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Gerry Organ
The Organ family immigrated to Toronto, Canada from Cheltenham, England in 1957, where the twelve-year-old avid soccer player attended York Memorial High School. Having been asked by his Principle to leave School because of poor marks, he worked for 4 years before returning to Grade 13 at the age of 21.
Surprisingly, he was then accepted to the University of Guelph. While earning his degree, Gerry met and married his wife Lore (Loree) in 1969. He graduated from the University of Guelph in 1971.
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Lore Organ
Lore’s father Karl, along with his wife Ella and their daughter Lore, emigrated from Germany to Canada and first settled in the Kitchener area, sharing a home with a Mennonite family. Karl was a skilled tradesman and they were able to purchase a home in Kitchener. None of them could speak English so they learned by watching TV. At the age of 5, Lore remembers walking 2km alone to a movie theater to see the Movie the Ten Commandments.
After completing High School, she moved to Guelph where she attended University and also married her “classmate” Gerry Organ. Both graduated in 1971 with a B.Sc. In Human Kinetics.
Following her graduation Lore became a popular and successful teacher at several Elementary and High Schools in Guelph, Toronto, and later on in Ottawa. Having completed both Specialist and Masters Degrees, her focus became the area of Special Education where she excelled.
During that time she and Gerry raised two children and became proud grandparents of five, now mature, grandchildren. Lore and Gerry became Christians in 1973 and have enjoyed the Lord’s presence since that time.
After her retirement, she and Gerry moved back to Ottawa in 2011 and it is here that she became fully engaged as a most competent and skilled Artist (see some of her work). She participates in regional Art Shows and belongs to local Art groups. Her basement Studio is her constant Workshop.
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Football & Faith
From 1971 to 1983 Gerry played professional football for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the C.F.L. In 1973 and 1976 he played on Grey Cup championship teams, was voted the Outstanding Canadian Player in 1973 and at the time of his retirement he was second in all-time C.F.L. scoring. He is a member of the City of Ottawa, University of Guelph, City of Etobicoke and O.U.A.A. Halls of Fame. His other Grey Cup appearance was in 1981 where the Riders came within a last second field goal of beating the favourite Edmonton Eskimos.
Gerry trusted Christ as his Saviour in 1973 through at a pre-game devotional. He co-founded and managed the Ottawa Athletic Club from 1974 to 1980 and completed a Masters Degree at the University of Ottawa in 1984. In 1985 he and his family moved to Guelph where he founded Christian Family Ministries and for five years, he served as a Family Therapist. From 1991 to 1993 he was engaged as the Eastern Director for Focus on the Family. In 1993 Gerry was appointed to the full time pastoral staff and was ordained at The Peoples Church in Toronto, leaving that position in 1997 to accept a different calling, that of Executive Director of Christian Business Ministries Canada (CBMC).
In 1993 he was the Reform Candidate for Guelph-Wellington, losing in a close race to the Liberals and their JOBS/JOBS/JOBS platform.
He served CBMC for ten years and was privileged to see God at work in the lives of many business leaders in Canada and around the globe. In 1997 he joined the leadership team of One Way Ministries of Ottawa specializing in equipping leaders and Marketplace Ministry.
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In 2009 he published a Praise and Prayer Journal, of which 8,000 copies were sold, through Word Alive Press and was awarded a Canadian Christian Writing Award.
The title… “One Goal”
Currently he is ’kinda’ retired but life is still filled with a purpose! He resides in Orleans, Ontario.
Gerry has discovered that every life is intended for the one purpose of glorifying the Lord by the way we live, the way we worship and the way we love one another. His mission is to see greater unity in the body of Christ and the transformation of many of our cities. He is convinced that prayer is the essential work of every believer.