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Richard Alfred O’Driscoll was born June 24, John the Baptist Day, 1930 in Seattle, Washington. He died February 27, 2021. He was the fourth and last child of John Walter and Olive Davidson Driscoll. In mid-life, Dick visited the birthplace of his grandfather, County Cork, Ireland and restored the “O” to his name. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Shade Marie Rushing, and their 6 children, Peter (Marie Solange), Tod (Cara), Mary, and Joel (Jenny) O’Driscoll, Sarah (Jim) Johnson and Joanna Rosler, as well as l6 grandchildren. Dick fulfilled the destiny that God intended for him, but he did not discover that destiny until he was 27. After serving in the military during the Korean War, he planned a teaching career and used his GI Bill for a Masters in History at Washington State University. A life-changing experience happened while he was on a trip to Europe. In a Paris hotel Dick almost died of pneumonia, being saved by God through penicillin at the American Hospital. After this, he began to think deeply about the questions of life. He saw the movie, A MAN CALLED PETER, whereby Peter Marshall almost lost his life had not God stayed his foot from falling into an abyss in Scotland. At that time Dick knew himself to be lost eternally without God. At 27 he gave his life to his Father in Heaven, and God called him into the ministry. Just as John the Baptist pointed the people of his day to Jesus, Dick was always pointing people to Jesus. It was once said that he never officiated a funeral without giving those attending the opportunity to accept God’s free love gift of eternal life through His Son, Jesus Christ. He had great compassion on the people who did not know Jesus or who had never accepted his love and forgiveness for their sins and thus would be lost for eternity. Whether he met them on the street, in an elevator, in an airport, in the jail, or in a hospital, he was never embarrassed or ashamed to ask them if they wanted to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord. His first church was a Congregational Church in Los Angeles. He ministered there for four years, many times walking through multi-racial blocks and apartment buildings inviting people to come to church. He made friends with a Samoan pastor and congregation nearby and invited them to worship with his church once a month. There was great rejoicing, and a little taste of Heaven when staid, elderly English and Scottish born members participated in a Samoan luau complete with a roasted pig! In the summer of 1960, Dick attended Union Seminary in New York City. While there he met Shade Marie Rushing, a Methodist social worker from Arkansas. Dick and Shade married the next summer. In the early days of his ministry Dick longed for what the disciples had which he read about in the Book of Acts in the Bible. He knew he did not have the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit and the power of God to witness and to minister. Shade had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and told Dick about this second gift of God following salvation. Shortly after their marriage he sought and received this wonderful gift as described in Acts 2:4. After this experience, Dick said, “I could feel Jesus in the car sitting in the seat next to me, and I could talk to him while driving.” After continuing in the Congregational Church for one more year, Dick and Shade both were drawn to the Anglican liturgy which they had been introduced to at Union Seminary by their professor in Systematic Theology. In the fall of 1962, Dick started his studies at the Episcopal seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. Upon receiving his Masters of Divinity, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. His first Episcopal parish was in the San Joaquin Valley of California at Corcoran. Here again Dick’s heart went out to the people on the fringes of humanity. The town had a “boot hill” where there was no running water, and where a black community lived. One member of Dick’s church was from this community and had to walk a long- distance carrying water to her home. Dick got together with the Presbyterian pastor and other concerned people, and together they worked with the town officials until water came to “Sunny Acres” their new name for “boot hill.” After a short time in Costa Rica and a year in Shade’s hometown in Arkansas where Dick ministered at Full Gospel Business Meetings and church missions, he was called to St Luke’s Church in the Ballard area of Seattle. It was there that he was a part of the great world- wide charismatic movement whereby both Protestant and Catholic Churches experienced renewal of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as referenced in the Bible, in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12:7-10. He began to weekly pray with a pastor of another denomination who had experienced the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This was the beginning of what evolved into the Charismatic Presbytery of Seattle, pastors from differing denominations joining their hearts and prayers together to reach Seattle for Christ. For several years this group sponsored mass meetings in both Catholic and Protestant churches throughout the Puget Sound area, bringing charismatic leaders from around the world to Seattle. He ministered at St Luke’s for 18 years. These were the years of the hippie movement, the drug culture, and Vietnam. Dick saw people healed of sicknesses and delivered from drugs and demon spirits. A man came to St Luke’s the one Sunday that Dick preached on the reality of Hell. This man was later apprehended for murder, and Dick led him through to salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the Seattle jail. He was transferred to a prison in Montana and there brought about a revival that included the warden. Later he was acquitted and became a missionary. While at St Luke’s Dick did pastoral ministry in the 22 hospitals in Seattle. He loved praying for the sick and he led some to salvation on their death bed including a famous Olympic swimmer. He was part of the inner healing movement at St Luke’s, and he introduced one night a month for inner healing prayer for those with deep emotional hurts, having himself been healed of deep wounds from childhood. As a young teen Dick worked with the horses on the race tracks up and down the West Coast. He remembered those years and had compassion for the people who worked at the Longacres track in Seattle. He said they have no church and are not shepherded by a pastor. When he heard about the Racetrack Chaplaincy of America, he established it at Longacres and volunteered as a part time chaplain there for several years until a full time one could come. He later introduced the Racetrack Chaplaincy in Australia. In 1983 Dick wrote the book, POP’S PRIMER published by Logos. He wrote it to help parents raise their children to love God, and he used illustrations from his years on the racetrack and in the rodeo arena. In 1986, St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Haymarket, Virginia called Dick to be Rector. During the beginning of his 9 years there, he instituted a weekly community Bible study which Shade taught, as well as an inner healing prayer ministry. Soon St Paul’s began to be known for the Bible Study and for inner healing prayer. Dick always reached out to fellow pastors in neighboring churches. He was eager to pray with them and have fellowship, believing strongly in ecumenism. Because of this St Paul’s had sweet fellowship, often with a neighboring black church. The congregations would exchange flowers on Easter and also celebrate Thanksgiving together along with the Methodist and the Baptist churches nearby. Dick studied in person and by distance learning at Asbury Theological Seminary and was awarded a Doctor of Ministry at age 63. Being 35 miles from the Capitol, he had the opportunity to do research at the Library of Congress. For his thesis, he wrote a screenplay, “A TIME TO KEEP” about his boyhood hero, Earl Dew, the 1940 champion jockey of America. It has as yet to be produced as a full- length movie, but it has won awards in major screenplay contests. On retiring in Edmonds, Washington Dick sought out another place to volunteer ministry, the Port of Everett. Here again he had compassion on the people who had no church or pastor, the crews who worked on the large container ships. Dick told them about Jesus and gave them Bibles or literature in their own language. He fulfilled his destiny, he completed the course, the life that God planned for him. He could say with Saint Paul, the words that have echoed down the centuries “…I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.” ll Timothy 4:7,8

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