Background
Lawrence Driskill was born on the 18th of August 1920 in Rustburg, Virginia, United States. He was a son of Elijah Hudson who was a farmer and employee of the Highway Department and Annie Driskil, homemaker and factory worker.
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Japan Diary of Cross-Cultural Mission
(Veteran missionaries Larry and Lilian Driskill describe t...)
Veteran missionaries Larry and Lilian Driskill describe the many lessons and insights they learned as they adjusted to living in post-World War II Japan. Like the facets of a diamond the vignettes they write about throw light, not only on life in Japan, but on what is involved in adjusting to any culture, because although cultures differ in various parts of the world, the problems of adapting cross-culturally are similar.
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Mission Stories from Around the World - Kindle edition by Dr. J. Lawrence Driskill, Dr. J. Christy Wilson Jr.. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(This collection of real-life stories of missionaries and ...)
This collection of real-life stories of missionaries and unsung heroes around the world has been collected by Lawrence Driskill. a good storyteller who transports our imaginations into all four corners of the world where Christ's gospel changes lives. This illustrated collection is an inspiring resource especially for Sunday schools and youth sermons. These 52 true-to-life mission stories from around the world is a wonderful compilation for children who love to read about far-away places. It shows how global missions can affect personal lives and transform communities. Each story is easily adapted into a drama, a puppet show or an exercise in the study of people and cultures.
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Worldwide Mission Stories for Young People - Kindle edition by J. Lawrence Driskill, J. Dudley Woodberry. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(This bright collection of stories from around the world a...)
This bright collection of stories from around the world are wonderful ways for young readers to hear about mission works around the world. Suggested uses for these stories include: -- As illustrations for sermons and talks. -- As stories to read to children (older ones can read them without help). -- Adapted into dramas for church school groups or at camps and conferences. -- As mission studies for any group. -- As examples of where our mission money goes (encouraging mission giving and other Christian stewardship). Originally from Virginia, the author Dr. Driskill and his family served as missionaries for over 20 years in Japan. During that time he was the organizing pastor for three new churches in Japan and helped in developing six others as well as two Christian schools. Since leaving Japan, Dr. Driskill has served several Presbyterian churches, including Japanese-American churches in the Los Angeles area, preaching in both English and Japanese. He moved to Westminster Gardens, a missionary retirement home in California after a long career in ministry in the U.S. and Japan.
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Mission Adventures in Many Lands
(Japan, China, and Africa are the settings for some of the...)
Japan, China, and Africa are the settings for some of these mission adventures.
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Cross-Cultural Marriages and the Church: Living the Global Neighborhood - Kindle edition by J. Lawrence Driskill. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(As the number of cross-cultural and interracial marriages...)
As the number of cross-cultural and interracial marriages in our society grows, our faith communities find they are welcoming into their midst an increasing number of those who are marrying across the traditional barriers of race, language and ethnicity. Such couples inevitably face unique hurdles as they try to forge family systems that function even though they come from disparate backgrounds, and in many cases, have dissimilar expectations of what marriage and family should be. Lawrence Driskill has done a masterful job interviewing and writing up the case histories of 20 cross-cultural couples with church connections. He candidly observes where the largest obstacles have been found and then points out what the church can do to help these families resolve conflicts and establish happy homes. The success stories included highlights of what has worked (concretely) for the various ones whose stories are told here. Specific guidelines are spelled out for those who would minister to the cross-cultural marriages in their own church. -- Midwest Book Review.
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Adventures in Senior Living: Learning How to Make Retirement Meaningful and Enjoyable
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If retirement is approaching or you've recently retired, Adventures in Senior Living can help you prepare for the opportunities, needs, problems, and challenges that retirement often brings. Through 31 lively and interesting interviews, you learn how other people have found positive and rewarding ways to make their retirement years meaningful and enjoyable. Opening windows into their own lives, these inspiring retirees share with you a wide range of retirement ideas that pertain to volunteer work, travel, selecting your living arrangements, and getting involved in your community. Retirement doesn't have to bring feelings of boredom or restlessness. Adventures in Senior Living shows you that your retirement years can be your most fulfilling, productive, and fun years. You'll have more time to work in that garden you love, make quilts with your friends, spend time with your loved ones, and get exercise. But, possibly even more important than that, you'll have the ability to participate in your community on an entirely new level and to make a difference in other people's lives as well as your own. The life-loving, generous people who come together in this wonderful book are sure to inspire you as they speak about their accomplishments that include: recording books on tape for blind people conducting missionary work at home and abroad brightening the lives of patients in nursing homes and hospitals teaching Sunday school caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's delivering meals on wheels to shut-in people establishing a battered women's shelter rescuing prostitutes from the street This book presents retirees, teachers of courses in aging and retirement, activity directors at retirement and nursing homes, family members, and health and mental health care providers with many stories of extraordinary volunteerism, service, and kindness, but it also talks about the needs of retirees and their daily, more personal experiences. To this end, Adventures in Senior Living discusses the importance of continuing study, discussion, meditation, prayer, and fitness in the lives of seniors.
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Lawrence Driskill
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Education
Lawrence Driskill studied at Pennsylvania State College (now University) and received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946 then he graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary with Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1949. Afterwards he studied at Princeton Seminary and became a Master of Theology in 1957. He continued his studying at San Francisco Theological Seminary and received a Doctorate in Sacred Theology degree in 1969.
Career
Appointed to the former Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States and assigned to Japan in 1949, the Reverend J. Lawrence Driskill has helped to establish Christian groups and schools throughout the Osaka area. He has also been a pastor to several Asian American churches in the United States. He published his first book, Mission Adventures in Many Lands, after his retirement.
He was a pastor at Highland Presbyterian Church in Maryville, Tennessee. He held the position from 1973 till 1982. From 1984 he moved to Los Angeles and received the position of visiting professor of Theology at First Presbyterian Church in Altadena, California until 1990. Also, he worked as a professor at Maryville College during the years 1974-1975. He passed over a military service at U.S. Navy in 1942-45.
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Cross-Cultural Marriages and the Church: Living the Global Neighborhood - Kindle edition by J. Lawrence Driskill. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(As the number of cross-cultural and interracial marriages...)
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Adventures in Senior Living: Learning How to Make Retirement Meaningful and Enjoyable
(If retirement is approaching or you've recently retired, ...)
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Japan Diary of Cross-Cultural Mission
(Veteran missionaries Larry and Lilian Driskill describe t...)
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Worldwide Mission Stories for Young People - Kindle edition by J. Lawrence Driskill, J. Dudley Woodberry. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(This bright collection of stories from around the world a...)
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Mission Stories from Around the World - Kindle edition by Dr. J. Lawrence Driskill, Dr. J. Christy Wilson Jr.. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(This collection of real-life stories of missionaries and ...)
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Mission Adventures in Many Lands
(Japan, China, and Africa are the settings for some of the...)
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Cross-Cultural Marriages and the Church: Living the Global Neighborhood - Kindle edition by J. Lawrence Driskill. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Politics
“Independent, usually vote Democratic.”
Views
Quotations: "My goal in writing books is to try to help people, and I am grateful to hear many people say they have been helped by my books. I do not profit financially from most of them."
Membership
He was a member of board of directors of Osaka Jo Gakuin and Seikyo Gakuen Christian High School, Japan, and of the Synod of Texas, UPC staff.
Interests
Connections
Lawrence Driskill was married Ethel Lillian Cassel who was a missionary on the 28th of May 1949. They had children: Edward L., Mary Driskill McCurry.
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Religion
Presbyterian
Education
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1946
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1949
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1957
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1969
San Francisco Theological Seminary , Sacred Theology , Doctorate Berkeley, California, United States
Career
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1973 - 1982
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1974 - 1975
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1984 - 1990