Rev Dick Goad

Dick Goad was born in Indian Village of Hominy, Oklahoma on April 13, 1926, to Charles Harrison and Docie Ingles Goad and departed this life on Sept. 14, 2014, surrounded by his family in his home in Oklahoma City. He was the fifth of their seven children. Dick had three brothers; Jack, Pete, and Toby; and three sisters, Mae, Goldie, and Josie. Dick was the last surviving member of his family. Dick’s family moved often when he was a child since his father often worked in the harvest fields from Oklahoma to Colorado. He was a child during the depression and herded cows for all the milk the family could use.

Dick committed his life to Christ in the fall of 1947 and believed he had a personal call to ministry. In January of 1948, he enrolled at Southwestern Bible College in Oklahoma City. He received an education in Biblical Studies and later he earned Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Ministry and Divinity from International Bible Institute and Seminary.

In his first semester at Southwestern, he met the love of his life, Miss Esther Hibbert, daughter of an IPHC pastor and official of the Kansas Conference. Despite the concern of some fellow classmates and family, he and Esther were married on August 23, 1948. To this union were born four children: Richard, Carol, Susan and Donna.

Dick was licensed to preach by the Pentecostal Holiness Church in 1948 and was granted ordination in 1950. He and Esther pastored churches in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, California and Oklahoma. Some were very small churches and others larger. He loved working for the Lord and loved seeing people saved and brought to Christ. He worked various other jobs as needed to support his family, including Flemings Company in Wichita, KS, where he was promoted to Superintendent of the Warehouse and Trucking Division. In California, he was employed by Safeway Grocers. But pastoral ministry was his call and his love.

In the Southern California IPHC Conference, he served as the Conference Director of Sunday School. He also served in the Heartland IPHC Conference as the Christian Education Director from 1975-78. He also served under special assignment of the Conference Superintendent as Interim Pastor for several churches and conferences. He had remarkable success in preparing many of these congregations to ministry under the leadership of a new pastor.

Dick loved travelling. He and Esther visited all fifty states, some in their RV, which they lived in at their place in Eufala, OK, as well as various snowbird locations in south Texas during the winter months. He loved fishing, boating, and anything near water, whether it was an Oklahoma lake, a Colorado mountain stream, or a California beach. But he loved most dearly his children and grandchildren. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Esther, son Richard and his wife Linda Goad; daughter Carol and her husband Wayne Crane; daughter Susan and her husband Bernie Carlisle; daughter Donna and her husband Johnny Stevens; and nine grandchildren: Laurie and John Leggett; Jeff and Kasie Goad; Ryan Goad; Jennifer and Travis Reid; Aaron Crane; Karen and Justin Resnick; Kelly and Tanner Tate; Johna and Derek Swann; Justin and Haley Stevens; and ten Great-Grandchildren: Austin, Abigail and Avery Leggett; Allison and Anna Goad; Ella, Morgan and Ashley Reid; Taylor and Madison Resnick. They loved him, too, and miss him very much. But the faith he imparted to his family has secured his legacy unto a thousand generations of believers. The family is comforted to know that the trumpet sounded on Sunday afternoon and he, as always, faithfully answered the call of the Lord.

Rev 14:13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit," that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them." NKJV