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Beloved Instructor Cooper Beaty Goes Home to Be With The Lord

KHM Cooper Beaty 2Cooper Beaty
February 17, 1917-May 5, 2014
RBTC Instructor 1977-2007

Pictured on left: Rev. Kenneth and Lynette Hagin with Cooper Beaty at his retirement from RBTC in 2007.

Cooper Beaty was born of Quaker parents on a farm in Kansas and was converted to Christ at age 18. He taught school three years after obtaining a Teacher's Certificate from Kansas State Teacher's College in Pittsburg, Kansas. At age 22, he responded to the call to ministry. His first efforts consisted of jail meetings, street preaching, and tent meetings.

Rev. Beaty spent 29 years in the pastoral ministry and traveled as an evangelist for seven years. He attended Rhema Bible Training College as a member of the charter class of 1975 and began teaching at the school in 1977. Among the classes he taught were Old Testament Survey, Church History, History of the Bible, and Creative Teaching Principles.

In commenting on his time at Rhema, Rev. Beaty said, "I was at Campmeeting in August 1974 and heard about Rhema. I'd just gotten the baptism of the Holy Spirit and my church said, 'You ought to go to that school and find out what's happened to you.'

So I applied and was accepted into that charter class. The school meant so much to me. I found out what had happened to me! And then I went on to teach in the school for 30 years!"

In his denomination, the Friends Church (Quakers), Rev. Beaty served on the Sunday School and Bible College boards and edited Quaker Vision, the Sunday bulletin cover, for many years.

During his last pastorate at Collinsville, Oklahoma, he furnished a weekly column, "Light for Living," to the weekly newspaper. In 1974 he was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from San Antonio Friends College in recognition of more than 30 years of successful ministry.

Rev. Beaty is preceded in death by his wife, Mabel, who went home to be with the Lord in 1972. He is survived by three daughters, Annette, Janel, and Janet, and grandchildren. 

Rev. Beaty's funeral service will be held Friday, May 9, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. in the Rooker Memorial Auditorium on the Rhema campus in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.