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Roderick C. Meredith - A Biographical Sketch

By Redfox

Roderick Meredith has been disfellowshiped from the very
church he did so much to build. Now he must start again. He
wanted to be HWA's successor, now the opportunity to play that
role had now arrived and he now begins to try and fill HWA's
shoes. And so the Global Church of God is born. He soon starts
up a radio program, The World Ahead, accompanied by a
magazine of the same name for recruitment among the general
public. A magazine for members, Global Church News, start up,
fulfilling the role the now defunct Good News magazine
previously played in WCG. This narrative now continues.
1993: Meredith begins broadcasting The World Ahead radio
program. One listener's reaction to the program may be seen in
the first letter of AR52 June 1993. A clip that I assume to be from
one of those broadcasts ("Rod-like a fishing rod") can be heard
briefly in this parody.
Leona McNair case ends with WCG paying a $750,000 out of
court settlement (AR52 June 1993).
March: Gerald Flurry denounces Meredith in Philadelphia
Trumpet editorial in order to ensure his members do not turn to
him (AR54 February 1994, 'Flurry's Philadelphians').
Gerald Waterhouse of WCG denounced Meredith during the
Feast of Tabernacles in the Philippines in these words, "he loves
to wield the rod, he loves authority when he is the one who has
it" (AR55 May 1994).

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