Good News 1978 (Prelim No 22) Nov 6 - Herbert W. Armstrong

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PLACES & . ~ .
EVENTS IN'THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
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PASADENA - Ca rol Lillie, on Ambassador "College ca mpus .
daughter of Sta nley R. Rad er , the
Work' s treasurer and general co unsel
•Mark McNair w~s his brother' s best
man and Sue WeD-dt was maid of
to Her bert W. Armstrong, was honor for her sister. .
bapti zed at the Rader home Oct. 27 The following day , Au·g. 2J ,
according to Bob Fahey, fonner director
of the African Work currently an~"f'1rs . Clyd e Weaver of Dayton , .
Mack Curtis Wea ver, son of Mr.
in Pasadena on sabbatical . ':
Ohio ,-a nd Karen Sue McNair were
The bapt ism was performed by . married in the Ambassador College
Mr . Fahey and was atte nded by Mr.
Rader and Ralp h Helge, head of the
Work 's legal department. Mrs. Little
coun seled for ba pI ~~m 'with Mr .
Recital Hall . TODy Morelli an d
Elizabeth Meredith were their at;
tendants . Mr. McNair conducted the
ce remon y for both his son's and
Armstrong, to whom she feels very daughter's weddings . .
close, accor ding to Mr. Rader.
Mr . Rader commented to Tucson, * * *
Ariz., Feastgoers Oct. 23 that his PASADENA _ Her'man Boeh :
daughter had requested baptism and co -pastor of the Pasadena Auwould
be baptized shortly after he ditotium P.M. church, traveled to
re'turned .tc Pasadena following the Syria during the first two weeks of
Feast. __ October to visit the Mesopotamian
excavation site at ancient Terqa, or
~ modern Ashara, and other archaeolog-,
ical sites along the upper Euphrates
from the Iraqi border to the border of
Turkey .
An archaeo logy enthusias t, Mr.
Hoeh helped uncover history by digging
the earth at Terqa.
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PASADENA - Ray Wr ight ,
former financial director of the
Work , left for England Oct. 26 for a
two-to-three-week preliminary trip.
He will then reium to Pasadena for
his familv ·.'''1N move to England for
six mon t r~ :.. . " ;"':':' ·a" ; year .
In Bnglafid Mr. Wright will study
the business aspects of tbe Work's
foreign _offices and assist Frank
Brown, director of the Work in Great
Britain: He will also help coordinate
and oversee the British Work' s printing
need s and pre pa rat ion fo r
foreig n-lang uage editions -of The
Plain Truth, accord ing to Sta nley R.
Rader, the Work.'s treasu rer.
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CHARLOTTE. N.C. - The
Charlotte chu rch presented Mr . and
Mrs. Burk McNa ir .an e ngrave d
silver tray as well as congratulations ­
June I I in honor of their 25th wedding
anniversary July I ~ . Tape recordings
from lhe MeNairs' two older children
in Pasadena . Ke rry and Susie, were ­
played at the surprise reception .
In Augu st the McNair s went to
Pasadena for the marriage of those
two children - bot h wedding s
within 24 hours . According to the
McNairs the weddings were another
special milestone in their lives.
Aug. 20 Ker ry Burk McNair was
married to De bra J ea n W en dt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
We nd t of Pasadena, in a do uble .
ceremony with Debra's sister Nancy
and Elme r E. Co lli ns Jr. T he
ceremo ny was in the Italian Ga rdens
T he Ambassador. Inte rnational
Cultural Foundatio n (AICF) has been
jointly sponsoring:the Terqa excavation
along with the Institute of Archaeologyat
the University of
Califo rnia. Los Angele s (UCLA),
Johns Hopkins University and other
institutions for the past three years.
The AIC F will disco ntinue its participation
in tbe project after-this
year .
.Terqa was on the route by which
traffic from Babylonia and Sumer.
_Ieff Mesopotam ia and the Euphrates
Valley and crossed into inner Syria to
the Kings Highway tothe Jord an in
the second millenium B.C., acco rding
to Mr. Hoeh. The excavation is
directed by Dr. Giorgio Buccellat i,
director of the Institute .of Archaeology
at UCLA , and his wife, both
personal friends of the Hoehs.
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PASADENA - Sta nley Rader
anno unced that Jack Bicket has been
appointed to the position of assistant
treasurer and will be report ing directly
to Mr. Rader as a member of
hi s fi nan ci al staff . . Mr . Bicke t
worked as business manager inBig
Sandy, Te x.• until 1974, when he
was moved to Pasadena to assume
• responsibilities in the Account ing
and Data Processing Department s.
The GOOD 'NEWS
CnuRCH
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Mr. and Mrs. Burk McNair. right, were honored lor their 25th wedding anruversa
ryJune 11 by the Charlott e. N.C.•chu rch, where Mr.McNair serves as pastor and area coordinator. InAugus t
the McNairs traveled to Pasadena for the marriages of .two of the ir children, Kerry and SUSie, ~o Debra Jean
Wendt and Mark Curtis Weaver Aug. 20 and 21. Inthe lelt photo are .trorn lelt,Mr. and Mrs. McNair. Mr, and Mrs.
Mark Curtis Weaver, Mark McNair, and Mr. and Mrs. Kerry McNair. (See "Update." this page.) .
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Mo nday, Nov. 6, 1978
Sabb ath 'afternoons!
I say this to PUTAN ENDto the
FALSE RUMOR that my son. now,
mend ou s growth at Eugene , Ore .
. U ntil I wen t to Holl ywood ,
1942 , to broadcast DAILY , I had
(Continued from page 17) or other mini sters who ha ve gone co ntinued to pastor, or to copastor,the
Sardis people near Jeffer­
gro up, but we fellow shipped out of G od ' s C hurc b 10 draw
with them,
away disciple s after them, are son.
The form er Oregon Conference
members in the Will amett e
after Christ started , the present
do ing what I did ,
As late as 1945 - 12 YEARS
Valley now establis hed, under Two incidents prove
Worldwide Churc h of God (then
my pastorship, a regular Sabb ath Let me here cite two incide nts called the Radio Cb urch of God ),
afternoon service . They, tho ugh to show tha t I was never a I "was still cooperating.With and
not I. joined as member s with memher or in the em ploy of the helping tbe Sard is people. One of
Salem , W . Va. I preached Sab· Dugg er faction at Salem , W . Va . their " 12" - John Kiesz - had
bath mornin g at Eugene church, Shortly after the Or egon Co n­ moved to Canon City, Colo., because
he said he needed to live
th en dr ove 55 miles to th e ference brethren had gone in wi th
schoolho use' near Jeffe~son to - the Dugger factio n, which had there due 10 its dry cli mate . He
preach to them Sabb ath afternoons
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members into it, I agreed to at the time . He had had a small
pulled about half of the Stanberry had no means of fina ncial support
More radio stations open up cooperate with them but Dot as a ch urch there.. whose tithes kept
member - . my SOLE MEMBER· him alive - but they had all
It must have been late in 1935 SH'IPWAS ATEUGENE in the pare
nt C hurc h of the present ' Canon Cit y to belp EIder Kiesz . I
moved elsewhere. I we nt to
that a Portland radio station
ope ned up . T hen, for a lime, I Wo rldwide Churc h of God! We con ducted nightly meetings for
preached Sabbath ' mornings at
at Eugene handled our own finances
for the Church . Mea ger every week to record the broad­
some weeks, going into Denver
Eugene, afternoo ns at Jeffers on .
then on to Portland for a 4 p.m ,
tho ug h they were , sta rti ng in cast. RESULT? God , through me ,
Sund ay broadcast. Very sho rtly
193 3, yet they were GROWING at raised up a new churc h there for
after that. I went on the air in
approximately 30 .percenl per him.
Seattle, statio n KRSC , 8:30 Su n- year. _ .
God ' s PRESENT GREAT WORK
day mo rning s. .
Soon after I dec ided to cooperate
with them , they made a politi ­ 30 perce nt per year . By no stretch
was getti ng off to a start . grow ing
In those days I continued fello
wsh ippin g an d cooperating
ca l mov e to stop the Radio of the imag ina tion co uld anyo ne
with the Salem-based fact ion. I Church of God broadca st. as it say that.I left the Sardis people to
had 10 tum the Sund ay, mornin g
the n was called. · and also The draw away their members after
radio program ove r to my assisra
nt e lder, Claude E llis. I
Plain Truth.: and to TAKE OVER me .'I NEVER DREW ANYOFTHEIR
the members God had ADDED to . MEMBERS - altho ugh the Henion
preached Sabbath mo rnings at
His Church at Eugen e. Please and Cole fami lies did of their
Euge ne , Sab bath aftern oo ns at
read thai again. an d GET IT ow n free choice, affil iate with the
Jefferson , then on to Seattl e, ar- .
STRAIGHTas to WHOwas trying to C hurch of God starting from
riving usually after midnight . Up
steal WHOSE members! Quite the Euge ne .
at 5 a.m. , a qu ick coffee while I
oPPOSITE of what de parte d dissident
s are trying to clai m today! small, but now in charge of Pas­
Mr. Way ne Cole, then quite
scan ned the Sunday newspaperat
a co m er dru gstore-for war new s
Otto Haehe r, one of " the 12'" tor alv Admin istratic n in th e
to broad cast, then I had to type - was sent to my -office in Eugene . Wo rldw ide Cilui-Ch'of'God, will
the entire broa dcast script, because
Wor ld War II was by then was 'established in an office in Part of the"FACTS reco rded here
(God's present Wor k alread y confirm this .
under way . and radio anno uncers
Eugene be ginning about were written in The Atuob iography,
yet many of them have not
had to hold script on me 10 see November, 1933 .)
that I did nor deviate from it on
the air. - . .
" We have decided:' said Mr. been previously publi shed . I
Haeber, " to tra nsfer you to have felt it is time-to STOP thei r
Preci sely at 8 a.m " I was in my Tacoma , Wash."
mouths!
ca r , dri vin g past th e Boe in g " W hy sho ul d I ' move to As we read in Titus I: J I , there
works, to KRSC . O n the air at
Tacoma?" I asked .
are deceivers WHO S~MOU"TH S
8 :30~off at 9, drove on to Port·
" Well , we think there is an MUST-BE-STOPPED!;";
land arriv ing about 3 p.m . for the
interest there ."
But, more important. I have
4 p.m. broadcast , off .the air at "What do you mea n, Otto , by felt it profitable to ou r brethren
4:30 , then the 123-mi le drive to
'an interest'? How many peo ple for me to give you this review of \
Eugene , arr iving by 7:30 , wit h a
are "interested .' as yo u say, in the BEGINNINGof the Worldwide
church full of people awaiti ng a Tacom a?"
' Church of God .
fuJIeven ing eva ngelis tic "service.
"Well, po ss ib ly three or . Looki ng bac k. it is difficult for
Then a full week writing and
four," was the hesita ting answer. me to understand , now, WHY I
printing The Plain Truth. holding " Ottc .:" ! said, " I have agreed was so mixed up in tbose da ys
a midweek Bible study , visiting
to cooperate with the Sa le m abo ut C hurch or ga nization . I
membe rs and prospective mem ­
churc h - but my only me mbership
is here in the Ch urch at Salem factions had God ' s o wn
knew neither St anberry no r
bers, anointing the sick , an ­
swering mail.
Euge ne and none of our Eugene fo rm of Church org aniza tion.
And STILL preaching for the
me mbe rs are member s of the .' This had us all confused - even
- Sard is church ne ar Je ffe rson
Salem church. Due to my broadcas
though, when one puts the perti­
t and The Plain Truth, several nent scriptures 'together, it be­
hundred defin itely a re "in ­ comes crys~a l clear"
terested ' here, andthis is wher e I
intend 10 stay .,. . .
Organizational pattein
He gave up and left .
resto red
A second incident
A seco nd inci dent occ urred
prior to that. Mr . Haebe r ca me to ­
my office, soo n after I had agreed
to cooperate with them .
" We have assigne d all the ter­
. ritory l{om Salem to Eugene to
Elder A J . Ray", be said. "and
the Eugene territory to you ."
··I interpret that to mean that
all the Eug ene ter ritory, from the
. city of Eugene north ro Salem, is
as signed to me, and that is wha t I
shall keep ," .
Actuall y, the se Dugger men
wa nted to coo perate with me for
one reason only . 1bey saw that
GOD WAS BLESSING EVERYTHING
I DID WIT H SUCCESS-many new
members bein g brou ght in - and
- they wanted to TAKE OVERGod ' s
peop le whom Gnd had added 'to
HIS CHURCH, then starting a tre-
B ut Gods Church. though
continuous through all genera ­
tions from A:D . 31 , LOST much
or all of its original organiza ­
tional pa tt e rn est abl ished BY
CHRtST - until God finally reo
sto red it IN THIS END TIME
thro ugb His present-day apostle,
T ruly , GOD HAS PREPARED A
PEOPLE FOR HiSNAME - and His
WIFE (God 's Chu rch of today) is
mak ing herself ready!
There is only the ONE, TRUE
and ORtGINALChurch of God ­
and tod ay CHRIST has organized it
acco rd ing 10 the origi nal pattern
HE, THE ETERNAL, INSTALLEe!
My N EW BOOK , Se ven' Proof s
ofthe TRUE CHURCH, is starting
10 appear serially in bot h The
Good News arid The Plain Trurh.
It leaves NO DOUBTas to the identity
of Ihe .ONE and ONLY TRUE
CHURCH!