Behold the Ethiopian: in Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace

Robert was born in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1945, to Preston and Margaret Marshall. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Big Springs Texas to share crop. His paternal grandmother Cynthia Pearl Marshall arranged to have him brought back to Tulsa where she would raise him. He was later Joined by a first cousin NaRene and his brother Preston where they brought up as siblings. At 17 Robert joined the United States Army and after Basic and Advanced Infantry courses Robert went to Fort Benning Georgia for Paratrooper training. His first permanent duty station was with the famed 82nd Airborne Division in Fayetteville North Carolina. On May 1st 1965 his unit was deployed in support of "Operation Power Pack" to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. It was there that Robert received orders to report to the173rd Airborne Brigade in South Viet Nam. February 26 1966 just 21 days after his 21st birthday he was wounded by both hostile and friendly fire.

February 1st 1973, Robert married Marie Sanders and settled down in Tulsa where American Airlines employed him as an Aircraft Cleaner. After 28 years he retired from the position of Quality Assurance Supervisor over Americans warehouse system. He and Marie then founded Isaxl-31 Inc. an aviation consulting and Aircraft Material Management Corporation. Marie passed, January 19th 2009 and Robert closed down the company.

God saved Robert in the summer of 1975, and it was not long after the call to salvation that another call was realized, the call to preach the truths of God. After some training most of which accrued under the tutelage of Dr. George Calvin McCutchen, at that time Sr. Pastor of the Historical Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma. Robert was called to Pastor The Berean Missionary Church in 1882, where he is today. He now lives 20 minutes north of the church, in the community of Owasso with his wife Doris. Besides the church he is an active volunteer with the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) and the organizer of the selective group called “MOG” (Men Of God), dedicated to being visible examples of 1Tim: 6:11-16 which says “But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.”