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Gene C. Carter

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Booklet series He wrote several booklets. Richard Nickels had them I believe, but much of what Richard had and sent in to the UCG has been lost
Background information Most do not know anything about him. But he needs to be acknowledged
Further information Information contained in Our Co-Workers' Bulletin, Vol. VI. No. 3, 5 April 1945
Probable gravesite https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192409187/gene-c.-carter

Booklet Series:

The booklet series written by him listed below were once available but no one seems to possess them anymore. Should anyone have them please let me know. However, two of his booklets are still available:

Background Information:

Gene Carter was Raymond Cole's brother-in-law. In a sermon given on 25 July 1953 Rod Meredith made mention of him and you can listen to the sermon here. His comments commence at around 9:15. He visited the St Louis Church and Mr Carter asked him to speak there - although he (Mr Carter) was not an ordained elder or pastor, he functioned in that capacity (but was replaced by Raymond McNair some time in the mid-1950s who then served as pastor). He even had his own broadcast The World Ahead which was similar to The World Tomorrow on KSTL once a week. Mr Carter was a deacon under Mr Armstrong in the original Eugene, Oregon Church as well as office manager trainee. He continued to be mentioned as a deacon in a Church of God News publication in the early 1960s and mentioned in a sermon or two some years later. Garner Ted Armstrong lists him as a Deacon in the article “How God Calls HIS Ministers,” Good News, Sept. 1957.

In an e-mail (2009) George Dellinger provides the following information: 

"Gene C Carter from southern Illinois was converted through the broadcast. In 1944 he went to Eugene and was baptized. He did several jobs and functions there and Mr. Armstrong felt he was the young man he'd been looking for to become his right hand man. 

Gene (whom I knew personally) was at the first church service in Pasadena. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Eckert, and Gene. For whatever reason (I never heard him say) he left the area and went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he conducted a radio broadcast and sent out literature. He was active in the St. Louis—Illinois area for years, although he was never ordained [as an elder]. He died, probably in the late 1980's totally faithful to the end. His memoirs would have been of great value, but, as with David Jon Hill, death intervened. He was a great guy and, despite some things that happened, Was loyal to the Church and the truth right till the end."

In A Guided Tour of the Early Ambassador College by Kenneth C. Herrnann, p. 20 (1983) he wrote:

“Myra Carter was in charge of this production area [Mail Processing and Literature Addressing Center in the early 1950s] for many years. She is the sister of Gene Carter, and later became the wife of Raymond Cole, this being the first marriage on campus, and the first in a very long line of marriages over the years.”

Information contained in Our Co-Workers' Bulletin, Vol. VI. No. 3, 5 April 1945:

"The work continued to grow and expand. Soon we had to employ a secretary, full time. Then another, and gradually the staff has increased until there are now eight of us. Now even our larger office became overcrowded, with desks, filing cabinets, mimeograph, addressing machine, dictaphones and other office equipment. And just when we came to really need it, a few weeks ago, the building manager came to me with a plan to open up an adjoining room, larger than the combined two rooms we had. This room was all painted and redecorated, and the girls moved into it two weeks ago, just HAPPY in their new quarters, feeling it now begins to look like a real institution. Today the carpenters are just completing the installation of new hall-ways and partitions, dividing our former larger room into two private offices.  

One of these will be occupied by Brother Gene C. Carter, a young man from Southern Illinois, converted thru the broadcast, who came to Oregon last summer to be baptised. We know now God has definitely and specially called Gene to a life of active service, to which he has consecrated himself, in whatever capacity God may lead. He is now financial manager, and is beginning to assist me in answering correspondence and in research and securing of factual data for broadcasts and for articles. I have never seen a young man develop and grow as he is doing. For years I had searched for the right man to join me in this great work of God. Twice I felt I had been led to the right man, but always circumstances prevented. Now we know that when God's time came, He provided the man He had chosen and called for this position. We now have a total of more than 1500 square feet of office space, and we rejoice in this growth of space and of personnel, because we have seen God's hand so definitely in it, step by step.  

Perhaps you'd like to know a little about others of our staff. Mrs. Esther Olson is manager of the larger office. She is a sincere and consecrated Christian woman, has been with us in our little local church several years. Circumstances just seemed to work out to place her in charge of the office staff, and I was amazed at her efficiency. Then it was we learned what she never told us before, that she had formerly been manager of an office over 35 girls, and before that had taught school. God always prepares those He calls for whatever service He has for them! Assistant manager is Miss Evelyn Paeschke, a talented young Christian girl, also in our church. Evelyn has a very beautiful soprano voice, which is being developed. Sometimes, at church, where she is music director, she and our daughter Beverly Gott (whom you've heard sing in the closing theme music of the broadcast before we changed to the male quartette) sing duets together. Sister Olson has developed an efficient office staff. We receive from 1,000 to 2,500 letters from every broadcast. It now takes five large steel cabinets to hold the mailing list. Every night a large amount of mail, carrying Gospel literature to all parts of North America, is taken to the post-office by special truck messenger."