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Richard Ames

Died July 4, 2024

Obituary for Richard Franklin Ames

Richard Franklin Ames was born on June 8, 1936, in New London, Connecticut, to George Franklin Ames and Alice May (Hayes) Ames. Attending public schools in New London and then in Meriden, Connecticut, he was senior class president as well as an accomplished athlete—co-captain of his high school football team—and began his broadcast media career working after school as an announcer for a Meriden radio station.

After earning his B.C.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1959, he completed a year-long Yale University graduate program in traffic and transportation engineering in 1961. Then he worked as a transportation engineer at the Southeastern Virginia Regional Planning Commission in Norfolk, Virginia before enrolling as a student at Ambassador College in 1962. While there he served as the Student Body President and met Kathryn Lind Meredith, whom he married in August, 1964, and who survives him. He was predeceased by his sister Beverly Lorraine Machnik.

Ordained as a minister of Jesus Christ in 1965, a pastor in 1969, and an evangelist in 1984, he oversaw congregations in several U.S. states while serving as a field pastor. He served in various capacities at Ambassador College over the years; from 1967–77 he taught theology, speech, and broadcasting at the Ambassador campus in Big Sandy, Texas, and after earning his M.A. in Communications from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1977 he went on to serve from 1980–90 as Director of Admissions at the Ambassador campus in Pasadena, California, where he also taught courses in theology and communications and served as Registrar (1988–90).

From 1986 to 1994 he was a presenter on the weekly The World Tomorrow television program, which at its peak was the most-viewed religious program in the United States. On-location television filming took him to Israel, Egypt, Great Britain and Germany, and to many locales throughout the United States. After pastoring several congregations in Texas from 1996–98, he became the Director of Media Operations for the Living Church of God in 1999. He worked in that capacity, as well as serving on LCG’s Council of Elders and as a presenter on the Tomorrow’s World telecast, until his death.
 

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07/08/24 04:46 PM #1    

Dean Smith (1964)

Hearing the passing of Richard Ames, on July 4,  brought back to me some pleasant memories of the last time I was with him (about 1992) and also times 28 years prior when we attended AC. I was a freshman in 1964, and Richard was Student Body President as well as President of our Spokesman club. In about 1992, Richard came to speak at our WWCG congregation in Palm Springs, and he was also one of the presenters of the World Tomorrow TV program at that time. My son, Brian (about 11 years old then) knew Richard from seeing him on TV, and  he got into animated conversation with Richard about the program and the TV studio (Brian had been with our youth group when we made a tour of the campus and the TV studio). Richard was very kind in responding to Brian's questions, and gave Brian a business card showing Richard Ames as a Presenter of the WT TV program. Brian really appreciated receiving that little personal gift. 

Since Mr. Ames was speaking at the service that day, his wife, Kathryn, a very accomplished violinist volunteered to provide special music. I would need to accompany her on the piano, since most people we invited to come from Pasadena did not bring their own accompanist. I had been doing this for the previous 30 years so I was used to getting sent the music in the mail and having a short rehearsal just before services. When I was in Pasadena for about 10 years there was ample time to practice with the soloist because most of us worked on campus. Since I had  not accompanied Mrs. Ames  before, I was a little nervous about not being able to rehearse very much. I anticipated a longer sesssion in which she would be very exacting about various details of the music. As I recall, we went over the piece once, without any repeats, and she said it was really fine. Her positive and pleasant attitude really put me at ease. It is always fun to perform with confident and competent musicians who enjoy what they are doing and do it with a desire to serve others. 

These bring back very fond memories of Richard and Kathryn Ames.


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