The Autobiography of Herbert W Armstrong - Installment 24
Herbert W Armstrong
Herbert W Armstrong
Church of God
Born: July 31, 1892 Died: January 16, 1986 Member Since: 1928 Ordained: 1931 Office: Apostle
Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon.
The 24th installment brings us to early evangelistic campaigns in northern and eastern Oregon, and getting sidetracked back into the newspaper business. My first full-length evangelistic campaign with Elder Robert L. Taylor in Eugene, Oregon, came to its almost fruitless end. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Fisher, who lived ten miles west of Eugene, were the only ones added to the church by this campaign. And they had been brought in by a private Bible study in my room - not in a preaching service. Mr. Taylor had induced the Oregon Conference members to build a church building in Eugene. He felt sure he could build up a good congregation there. It turned out that Mr. Taylor had, for some little time previous to our campaign, been in the retail lumber business in Eugene.
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