Jim Watt's obituary by Ross Johnson

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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August 16, 2014

To the family and friends, it is now one week since we celebrated Jim's
memorial service at Christ church in Federal Way Washington.  Last Saturday
August 9th 2014.

I was a very warm and heartfelt celebration.  God truly was glorified and
Jim's life was honored.

A good friend, Ross Johnson, CEO of life messengers Seattle Washington
brought the obituary he had written.  He also gave a testimony of Jim's
faithfulness's serving as a Life Messenger board member for 20 years.  We
are sending the obituary Ross wrote showing the many faucets of Jim's life
and ministry.  We are so grateful for friends love and prayers.

Lovingly,
Marie for the family


Jim Watt July 5, 1923-July 19, 2014

        Jim was an honors student, Canadian Navy man, Seminary graduate,
husband, father, pastor and assistant pastor of a number of churches,
evangelist,  conference speaker, author and friend.

        James Alexander Watt was born in Crossett, Arkansas of Canadian
parents.  His parents moved back to Canada in 1931.  James is a direct
descendent of James Watt who ignited the industrial revolution by his
improvements to the steam engine.  His inventions made the steam engine
more than five times more efficient.

        Jim found his true calling in life, at twenty years of age. He
would preach, teach and lead in the Church. At a young age he received the
filling of the Holy Spirit which ignited his Godly passions.  A passion for
accurate, faithful teaching of the Bible was his.  He became a church
pastor while going through Seminary and saw churches and those under his
ministry grow in numbers as well as maturity.  Over the years his
inspiring, joyful presence reflected the grace of God to those he was
around.  After leaving his presence, people were always lifted in
hopefulness.  He could just make you feel good about yourself—and hopeful
in God’s care and grace.  He was the ultimate breath of fresh air.  Jim’s
nature was that of a true peacemaker and a great listener.

        Through many relationships with other pastors, church leaders,
church members, friends and his own instructors in many circumstances,
Jim’s life was blessed and enriched.  Jim was not one to seek the limelight
but paved the way for others to receive honor and recognition, others,
others, others this was the passion of his heart, teach, teach, teach,
pray, pray, pray for others to be set free to be true builders together
with God’s Spirit in the building up of every aspect of God’s eternal
kingdom.  He would call himself a “Barnabas” after the apostle Paul’s
faithful companion.  He was a peacemaker, working to bring pastors of a
city together for the common good in every city he lived in.  He and his
wife Marie had a Bible reading and prayer time together daily praying for
others on their prayer list.

        Jim found the true love of his life in French Canadian Marie
Gaudet.  They were married in 1948 and were the proud parents of three
children.  They lived and pastored in several cities; Chicago, Arcata,CA,
Surrey, B.C., Seattle, and LeDuc, Alberta.  His printed guide,  Through The
Bible in a Year, was published into the millions.  After the children were
grown, Marie joined in speaking and traveling at times with Jim at seminars
and missions conferences including in Cairo, Egypt. He traveled alone to
numerous US cities over the years as evangelist and speaker.  Jim
ministered in Northern India for a month, and spent time in other foreign
cities including a time of study in Jerusalem.  For seventeen years, at the
same time he was pastoring, he was a door opener, assistant, and secretary
for Rochunga Pudaite of Bibles for the World.  He and Marie invested much,
including finance, to this vital mission which planted churches and schools
in India and distributed millions of Bibles.  During the Jesus People
movement in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s he served as advisor to the local leaders
of that movement in the Seattle area using his wisdom and insight to help
avoid mistakes.

        In May 1952, Jim graduated from Northern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Chicago. Later he received his M. Divinity, also from Northern.
He was ordained in Chicago by the American Baptist Denomination.

        In his middle eighties he took on the monumental task of bringing
together his previous extended work on Ivan Panin’s work on the Greek New
Testament into a useful set of four volumes for the common person.  He
labored for thousands of hours on this project over the years finally
completing it and seeing it in print in 2012.

        To sum his life up he was always focused on the eternal
perspective. He was a true visionary who constantly worked to stir up
vision in others.  He resolutely followed Jesus exhortation to us all—“Seek
First the Kingdom of God”.  From the days of his early ministry Jim was
mindful of the significance of honoring the Jewish roots of the gospel.
 Jim’s “gospel switch” was always in the “ON” position.  “Occupy till I
come” were Jesus words to the faithful and he took that command seriously.
 He stood as a sentry, not with a machine gun, but with an open Bible, upon
his knees, in his speech, with his pen, and later his computer, always
striving to know and love God and to make Him known and loved.

        Please visit Jim’s website:  www.2rbetter.org
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2rbetter.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHCTd54CggtgqLwTCItbXj-cZaKKg>
there
you will find a wealth of his writings.

Jim is survived by his wife of 65 years, Marie (Gaudet).

Son Jim, grandson James, granddaughter Chelsea, great grandson Broderick
Maier

Daughter Anna (Garl) Long, grandsons Dr. Seth Long (wife Jennifer Long) &
Keelan Long, great grandchildren Luke and Kaylee Long.

Son Peter, grandsons Paul, Mark, William

Sister-in-law, Helen Watt

Preceded in death by his beloved younger brother, Pastor George Watt

Sisters-in-law, Irene (Gaudet) Thomson, Josephine Markin, Marjorie Buckham,
Margaret Green

Brothers-in-law, Paul Gaudet, George Markin.

Many nieces and nephews.


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