Germaine Charles "Jim" Lockwood<br>
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Obituary from the Edmond Sun 15 May 2004<br>
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1930-2004<br>
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Germaine Charles "Jim" Lockwood was born July 17,1930 in Grand Haven, 
Michigan.  He went to be with his Lord and Savior on May 11, 2004 while 
resting at his home in Edmond, Oklahoma. Jim was very active and faithful 
member of the Wilshire Church of Christ to the end of his life.<br>
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His is survived by: His loving wife Sandra, his daughter Nancy, his son 
Stephen, and granddaughter Hope, as well as his brother Norman and sister 
Della.<br>
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He was preceded in death by his father, Germaine William Lockwood, and his 
mother Frances Jobin Lockwood of Hersey, Michigan; also, his first wife, 
Emma Lorene Nance Lockwood, and his oldest son, Philip Germaine Lockwood 
of Searcy, Arkansas.<br>
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Jim received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State 
University and a Masters degree from the Chrysler Institute of 
Engineering. He was a practicing Registered Professional Engineer and 
worked for Chrysler Corporation until he became a full time evangelist.  
He also received a second Masters degree in Christian Doctrine from 
Harding University.<br>
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Jim taught for a short time at two Christian colleges.  He taught 
mathematics and pre-engineering courses from 1959-1961 at Michigan 
Christian College. It was while at Michigan Christian that Jim first 
became interested in radio evangelism into the iron Curtain Countries. 
Many years later he also taught Russian language studies at Oklahoma 
Christian for 4 years.  He was fluent in both Swedish and Russian.<br>
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Jim was baptized into Christ in 1953, while in graduate school.  In 1956, 
while in the army, Jim became acquainted with Jerry Loutzenhiser in 
Dubuque, Iowa.  While there he learned how to teach the gospel.<br>
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Jim and his family served as missionaries in Sweden from 1961-1968.  They 
left the states with two children but returned with three. Stephen was 
born to them while in Sweden. After returning to the states and completing 
his education from Harding, Jim served as a personal evangelist in Des 
Moines, Iowa from 1970-1977.  He and his family moved to Oklahoma City in 
1977. They began working with the Wilshire Church in 1982, which still 
sponsors his radio evangelism ministry.<br>
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Jim authored a number of articles and books.  The Origin of The Cosmos and 
The Evidences of God is in its third publishing in English as well as its 
presence on the internet.  It is also published in Russian, Romanian, 
Slovakian, and Chinese. It is with out a doubt the most widely used and 
distributed work on Christian Evidences among missionaries of the churches 
of Christ.<br>
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Germaine began preaching the word of God through Russian radio programming 
with Ivan Kolesnikow in 1971.  In 1973, he began plans to build a 
short-wave radio station in Alaska to broadcast the gospel into the iron 
curtain countries first then, to the whole world.  This project was taken 
over and brought to fruition by the World Christian Broadcasting Co in 
1983.<br>
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In 1991 Jim began an international English radio program called "Eternal 
Good News" which is currently broadcast worldwide on a large number of 
short-wave radio stations.<br>
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