History by Don Rutledge

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Hope

Witness Lee himself openly spoke about the condition in Elden. It was a big issue at the January, 1974 elders/co-workers meeting. Yes, there was some talk about the neighborhood around Elden. Maybe that later became the alibi for the relocation. I plan to write a lot about what was going on in 1973-75. Everything changed!!!

The failure of the blessing at Elden even though they had WL became the basis for Ray and Benson and Ben to push for WL to move or at least spend a major part of his time in Texas. They all contended that the ministry needed the proper audience and that Texas could provide the proper container for the ministry.

I had just read a contradictory report. The testimonies I had heard of Eldon Hall of the early seventies in later years, was prior to migrations to the LA area, the neighborhood was already bad. It was the brothers and sisters who brought a blessing to the neighborhood.
It could be by the time households began migrating for other localities and away from these neighborhoods, the neighborhood environment deteriorated.

Terry