I have decided to separate the ex-CiM elder page because of the amount of information gathered.
Most information I give here is public information available on the World Wide Web.
Jerry Collum:
Jerry died on May 29th, 2008. He died of a heart attack. Here is the initial post I made on his death:
http://kingdomgospel.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/jerry-collum-is-dead/
The following info is what I had gathered before he died:
He was the Associate Pastor and was involved in Christian Education with Longview Metro Church:
http://www.longviewmetro.org/index.php
His church put up a page in memory of him:
The following link was no longer available as of Dec 28, 2008.
http://www.longviewmetro.org/in_memory_of.php
And here is his obituary:
http://obit.memorialobituaries.com/obitdisplay.html?id=547481&clientid=raderfh&listing=Current
And here is where you can sign the guest book of his memorial:
http://obit.memorialobituaries.com/wrapper_gb.php?id=547481&clientid=raderfh&listing=Current
Jerry Collum was in the process of restoring a relationship with Randy Shankle, of which included ministry. Jerry ministered at the CiM New Years meetings in 2008, and Randy had a canoe trip with Jerry in March to discuss what their yoke together means. I believe Jerry also ministered in the May meetings at CiM. I emailed Jerry a few times this year telling him about those who have contacted me who have been hurt by Randy or CiM, and received 1 response. He said he didn’t remember who I was. However, Jerry did confront Randy about the problem, and Randy confessed this problem and confrontation. Listen to Randy speak of this here:
Despite this acknowledgement by both of them, that Randy was a man of blood, they continued their plan to minister together. Jerry prophesied that they would minister together. Randy speaks about this prophecy here:
Jerry even prophesied that the enemies would not stop this. Even Randy prophesied that they would minister together. Hear Randy’s prophecy here:
Randy also said that every prophecy would come to pass. Listen here:
Randy was even bold enough to prophecy that death will not stop his ministry, before Jerry died. Listen to Randy speak on this here:
Then despite Jerry’s prophecy that he will minister with Randy and it won’t be stopped, and despite Randy’s prophecies that it won’t be stopped, not even by death, Jerry died.
This didn’t stop Randy from trying however, he attempted to raise Jerry from the dead. Listen here:
But Randy did not succeed, and both of their prophecies have not come true. I am convinced that Jerry died because of these events, because he attempted to reconnect with Randy when he knew Randy was a man of blood. But why Jerry’s death, and not Randy? We must remember God brings life and satan brings death. satan doesn’t want to kill Randy when Randy is causing so much pain, divorces, church splits, and other divisions.
Perhaps God allowed Jerry to die so Jerry would not be caught up in the judgments Randy will face. Perhaps it happened simply because he stuck his hand outside the hedge of protection. But we shouldn’t judge Jerry’s life based on his death. Jerry was a good man and many of us will miss him.
I stumbled upon 2 videos of Jerry Collum on YouTube.
