Germaine Charles "Jim" Lockwood

Obituary from the Edmond Sun 15 May 2004

1930-2004

Germaine Charles "Jim" Lockwood was born July 17,1930 in Grand Haven, Michigan. He went to be with his Lord and Savior on May 11, 2004 while resting at his home in Edmond, Oklahoma. Jim was very active and faithful member of the Wilshire Church of Christ to the end of his life.

His is survived by: His loving wife Sandra, his daughter Nancy, his son Stephen, and granddaughter Hope, as well as his brother Norman and sister Della.

He was preceded in death by his father, Germaine William Lockwood, and his mother Frances Jobin Lockwood of Hersey, Michigan; also, his first wife, Emma Lorene Nance Lockwood, and his oldest son, Philip Germaine Lockwood of Searcy, Arkansas.

Jim received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and a Masters degree from the Chrysler Institute of Engineering. He was a practicing Registered Professional Engineer and worked for Chrysler Corporation until he became a full time evangelist. He also received a second Masters degree in Christian Doctrine from Harding University.

Jim taught for a short time at two Christian colleges. He taught mathematics and pre-engineering courses from 1959-1961 at Michigan Christian College. It was while at Michigan Christian that Jim first became interested in radio evangelism into the iron Curtain Countries. Many years later he also taught Russian language studies at Oklahoma Christian for 4 years. He was fluent in both Swedish and Russian.

Jim was baptized into Christ in 1953, while in graduate school. In 1956, while in the army, Jim became acquainted with Jerry Loutzenhiser in Dubuque, Iowa. While there he learned how to teach the gospel.

Jim and his family served as missionaries in Sweden from 1961-1968. They left the states with two children but returned with three. Stephen was born to them while in Sweden. After returning to the states and completing his education from Harding, Jim served as a personal evangelist in Des Moines, Iowa from 1970-1977. He and his family moved to Oklahoma City in 1977. They began working with the Wilshire Church in 1982, which still sponsors his radio evangelism ministry.

Jim authored a number of articles and books. The Origin of The Cosmos and The Evidences of God is in its third publishing in English as well as its presence on the internet. It is also published in Russian, Romanian, Slovakian, and Chinese. It is with out a doubt the most widely used and distributed work on Christian Evidences among missionaries of the churches of Christ.

Germaine began preaching the word of God through Russian radio programming with Ivan Kolesnikow in 1971. In 1973, he began plans to build a short-wave radio station in Alaska to broadcast the gospel into the iron curtain countries first then, to the whole world. This project was taken over and brought to fruition by the World Christian Broadcasting Co in 1983.

In 1991 Jim began an international English radio program called "Eternal Good News" which is currently broadcast worldwide on a large number of short-wave radio stations.