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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.4, NOS. 11&12*
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VICIOUS ATTACK AGAINST GOD'S CHURCH
by Herbert
w.
Armstrong
MARCH 19, 1982
Thursday, March 11th, the Los Angeles Times came out with a blast
against the Worldwide Church of God from a letter written by former Church
member and auditor Jack Kessler December
3
0, addressed to the Board and
Council of Elders of the Church, making accusations against God's Church
and its apostle personally. On Friday and Sunday the Pasadena Star News
blazed forth the same attack with the same accusations.
God's Church has suffered much and long at the attacks of dissident
former members "going to the public media against the Church." I have here
tofore remained silent, never dignifying the allegations with a reply.
Some facts, however, have been written by the Church's attorney, Ralph
Helge, which I feel you should know. His report follows.
But first let me give you a brief background, that you may see the
situation in its true perspective.
Back in 1946 I realized the need of a college for the training of our
own ministry and other personnel for the Work of the living God. I con
sulted with the Chancellor of Higher Education, over the state universities
in Oregon. He agreed emphatically that education had become materialistic,
having lost the true values. Though he himself was in a position over the
presidents of the universities of the state, he said he was powerless to
change the existing system. He envied me, because in starting even a small
private and independent college, I was free to "recapture the true values."
His express ion, "RECAPTURE THE TRUE VALUES" became the Ambassador
College slogan.
I consulted a former boyhood Sunday schoolmate, with whom I grew up,
who at that time was a Dean at the University of San Francisco. He likewise
said modern education was materialistic--off the track.
Jesus Christ, through me, started Ambassador College "ON Track." He
had started God's Church of the Philadelphia era, small as agra1n of mus
tard seed at first, but "ON Track!"
The Church, College and Work grew, and GREW and G R EW! --at the rate
of
30%
increase per year for
35
years, up to 1968.
In that year King
Leopold of Belgium had invited me to see him. Also in the fall of that year
Prince Mikasa, brother of the Emperor of J3?an, had invited me to a luncheon
with him. These meetings led to a continuous series of invitations to meet
other heads of state in nations around the world. And these in turn opened
*Combined issue