As we become known to others, there are questions as to who we are, and what our goals and objectives are. With this in mind, I feel the need to make known some of the answers to those questions.

Most of you who are asking, are members who are either in the process of withdrawing yourselves from corporate Churches where you have come to feel there are such grave problems you can no longer accept them in good conscience, or you have already withdrawn yourselves.

Most of you are struggling to retain the faith once delivered to the saints, and restored within Gods Church here at the end time by God, through His late apostle and the Elijah to come, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong.

There will also be others who will be withdrawing themselves, over some little time, due to God working with them and bringing all together in final preparation to be taken to a place of safety, where we will be for our final deliverance when Christ returns to this earth.

Along with those who have already made their exit from the wrong places, we are very thankful to God that He has blessed a few of us with that understanding along with the willingness to stand up and be counted when it became necessary.

I grew up in a farming community in Oklahoma in a family with two brothers and three sisters (none ever came to be members of the Church)...At age 18 I was drafted into the army and after my training in the infantry I was sent to Germany as a replacement and entered into combat in January, 1945.

After being discharged I returned to Oklahoma but only stayed for a short while and then made my way to Stockton, California. It was here that I met the woman who came to be the wife that I had prayed for about a year or so before I went into the army. I had prayed and told God that I wanted to be a Christian in the future and I asked Him to bless me with the right wife who would also want to be a Christian.

The first time I saw her I had a feeling this was the woman I would marry and in less than 6 weeks we were married on June 29, 1946, in Reno, Nevada.

It was about the middle of 1951 that God began working with me. Unknowing to me, God began working with my wife about the same time. This was before we knew of Mr. Armstrong.

We were both baptized in 1952 in Oklahoma City and continued living there until I resigned from my job in Civil Service. This resignation took place after our driving to Big Sandy, Texas for the observance of the Passover in 1953.

We were so moved by what we learned from Gods apostle, who gave most of the sermons during the Days of Unleavened Bread that followed, we both knew we had to go where the Church was, so we could learn and be with others of like faith and belief. When we returned home I turned in my two weeks notice of resignation immediately.

Always, to this day, we have been very grateful that God led us to go to Pasadena where we could be taught the TRUTH, and possibly be used by Him in some way in the future. That was our desire.

The college, being as small as it was at that time and in the few years that followed, made it possible for us to build on our foundation that began in Oklahoma City in early 1952. As the result of being so small during the 50's, it made possible our becoming very well acquainted with both Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, as well as all the others who were there as faculty members, students and members.

We were helped greatly by my being hired as the college chauffeur at Ambassador College right after the Feast of Tabernacles in 1953. This made it possible for us to attend classes which we did. My wife worked some in the home of Mr. And Mrs. Armstrong and some in the home of their daughter, Beverly. Some little time later she began working in the kitchen at A/C.

I was ordained a deacon in 1957. On June 7, 1958, I was ordained a local elder. Mr. Richard D. Armstrong chose me to serve on the visiting program and then to team up with him to go on a baptizing tour in central California. Though I do not want to go into detail, we had a terrible automobile accident (my fault) from which he died a few days later.

After the accident, I was appointed the coordinator of the Visiting Program in Pasadena and served there in that position under Mr. Meredith.

The baptizing tour we had started was completed a few weeks later, by my being teamed up with Mr. Gerald Waterhouse. The following year I was chosen to head another baptizing tour in central California. with Mr. James Kunz.

God has continued to richly bless us through His wonderful love that He instilled within us in the very beginning and kept it alive through these hard and trying years.

Had God not blessed us in this, manner I seriously question whether we could have endured the hard trials we have experienced over past years until now (II Thessalonians 2:10).

In light of what many of the scattered members are having to live through now, my wife and I had to live through the same in 1952 and part of 1953 while living in Oklahoma City. This period of time strengthened the foundation God was building in us when we lived alone with no other Church members with whom we could fellowship.

We had to pray several times a day and likewise study our Bibles to keep our relationship alive and strong with God, just as many of Gods people are now doing.

Once we learned of Mr. Armstrong and began hearing the daily Radio Broadcasts and receiving the literature, we really began to learn. I will add that what I read I also proved from the Bible. So, there is no need for me to go back and prove it all over again. I will also add that I knew Mr. Armstrong was God's true minister and have never doubted or questioned it.

Because I would not preach the Protestant teachings, it finally led to the son of the Pastor-General, to say to the head of Church Administration, that they either had to fire or retire me.

The telephone call came, and I was told they were going to send another minister over to this Church area who would preach the "new" teachings. I was not allowed to preach there any more.

I felt the need of remaining with the members during the little time I yet had remaing there (less than a month or so), and as the result, well over 100 members remained with me out of the approximate 300 in the Modesto, California Church. A few remained with us from the Stockton, California Church, that I was also pastoring at that time. Four elders also remained with me. We left two weeks before the Passover in 1995.

In addition, a few members and one elder from the Fresno, California Church and drove down each Sabbath to attend services with us.

We came to be a part of United Church of God (UCG)when they first formed and remained with them for almost three years, until I lost all hope of their getting back on track. There were other problems as well and I resigned. This brought about the loss of two elders and a few members who chose to remain with UCG.

About the same time we met with the leader of the newly forming Church of God, An International Community, to see where he stood regarding the doctrinal teachings that God restored through Mr. Armstrong. After giving us the indication he was going to follow fully in the teachings of Mr. Armstrong, we went with him.

After two years I gave up on him, for he was drifting farther and farther away from the true teachings. Once again we left some members behind who chose to remain in that Corporate Church.

There was nowhere else to go, so the three remaining elders and I began under another corporate name, Church of God, Established in Modesto. After a year or a little more they became unhappy with me due to my unilateral decisions to protect the Church from erroneous teachings.

Our problems began almost a year before, after we had met with another corporate Church to see if we could consolidate with them. They did not have the right government and that bothered me; however, I agreed we could have further meetings of one type or another.

Upon returning home from these meetings I learned they had a problem with Matthew 28:19, feeling this was speaking of the trinity (Mr. Armstrong never had a problem with this Scripture). I felt this could have been the "loose brick" and said we could have nothing more to do with them as far as becoming associated with them. (No reflection on them for they are very fine people).

The elders became upset, even though they had agreed that there would be times I would need to make unilateral decisions. Yet when I did, this upset them. An attitude on their part began to develop and fault was found with me on virtually every decision I made, as well as sometimes finding fault with sermons I gave. One thing led to another and they squeezed me out of that corporate group. Because of their rebellion against Gods government, I disfellowshipped them.

Some little time before this took place, I began to suspect what was coming and to protect ourselves I filed the legal papers for the corporate name: "Church of God, faithful flock". This was a little over one year ago (2002).

Once again we lost members after they squeezed me out, by taking over the bank Account and the Post Office key to the Church mailbox. They outnumbered me on the board so there was nothing I could do other than go it alone.

At present, we number about 50 here in the Modesto, California Church. At the same time, there are a number of members associated with us here in the United States and elsewhere.

Though I could have filled in a lot with many details of what is written here, it would have become far too lengthy. However, this will give the reader an overview of our personal and Church history, from our beginning, to where we now are in this Church area.

I recommend and welcome you to explore our website and read the beliefs and teachings of this Church: Restored Doctrines, The Gospel and Our Open Letter. You will find we believe and teach all the same things as did Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong. (I was ordained by him, June 7, 1958.) In 1975 I was given the title of a senior pastor.

There are NO departures from any of the teachings God used him to restore within His Church. We also view prophecy in the exact same way that God led him to understand it.

Our mission statement, is the same as the one God gave him. Being as small as we are, we have not been able to do much more than to reach out with our website regarding the gospel.

We have had the goal of trying to improve this, by seeking to establish another website where we can play the taped messages of Mr. Armstrong. In this way he would be the one to continue to do the Work, not us, and that is the way it should be. We would just be trying to provide the means for him to do that.

In the meantime we are trying to reach out with a helping hand to all other scattered members who might wish for us to help them.

We do try to provide services to help fulfill the need of the members who are scattered in different places. They listen in to our weekly Sabbath services via telephone and Internet Broadcast. This is a free service provided for them. We are trying to do all we can to help them in whatever way possible.

The only exception that I can think of, regarding a difference in our teaching, is that of prophecy. It has to do with the scattering of God's people as found in the writings of both Daniel and the apostle Paul (Daniel 12:7; II Thessalonians 2:103). Though Mr. Armstrong saw the beginning of it, God blinded his eyes to the fullness of it, otherwise he would not have chosen the man he did to replace him.

God used Mr. Armstrong to hold the Church together until after he died (II Thessalonians 2:7). As long as he lived, this would not have happened . His death had to occur in order for this prophecy to be fulfilled. Then the movement began to bring about this scattering, thus fulfilling another prophecy.

It is sad that leaders of other corporate Churches are teaching they, and they only, are the leaders of the one true Church, and anyone not with them is either a Laodicean or headed for disaster.

They either fail to recognize, or refuse to understand the prophecy of the scattering of God's people. God knows which one applies. This is an end-time prophecy that should be clear to everyone. All one has to do is to look about and see the 300 or more groups who have fragmented from the original Worldwide Church of God (WCG).

This prophecy is speaking about God's true people being scattered, and it appears to be almost completely fulfilled at this time. Perhaps not, time will tell all of us.

It is hard for me to understand, why they fail to grasp this prophetical teaching of God through both Daniel and Paul that God's Church is scattered!

It began after Mr. Armstrong died. To claim that only those who are members of their particular Church are the only true ones is terribly and tragically wrong!

God only has one true Church, but there are many members (I Corinthians 12:20).. Many of them are still in other groups. However, God is working with them, and just as He has with some of you, He is continuing to bring others out from them.

I do not say we are the only true Church, but we are members of it.

If there are other unanswered questions, please do not hesitate to write , or call me. I will be most happy to try and answer whatever kinds of questions you may have.