in Jamaica.
He has been to Jamaica
11 times to teach training classes for Jamaica
preachers and has preached in several congregations there, as well as some
street meetings.
The Werners have 4
children: Shirley, Christine, Steven and Barbara. All of their children are
married. Shirley and Richard Newell and their children, Matthew and Madison,
live in Eugene, Oregon.
Chris and Mike Odell live in Sterling, Colorado.
Steve and Susie Werner and their sons Tyler and Treven
live in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Barbara just recently married Troy Vallente and has
moved to Greeley, Colorado
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