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I can tell by the short time I have spent with him, that to ask Grandmaster Frazier to boast would be silly, so instead, I asked him to write me a list of his achievements. He did so. I am not surprised when at the very top of this impressive list, I read the following, “MY TWO GREATEST ACCOLADES OF BLESSING IN LIFE ARE: Firstly, My birth on September 20, 1962. I am proud to be American Indian (Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation), an indiscriminate amount of Scottish, and 50% Norwegian (Viking). Secondly, My Christian salvation in the summer of 1967. I was five-years-old. My pastor's wife helped me pray to receive Jesus into my heart in our front yard, under the big willow tree. With my mom's guidance, Good News Club, many pastors and mentors over the years, at 52-years-old, I can honestly say that my life has never been the same since that day I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. Thanks God!”
This man has his priorities in order. God and family first. But it follows that next would be this little bit of notoriety: his 2010 acceptance of THE MARTIAL ARTS WORLD MAGAZINE'S HALL OF FAME AWARD, which he received in Florida with his family.
Grandmaster Frazier didn’t elaborate on his 2010 award, but he did elaborate when he listed his next, most valued, achievement: His students. He has not only trained thousands of students in the martial arts, he has awarded black belts to over 100 students since 1998. At age 52, he has now reached 7th-degree black belt and his wife, Grandmaster Molly is 6th-degree. He is proud to have trained his son and daughter, Chief Master Zach to 5th-degree, and Chief Master Grace to 4th-degree. He has a 3rd-degree student, eight 2nd-degree students, over ninety 1st-degree students, and there are 30+ students that are approaching black belt and will test this year. 
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In 2005, at the age of 42, Grandmaster Frazier managed to work into his, already full, martial arts schedule, a personal training regimen resulting in national, double-gold medals, in sparring and breaking, at the United States Taekwondo Won National Championships in Anaheim, California.
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It is plain to see that Grandmaster Frazier is an accomplished instructor, but he has also coached 325+ competitors to tournament gold, and his coaching has led to over 800 total medals. In the year 2000, he wrote his own competition training manual for both novice and elite team competitors. He has coached his son to 47 gold, 12 silver and 5 bronze, with one Grand Champion in Poomsae, and coached his daughter to 22 gold, 9 silver, and 5 bronze. Since his dojang began, he has entered competitors in 46 local, regional, national and international taekwondo and hapkido tournaments, Junior Olympics and Senior Nationals, and received many plaques, trophies, and certificates along the way. He has had two Grand Champions and two runners up. And even though his dojang was growing, and boasted of maybe 100 students max in those days, his largest competition team at one tournament was over 70 competitors. Not too shabby.
This man of many talents and a tireless work ethic, has also directed and choreographed his state-of-the-art demonstration team, since it’s introduction in the year 2000. They have performed over 100 shows with 150+ members over the years.
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It goes without mentioning, that to be a successful coach, Grandmaster Frazier would be savvy to the tournament rules and regulations of every competition his school entered. So it follows, that he would study to become a referee, and did so in 2002. In 2004, he received his international corner, center, and chief referee certification in taekwondo and since then, has served in that station, countless times. In 2013, he became a Class B-1 International referee in Hapkido and refereed as such, in an International Hapkido Tournament, that year. It is important to note that he was selected to be one of three referees considered qualified to judge the first ever, 2010, Olympic-style poomsae divisions at the 2010 USAT Oregon State National qualifier. He again served as referee in the same tournament the following year. He has been selected to judge Grand Champion poomsae at national, state and regional tournaments, at least a half a dozen times, in the last 12 years.
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Grandmaster Frazier’s college preparation for a pastoral life was celebrated in 1987, when he graduated from Multnomah University with a Bachelor of Science in Biblical Education and a Youth Ministry Minor. During and following his college years, from 1986-88, he was a licensed youth pastor, with his wife, Molly, at Vancouver Community Church in Washington. It was their budding recording and touring career as musicians that forced them to move on. In 1990, they founded Frazier Duo For Christ Ministries (a non-profit organization, 25 years old, and still running today). Once they founded their ministry, they considered themselves missionaries. This was also the year that they recorded their first album, entitled “In Love” and established their personal recording studio, Jamontrak Records (JOT). 1990 was a busy year for them. Living in the heart of Portland, and a part of the bustling Christian music scene, they founded and directed the Christian Musicians Network which they ran successfully until the year 2000, when the martial arts school was in it’s infancy. In 2005, Grandmaster Frazier designed and built the home facility for their now full-blown, professional recording studio, JOT Records. This led to the immediate recording of their second album, “Frazier”. In 2008, the college years paid off, and the Frazier family was called to be pastors. They soon established Family Growth Fellowship, and what followed can only be described as a fountain of ministry activity. The debut of their annual "Marriage and Family Growth and Mentoring Retreat", demanded the authoring of a 27-page "Marriage and Family, Growth and Mentoring Retreat" Manual (Workbook for their MFGM Retreats), authored by Grandmaster Frazier and his wife, Grandmaster Molly. This same year, an outdoor worship event, Worship in the Woods was born, the setting for over 130 baptisms, since. And to top the year off, the Fraziers established J.C. Edge, a Youth Outreach and Discipleship Group. 2010 brought the natural next completed project by Grandmaster Frazier and his wife, the authoring of a 133-page discipleship manual entitled “Imagine-A Lifestyle of Mentoring”. And since 2013, Grandmaster Frazier has been writing a blog which publishes his “Through the Bible in a Year” personal journal of thoughts, observations and comments, daily, and his wife shares here and there as she feels led. He follows the Moody Bible Institute’s calendar of 3-4 chapters a day. You can email him at schoolofrespect@gmail.com, if you want to see his blogspot, officially entitled, “Through the Bible in a Year by Pastor Ron and Pastor Molly”.
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