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Ambassador College was started October 8, 1947. It was started
for the SOLE PURPOSE as GOD'S OWN COLLEGE of training ministers and
other needed administrative personnel for the Work.
The first three years of Ambassador College I had an almost
devastating and nerve-wracking battle to SAVE THE COLLEGE as GOD'S
COLLEGE against the onslaughts of Satan. He used the secular and
worldly faculty members--the ONLY KIND then obtainable--to turn
Ambassador into a rubber stamp of the schools of higher education
in Satan's world. There was every subtle effort to THROW CHRIST
OUT OF THE COLLEGE.
But Christ was on His Father's throne. I looked solely to
HIM--trusted solely in HIM. And Ambassador became truly God's
college.
AND IT GREW! It produced abundant fruits.
As I said, a loving GOD brought me to complete repentance and
faith in Him--believing (as VERY FEW ever have) WHAT HE SAYS--and into
His service before either of my sons were born. As a little boy
growing up, Garner Ted was one of the most lovable boys--with a
most lovable spirit--I ever knew. However, what Christ was preaching
through his father, even then, (as he himself has said publicly
many times) was merely "Dad's religion" held naturally in some
degree of boyish contempt. At age 18, as the college was getting
started, he "ran off"--so to speak--and without our parental
knowledge joined the navy.
His four year "hitch" ended in, I believe, late spring or early
summer of 1952. The first three years in the navy he had become
assistant manager of the Naval Office at San Diego--his last year,
in the war in North Korea on the carrier "Antietan."
On his return to civilian life, I made him manager of our
general office. He entered Ambassador College that fall in order
to hold his job--for all such jobs had to be available for students
working their way through.
During his freshman year a series of articles was running in
LOOK magazine on the religions of the world. Ted became enamored
with the article on "What Is Christianity?" written by a famous
New York minister. What grabbed his interest was the statement
that first the writer would tell readers what Christianity IS NOT.
It is NOT, the article said, "a way of life."
Then it so happened that in freshman Bible studies Ted noticed
on an open two pages in the book of Acts in his Bible that
Christianity was some four or five times referred to as "THIS WAY."
Ted has related publicly many times how shocked he was to see that--IN
HIS OWN BIBLE. He underscored these four or five references to
"THIS WAY." That, he has said publicly, led to his conversion.
And I certainly BELIEVED he had become a thoroughly converted
young man.