By: Pastor Matthew D. Dyer
Pastor George Southwick (1918-2006) was a Pastor, Evangelist, and founder Bible Educator Ministry. Southwick attended L.I.F.E. Bible School, and then would go on to be ordained in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and later the Assemblies of God. In 1999, LOGOS Theological Seminary presented him with an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity. He pastored churches in Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and California. In 1976, he founded Bible Educator Ministry where he recorded sermons for a cassette tape ministry and published a publication titled The Kingdom Treasure. When Southwick first learned of the Anglo-Israel message, he studied it for 10 years before ever teaching on it and was a firm teacher and believer in it up until his death. He also was very interested in documenting the men and woman who have believed the Anglo-Israel message in the past as well. In 2000, he was featured in the documentary Heirs of the Promise II produced by Pastor Dave Barley of America’s Promise Ministries, alongside E. Raymond Capt, Pastor Robert Phillips, Ernestine Young, and many others. After his death, his personal library of over three thousand books was given to Pastor Charles Jennings of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Years later Jennings was approached by the Assemblies of God seminary library in Springfield, Missouri wanting his help to fill the Anglo-Israel gap within Pentecostal church history by donating Southwick’s library to the seminary. It was donated and a room in the library where Southwick’s books are kept is a plaque that says, “George W. Southwick Research Collection for Anglo-Israel Studies.”
This article is taken out of Matthew D. Dyer’s book titled Anglo-Israel Messengers A History of Those Who Have Believed and Taught That The Anglo-Saxon And Kindred People Are Israel. Published by Christian America Ministries (christianamericaministries.org).
