Gerald Flurry has been a minister for over 35 years. He was ordained a deacon in the Worldwide Church of God in 1964. After graduating from Ambassador College, Pasadena, Calif., and serving as a ministerial trainee, Mr. Flurry was ordained a minister in 1973. He served as pastor of the Tri-cities, Washington and Eastern Oregon congregations for ten years, and later the Oklahoma City and Enid, Okla., congregations.
When WCG leaders began rejecting the teachings of their founder, Herbert W. Armstrong, after his death in 1986, Gerald Flurry refused to follow. On December 7, 1989, he founded the Philadelphia Church of God in Edmond, Okla., with 12 members and $80 cash on hand.
Since then the PCG grown to encircle the globe, with members in 72 countries and offices on every continent. Mr. Flurry serves as the Pastor General of the church, and leads a ministry dedicated to preserving the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong.
Gerald Flurry is the pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God and editor in chief of the Trumpet news magazine, which he began publishing in 1990. He is also founder and chairman of the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation, known for its cultural, charitable and humanitarian activities, and founder and chancellor of Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmond, Oklahoma.
As presenter of the Key of David television program, which he began in 1993, Gerald Flurry proclaims the wonderful GOOD NEWS of the soon-coming return of Jesus Christ to Earth—to save mankind alive and usher-in the peaceful, happy, wonderful World Tomorrow. This thrilling, transcendent HOPE permeates all of his messages. Through broadcast, print and personal appearance campaigns he also prophesies again in the tradition of Herbert W. Armstrong a sobering warning of the unprecedented world troubles just ahead, which will precede Christ’s second coming.