Dois I. Rosser Jr.

Rosser was born in Hampton, Virginia, and was a longtime businessman in the area.{{Cite news |last=Schleck |first=Dave |date=January 20, 1997 |url=https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19970120-1997-01-20-9701200061-story.html |title=High Profile: Dois Rosser Jr. |newspaper=Daily Press |access-date=November 13, 2019}} After owning an insurance company, he got his start in the auto business when he bought a small Poquoson car dealership in 1948 for $35,000. He grew the POMOCO Auto Group to become one of the largest dealership groups in Newport News and Hampton, Virginia, opening a new $10 million sales complex in 1996 and operating at least 27 franchises under the Pomoco Group banner along with three other businesses (Pomoco Life Insurance Co., Key Finance and Pomoco Development Inc.) employing about 350 people and taking more than $150 million in annual revenue.{{cite web |url=http://www.pomoco.com/index.cfm?pageid=131183&pname=Our-Team |title=Our Team |publisher=Pomoco Group Inc |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102626/http://www.pomoco.com/index.cfm?pageid=131183&pname=Our-Team |archive-date=July 15, 2011|access-date=December 20, 2009}} The company said the name "was originally a play on the name of our coastal community, but it's come to mean 'Peace of Mind of Course{{'"}}.

In 1986, he founded International Cooperating Ministries (ICM), a Christian nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a church within walking distance of everyone in the world and, as of 2019, had 8,543 church projects built or under construction.{{cite book|last=Dooley|first=Thomas|title=Praying Faith|publisher=Destiny Image Publishers|year=2005|isbn=9780768429640|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FsVSqPkxzH4C&dq=%22Dois+I.+Rosser+Jr.%22&pg=PA7}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.icm.org/annual-report-2018/|title=Annual Report 2018|publisher=ICM|access-date=November 13, 2019}} ICM built their first church for $5,000 in India and Rosser dedicated it to his father. He was chair emeritus of ICM at the time of his death.

He served on the board for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, Leighton Ford Ministries, Youth Focus, Prison Fellowship, and the Overseas Council for Theological Education and Missions. Rosser was also on the board of trustees of Hampton University and the United Way of the Virginia Peninsula.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailypress/access/88426605.html?dids=88426605:88426605&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+07%2C+1989&author=&pub=Daily+Press&desc=CHURCHMAN+OF+THE+YEAR+-+DOIS+I.+ROSSER+JR.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022081840/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailypress/access/88426605.html?dids=88426605:88426605&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+07,+1989&author=&pub=Daily+Press&desc=CHURCHMAN+OF+THE+YEAR+-+DOIS+I.+ROSSER+JR.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2012|title=Churchman of the Year - Dois I. Rosser Jr.|date=December 7, 1989|work=Daily Press |accessdate=August 26, 2009}}

In 1986, Rosser was named "Unsung Virginian" in recognition of his business, civic, and religious accomplishments,{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailypress/access/86010859.html?dids=86010859:86010859&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+29%2C+1996&author=ANGELA+SEWARD+Daily+Press&pub=Daily+Press&desc=THEN+AND+NOW&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022081852/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailypress/access/86010859.html?dids=86010859:86010859&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+29,+1996&author=ANGELA+SEWARD+Daily+Press&pub=Daily+Press&desc=THEN+AND+NOW&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2012|title=Then and Now|date=January 29, 1996 |work=Daily Press |accessdate=August 26, 2009}}{{cite book|others=Virginia|title=Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia|publisher=Commonwealth of Virginia|year=2000|volume=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRYSAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Dois+I.+Rosser+Jr.%22}} and in 2000, he received the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award.{{cite web |title=Senate Joint Resolution 81 |url=http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?001+ful+SJ81 |date=January 18, 2000 |publisher=Virginia General Assembly|accessdate=December 20, 2009}}

He lived in Hampton, Virginia, with his wife of 76 years, Shirley Sutton Rosser, whom he married in 1943 and preceded him in death on September 29, 2019,{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailypress/obituary.aspx?n=shirley-sutton-rosser&pid=194044685&fhid=13741|title=Shirley Sutton Rosser|last=|first=|date=|website=Legacy.com|access-date=}} and had three daughters, Pamela Minter, Cindy Higgins and Janice Rosser Allen. Janice is the current president and CEO of ICM.{{Cite web|url=https://www.icm.org/who-we-are/|title=An International Christian Organization Focused on Building Churches |publisher=ICM |access-date=November 13, 2019}}

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• [https://www.icm.org/ International Cooperating Ministries website]

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