Legacy Letter December 2016

IN THIS LETTER: Jericho and the Days of Unleavened Bread ● Lessons for Today – Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Ancient Jericho was a great fortified Canaanite city located on the west side of the Jordan River at the confluence of several trading routes. Jericho was famous for its high double walls built of bricks on top of a stone retaining wall foundation…

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong met King Bhumibol Adulyadej the first time in 1971. At that time, the king told him about a new project to educate the ethnic hill tribes that inhabited the highland border region of northern Thailand. These hill tribes grew opium and sold it to Chinese middle-men as their only cash crop. The king wanted to teach them to grow other crops, such as peaches and vegetables, to replace the opium they grew. This would be more profitable for the hill tribes and much less destructive to the upland forests and humanity as a whole. The king also wanted to give their children an education but had very few trained teachers.

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, At Legacy Foundation Leadership Training Center here in Chiang Mai, we just completed a very special project. Four young ladies were sent by the Royal Palace to participate in an intensive English training program for six weeks. All four work at Queen Sirikit’s SUPPORT Foundation museum displaying the “Arts of the Kingdom.” This museum is housed in the royal Ananta Samakom Throne Hall, part of the royal complex in Bangkok. They have already graduated with degrees from Kasetsart University in Bangkok and have had some English training. The intensive English language curriculum was designed by our volunteer teacher Julia Stewart, who also taught the classes. Julia herself took part in an intensive crash course and received a TESOL (teach English to speakers of other languages) certificate from Cornerstone University. The young ladies not only had classroom instruction, but participated in real life experience as well by going out into the public and practicing English with Western tourists. They also took part in other classes taught at Legacy (Advanced English, Public Speaking, Sports, and even Sabbath services). The aim was to boost their conversational skills as well as their confidence.

30 October 2014 – Dear Friends and Fellow laborers, I wrote a letter several months ago about the blood moons that are to appear on Passover and the high day of the Feast of Tabernacles in both 2014 and 2015. According to Jewish belief, a tetrad like this portends that something very significant will happen to Israel, such as war. It happened during the founding of the State of Israel and the 1967 War…