Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Philadelphia Church of God: Is Another Upcoming Split Of The Church In The Works?



Church of God News has a post up from a group that split off from Gerald Flurry's Philadelphia Church of God.

This group is the Armstrong Remembrancers and Keepers of God Foundation.  They are former PCG members who are mainly located in the Philippines.  They have had particular issues with John McDonald that I have reported about previously on here.  McDonald has a rich history of abuse towards the Philippines members and has kicked out close to 300 PCG members since he was sent there. He has a nasty reputation due to his callous and vengeful nature. Plus, PCG's track record in the Philippines has also taken huge hits with several suicides that have happened to members because of the implementation of the "no contact" policy that they implemented a few years ago.

The Remembrancers also recently restored Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem that HWA and Ambassador Foundation had built decades ago.



Like any typical Armstrong related Church of God out there, it has selective enforcement of policies and doctrines.  Big money gives are always the first to be courted and tolerated for their mistakes that would have led others being kicked out of the church.

From Armstrong Remembrancers and Keepers of God Foundation (a PCG breakaway group in the Philippines) 20th March 2019: 
“SELECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF SUSPENSION AND NO-CONTACT POLICY BY THE PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD 
If a member is a big tithe payer, the PCG ministers will do everything to keep him in the fold no matter what. But for a member who is more of a seeker of financial assistance due to his poverty, his expulsion from the Church is just hanging by a thread. Historically, there were nearly 300 PCG members in the Philippines who were excommunicated for the flimsiest reasons under the continuing reign of terror of John Macdonald, which was halted only when the Remembrancers burst in the scene and started exposing PCG’s wicked policies and rules. The majority of those members who were spiritually slaughtered by the PCG ministers were excommunicated primarily because of their poverty. 
Mr. Naciancino Guillar is a generous donor and obviously, the PCG cannot simply let him go or do something that will make him feel bad or hold grudges against the PCG ministers. The ministers visiting him in Pagadian City are well aware that Mr. Guillar’s son, Joel Guillar, who is a leading member of the ARK of God Foundation, has never been restrained from visiting his father. He can freely come to see him and talk to him anytime. The PCG ministers are very well aware of this, but they would not dare IMPOSE THE NO CONTACT POLICY on Joel Guillar. Mr. Guiillar does not believe in the need to CUT OFF his relationship with his son, and the PCG ministers know that, if they will insist on him to cut off his connection with Joel, the probability of losing a BIG TITHE PAYER is very high. So, they have been very lenient in the case of Mr. Guillar. 
Now that Mr. Guillar is threatening to bolt out of the PCG if Mr. Gerald Flurry will decide to split-off with his son Stephen, the more that they are very uneasy about causing Mr. Guillar to have any ill feeling against them. 
Let’s see what happens when Mr. Alex Harrison comes to the Philippines for the PYC. Will he take a trip down south (to visit Mr. Guiillar), or will he require their disabled, two-legged amputee, a senior member from Pagadian City to travel to the PCG office in Angeles City, Pampanga? Most likely, Mr. Harrison will take option 2, which will put the heavy burden on Mr. Guillar, while thinking it will discourage him from taking the trip because of his extreme physical disability. They will avoid a meeting with him at all cost while trying to keep him at ease in continuing his membership in the PCG.” 
While the above information is nothing new to the Church of God, what follows may be a brief hint at an upcoming split in the Philadelphia Church of God between Flurry and Lil'Stevie.  There have been hints thrown around for some time now that there is a strained relationship between father and son, much like HWA and Garner Ted.
A post on 11th March said this of Alex Harrison: 
“IS HE A MINISTER OF GOD OR NOTHING MORE THAN A GLORIFIED HIRELING? 
He is a Kiwi who is based in Australia and holds the rank of an Evangelist in the Philadelphia Church of God (PCG). He is the Regional Director of the Cult over Africa, Australasia, Oceania and the Philippines. 
Alex Harrison is a family man himself and he has a son who has left the PCG, but since he is a high-ranking minister, who can prevent him from breaking their own man-made law? He doesn’t apply the NO CONTACT policy to his son Paul of course. But he is zealous in applying it on the membership beneath him.”A comment on 17th March might give a reason for the suggestion of a rift between Gerald Flurry and his son Stephen: 
“Stephen Flurry abandoned his post as Regional Director of the PCG in Jerusalem. His father made great plans of establishing a Regional Office in Jerusalem as well as a base of operations for on-site Trumpet reporting. He was also given charge to undertake the initial steps in establishing a branch of Armstrong College in Jerusalem. The details of this plan were covered in an article in the Trumpet Magazine. Stephen Flurry came to Jerusalem for in early 2012 with all the staff and students to help in pursuing the plan laid out by his father, Gerald Flurry. Things seemed to run smoothly for a while, until we learned later than Stephen had decided to abandon Jerusalem in August 2013. The reason for this abrupt termination of the plans for Jerusalem was obviously Stephen’s burning interest in pursuing another work in England and Ireland. In short, Stephen Flurry chose Edstone over Jerusalem!”

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

The PCG is probably running out of money to have a Jerusalem project. A jet plane costs millions of dollars to buy and operate. To the people in PCG just visit your relatives and tell the church to shove it.

Anonymous said...

This Filipino group has a history of wacky misunderstandings and bad prognostications. Stephen Flurry will not leave his sister (Laura Turgeon) and his father to go off on his own. PCG members are too well schooled in WCG history and type/antitype. He won't let himself become GTA or JWTjr. Why would he leave, when he is set to inherit the whole mess upon his father's death?

Anonymous said...

These "Armstrong Remembrancers" complain that the "no contact" policy is evil, but instead of being THANKFUL when someone is spared from it, they express JEALOUSY that it isn't violated for THEM. Christianity is to wish for another person what one wishes for oneself. To say "since I'm being treated badly, EVERYONE should be treated badly" is the very opposite of Christianity. Which makes it all the more appropriate coming from yet another ACOG.

NO2HWA said...

Stephen is just bidding his time till his dad dies. He is to big of a wimp to break away. He has no source of income without daddy’s paycheck. He has no idea what it means to work hard.

Tonto said...

Money ALWAYS corrupts religion. Much has not changed since the "30 pieces of Silver" incident.

Anonymous said...

The ACOGs have hijacked and mis-applied the biblical no contact policy in order to chain members to the church. The ministers job security is all that matters in these splinters.

Anonymous said...


Gerald Flurry's “No Contact” policy:

Gerald Flurry likes to cut off all contact between his victims and their families and friends who could possibly warn them and help them. This is a common technique of perverts.

It would be fitting if Gerald Flurry's own family broke up after all the family wrecking he has done to others.

Byker Bob said...

Isn’t this interesting? Aren’t we just saying “power corrupts”? Isn’t this what has happened throughout the splinters? As the various leaders who were once under HWA’s power took their own power, they became just as corrupt as the old man himself?

BB

Anonymous said...

Steven Flurry know's his dad in not that Prophet. He has a better understand of the bible than his dad! I am ready to go out of PCG just waiting for the right leader that Christ will guide and use. Australia Members are so sick of alex acting as God

Anonymous said...

message for the Horns in the UK

GET OUT MY BROTHER go back to Monday Pentecost

Anonymous said...

7.27 PM
What if a "right leader that Christ will guide and use" never happens? Yours is a common belief, what what if it's wrong? I had a work boss that kept breathing down my neck. It became obvious that God pulled him away from me. My point is that self responsibility is neccesary for personal growth.
A Christian is one who follows Christ, i.e., a direct relationship, with no middlemen "right leader."

EX-PCG said...

It's been over 33 yrs. since the death of HWA. What right leader has come along? Their isn't going to be any one human leader to follow. This is the Laodicean era. All "ministers" have been tainted. The human leadership has been the problem.

Jesus Christ is our Apostle and High Priest. The person who wrote anonymously from Australia has stayed with PCG (which we left almost 20 yrs. ago), because they are looking to men. That is nothing, but idolatry.

It's so easy to prove that GRF is a false prophet, Alec Harrison, and Stephen Flurry are both hirelings. Step out in faith and trust God!

kansaskeller@gmail.com said...

COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT MR. FLURRY COULD CHANGE HIS THINKING ( repent to God )and be a totally new and different person ?

Anonymous said...


The PLAIN TRUTH about Satanic Imposter Cults


Gerald R. Flurry's Philadelphia Cult of Fraud and David C. Pack's Restored Cult of Fraud were both diabolically designed to prey on former members of Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God. The idea was to attract former WCG members who still believed some of the things that HWA had taught, and who did not want to go along with the apostate Tkaches and their January 1995 total rejection of everything that HWA had taught. After the former WCG members had gotten accustomed to supporting their new master, their new master made what were actually truly monstrous doctrinal changes to what HWA had taught. The false prophets like Gerald and Dave turned out to be so very bad that they made even the apostate Tkaches appear to be downright reasonable and decent by comparison.

The basic idea was simply to try to destroy utterly any former WCG members who still believed anything that HWA had taught, and to do it all in the names of HWA and of God. Satan, who raised up the false prophets to lead his very own satanic imposter cults, wanted their victims to think that it was God who was being so cruel and brutal to them. In fact, all the evil came from the false prophets like Gerald and Dave that Jesus had said would come and warned people to beware of. Their inward ravenousness has poked out through their wool suits to where everyone should now be able to see it.

Anonymous said...



Larry Keller at 10:42 AM said...“COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT MR. FLURRY COULD CHANGE HIS THINKING ( repent to God )and be a totally new and different person ?”


Only God could change Gerald Flurry's wrong thinking. It appears that Satan is using Gerald Flurry in this current age, and that God is not calling him yet. Maybe in some future resurrection Gerald Flurry will get a chance to be converted. Then he can learn to be humble rather than proud and arrogant, and to do good rather than evil.

Byker Bob said...

Are splinter leaders sincere?

BB

Anonymous said...


Byker Bob at 4:45 PM said...“Are splinter leaders sincere?”


In the context of warning about false prophets, Jesus said that a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Whether or not a false prophet like Gerald Flurry is “sincere” appears to be irrelevant. No good can ever come of him either way.

Anonymous said...

We must keep the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, FEAST DAYS and NEW MOONS to enter the NEW JERUSALEM!! Gerald Flurry and his son Stephen Flurry are false prophets. Keep the commandments of God the Father and serve Christ Jesus as your Lord to have eternal life.

Anonymous said...

Hahahahahaha....Alex is dead. His son who left the church is thriving and happy. Alex no longer can abuse Paul, Gwen or Tanya or his son and daughter in Law. Hooray for bullshit cults finally setting free their families!!!! Alex abused me as well. On his own home!