Raising the Ruins (48 page)

14. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, December 30, 1986, 3.

15. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, December 16, 1986, 3.

16.
Pastor General’s Report
, November 17, 1987, 13.

17.
The Worldwide News
, May 11, 1987, 3. The Treasurer’s Office report notes that the 1986 audit reported a 11.2 percent increase over 1985, though it did not give the actual income figures. But based on the 1985 income of $163.7 million, which we established in chapter 1, an 11.2 percent increase means the 1986 income was just over $182 million.

18. Larry R. Salyer,
Pastor General’s Report
, May 26, 1987, 5.

19.
The Plain Truth
, May 1987, table of contents.

20.
The Plain Truth
, June 1987, table of contents.

21. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, June 24, 1987, 1.

22. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, December 1, 1987, 1.

23. Gerald Waterhouse, Sermon, Tallahassee FL, January 25, 1992.

24. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, January 26, 1988, 1.

25. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, August 28, 1989, 7.

26. Jeff E. Zhorne, “Look for ways to improve, says Mr. Tkach at conference,”
The Worldwide News
, July 11, 1988, 1.

27. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, August 28, 1989, 7.

28. Leroy Neff, “Report from the Treasurer’s Office,”
The Worldwide News
, January 9, 1989, 3.

29.
Pastor General’s Report
, February 28, 1989, 8.

30. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, January 3, 1989, 1.

31. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, January 23, 1989, 8.

32. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, January 4, 1988, 1.

33. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, October 25, 1988, 4.

34. Jeff E. Zhorne, “Mr. Tkach travels to Pacific regions, Asia,”
The Worldwide News
, January 18, 1988, 1.

35. Ibid., 3.

36. Aaron Dean,
The Worldwide News
, March 18, 1985, 1, 3.

37. Jeff E. Zhorne, “Mr. Tkach attends gala event, meets Washington brethren,”
The Worldwide News
, December 26, 1988, 1.

38. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, April 17, 1989, 1, 4.

39. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, May 8, 1989, 1, 7.

40. Joseph W. Tkach, Co-worker letter, May 25, 1989.

41. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, September 11, 1989, 1.

42. Ibid., 3.

43. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, September 2, 1991, 6.

44. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, January 22, 1990, 1.

45. Bill Palmer, “Telecast takes top spot, airs on better stations,”
The Worldwide News
, March 19, 1990, 6.

46. David Hulme, “1985: year of media expansion,”
The Worldwide News
, January 27, 1986, 7.

47. Joseph W. Tkach, Co-worker letter, July 26, 1990.

48. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, June 19, 1989, 1.

49. Joseph W. Tkach, Co-worker letter, September 25, 1990.

50. Herbert W. Armstrong,
Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong
, Vol. 2 (Pasadena, CA: Worldwide Church of God, 1987), 268.

51. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, January 14, 1991, 11.

52.
The Good News
, January/February 1990, table of contents.

53. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, January 14, 1991, 11.

54. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, August 18, 1987, 2.

55. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, September 19, 1988, 1.

56. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, September 2, 1991, 6.

57. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, July 28, 1992, 7.

58. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, September 2, 1991, 6.

59. Ibid.

60. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, March 27, 1990, 2.

61. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, August 28, 1989, 7.

62. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, September 2, 1991, 6.

63. Philippians 3:8.

64. Joseph Tkach,
Transformed by Truth
(Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 1997), 72.

65. Income for 1981 was reported in the February 5, 1982,
Pastor General’s Report
, page 3. The 1982 and 1983 figures appear in the Worldwide Audited Financial Report, published in
The Worldwide News
, June 4, 1984, page 6. The next published audit we found was from 1987, when the wcg had a total income of $192 million (
The Worldwide News
, August 28, 1989, page 7). See note 5 from chapter 1 to see how we calculated WCG income for 1985 and 1986. And since the income for 1985 ($163.7 million) was 10.8 percent above 1984 (
Worldwide News
, June 16, 1986, page 3), then total revenue in 1984 was about $147.8 million.

66. See note 5 for chapter 1 to see how we calculated total income for 1986. For all four years after 1986, the wcg published its audited financial information in the
Worldwide News
.
For 1987
, see August 28, 1989, page 7.
For 1988
, see July 16, 1990, page 3.
For 1989
, see September 2, 1991, page 6.
And for 1990
, see July 28, 1992, page 7.

67. Joseph Tkach,
Transformed by Truth
(Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 1997), 71.

68.
For 1991 income figures
, see
Worldwide News
, July 6, 1993, page 7.
For 1992 and 1993
, see
Worldwide News
, June 28, 1994, page 7.
For 1994
, Tkach Jr. wrote in
Transformed by Truth
that it was $164.6 million (page 72). He also indicated that income for 1995, after “The Sermon,” dropped to $103.4 million. This last figure, however, contradicts what was reported in
The Worldwide News
just before the release of Tkach’s book. The February 18, 1997, issue reported that income in 1995 was about $20 million less than 1994. This would have put the 1995 income at around $145 million. I decided to use the figure from Tkach’s book.

69. Worldwide Audited Financial Report,
The Worldwide News
, August 28, 1989, 7.

70. Joseph Tkach, “Member donations fund discretionary assistance ministry,”
The Worldwide News
, March 2003, 6.

71. Ibid.

72. Ronald Kelly, “April donations continue positive,”
The Worldwide News
, June 2004, 24.

73. Herbert W. Armstrong, Co-worker letter, May 15, 1979, 1.

74. Herbert W. Armstrong,
Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong
, Vol. 2 (Pasadena, CA: Worldwide Church of God, 1987), 591.

75. Philippians 1:23.

76. Herbert W. Armstrong, “Recent History of the Philadelphia Era of the Worldwide Church of God,”
The Worldwide News
, June 24, 1985, special edition, 4.

77. Herbert W. Armstrong, Co-worker letter, March 29, 1971, 3.

78.Herbert W. Armstrong,
Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong
, Vol. 1 (Pasadena, CA: Worldwide Church of God, 1986), 43.

79. Herbert W. Armstrong, “Where This Breakdown of Family Life Is Taking Us!”
The Good News
, February 1979, 1.

80. Herbert W. Armstrong, Co-worker letter, November 25, 1985, 1.

81. Joseph Tkach, “He Remembered You,”
The Plain Truth
, November/December 1986, 1.

82. Herbert W. Armstrong, “Congress of leading ministers hears defined and reemphasized spiritual organization of church,”
The Worldwide News
, March 6, 1981, 12.

83. Herbert W. Armstrong, Co-worker letter, September 29, 1968, 5.

84. “The
Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong
,”
The Plain Truth
, November 1957, 17.

85. Last will and testament of Herbert W. Armstrong, January 12, 1986.

86. Ibid.

87. Ibid.

88. Matthew 10:37.

89. Mark 3:33-34.

90. John 9:4.

91. Matthew 22:37.

92. Acts 20:35.

93. Herbert W. Armstrong, “Recent history of the Philadelphia Era of the Worldwide Church of God,”
The Worldwide News,
June 24, 1985, special edition, 4.

94. Ibid.

1. Michael A. Snyder, “Pastor general conducts services for 5,130 on Sabbath, Holy Day,”
The Worldwide News
, June 30, 1986, 1.

2. Revelation 3:15.

3. Revelation 3:17.

4. Herman L. Hoeh,
A True History of the True Church
(Radio Church of God, 1959), 31.

5. Herbert W. Armstrong, “What God Never Did—Never WillóAllow to Happen,”
The Good News
, August 1979, 27.

6. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, February 14, 1989, 1.

7. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, December 19, 1989, 2.

8. Ibid., 2-3.

9. Ibid., 3.

1. Deposition of Joseph Tkach at 145,
Worldwide Church of God v. Philadelphia Church of God
, No. CV-97-5306-JSL (C.D. Cal. April 20, 1999).

2. Joseph Tkach Jr., Disfellowship notice for
Gerald Flurry
, December 8, 1989.

3. Deposition of Joseph Tkach at 146,
Worldwide Church of God v. Philadelphia Church of God
, No. CV-97-5306-JSL (C.D. Cal. April 20, 1999).

4.
Id
. at 151-52.

5.
Id
. at 156-57.

6. Arnold Clauson, Interoffice memo to Joseph Tkach Jr., December 14, 1989, 1.

7. Ibid., 2.

8. Ralph K. Helge, Letter to
Gerald Flurry
, December 7, 1989, 1-2.

9. Joseph Tkach Jr., Letter to
Gerald Flurry
, December 11, 1989, 1.

10.
Gerald Flurry
, Letter to Ralph Helge, December 21, 1989, 1.

11. Joseph Tkach Jr., Letter to
Gerald Flurry
, January 23, 1990.

12.
Gerald Flurry
, Letter to Oklahoma City and Enid Brethren, January 11, 1990, 1-2.

1.
Pastor General’s Report
, December 19, 1989, 6.

2.
Pastor General’s Report
, January 30, 1990, 4.

3. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, November 14, 1990, 1-2.

4. Ibid., 2

5. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, December 11, 1990, 1.

6. Ibid.

7. Dean Blackwell, Sermon, Columbus OH, May 4, 1991.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Herbert W. Armstrong, Co-worker letter, March 19, 1981, 1.

12. Dean Blackwell, Sermon, Columbus OH, May 4, 1991.

13. Joseph W. Tkach, “Personal,”
The Worldwide News
, June 24, 1991, 5.

14. David G. Hunsberger, “What the Church teaches about Malachi and his message,”
The Worldwide News
, June 24, 1991, 4.

15. Ibid.

16. Gerald Waterhouse, Sermon, Tallahasee FL, January 25, 1992.

17. Matthew 16:18.

18. Hebrews 13:5, New King James version.

19. Joseph W. Tkach, Closing prayer at funeral service of Herbert W. Armstrong, Pasadena CA, January 19, 1986.

20. J. Michael Feazell,
The Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001), 109.

1. Herbert W. Armstrong, Co-worker letter, February 25, 1985, 1-2.

2. Ibid., 2.

3. Herbert W. Armstrong,
Mystery of the Ages
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985), 5.

4. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, April 19, 1985, 1.

5. Richard Rice,
Pastor General’s Report
, April 19, 1985, 6.

6. Joseph W. Tkach,
Pastor General’s Report
, June 7, 1985, 2.

7. Herbert W. Armstrong, Presentation of
Mystery of the Ages
to the sophomore class, Ambassador College, September 9, 1985.

8. Herbert W. Armstrong,
Mystery of the Ages
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985), xi.

9.
Pastor General’s Report
, July 22, 1986, 3.

10.
Gerald Flurry
,
Malachi’s Message
(Philadelphia Church of God, 1990), 24.

11. Dennis Leap, Ministerial Conference lecture, Edmond OK, May 31, 1994.

12.
Gerald Flurry
,
Philadelphia Ministers’ Report
, February 9, 1996, 1.

13. Michael A. Snyder, “
Mystery of the Ages
completed; printing begins in U.S. facilities,”
The Worldwide News
, August 5, 1985, 1.

14. Ibid.

15.
Mystery of the Ages
advertisement,
The Wall Street Journal
, March 18, 1997, 3.