Choice L. Bryant

 

Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - November 12, 2000
Deceased Name: Choice L. Bryant, 90, dedicated his life to church
Services were Thursday for Choice L. Bryant, a lifelong Church of Christ minister.
Mr. Bryant, 90, died Nov. 4 at Christian Care Center in Mesquite. "His life was the church," said his daughter, Marca Lee Bircher of Dallas. "What was his hobby? The church. What did he do for entertainment? He went to church services."


Mr. Bryant was born May 10, 1910, in Throckmorton, Texas, and graduated from Breckenridge High School in Breckenridge, Texas, in 1927. Mr. Bryant earned a bachelor's degree from Abilene Christian College, now Abilene Christian University, in the early 1930s. He worked his way through college selling Bibles door-to-door and preached his first sermon on Easter Sunday in 1930 in McCaulley, Texas. In 1935, he married his wife, Gladys Bryant of Dallas, in Fort Worth. His 70-year career in evangelism led him to churches in states including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Oregon.


Ms. Bircher said Mr. Bryant was a "rural Texas country preacher," who established many small churches and congregations in the early years of his ministry. "In those days, it was a missionary drive; he felt he had to provide access to worship," his daughter said.
Mr. Bryant preached over the radio in the 1940s and 1950s and began a prison ministry in Salem, Ore., that is thriving today, Ms. Bircher said. In the 1980s, he wrote a series of articles about his life and ministry for a church magazine, With All Boldness. He sang in traveling gospel quartets, conducted singing lessons for congregations, performed at countless weddings and opened his home to anyone who was hungry or in need of help, she added. In 1975, Mr. Bryant moved his family to Arlington and later moved to Dallas. He was a full-time preacher from 1975 to 1985 in Arlington and from 1985 to 1997 at the Northside Church of Christ in Mansfield. "He preached his last sermon at a revival last March," Ms. Bircher said. "He was very, very much a true spiritual man."


In addition to his daughter, Mr. Bryant is survived by his wife of 65 years; sons R. Edgar Bryant of Garland and N. Ray Bryant of Tampa, Fla.; a daughter, Brenda Bryant of Garland; seven grandsons; 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.



 

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