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The Work was growing 30 percent each year over the year before--doubling
in size of
operations and people reached with Christ's Gospel every 2-2/3 years--
multiplying eight times
over eight years.
In 1947 Ambassador College was started. In 1948 or 1949 the Bible
Correspondence
Course was started. By 1952 we began to graduate new ministers to pastor local
churches.
In 1942 daily half-hour broadcasts began. In 1955 I began on television,
with the rating
agencies showing larger viewing audiences in cities where we were telecasting
than the NBC
"Tonight Show" now hosted by Johnny Carson--then by Steve Allen.
In the fifties we had college-educated ministers answering letters
personally for me
--letters with Bible questions from listeners.
Soon we were on a very large number of the nation's most powerful radio
stations SEVEN
DAYS A WEEK. The radio program was going out over more wattage of radio power
than
any program on earth. We became first, worldwide, in our field. Church
membership became
worldwide with hundreds of local churches pastored by hundreds of Ambassador-
trained ordained
ministers. The Church's Work grew at the unmatched incredible rate of 30 percent
per year
on the average for 35 YEARS!
Then, 1968, Christ began opening doors for me to proclaim Christ's Gospel
in many
nations on all continents, by personal invitations to private meetings with
kings, emperors,
presidents, prime ministers of many nations (Revelation 10:11). This kept me
away from
Pasadena more and more of the time--up to 300 out of the 365 days in a year! I
delegated
the day-to-day administration to executive vice-presidents of evangelist rank in
Christ's
ministry. They were commissioned to carry out executive administration ONLY of
policies
and procedures Christ had instituted through me, and which had been building the
Work on
a 30 percent per year increase for 35 years.
But they assumed, without my knowledge, policy-setting changes and
doctrinal changes
given out to ministers, in an effort to "TAKE OVER"--destroy everything the
living Christ
had built through the years through me, and build something for themselves. They
were
watering down doctrines, changing procedures and policies and threatening other
top-ranking