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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.
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 ...
Because of Armstrong's emphasis on these prophetic dates, the church grew quickly in the late 1960s. [citation needed] On January 5, 1968, the church was renamed the Worldwide Church of God. [16] By the mid-1950s, Armstrong had his son Garner Ted Armstrong take over as host of the radio and television versions of The World Tomorrow.
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.
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
Herbert W. Armstrong secured a temporary 15-minute slot on KORE, Eugene, Oregon, on October 9, 1933.That became a permanent half-hour slot on January 7, 1934. Armstrong founded the Radio Church of God with the first broadcast in 1934, to serve as the home church for his pioneering broadcast-based ministry. [2]
Richard D. Armstrong (1929–1958): Ambassador student body president, 1951-1952; Ambassador Class of 1952; ordained by his father, Herbert W. Armstrong on December 20, 1952; Died as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile crash near San Luis Obispo in 1958; buried in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California.
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