Legacy Letter February 2012

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, The following is from the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .’ The purpose of what is known as the Establishment Clause was to prevent government from establishing a state religion and to prevent the government from interfering with a citizen’s religious beliefs. Nowhere does it say that religion must be taken out of government. The purpose of the clause was not to take religion out of government, but to keep government out of religion.

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…

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 Brethren and Fellow Laborers, 18 April 2020 – We are writing to you in a time of trouble—WORLDWIDE! All are suffering due to this Covid-19 Virus and are locked down to one degree or another—some more and some less. Will this world ever go back to a place resembling what we called “normal”? In our recent era, nothing has been quite like this!…