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MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH RANGEN ON HIS GRADUATION:

How do we know that, that we can be saved and born again? Our loved ones who have gone before us, like Joseph Rangen, who passed away to Glory at age 92, April 24 at 5:30, he lived by God's Promises, and look what a triumphant life in Christ he lived! He testified of how his grandmother's soul was saved in her old age. He asked Christ into his own heart and to save him from his sins as a young boy, convicted of sin and his need of saving grace on his mother's knee! So he knew a personal salvation, by example and also by deed, or personal experience! Early on, his life and acts testified that He walked with the Lord and obeyed Him. He went on to serve the Lord faithfully his entire life. He harvested like a wise son in the fields of the Lord, and in heaven there will be many, many souls greeting him, who will tell him how much his preaching of the Word and the Gospel helped to put them on the right path to heaven. Please look below this for the April 2010 in memoriam tribute poem to Joseph Rangen.

We have something very special. Today, July 27, 2010, my Uncle Joseph's Patriarchal Blessing turned up, after a year of being lost in the shuffle of papers at the website "office." The Lord has a time and a season for everything, so obviously this must be the time and season for it to come forth, for we have prayed much for the Lord to bring it to light. Here it is (and be blessed):

Joseph Rangen's Words of Blessing for the Stadem Family:

"Philippians 4:6-7. Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything: tell God your needs and don't forget to thank Him for His answers. If you do this you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus."--Jospeh Rangen

Note by Rangen family to Joseph Rangen's words of blessing: "These are the verses Joe Rangen said to share when asked for a prayer or word of "blessing" for the Stadem family."

Were you blessed? I was! But also check out the "in honor of tributes" for Joseph Rangen and Estelle Rangen too we already have on hand on this website:

"Candid Questions and Answers," concerning Joseph Rangen

80th Birthday Tribute, "From the Tractor to his Destiny," by Nephew Ron Ginther

Daughter Chloe's Tribute to her mother on Mother's Day:

"They Rise Up and Call Her Blessed," Tribute to Mother Estelle Stadem Rangen, by Daughter Chloe Rangen Koslowsky for Mother's Day, May 14, 2000

The other tributes for Estelle and Joseph Rangen's only son, Paul Rangen, and others can be found at the Tributes Center, which is listed on any of the tributes you link to.

You may go to the Tributes pages for a tribute on Joseph Rangen (who he left his John Deere tractor job years ago and made a bee-line for the seminary, and that changed everything), which we have had up on our pages for some time, but here is a new tribute poem to him.

"Goodbye, Uncle Joseph, and Hello, Heaven!" by Nephew Ron Ginther

I know a man, sold-out, committed;

he practiced ALL he preached and said.

He didn't act this way, then that--

he wore just one Christian's hat.

A pilgrim aimed for the Promised Land,

you never found him slack in hand.

Determined, fruitfulness to seek,

His Goal, Christ alone, his flesh made weak.

The Cross and Gospel were his strength,

he lived for them his whole life length.

We'll miss his witness, Norskie humor too,

but just think of what he has in view:

Heaven's glory spreads out far,

and heaven's sky gained one more star.

Joseph and Estelle Rangen, young, then mature, ripe and golden, and now in Glory!

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