The History of Starr Publications
Starr Publications began as a dream in the mid-1980s while Shirley and Randy Starr were serving at Harvest Temple (now Harvest Baptist Temple) in Clyde, Ohio. We kept seeing topics in our independent fundamental churches and schools that needed researched and thoroughly addressed. In 1988, we began publishing under the name JoMar Publications using only our Xerox electric typewriter and our Minolta copier, marketing to 3300 schools and churches.
After producing the initial flurry of items for schools, Randy accepted the call to pastor a country church in Brogue, PA in December, 1990. Totally immersed in the new ministry and busy raising our three children for Christ, we finished one series we had started in Ohio and wrote only one more title until 2002. In 1998, we changed the name to R. Starr.
However, with our children raised and serving the Lord, we prepared to expand our dream of meeting a need that up to then, had mostly been filled by New Evangelical writers using modern versions. In the Spring of 2002, we went away for a couple days to pray and discuss continuing our dream and how to accomplish it. With a plan that is slow, methodical, and doesn’t take away from our Lord, our family, or our church, we returned with new vigor to begin a new phase of writing.
Discarding the old typewriter and copier, we sent our manuscripts to be printed by professional printers. The improvement was light-years beyond any of our previous attempts as we published now under Starr Publications. As of the Spring of 2022, Shirley and I had written over forty books with many more on the drawing board.
In the Summer of 2012, we added books by other Independent Baptist authors to our site for our customers' convenience and edification. Most of them are discounted. We pray they will be a blessing to you.
May God use our humble efforts for His glory to challenge and direct the hearts and minds of His children all over the world to the issues of life from His viewpoint--the Bible.