
Our Story
RJ Beard Publishing LLC is a company born from necessity. The story starts with Roland in the mission field in 2011-2015, when he and his late wife taught observing the heavens in Haiti and Uganda. With a much larger class in the Philippines, those notes turned into a published notebook. Since most of the audiences were needy, it was published as a free download…
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The director of the Philippine federation of Christian schools requested a written course on biblical creation using the same biblical foundation of Genesis used in observing the heavens. He balked, knowing the amount of work involved, but relented because they had no other resource. So, he finished a 27-lesson Bible study and transferred it to the director to make into a formal class course. Several months after his late wife died, he returned to the Philippines. Still, he found that no staff member or teacher had the time or expertise to turn the Bible study into a full-year classroom course. He began writing the expanded work into a 60-lesson high school-level course.
Through an unusual set of events in 2017, which makes quite a love story, Roland married an old friend and widow, Joyce Faylene Lawson. Roland quickly found out she was a writer, a good editor, and loved the orphan children as he did. It led to stories she wanted to publish that showed the plight of orphan children as they aged out of children’s homes. She also resurrected a book on cleaning and hospitality that she had abandoned years before. Roland continued drafting the biblical creation course. The question remained: how would all these things be published?
They discussed the matter with a good friend, who was also a site designer and a published author herself. The company was formed in one day to reflect Roland and Joyce’s initials. A batch of ISBN numbers was ordered. By 2020, the biblical creation resource was published. By 2021, the content was also made into a free cell phone application to reach the poor or needy people overseas.
Joyce Faylene published her first children’s book in 2024. By the end of 2024, she had two other books in draft stages. Roland finished a 3rd edition of the biblical creation resource for pastors and church leaders. The first set of books was published in the Philippines. 2025 was a banner year as plans to publish the 3rd edition in the US proceeded, the RJ Beard Publishing site was revamped, and requirements to publish several books and pamphlets were put on a development schedule.
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