Bethesda Matriarch and 'Mentoring Mansion' Founder Devi Titus Dead at 75
The author, public speaker and founder of Virtue Christian Women's Magazine succumbed to cancer in late 2022
Devorah Nell Walker Titus passed away of endometrial cancer in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday, Dec 28, 2022. She was 75 years old.
The matriarch of Bethesda Christian Center, she founded Virtue Christian Women’s Magazine in 1978 and became an award-winning Christian author and international speaker. In 1992, she co-founded Kingdom Global Ministries with Larry Titus, her husband of more than 50 years.
She also founded a program called “the Mentoring Mansion” in which she hosted more than 1,200 women in their home for four-day sessions to give lessons on how to restore “love and peace in the home” through comfortable domesticity, according to her obituary.
Titus is survived by her husband, Larry, her mother, Oleta Walker, her brother, Noel Walker, two children, Trina Titus Lozano and Aaron Titus, six grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
“Her life passion was to restore the dignity and sanctity of the home, in the way men and women think about the home in relationship to the human heart, using principles from the book of Titus, chapter 2,” reads her obituary.
She was an adaptable communicator whose successful migration from magazine publisher to social media influencer would evoke envy of many a male legacy media figure.
Her message of submission, obedience, modesty, and the role of women in Christian marriages and society remained unchanging throughout the years.
Her remarks in this Facebook livestream video from October 2022 as she preached on Proverbs 27:15-16: “A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand,” sound very similar to what she had to say on her radio program called “Something Beautiful” in the Wenatchee Valley in 1978.
In this clip from an episode of that program recorded by a former Bethesda member, Titus has some thoughts about the “Women’s Lib” movement, which was the tip of the feminist spear in the late 70s.