5 Responses to “One man’s faith journey”

1. Jo Ann Ray on May 14th, 2008 8:19 am

   Very honoring. Thank you for your work.

   Jo Ann

2. Judy Fairservice on May 15th, 2008 12:58 pm

   Very well done Angel, informative and inspiring. May the current generation pick up Roy’s torch and carry it on’
   Judy

3. Jane Ng on May 15th, 2008 11:29 pm

   Angel, it seems like yesterday that we were playing volley ball in 408B East Coast Road, Singapore, our first navigator camp venue and the home of Roy and Phyllis Robertson.

   I am overwhelmed with their unceasing love and zeal for God; the never ending outpouring of themselves for people upto their being taken home.

   We, in Singapore, are very privileged to have Roy as the pioneer and pace setter of full unreserved commitment and loyalty to God’s calling in their lives. What a start to our gallery of faith in Singapore…..

4. Hans M. Wilhelm on May 25th, 2008 12:02 pm

   I met Roy when he got off the ship in Shanghai in 1948 and knew him for nearly 60 years. I had spent all of my teenage years in China as son of German missionaries and had found the Lord after World War II, The year before Roy arrived, I had met Daws Trotman in Shanghai as well and so there was an immediate connection with The Navigators’ first missionary. During the next 18 months, Roy discipled me and inculcated principles into my life and ministry that are as valid today as they were then. I served on the Nav staff for seven years and then with ministries in several continents. I know that Roy received his “Well done” from His Master and we rejoice with him!

5. Dr. Lou and Laura Campbell on May 27th, 2008 10:40 pm

   In 1991, Roy asked me what it would take to get me to the Philippines. A group there has been praying for someone to minister to them through the arts. A month later, with a non-refundable ticket in hand and preparing to leave, Mount Pinatubo blew up effectively shutting down air traffic into Manila.

   From Hong Kong, Roy phoned and told me not to worry about such things, and to come ahead. With air traffic inhibited into Manila, I had some strange looks as I boarded a plane in Dallas to fly first to San Francisco, then to Seoul, Korea. There was no air traffic into Manila from Seoul, I was admonished in San Francisco, but flew anyway.

   Upon arriving in Seoul, I learned that a typhoon had swept across the Philippines and that the ash had settled sufficient to allow limited air traffic in for one day. I went. It was this kind of unshakable optimism and unswerving enthusiasm that pervaded Roy Robertson’s dedication to serving the Lord. I ministered for three months there then returned at his urging in 1995 and after a sleepless 48 hour trip by air, and bus, Roy met me in the tropical heat of Baguio and announced that I was preaching that evening to a church conference of several thousand.

   From Roy I learned that it was nothing about me and all about the Lord. My wife, Laura joined me in 1999 when we again returned to the Philippines to minister to additional folk, and our work had become very popular there. Together we taught 185 people, discipling them and teaching them performance techniques. Roy and Phyllis both came in from Indonesia and exhorted us during that time.

   Roy so loved the arts and would often go out of his way to visit us when productions were in performance. He understood that at the very core of theology, the Lord who is uniquely creative endowed each of us with creativity to communicate His truths to a fallen world. It excited him immensely to see how effectively the physical theatre medium could reach people with whom we could not speak a common language. He always asked when we could come to India, and Indonesia and China and Vietnam.

   In 2006 we accepted his offer to come to India and work alongside his TEL team there. Our three week tour brought over 200 people to Christ. We began to make plans to visit Vietnam and seek the Lord for wisdom on the timing of such a visit.

   Through Roy’s counsel, the Enclave of the Arts was formed and the focus of missions in that organization is substantially upon the advice of Roy. In all of the nine years of teaching at Belhaven College in Jackson, MS the Joshua Squad is required to go through the Timothy Principle, Scripture memory and discipleship training. Roy’s influence is everywhere in that organization.

   This past February, we were pleased to welcome Roy to our production of A Servant of Two Masters, done at Belhaven College. He drove by himself to Jackson a total of around 9 hours, following a men’s conference in Texas. He reveled in our production and spent hours talking to students about their call to the arts in the Christian worldview.

   On April 21, we were privileged to host a vibrant upper octogenarian on his birthday evening in our home as he was in transit to South Carolina – by himself by car. This is a trip that people half his age would not attempt.

   His 2 Timothy 2:2 verse could well be the hallmark of his life and certainly the fruits of his labor will go on for generations. To God be the Glory for such a man whose sacrifice and preoccupation was service. The footprints of such a man are larger than life, because they are the footprints of a Holy God to whom he served.

   In the Grace of Christ whose provision for our lives is already made secure, we celebrate Roy and Phyllis Robertson, whose paths the Lord made to cross ours, that we might stand in mighty chorus to celebrate this great God to whom we serve.

   Blessed by Roy and Phyllis Robertson,
   Dr. Lou and Laura Campbell

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