Rusty Woomer's Journey From Death to Life

By Patricia Bridewell

Rusty Woomer died in South Carolina's electric chair, April 26, 1991. He was buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Ohio County, fourteen miles south of Owensboro, Kentucky. He paid with his life for the horrible crimes that he committed.
Five years before his death Rusty made life's most important journey, the journey from death to life. Rusty Woomer became a Christian. He turned from his sins to Christ, and received eternal life.
This booklet describes that transformation whereby Rusty became a new creature in Christ. He died with a great sense of peace and a heart filled with the love of Christ.
Mount Carmel Baptist Church (and former Pastor Thurmon Harris), and Brother Tom Shelton, Director of Missions of the Ohio County Baptist Association asked for and received permission to reproduce, in booklet form, this account from the book entitled The Body by Charles Colson. We hope and pray that God will use this true story of Rusty Woomer's salvation, from sin to Christ, to cause many others to make that same journey from death to life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patricia Bridewell
• Release date: Apr 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311959973

Patricia Bridewell

Patricia Althoff Bridewell is a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College (BA), Western Kentucky University (MA), and Newburgh Theological Seminary (PhD).Bridewell is married, has a son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren. She is a long-time member of Avon Park Camp in Florida, and is otherwise semi-retired.

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FOREWORD

Rusty Woomer died in South Carolina's electric chair, April 26, 1991. He was buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Ohio County, fourteen miles south of Owensboro, Kentucky. He paid with his life for the horrible crimes that he committed.

Five years before his death Rusty made life's most important journey, the journey from death to life. Rusty Woomer became a Christian. He turned from his sins to Christ, and received eternal life.

This booklet describes that transformation whereby Rusty became a new creature in Christ. He died with a great sense of peace and a heart filled with the love of Christ.

Mount Carmel Baptist Church (and former Pastor Thurmon Harris), and Brother Tom Shelton, Director of Missions of the Ohio County Baptist Association asked for and received permission to reproduce, in booklet form, this account from the book entitled The Body by Charles Colson. We hope and pray that God will use this true story of Rusty Woomer's salvation, from sin to Christ, to cause many others to make that same journey from death to life.

Tom Shelton, ADOM of the

Ohio County Baptist Association

Beaver Dam, Kentucky 42320-9407

T.E.A.M.

(Thomas Eternal Access Ministries)

Rusty Woomer's

JOURNEY FROM DEATH TO LIFE

The chair is oak, with wide armrests, a slightly scooped, polished seat, and a high back with four horizontal slats. It is eighty years old. By 1990, 243 people had sat in it, their arms and legs restrained by leather straps, their heads shaved and smeared with gel to better conduct the two thousand volts of electricity that killed them.

Rusty Woomer was the 244th person to sit in South Carolina's electric chair.

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Bob McAlister's chair in the South Carolina State House swiveled behind his massive mahogany desk. By 1990, Bob had sat in it for four years as Governor Carroll Campbell's director of communications and deputy chief of staff. He could lean back, prop his feet on the desk, and survey the rose damask draperies extending nearly the height of the sixteen-foot ceilings, the plush wingback chairs, the photographs of himself with the governor.

Outside the granite walls of Bob's corner office, tourists would exclaim over the gash left by one of General Sherman's cannonballs during the Civil War bombardment of the State House. But when Bob sat in his chair in 1990, jabbing a chewed blue pen in the air as he gave statements to the press on this issue or that, he wasn't really thinking about the media, the tourists, or even the governor down the hall.

Rarely an hour went by that he didn't think of Rusty Woomer, the man who had become his best friend. Yet before their lives had converged five years earlier, Rusty Woomer and Bob McAlister could not have been more different.

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