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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.
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 ...
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]
Bud Abbott; Goodman Ace; Jane Ace; Roy Acuff; Franklin Pierce Adams; Mason Adams; Martin Agronsky; Ben Alexander; Joan Alexander; Barbara Jo Allen; Fred Allen; Gracie ...
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.
Whereas the plan of Garner Ted Armstrong was to ease his aging father into retirement, the plan of Rader and his aide Robert Kuhn was to transform Herbert W. Armstrong from an elderly evangelist into a more secular leader, casting him as a vital "Ambassador for World Peace without portfolio". Rader's plan required the creation of a totally new ...
Radio evangelists Name Lifespan Branch Organization or church A. A. Allen: 1911–1970: Pentecostal: Garner Ted Armstrong: 1930–2003: Evangelical: Worldwide 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]