That is a bomb shell.  Father in Heaven please be with Phil as he goes through this heart break.  And thank you that we will see Rayburn in heaven when we ge there.  In your precious name I pray Amen  Hay Phil was he in Amway (scamway) which is now Quixtar.  and there is nothing quick about it.
Unfortunately I was involved with or should say still buy some things from it but You have to have the right personality and lots of money. And I have neither.

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Christ is either Lord of all or he is not Lord at all.
Karen Carter '74



> Today I experienced a sudden shock.  Back during the last two years of the
> seventies, I was still traveling and preaching in churches as a guest
> speaker when I was asked to preach in a church camp.  That would have been
> the summer of 1977 I believe.  There were several pastors there and Sandy
> and I had our first son and he was about 8 months old.  He hadn't quite
> learned to walk yet but putting him in a walker, he could push himself
> around.  This was a junior high camp in western Colorado.  A very nice
> pastor by the name of Rayburn Cox befriended us and we spent many hours with
> him.  The old Assemblies of God camp was nice and had nice cabins and we
> greatly enjoyed our time that week.
>
> During the time spent with Pastor Cox, I told him that Sandy and I had been
> discussing, and praying, about moving to a smaller town than Denver.
> Perhaps, I suggested, something close enough we could still use the Denver
> airport.  For example, Idaho spring is about 25 miles from Denver up higher
> on the way into the mountains.  I had preached in a little Baptist church
> there and we really liked the people.  Rayburn turned the conversation
> around and said, "Why don't you consider moving to the western slope.  My
> church is in a town of 800 people and we have about 60 members.  The nearest
> airports are in Montrose, 40 miles away with 5 trips a day to Denver, and
> Grand Junction is only 60 miles away and they have connections just about to
> anywhere."
>
> One day, Rayburn invited me to ride with him back to his home.  The little
> town of Hotchkiss wasn't far away, maybe 40 minutes, and he wanted to check
> on mail and to see if anything was needed at the church.  I went.  We had a
> wonderful visit.
>
> On the way back, Rayburn flat out asked me to start praying about moving to
> the western slopes of Colorado.  He booked me for a week of special revival
> meetings in his church for that next April of 1978.
> Sandy and I had several meetings scheduled during that period of time in
> California but the last one in the group was in Rayburns church.  Flying out
> of San Francisco, we transferred planes in Salt Lake City, and landed in
> Montrose Colorado.  Rayburn picked us up.
>
> We had one of the most wonderful times that week with Rayburn and his
> family.  Our son became very ill in the middle of the night and was so hot,
> you could hardly touch him.  As Baptist, we weren't too sure what we
> believed about healing but we believed enough to lay hands on our son and
> pray and ask for the fever to go down.  In moments, his fever went down and
> he was able to rest that night.
>
> During the week, Rayburn began talking to me about if I had been praying
> about moving to the western slope.  I had, of course, but not seriously.
> Rayburn asked me to consider becoming his assistant pastor.  He said the
> church could not pay me a lot but I could continue traveling, if I wished,
> and I likely would find other support from other western slope meetings.  I
> had a lot of money from all the weeks of meetings we had been in and so I
> could easily put 500 dollars down as security or a good faith promise.  A
> man in the church was a builder and he had a vacant six month old house he
> had to let go and he was willing to sell it at cost.  We needed a little
> over 3,000 for a down payment, which we didn't have, but when the meeting
> was over, we flew home and within days, the money came in.  Thirty days
> later, we moved to Hotchkiss, Colorado.
>
> Rayburn was a man who taught me just about every thing one needed to know
> about church ministry.  He let me participate in everything.  I soon became
> their youth pastor and discovered just how much fun working with teenagers
> really was.
>
> Many other good things happened in that little town and church to Sandy and
> I but unfortunately, some bad things happened as well.
>
> Rayburn was a church builder.  He could win people to Christ faster than
> anybody because he honestly loved people and they could feel it.  Resigning
> his church where we lived, he moved two another small town, built a church
> to about 150 members, and personally led nearly every single person in that
> church to the Lord in the process.  I personally learned more about the
> ministry from Rayburn than any other pastor.  By the way, he was about 8
> years older than me.
>
> A number of years ago, Rayburn became involved with a multi level networking
> program that nearly ruined his life.  It took him out of the ministry for a
> few years but he eventually gave it all up and moved to Michigan and started
> a church there which he pastored for 8 years.  In 2002, he and his family
> moved back to Meeker, Colorado where the 150 member church was he had
> pastored back in the late
> eighties and early nineties.
>
> I have a letter on my website which I wrote to Rayburn when he became
> involved with the multi level outfit.  He and his wife did not receive my
> letter well.  My letter has been on the internet since about 1991 or 92 I
> believe.  I get at least one email a year from people who have read it and
> believe it helped them make the right decision concerning MLN involvement.
> It is also on a Finland website and I gave my permission for it to be
> translated into Finish four or five years ago.  It is still on that website
> and many others, including the first one I learned about in Australia.
>
> Since I have not heard from Rayburn for close to 15 years, I often hunt for
> him on the internet.  I also have prayed for him hundreds of times.  Nearly
> every time I think of him, which is nearly weekly, I ask the Lord, Do you
> want me to call him?  The Lord never answered and I never felt the feeling
> that I should make contact with him for some reason.  The truth is, I was
> closer to this man than any man I have ever known.  I knew he loved me but
> I'm not too sure how much he loved me after getting my letter begging him to
> reconsider giving up his church and ministry.
>
> Today, I logged on to google and typed in his name.  A western slope
> newspaper was the first hit and it was Rayburns obituary.  He was out in the
> mountains hunting not far from his home and had a massive heart attack and
> died.  He was 57 years old.  He had 5 or 6 children, all grown, and 18
> grandchildren.  Over the last 15 years, he had blood pressure problems but I
> sure didn't want him to die that young.  At least I'll get to see him again.
> Fortunately, when I see him again, he won't be mad any more.
>
> Phil.