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Themi - Apostle To The Hungry
Bishop Themi's life story reads more like a bestselling novel than a biography
A rock star, atheist, Marxist, world-class theologian, African missionary, and a Greek Orthodox Bishop all in one lifetime? Bishop Themi is a beacon of hope and inspiration to millions of Christians.
An incredible fifty-year Christian journey
Themi was the bass player for The Flies, a Beatles-type band that took Australia by storm in 1964. Then he enrolled at Melbourne University and became a neo-Marxist social activist.
After a personal tragedy, Themi sank into a fog of hippie confusion. His rock star, atheist persona was shattered. Over a few months, a series of Divine visions changed a young man from a lost soul into a servant of Jesus Christ.
Scholar, professor, and missionary
He earned degrees in theology, languages, and Biblical studies at some of the most prestigious universities in America and became a distinguished scholar.
In the late 1990s, Themi again questioned his life's direction. Was he serving Christ best as a top-tier academic? A series of events led him to follow another path, serving the poor in his native Africa.
Themi founded the Holy Orthodox Mission in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2008. Over the past fourteen years, Bishop Themi has battled Ebola and foes, both earthly and spiritual, to feed, educate and offer the love of Christ to thousands of West African people.
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A rock star, atheist, Marxist, world-class theologian, African missionary, and a Greek Orthodox Bishop all in one lifetime? Bishop Themi is a beacon of hope and inspiration to millions of Christians.
An incredible fifty-year Christian journey
Themi was the bass player for The Flies, a Beatles-type band that took Australia by storm in 1964. Then he enrolled at Melbourne University and became a neo-Marxist social activist.
After a personal tragedy, Themi sank into a fog of hippie confusion. His rock star, atheist persona was shattered. Over a few months, a series of Divine visions changed a young man from a lost soul into a servant of Jesus Christ.
Scholar, professor, and missionary
He earned degrees in theology, languages, and Biblical studies at some of the most prestigious universities in America and became a distinguished scholar.
In the late 1990s, Themi again questioned his life's direction. Was he serving Christ best as a top-tier academic? A series of events led him to follow another path, serving the poor in his native Africa.
Themi founded the Holy Orthodox Mission in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2008. Over the past fourteen years, Bishop Themi has battled Ebola and foes, both earthly and spiritual, to feed, educate and offer the love of Christ to thousands of West African people.
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242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 4, 2023
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September 18, 2023
I did enjoy reading the life of Bishop Themi. Although growing up Greek Orthodox, he only becomes interested in practicing the faith as an adult. He embraces Christ's commands to love and care for the least of Christ's brothers and sisters and does so through a mission he founded in Sierra Leone. He deals with great tragedy and problems there as Ebola swept through the country. Bear's writing style makes it easy to read. Themi has a love for Christ and the poor that is inspiring. The book says he is not always easy to get along with, but his faith and heart are in the right place.
April 15, 2023
What a story! Bishop Themi's life journey is stranger than fiction, with an inspiring upward trajectory. I would have preferred to read more success stories of those he has ministered to and less about the Ebola epidemic, though. I hope support for his mission through paradise4kids.org greatly increases through Mr. Bear's book. Truly a worthy cause!
June 30, 2024
A wonderful summary of the life of a man who has impacted positively the lives of so many written plain and simply said that everyone can understand this book appeals to every person who has even the slightest amount of compassion
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