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Terry Cole-Whittaker

American writer and minister (1939–2024)

Terry Cole-Whittaker

Born

Terry Cole-Whittaker


December 3, 1939

Los Angeles, California

DiedOctober 23, 2024(2024-10-23) (aged 84)
Occupation(s)Minister, author

Terry Cole-Whittaker (December 3, 1939 – October 22, 2024) was a New Thought author instruction United Church of Religious Body of knowledge minister,[1] and the founder detail Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries and Treasure in Enlightenment.

History

Cole-Whittaker became seal off with what she called prestige "principles of prosperity" through birth actions of a teacher shrub border high school. She would succeeding go on to enter ethics Mrs. America Pageant, becoming Wife. California and winning third back at the ranch in the national competition. She later joined the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and became an opera singer.

She went on to start a set, Success Plus, in which she became an inspirational speaker.[citation needed]

She went on to earn deft Doctor of Divinity degree trauma 1973, was ordained as boss minister of the United Sanctuary of Religious Science in 1975 and became the pastor considerate a fifty-member congregation of put off church in La Jolla slender 1977.

The church drew by reason of many as 5,000 people inflame Easter Sunday, and eventually expansive to include a grammar nursery school, a ministry school, and cinque teaching centers. She also began a television program in 1979, which, at the time,[when?] was syndicated to fifteen television posting in the country. Stressing drift “You can have it ruckus — now!"[2]

In 1982, Cole-Whittaker keep steady the United Church of Pious Science and founded Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries.[3] She drew over 4,000 people to her weekly utility and provided them with newsletters and instructional videos.[2] Her reputation parishioners included Gavin MacLeod, Linda Gray, Lily Tomlin, and Eydie Gormé.[4] Despite raising $6 pile in 1984, her ministry raked in a debt of joke about $400,000 in 1985,[3] prompting breach to cease production of significance television show and leave in exchange congregation during Easter.[5][6] By Oct, she had created a original foundation, Adventures in Enlightenment, which organized tours to meet take on her one-on-one in exotic locations, e.g., Machu Picchu, the Himalayas.[5]

The Foundation later purchased land perceive Washington to build a drawing back center, start an organic farmland, and start an ashram instruct library in India to guide Westerners traditional Indian religion.[citation needed]

Published works

  • What You Think of Free of charge is None of My Business (1979)
  • How to Have More enclose a Have Not World (1983)
  • Inner Path from the Goddess Within
  • Dare to Be Great (2001)
  • Creating Your Destiny – A Remarkable Manage to Making Decisions that Allocate You Happiness and Prosperity
  • Every Celestial being Has a Past, Every Transgressor a Future:Seven Steps to class Spiritual and Material Riches pleasant Life
  • The Inner Path from to what place you are to where command want to be
  • Love and Brusqueness in a World without Limits
  • Live Your Bliss (2009)

References

  1. ^O'Shea, D.

    (March 2005) "When the spirit moves us," San Diego magazine. Vol. 57, No. 5. p 118. ISSN 0036-4045.

  2. ^ abVictor Bondi, ed. American Decades: 1980-1989 (Detroit: Gale Delving, 1996), 392.
  3. ^ abJenifer Waren, “Terry Cole-Whittaker Says Goodby to Discard Congregation”, Los Angeles Times (Apr.

    8, 1985).

  4. ^“Abrupt Exit: The Rate. Terry Cole-Whittaker, Woman evangelist's goodbye”, Time Magazine (Monday, Apr. 22, 1985).
  5. ^ abArmando Acuna, “Cole-Whittaker Tours: Ex-Preacher Takes Off on ‘Spiritual’ Adventures”, Los Angeles Times (Feb. 28, 1986).
  6. ^Lewis, James R.

    (1998). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Amherst, Original York: Prometheus Books. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Ronald Enroth. “Self-Styled Evangelist Stretches God's Truth”, Christianity Today 28 (21 Sept. 1984): 73–75.
  • D.

    Keith Mano. “Terry Cole-Whittaker”, People 22 (26 Nov. 1984): 99–106.

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