Dawson Earle Trotman (March 25, 1906 – June 18, 1956) was an
evangelist and founder of
the Navigators.
Biography
Trotman was born on March 25, 1906, in
Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee is a city in and the county seat of Cochise County, Arizona, Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is southeast of Tucson, Arizona, Tucson and north of the Mexican border. According to the 2020 United States census, ...
, US.
Ministry
Trotman founded the Navigators in 1933. He lost his life on June 18, 1956, aged 50, while rescuing a girl, Allene Beck, from drowning during water-skiing in
Schroon Lake, New York.
Trotman worked with many other evangelicals of his day, including
Henrietta Mears,
Jim Rayburn,
Charles E. Fuller,
Bill Bright
William R. Bright (October 19, 1921 – July 19, 2003) was an American Evangelism, evangelist. In 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles, he founded Campus Crusade for Christ as a ministry for university students. In 1952 he wrote ...
,
Billy Graham
William Franklin Graham Jr. (; November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American Evangelism, evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and Civil rights movement, civil rights advocate, whose broadcasts and world tours featuring liv ...
, and Dick Hillis. Lorne Sanny (1920–2005) succeeded him as president of the Navigators after Trotman's wife Lila was its short-term interim president.
Personal life
Trotman married Lila Mae Clayton on July 3, 1932. Lila, who was born on December 12, 1913, in Buffalo Valley, Tennessee, died on October 27, 2004, at the age of 90.
The couple had five children.
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References
External links
"Religion: The Navigator" ''
Time
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''. July 2, 1956.
Born to ReproduceThe Need of the Hour (which is that tools may be cute, but the influence of the man of God to spread the knowledge of God is vital)The Wheel illustration (for the CHRIST-ian life in action, Dawson Trotman's original version)The Hand illustration (for getting a HAND-le on the Word of God), now also known as the "WORD-hand" illustrationThe "Prayer-Hand" illustration (five key ingredients of Prayer)
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1906 births
1956 deaths
People from Bisbee, Arizona
American evangelicals
Deaths by drowning in New York (state)