James Roderick Moses

James Roderick Moses, 61, of Cass Lake, died Sunday, March 14, 2010, in Cass Lake.

The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 18, at the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Cass Lake with Rev. Mervin Cheechoo officiating. A Singspi-ration Memorial Service will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, at the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Cass Lake, open to all who want to share words of comfort or a song. Visitation will be from 6-7 p.m., with a service at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, at the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Cass Lake and one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at the Chippewa Bible Church Ceme-tery in Oak Point, Minn., under the direction of the Cease Family Funeral Home of Bemidji.

Honorary Casketbearers will be all his friends and co work-ers in The Faith of the Gospel.

Pallbearers will be Jim C. Moses, Derek J. Moses, Gilbert Trapper, Roderick Trapper, Terry Robinson, Larry “Per-kins” Cronquist, Ronald W. Shabaiash and Faron Blakely. Alternates will be Byron Gar-bow, Anthony Kotla, Shawn Gillingham, Mark Kulack, Evan Gagnon, and Michael Aggam-way.

He was born April 2, 1948, to John and Eve (Shanush) Moses in Moose Factory, Ontario. He attended school in Moose Factory public school, Timmins High Vocational School, Mokahum Indian Bible School and Briercrest Bible College. He lived and worked in various places including East-main, Quebec, Lac La Biche, Alberta, Moose Factory, Cass Lake, Caronport, Saskatche-wan, Brandon, Maine, and Thunder Bay, Ontario. He worked various jobs including the Hudson Bay Company, Bill Graham Evangelistic Associa-tion, Teals Super Valu, Leech Lake Tribal College, Bible Teacher at Key Way Tin Bible Institute, Church Planter at Brandon, and pastor at Cree Gospel Chapel, Thunder Bay Native Church and Chippewa Bible Church from 2001 until present. He was a past board member of Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, govern-ing board member of Northern Canada Evangelical Mission, board member of “Without Reservation” and chairman of Mokahum Training Center Advisory Council. He married Karen Fay Fairbanks May 8, 1971, in Minneapolis. He loved to fish, bike, walk, family pic-nics, travel, camp, sing, play piano, guitar, harmonica, mandolin and watch hockey and World Wrestling Enter-tainment. He will be remem-bered mostly for his strong faith and deep love for his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He never hesitated to share with others his story of how he became a Follower of Jesus. He accepted Christ into his heart on Jan. 16, 1965. From that point on in his life, his greatest desire has been to serve his Lord in word and deeds. He enjoyed meeting and making new friends.

He is survived by his wife of Cass Lake; children, Rachel E. Moses-Gagnon of Cass Lake, Christina Fay (Shawn) Gillingham of James-town, N.D., James Curt (Ro-chelle) Moses of Cass Lake, Lauretta Diane (Faron) Blakely of Fargo, N.D., Sarah Jane Moses of Bemidji, Beth Moses of Fargo, N.D., Kimberley Joy Moses of Ingle-wood, Calif.; sisters, Fran-ces Trapper, Mary (Gilbert) Trapper, Martha Moses of, Beatrice (George) Cheechoo, all of Moose Factory; 20 grand-children; and two great grand-children.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a grandson; sisters, Kathleen and Bessie Moses Trapper; brother, George Moses; and a nephew.

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