Meet Dr. Larry Martin

Dr. Larry Martin has given more than fifty-five years to gospel ministry. He has spent almost twenty-five years pastoring churches in Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. While still in his teens, Martin launched his ministry career as a traveling evangelist. He returned to evangelism in 1997 and has continued in that work for most of the last 25 years.

Believing as Wesley, that the world is his parish, Doc Martin has travelled in more than seventy-five countries. He has taught in Bible schools, preached in mission churches both large and small and led mass evangelism crusades where as many as 40,000 have professed Christ in one event.

Martin has attended eleven different institutions of higher education. He is a graduate of Cameron University, Oklahoma Missionary Baptist College, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. His last degree earned was the Doctor of Ministry degree at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas.

In 1994, Martin was chosen as the president of Messenger College in Joplin, Missouri. He also served the college as the Dean of the School of Lifelong Learning and as a professor of theology and missions.

From 2001-2004, Martin served Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida as Academic Dean. He taught a number of courses in the college and was a regular speaker at the Brownsville Assembly of God Church.

Also a free-lance writer, Martin’s articles have appeared in Charisma, The Remnant, Ministries Today, Pulpit Helps, The Missionary Voice, The International Pentecostal Holiness Advocate, The Pentecostal Messenger, The Pentecostal Minister, The Message of the Open Bible, The Pentecostal Leader, The Church Herald and Holiness Banner, The Brownsville Report, and The Church of God Evangel. He also wrote adult Sunday school curriculum for Messenger Publishing.

Martin, considered by many to be an authority on Pentecostal origins and especially the revival at Azusa Street, is the author of The Life and Ministry of William J. Seymour and editor of The Complete Azusa Street Library. He has written In the Beginning, We've Come this Far by Faith, and Kansas City Here We Come, histories of early Pentecostals and the Pentecostal Church of God; For Sale the Soul of a Nation; The Topeka Outpouring of 1901; The Bible, The Believer and the Bottle, Have We Lost Our Mind, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Hilarious and has edited and/or contributed to several other works. Doc's newest books are Charles Fox Parham and William J. Seymour, published by Whitaker House. .

River of of Revival Ministries, Inc. was founded by Martin and he continues to serve as president of the ministry.

Martin and Lynda Morehead Goetz were married on July 3, 2016, both having lost their spouses in 2014. Larry has two children, Matthew Martin and Summer Jo Wiedenhoff (Quentin); Lynda also has two, Lindsey Sandy (Justin) and Ryan Goetz (Rachel). The couple have six wonderful grandchildren, Cash Wiedenhoff; Matthew Dallas Martin, Jr.; Isaac, Andrew, Anna and Louisa Goetz.

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