People who drive along busy Johnson Road in Centralia are accustomed to seeing the elaborate Christmas decorations Ronald A. Moeller sets up in his yard each winter, as well as the large murals he puts on his garage door.
Now they have something new to view: A montage of 30 different Bible-themed paintings that Moeller has made over the past few years. The montage is clearly visible from the street and Ron has installed some flood lights to make it visible during the darker evening hours.
Moeller has always enjoyed art and has, in the past, created many large scenes for the ministry at his church, the Centralia Bible Chapel. He gives Bible messages at the church on one Sunday each month, and usually paints three pictures to illustrate his messages on the big screen that was installed at the chapel during the COVID-19 pandemic, which motivated many church groups to make their services available on zoom.
Moeller recalls that the first Bible message he gave was at Meadowdale Gospel Chapel in Illinois in 1964, a year after he began studies at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. In 1966, he and his family moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, where he served as a self-supporting missionary and preached at Denali Bible Chapel there for the next 20 years. Toward the end of that time, he left for seven months to minister at Greenwood Hills Bible Camp in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.
While in Alaska, he also served at Living Waters (LIWA) Bible Camp, and did some ministry at Eyak Gospel Chapel in Cordova, Alaska.
From August 1986 to July 1987, Ron preached at East Kent Bible Chapel in Washington, before moving to Centralia, where he has been the past 37 years.
“The Lord has been good to me and my family of eight," Moeller said, though he lost his wife, Sherie, to cancer in 2011. “Our six children are doing well and I have 15 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.”
Over his 66 years of employment, he worked in accounting for various companies. In Centralia, he worked in that capacity for Symons Frozen Foods for 22 years before retiring in 2009.
Moeller and his family enjoy bowling and he is a member of bowling teams, which usually compete a couple of evenings a week, and he and his sons have gone to national bowling tournaments.
Recently, Moeller found another outlet for his art. He joined a national mail art organization, the Art Cover Exchange, and prints some of his art on envelopes he mails to others.
