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Brother Gene Ford's History
Gene was born May 11, 1930, in Walla Walla, Washington. He was born into an unbelieving family and was an only child. His mother and dad were both unbelievers, but they both received the Lord before their deaths.
Gene got saved as a young boy when he stole something from a neighbor’s barn and his dad told him to take it back. He could not bring himself to do it, so he went into his barn behind the house, knelt down in the hay & prayed, “if there is a God, help me now.” Almost immediately, his mother called him from the house and said, “you don’t have to take it back now, your father will go with you when he gets home from work.”
Gene said to himself, “there really is a God.” From then on he began to believe in God and seek after Him.
In 1950, Gene married Joyce Lindstrom on November 19th. They had three children: Son Stephen, daughter Marion, and son Nathan.
He graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington in 1953 and from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey with a Master of Divinity degree in 1956.
He served in the Methodist Church and then in the Episcopal Church from 1956 to 1965. He left the denominational churches because he felt something was missing there and began to seek something more. Some brothers came to him in 1968 and told him about the church in Los Angeles. He went to L.A. to visit there for about a month. Then in January 1969, he moved with his family and stayed to become part of the church life in L.A. Gene was in Atlanta for 1 year and then moved to Portland, Oregon in 1971, then later back to L.A. He worked as a Social Worker for L.A. County in downtown L.A.
Gene served full-time in 1991 when he and Joyce went to Russia and served in the church in Moscow for 8 years and visited many other cities.
He returned to the church in San Gabriel in 2000, served in Training Center in Irving, Texas for 1 year and then stayed in San Gabriel for 7 years. Gene also went to Israel for 8 years, from 2007 to 2015. He and Joyce returned to San Gabriel in 2015 and have been in the church in San Gabriel until his passing on July 5, 2021.