Comments on: Manley Beasley Project

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:12 +0000

Randy, I agree that Bro. Manley’s messages need to be made available on a broader scale. Pray with us about this. I have talked with the Beasley family but they are presently all busy with their own ministries. I would personally get involved if it were not for the writing deadlines I face.

Iris: Trophy of Grace is doing well and I have just submitted The Milldale Story to the publisher. I’m now working on Call Me Blue, the story of Iris’ husband. As you know, Manley was, and in many ways still is, their mentor.

By: RANDY NELSON

RANDY NELSON — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:34:51 +0000

Manley was my spiritual papa. I was
sharing with someone that the Lord
spoke to me so much through him that
I did not know he was just a man until
talking to him one day. He was so much
a part of my spiritual growth that I
sound like him when I talk about the
Lord. His blood truly speaks from the
grave.

I have had a burden to see his tapes
and videos offered over the internet.
I talked to the folks at Love Worth
Finding to see if they could offer his
teachings but they said it would have
to done by the Beasley family. I remember
him doing a video once and addressing the audience as if he knew that people
down through the ages would watch it
one day.

Can I get a witness?
Randy

By: admin

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:13:08 +0000

Thank you, Jerald, for your encouraging word on Bro. Manley’s bio. He being dead, still speaks. Praise God!

By: Rev. Jerald M Willingham

Rev. Jerald M Willingham — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:00:58 +0000

Brother Owens: Thank you for writing the biography of Manley Beasley: I just finished reading it and appreciate what you have done to share with the world what a God lead man he was.

By: Jerry Edgil

Jerry Edgil — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:08:56 +0000

I met Brother Manley in the late 1980′s.
He was preaching on a program with Ron Dunn, Bill Stafford and others. At that time I found his messages different and life changing. I told him so and followed as much as possible his places where he would be. It is only about him that I can say that in his presence I wanted to listen and say nothing. I have a VHS tape that was recorded at Roswell Street church in Marietta, Ga 1988. When I get it set to view, I get in the floor because thats where I will be when it ends. This week I had Bill Sturm in a meeting and Brother Manley was remembered everyday in our conversations.

By: Waylon

Waylon — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:23:05 +0000

I was given the book ” Adventures in Faith ” the late brother wrote. It has honestly changed who I am, While in my first 3 attempts to read it I threw it across the room each time at different points, The Lord compailed me each time to read it again. Upon completing it I am a man driven with purpose for the Lord and the Faith to go forth into the calling God has given to me. I can’t wait to look at Brother Beasley face to face when my day is called and thank him in person for obeying the Lord in his ministry.
God Bless

By: Sherri Campbell (Graham)

Sherri Campbell (Graham) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:42:32 +0000

I knew Bro. Beasley through the relationship he had with our pastor, Ron Dunn of MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church, in the 70′s. Many times Pastor Ron would invite Bro. Beasley to speak at MBBC. It’s such a joy reading through these entries. I’ve read them to my husband, Bill, and it’s such an eye-opener experience especially for me. No WONDER I think the way I do – believe the way I do. With Spiritual Fathers, like Ron Dunn, Peter Lord, Manley Beasley, what ELSE will you be but FULL of Faith, no matter the cost. One statement (this isn’t an exact quote) that I remember Bro Manley making is: “It’s not possible to enter into the TRUE Presence of the HOLY SPIRIT, and leave unchanged.” This ONE statement seems to be what fuels my thinking when we (My Husband and I pastor Life
Bridge Church in Fort Wayne, IN) have a service. I cannot stand the thought of business as usual, nor of chasing the miraculous. We simply go for JESUS and HIS Glory always being central, then try to get out of the way and allow the Holy Spirit Freedom. No wonder so many inspired youth from that era (that sat under Manley, Bro Ron Dunn, and Peter Lord, are now in their 50′s early 60′s, and are directly involved in church leadership.

By: Dojug Grubbs

Dojug Grubbs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:47:32 +0000

Brother Manley Beasley often preached at my home church, Olivet Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, when I was a teenager and young adult. I even purchased a series of cassette tapes that he had published. Brother Manley was the closest thing to a prophet and a “true man of God”, that I ever had the privilege to meet. I had the privilege of talkiing to him as a young “preacher boy” many times, and he made impacts on my life,that I will never forget. Thank God for Brother Manley, and may we who knew him, re-kindle the fire for revival that Brother Manley preached, and that America so badly needs.

By: Rev John C. Dowden

Rev John C. Dowden — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:19:45 +0000

I am a United Methodist Minister on disability leave of absence. I have served both Baptist and United Methodist Churches as well as a staff Chaplain in a Baptist Hospital. I also received Clinical Pastoral Education training at Rusk State Hospital.
I grew up under the ministry of Manley in the 1950′s at Hillcrest Baptist Church. My family and two other families started Calvary Baptist Church in Nederland. My brother is also a Methodist Local Pastor. Manley has left a
tremendous gift to so many of us. John

By: Jason Robertson

Jason Robertson — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:51:55 +0000

I am one of Jimmy Robertson’s nephews who grew up at Milldale Baptist Church. I grew up listening to Manley while he lived at Milldale and through the years when he would return. My life and ministry has been greatly influenced by him.

Often my dad would ask me when I would be in a crisis of faith, “What would Manley do?” I knew that Manley trusted God and never looked for the route of ease.

Such faith led me to leave Milldale in 2001 and plant a church in Southern California. Many times I have been asked, “Why would you leave the legacy of Millale and move to California where no one knows you, where most churches go bankrupt?”

And I answer, “Leaving Milldale? I am not leaving anything… I am continuing a legacy of trusting God… trusting God for something that if He doesn’t keep His word then I am doomed.”