Legacy Letter June 2017

IN THIS LETTER: Pentecost Burma Trip-Arrival of New Teachers-FOT in Chiang Mai — Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Gloria and I just returned from Burma (Myanmar) where we met with 40 Church of God members and their children for Pentecost. We took along two of our Legacy students to help us with translation and…

23 August 2017 – Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, The first thing I want to do in this letter is address our name change to “Legacy Teaching Institute”. Several years ago, totally unknown to us, a form was not filed properly with the Secretary of State of Texas. This started a bureaucratic chain reaction that caused the removal of our name from the rolls of active Texas non-profit corporations…

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.