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Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 – September 15, 2003) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught observance of seventh-day Sabbath and annual Sabbath days based on Leviticus 23.
CGI was founded in 1978 by four former members of the Worldwide Church of God, [2] including evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong (1930–2003) [3] after his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, excommunicated him from the WCG and fired him from all roles in the church over disagreements about operations and certain doctrinal positions.
Ronald Lee Dart (1934-2016): Designated to serve as Ambassador University president in 1978; active ministerial partner of Garner Ted Armstrong, 1978–1995; founded Christian Educational Ministries in Whitehouse, Texas in 1995. Robert Fahey (1940-2015): Ambassador Class of 1965; ordained 1981; now affiliated with the United Church of God ...
The Timmons, members of the WCG, and Garner Ted Armstrong's Church of God International and Intercontinental Church of God, split from the Armstrong organization after the death of Garner Ted Armstrong, forming a breakaway independent group named Church of God, Worldwide Ministries, with its headquarters in Sevierville, Tennessee. [12]
By 1978, Armstrong had disfellowshipped Garner Ted and ousted him from the church permanently. [23] [24] Garner Ted began his own church in 1978 in Tyler, Texas, called the Church of God International. Herbert and Garner Ted Armstrong remained estranged for the remainder of the elder Armstrong's life. [4]
The Intercontinental Church of God is a splinter group of the U.S. based Church of God International.As such it holds to most of the distinctive beliefs taught by the Church of God International (United States) such as the continuing validity of the Law of Moses (e.g., observing Saturday as the seventh day sabbath and observing the biblical holy days) by Christians, and the falsity of the ...
Garner Ted Armstrong – Herbert W. Armstrong's son and a long-time WCG evangelist; he later had a falling-out with his father who excommunicated him; Jules Dervaes – a proponent of the urban homesteading movement and former member of WCG still adherent to Armstrong's teachings
Radio evangelists Name Lifespan Branch Organization or church A. A. Allen: 1911–1970: Pentecostal: Garner Ted Armstrong: 1930–2003: Evangelical: Worldwide Church of God