Joy D. King

Joy D. King, 74, born on March 1, 1946, in Seattle, WA, United States, passed away September 14, 2020. She resided in Irvine, CA at the time of her passing. Arrangements are under the direction of Forest Lawn, Glendale, California.

Joy D King graduated to heaven on September 14, 2020, from Southern California after finishing all the jobs God assigned her during 74 years on earth.
Born in Seattle in March, 1946 to Claire Jerstad Dent, a successful 43 year old Norwegian immigrant and Fred Dent, a 60 year old successful businessman, she studied at U. of Washington and continued to George Washington U. School of Medicine to postgraduate training in Ohio, California, and Illinois into 25 years of OB-GYN practice of integrating Christian faith with surgery in the USA and overseas. She left medicine to continue ministering healing through faith after training at Victory Bible Institute, then an earned Master's and Doctorate of Ministry degrees at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa at age 56. She was honored with near straight A s throughout and recognized for outstanding skills in biblical language translation. She was ordained by Pastor Ralph Wilkerson of Millennium Missions in the Christian faith and healing tradition.

She leaves behind her husband of 50 married years, Don, an Internal Medicine and administrative physician, both having independently and together impacted many individuals through surgery, medicine, church, church planting, home missions, preaching, and overseas missions. She was particularly gifted in catalyzing ministers and pastors in understanding and activating their gifts in signs, wonders, and miracles through both preaching and in person. She was uniquely able to combine the best of medicine and Christian faith while navigating the perceived conflicts theologically, academically, and practically. She was once described as having the burning with the learning. When receiving a prayer line, individuals would seek to describe their medical problems at length, to which she would say it was not necessary because God is equally able regardless, ask them what they wanted from God, and then directly seek it.

She was a surgeon in the operating room and in spirit while ministering, who wanted those in contact with her to conduct business with God—not just talk about it. Once her husband was acutely ill, laying in bed, requesting her to pray. She asked if he would rather be prayed for or healed. Upon requesting healing, she yanked the covers off, directed the illness to depart, and told him to get up and go to work. He did and was completely healed without medications within 15 minutes.

Having been cured of a stage three cancer in the remote past, she was attacked with a different stage four rare cancer and told she had only one year to live by multiple oncologists--any treatments might give her an extra 2 months. She declared she would live, and faith plus medicine would be effective. She had four complete remissions, a great quality of life, and lived seven years. She was a documented miracle because according to her oncologists no one has ever lived that long with that cancer situation. She was determined, never gave up, and while utilizing medicine fully refused to be limited by poor medical prognoses. As much as she knew her body was mortal, even more so convinced she is eternal.

For those impacted by her life, positive comments, eulogies, and stories regarding her may be left online at a virtual Guest Book that will be maintained for one year: forestlawn.com/parks/glendale/.

Per her instructions internment is in a hill at Forest Lawn in California near other ministers of the Pentecostal/faith and healing tradition. Due to the pandemic, no one besides her husband will attend the internment late in September. The request is that no flowers be sent. The activities will be recorded and combined with a virtual eulogy by one of her previous Pastors made off site. The combined virtual recording is planned to be available for viewing/streaming after October 5. The link will be active later on the website when clicking on "service."