to him, but more than anything, it was his heart for the Lord. He always was a straight-shooter and I knew that what he said, he meant, and he was a man of the Word. He was the first person I dated that wasn’t six feet tall, but that was because I realized that God doesn’t measure a man by the length of his legs, but by what’s in his heart. There was a lot in his heart, and there still is. Paul was born in Blaine, Maine. He was the baby in a family of five boys and one girl. All of his brothers at one point were in ministry. His dad was a chiropractor, and his mom was a homemaker. He and George Theis, and a man named Jay Robertson were the first three men in Bible Clubs. They really formed what Bible Clubs should be like. Paul helped with the legistics of it, the “how-to do’’ things. He is very good at that kind of thing. Then Paul got involved in the Overseas Department. He was making trips to Germany and had an opportunity to go into Hungary in 1984 for the first time. He had some wonderful ministries in Hungary before the Iron Curtain fell. When the man who was heading up Overseas was no longer able to do so, it was natural for Paul to step into that position. He did Overseas for about 11 years. It was a very different and exciting part of his time with WOL. Overseas then became more of a service to the mis sionaries, and grew under Paul’s direction. Recently Paul had come upon the magic of retirement, and when Don and Carol Lough decided to leave the Inn and go to Oklahoma, Joe Jordan talked to Paul and said, “We really would like you to step in there.’’ So, we re there now! I had been working in a hotel to help put the kids through school, so I had a lot of neat training that I could bring to this job. Isn’t it neat how God orchestrates our lives! He is wonderful at team-builing, great with relationships, and has wonderful history with WOL. People come along and we recoginze them, and they don't feel like it’s somebody strange at the Inn, which is really neat. How long we’ll be there, we really don't know. We’re enjoying it so far! So far, so good!! I love being where the Lord wants us to be. Every day is different, there are not two days that are alike. How did the ministry affect our family? When you are in a ministry it affects everything. Our ministry' ran our lives. For our kids, Paul was gone a great deal of the time. But I always thought there were so many wonderful things about being in the ministry for our kids that I never thought they they were deprived, and I don’t think they ever felt that way either. For instance, we lived on the Island 28 summers! Our kids thought they were Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer! They would go with their dad to evangelistic rallies and round-ups for Clubs and when he would go overseas he would bring them home things. In our daughter Sarah’s room, there's a whole shelf full of dolls; a doll from every foreign field that he went to. There were just wonderful privilages that our children had. Just in the last two years, having gone through the situation of losing our son Dan, we have both changed because we see life on a more eternal perspective. We realize how very fragile this world is. We have learned to trust the Lord with a freshness. I think Paul’s a better speaker. I think he’s got a different kind of a heart, and a better understanding of how important it is for young people to live life well. It’s taught us to grab the day and live it to the fullest. Shiileip ctf)uAcw The 1998 edition of the “The Open Door" is dedicated to Paid Bubar, a faithful man of God who's life is an example of god liness to us all.
came to Word of Life in die summer of I960. Paul had joined staff in the fall of 1959. I960 was his first summer, as ic was mine. We got ro know each other while working on the Island. We had one date that summer. When I came back for my second summer, Paul had been busy
Paul Bubar has been a great encouragement to me ever since l got to know him in 1962. His positive spirit and servant's heart have inspired me to “keep on keeping on" and to never give up serving the Lord! Thank you, Paul.
chat year beginning the Club ministry, and was trying to get that off and going. Iliac second summer we had two dates. It w'as a real roaring romance! After the second summer, WOL had asked if I would stay on as one of Jack's secretaries, which I did. Through that year, we got to know each other better. I liked Paul before I loved him, and that's a neat thing. In June of 1962, Paul asked me to marry him, I said yes, and we were married on March 30, 1963- I came from a very ordinary back ground, and Paul came from a family of ministers of the Gospel. The whole prospect of ministry was a really different thing, and I knew when I married Paul that that was what we were doing; it was not a surprise. When Paul and I were married, I knew that I was doing what God wanted me to do, and that’s a very important thing as a young person. It wasn’t like Hollywood, but I knew that this was what I should do. We had David a year and
for your example. Bob Parshauer Sr.
Paul's faithfulness and commitment to
the Lord and Word of Life leadership had been a constant challenge to me. Joe Jordan
Paul has taught me how to dream ! Mike Calhoun
a half after we were married, then Dan two years later. It was really hard for me to adjust to the ministry. I struggled with Paul being gone, and there was a lot of baggage there. I would always reflect back on the fact that 1knew on the day that I married Paul that I was suppose to marry him. That helped me through some of those hard times. He doesn't remember those hard times, but I asked the Lord to never let me forget them because I didn’t ever want to repeat it, and I wanted the Lord to be able to use it. Paul is a very' interesting person. If I were going to characterize his life, the first thing I would say would probably be that his funny. He has this wild sense of humor; I think that “zany” is the word! He always said that 1 would laugh at his jokes no matter how many cimes he would tell them. But what he didn’t realize is that 1 wasn't just laughing at the dumb jokes, but 1 was laughing at what jokes he chose to tell, who he chose to tell them to, and how he chose to turn them around! He would tell the same joke in three or four different ways depending on the person he was telling it to, and that was as much fun as anything! He has always been a very7 funny man and life has never been boring with Paul. That’s probably one of the first things that attracted me
Paul, you started me in full-time ministry: then you trusted, tutored , tailored me and for thirty-three years of your life have continuously demonstrated Christ's words in Mk. 8:35: '' Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it. * ‘ Thank you . “ Waynesville" Lewis.
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