Editing Brother Stair (section)

==Overcomer Ministry==
Stair led the Overcomer Ministry, officially incorporated as the Faith Cathedral Fellowship, a conservative [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] Christian organization which runs a widely heard radio-based ministry.<ref name="Berg"/> Stair purchased a [[motel]] in Walterboro, South Carolina in 1978, and encouraged followers to move to the community, sell all their possessions, take a vow of poverty, and donate all that they owned to Overcomer Ministry.<ref name=yoder/><ref name="Parker"/>

The community of about 70 strives for self-sufficiency and simplicity, growing their own food and making their own clothes. Community members live in mobile homes and handmade houses, eating [[communal meal]]s and gathering for [[Sabbath in seventh-day churches|Saturday worship]] in the Tabernacle.<ref name="Parker"/> They [[outward holiness|dress conservatively]]. Women wear long skirts and men wear long pants and shirts with collars.<ref name="Parker"/> Typically, work is divided along traditional gender lines, with men performing farm/manual labor and women doing domestic chores.<ref name="Parker"/> Members primarily rely on bicycles for transportation within the community.

Stair objected to medical intervention, and he advocated the avoidance of doctors.<ref name=yoder/> Commune members typically followed Stair's teaching, and in the 1980s and 1990s, local authorities conducted investigations after three infants died at the community either during or shortly after birth.<ref name="Parker"/><ref name="coroner">{{cite news|date=July 13, 1988 |title=Official urges the pregnant to leave camp of R.G. Stair |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-and-democrat-official-urges-th/155030799/ |accessdate=March 17, 2012 |work=The Times and Democrat |location=Orangeburg, South Carolina|pages=1B, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-and-democrat-official-urges-th/155030832/ 2B] |via=Newspapers.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

Evangelism was the primary focus of Stair's ministry. He broadcast from a solar-powered radio studio which is based in the community, often for hours at a time.<ref name="Parker"/> As of 2014, Stair leased airtime globally on five [[free-to-air]] satellites ([[Galaxy 19]], [[Hot Bird 8]], [[Optus D2]], [[Thaicom 5]], and [[Eutelsat 25B]]) and on seven international [[shortwave radio]] stations ([[World Harvest Radio International|WHRI]], [[WWRB]], [[WTWW]], [[WWCR]], [[WBCQ (SW)|WBCQ]], [[WRMI]], and {{ill|Media Broadcast|de|lt=Media Broadcast GmbH}}) to convey his message to listeners in the United States as well as listeners in locations as far-flung as South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Israel, Russia, and India.<ref name="Parker" /><ref name="Berg">{{cite book |author=Berg, Jerome S. |title=Broadcasting on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, N.C |year=2008 |pages=320, 343385 |isbn=978-0-7864-3674-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ux9fZj6izuEC&pg=PT385}}</ref><ref name=yoder/>

In addition to broadcasting worldwide via international satellite and shortwave, Stair broadcast worldwide via internet streaming from his ministry's web site.<ref name="netstreaminfo">{{cite web |url=http://www.overcomerministry.org/Listen.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605042112/http://www.overcomerministry.org/Listen.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 5, 2010 |title=Overcomer Ministry live internet streaming audio |publisher=Overcomerministry.org |accessdate=October 11, 2014 }}</ref> He also leased time on terrestrial AM and FM radio stations throughout the United States, some of which are large-coverage stations. In the 1990s, Brother Stair was heard on 120 such stations, though by 2007 and continuing through 2014, that total had been reduced to approximately 25.<ref name="Parker"/>

In 2016, however, the broadcast was dramatically increased due to a large contribution which allowed Brother Stair to purchase hundreds of hours of broadcasting time per day and produce one of the most extensive shortwave broadcasts in history. Broadcast expenditures of about $1.5 million are funded by donations from listeners. In 1993 and 1994, Stair and his ministry were partners in a failed ship-based radio project due to authorities raiding and confiscating both the ship and its equipment before it could set sail to international waters.<ref name="Berg" /><ref name=yoder>{{cite book |author=Yoder, Andrew R. |title=Pirate radio stations: tuning in to underground broadcasts in the air and online |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |year=2002 |pages=168–170 |isbn=0-07-137563-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vs_O3zeq-8wC&pg=PA168 }}</ref>

Stair's teachings place a strong emphasis on [[millennialism|millennial]] predictions of world-changing events which will result from divine judgment.<ref name=yoder/><ref name="Parker"/> In the year 1999, he said that there would be such changes at the dawn of the third millennium. "If the Lord God Almighty does not make a major move before the year 2000," he said, "I'll tell God to go to [[Hell]]."<ref>{{cite news|author=Andrew Gumbel|title=Cheer Up, End of the World May Still Be Nigh|work=The Independent (London)|date=January 3, 2000}}</ref> Stair also has received publicity over the years for several of his prophecies, including a nuclear confrontation prophesied for 1988,<ref name="AP"/><ref name=yoder/> and that [[Ronald Reagan]] would not complete his term as president.<ref name=coroner/>