Rev. Lewis E. and Sis. Treva Mae Manual
Rev. Lewis E. and Sis. Treva Mae Manual
Treva
·
Born
July 17, 1922 and
lived at 628 Lawrence Avenue, Mishawaka, Indiana, until marriage.
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Graduated
from Mishawaka High School, Mishawaka, Indiana,1940.
Lewis
· Born Dec.14, 1918 in Oswego, Illinois; moved to Indiana at age two; lived in several places in Mishawaka, Indiana, and South Bend, Indiana. Went to be with Jesus Sept 21, 2004
·
Graduated
from Mishawaka High School, Mishawaka, Indiana, 1938.
·
Received
a track scholarship and attended Pittsburgh University for 2-1/2 years where he
was training for the Olympics when he felt the call to the ministry.
Lewis
& Treva
·
Met in
high school.
·
Married
November 1, 1940, in Rev. G. B. Rowe’s home.
·
Wedding
attendants: Worthy & Marjorie
Rowe
·
No
family attended wedding; went directly to young people’s meeting.
Afterward some friends tied cans on their car – the full extent of
their celebration!
·
Worked a
year in South Bend, Indiana.
·
1941-42
moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where Lewis attended Apostolic Bible Institute for
one year. Treva worked in a sewing
factory.
·
Returned
to Mishawaka, Indiana. Lewis worked at Studebaker’s.
·
Sharon
Lee was born May 19, 1943. Here, they rented their first home.
·
Evangelized
for five years with one child from coast to coast.
·
In 1948
lived in Mishawaka, Indiana. Lewis sold real estate.
·
Suzanne
Hope born April 13, 1948.
·
In fall
of 1948, Lewis felt call to Sunbury, Pennsylvania, to have house meetings with a
handful of people. God blessed, built a new church building and in five years
had a record attendance of 526.
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Becky
Lou born in 1950 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
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Nannette
Jo born in 1952 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
·
In 1954
felt call to be missionaries in Oahu, Hawaii, where they pastored for two years;
church grew to record attendance of 126.
·
1n 1956
returned to Pennsylvania and started a church in West Milton, Pennsylvania;
stayed three years.
·
Vicki
Ann born in 1958 in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
·
In 1960
moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to pioneer a new church; built a new
building; reached record attendance of 100.
·
1963-1964
evangelized for two years throughout the United States and Canada.
·
In
1965,went to Racine, Wisconsin; pastored there until 1970; built new building;
church thrived, reaching a record attendance of 676.
·
1970 to
1978 – evangelized a few years; then lived in Phoenix, Arizona, traveling out
of there until Treva was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1976 (surgery,
chemotherapy) and stayed there until she recuperated.
·
1978 to
1979, left Phoenix to return to the evangelistic field; however, Lewis became
ill with a pituitary tumor, underwent surgery and then settled in McComb,
Mississippi, for a year to recover.
·
1980-1983,
took over pastorate of church in Hampton, Virginia; built new church building;
record attendance of 125.
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1984-1986
evangelized, then pastored in Mishawaka, Indiana; built new church; record
attendance 125.
·
1987-1988
evangelized throughout United States and Canada, then took an interim pastorate
position in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
·
1989-1990
pastored in Milton, Pennsylvania.
·
1991-1994
moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, assisting in son-in-law's church and
evangelizing out of there.
·
1995-1996
evangelized across the country.
·
Retired
in Richmond, Virginia, in 1997.
· TOTALED 54 YEARS OF MINISTRY from 1943 to 1997
