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Dear Brethren of The Restored Church of God,

Mr. Pack has often stated in the past that he wants us to be the most informed Church among all the splinter

groups. I know you havent been hearing that lately, so here is some information that is vital for you to know,

about which Mr. Pack has somehow failed to inform you.

It is with great sadness and heaviness of heart that I, Thomas L. Munson must write this to you. It is my duty as

a Trustee of The Restored Church of God, Ministerial assistant and Ministerial trainee of Mr. Pack, Treasurer

for the Church and a converted Christian who is committed to the entirety of the truth of God as taught to us by

Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, to inform you of particular events that have occurred over a period of time. These

events happened in my presence while I was employed at RCG. If you are as committed to the truth of God as I

am, then you will want to know. If you are not, then you will not care to know what this letter contains. I now

have the distinction of being the longest lived employee of Restored, although I was the newest employee as

recently as mid-January of this year.

Mr. Pack has repeatedly stated in the past that he wanted to run the Church in a squeaky clean manner. As the

Treasurer of the Church for the past three months now, I can see a clear and consistent pattern of overspending,wastefulness and worst of all, a misuse of all three categories of directed tithe funds. Anybody who is a

contributor to the Restored Church of God should be concerned with that statement. What do I mean? Let me

explain. Directed funds are funds where you, the contributor, specify exactly how they should be spent as a

condition of RCG accepting the funds. Example: Third tithe. Everyone in the Church knows it is to go to the

widows and the orphans and other needy people as their legitimate needs arise. This is a long standing doctrine

of the Church. However, very little third tithe contributed to RCG is actually spent in the manner which God

says it should be. Mr. Pack has even instructed me to deny people who need third tithe, and instead use the third

tithe to help meet payroll, rent, attorney salary, and other expenses unrelated to third tithe. I cannot in good

conscience comply with his demands any longer.

Mr. Pack has repeatedly instructed me to turn down those requesting second tithe assistance while also

repeatedly instructing me to deposit all excess second tithe, and tithe of second tithe into our main checkingaccount, (which is the first tithe account) to cover our shortfalls due to overspending. I have refused to do as he

demands, explaining to him that my conscience tells me not to do as he demands. Of course his demands are

verbal and not in writing. When I told him of my crisis of conscience, he became extremely angry and verbally

abusive of me. He even made many untrue and unkind remarks to me about my wife, and even attacked Mr.

Armstrongs integrity. He claimed Mr. Armstrong misused third tithe and festival tithes in such a way that I

wouldnt even believe it. That saddened me. I had hoped he would have said: Tom, you passed the test, I

really didnt expect you to do what I was telling you to do, I was just testing you. But he didnt. He told me a

condition of my continued employment was to pay the bills with excess second tithe, and tithe of a tithe and

third tithe. I wont steal Gods tithe in my personal life and I wont steal Gods tithes from the needy. Mr. Pack

should have known I was honest when he hired me.

Even though the Church pays me $54,000.00 per year as a salary, and I am by no means the highest paid

employee of the Church, I am no pauper either. After speaking to Mr. Pack about my crisis of conscience, he

privately offered to give me money from the third tithe fund to keep me happy and to help me out. I declined

his offer, assuring him that I did not need to be helped out. I could come to no other conclusion except that he

was offering me a bribe. And, had I accepted the money, I felt I would be just as guilty as he.

Brethren, this is a new twist of a doctrinal change. He teaches excess second tithe, tithe of a tithe, and third

tithe, but he seldom uses it for the purpose which God intends. And when he does, only a small portion is spent

as it is intended. The rest goes to pay Mr. Packs salary, and the salary of his attorney and the excessive rent

payment for our office complex. We only use about half of the space for which we are paying. Mr. Pack is only

too willing to use these directed tithe funds as a part of the normal operating budget. Meanwhile the needy do

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victims.

Mr. Pack has repeatedly told outright lies in my presence in order to manipulate people and obtain whatever

results he desires as a result of those lies. He does not seem to care about the consequences those lies may bring

to his victims. The scripture he has quoted most in my presence is 2 Cor. 12:16. He constantly goes around

proudly saying I caught you/him/her/them with guile. Any study of the word guile in a concordance will show

you if God approves of his private interpretation of this scripture. Rev. 14:4-5 is what Mr. Pack should try to

attain and teach. As a ministerial trainee, I need to report that he has tried to teach me that catching people with

guile (deceit) is a Godly attribute worthy of apostles. He knows that I cannot and will not agree with him on this

matter.

RCGs policy: If you dont tithe youre out. Over half of the mailing list was removed for one reason and one

reason only, they didnt give as much as Mr. Pack wanted them to. Forget about freely you received, freely

give. One of the biggest events of the day for Mr. Pack is when the mail comes in. He opens the mail

personally in order to count every last cent that comes in, and to see who has suddenly stopped tithing. If

someone hasnt given money in a while, he usually wont counsel with them. What he does is to remove them

from the mailing list. This is true of prospective members, too. Everything seems to revolve around money for

Mr. Pack. If you knew how much he spent per month on rent and for his personal attorney, or how huge his

salary is, then you would know why he is so concerned with the tithes, and why he is so willing to misuse the

other tithes as well as first tithe.

He stereotypes people based on what group they came out of. Mr. Pack acts one way to people to their faces or

over the phone but behind their backs he acts entirely different. Here is what Mr. Pack has told me he feels

about those who are in Restored: If an RCG member came with us from PCG, they are as spiritually insane as

Gerald Flurry and are likely to detonate. He says he shudders every time someone new comes with us from

PCG. If you came from Living then you are lukewarm and compromised like Rod Meredith. If you came from

Global straight to Restored, then you are balanced. (Thats the route Mr. Pack took!) All others dont even

register. How insulting of his membership. At best, this leaves no room for change or growth, assuming his

stereotypes are correct. I do not believe his stereotypes are Godly or correct.

Mr. Pack gossips constantly. When you counsel with Mr. Pack it is not confidential. If you counsel with him

about someone else and ask for confidentiality, sooner or later he betrays that trust and tells the other person

what was said, and oftentimes he puts a spin on what was said. I have witnessed this repeatedly, and previousemployees have witnessed this, too.

Make-up: Despite Mr. Packs claims to the contrary, RCG does permit the use of cosmetics when it is

convenient to do so. I am personally aware of people who have left RCG because Mr. Pack refused to enforce

his ruling on make-up. Many people he allows to come to services with make-up on as long as they, guess what,

TITHE. Those who want to wear make-up and dont tithe are put out.

Open door policy: RCG does indeed practice an open door policy. Perhaps the worst violator of the open door

policy is Mr. Pack himself. He has invited his own relatives who have no intention of joining Restored to

services and allowed the women to wear make-up. Protestants, other COG, ex WCG now unbelieving, etc., etc.

Even a woman who works downstairs in another office but has no clue about Gods truth asked to come and the

Packs invited her. The reason she wanted to come to Church was because she could hear the song service andliked the music and singing. Also in violation of his stated policies, Mr. Pack sent out Feast registration forms to

dozens of people who are not members of RCG. He is flinging the doors of our Feast wide open.

Mr. Pack spends an inordinate amount of time trying to pin something, anything, on previous employees. It was

Mr. Pack and his attorney who called the police on Don Tiger after Don refused to sign over the rights to his

CDs to RCG. Mr. Pack knew there was an outstanding federal warrant for Don Tiger when he hired him. Mr.

Pack wanted the CD project so badly that he was willing to overlook the warrant. Dons mistake was to counsel

with Mr. Pack. Sadly, Mr. Pack used that information against Don later, violating yet another confidence. Mr.

Pack turned Don Tiger over to the police. Read the following quote from Mr. Packs persecution statement:

The history of the True Church is replete with a basic replicating pattern of persecution that comes, almost

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entirely, from two basic sources. First, those who hold fast to the full Truth of God are eventually expelled,

attacked and accused because they will not go along with either the wholesale, or even PARTIAL, sell-out of

Gods Truth! Second, is that the civil governments of this world become involved in directly persecuting the

people of God, as well. As true and painful as this is, in itself, this often happens (perhaps even most often

happens) because the persecuting Church members are the ones who actually betray the true brethren to the

authorities who, it is hoped, will seek to bring or precipitate greater persecution upon those same true brethren.

What a sickening policy for Restored to have!! Mr. Pack falsely accuses this man. Heres an example of many:

In this light, it is interesting to note that the old Trust Fund was overdrawn by approximately $3,500, an

amount that might now be difficult to recoup. False! Untrue! Any investigation of the account can clearly showthat Mr. Tiger never overdrew the funds by one cent! There was a balance of over $270.00 on the very day

when Mr. Pack gave in to Worldwide attorney Ralph Helge and closed it down. I could literally cite dozens of

outright defamatory lies Mr. Pack has made while attacking Don Tiger. I believe the Tigers have acted in an

honorable fashion by not suing Mr. Pack for slander and libel. My hope is that Mr. Pack will repent of telling

lies and will bring forth fruits of repentance by admitting the lies and setting the record straight with the truth.

Mr. Pack also knew about an outstanding traffic ticket Don received because the most recently hired employee

told Mr. Pack about it. Mr. Pack wanted Don Tigers email list too. Don didnt feel comfortable with giving it

up so he declined to give it away. This angered Mr. Pack. Mr. Pack used confidential knowledge to turn Don in.

I was there when it happened.

June 7 Update: Do not be afraid to believe that God may dramatically intervene to protect His Church fromenemies who threaten to attack it! June 10 Update: Just hours before Donald Tiger was arrested the second

time on Wednesday night, Mr. Pack announced on this web site (please see June 7th Update) that do not be

afraid to believe that God will dramatically intervene to protect His church from His enemies. We believe that

God has dramatically intervened in a way we could have never imagined. Mr. Pack sicced the police on Don

Tiger days before and was told in advance that he would be picked up for the traffic ticket and warrant. There

was no surprise involved. Both updates were written by Mr. Pack. Need I say more. The following is a quote

from Mr. Packs persecution statement, I think it applies to what Mr. Pack did to Mr. Tiger: Certainly, if I

wanted to accuse somebody, and also make them look as bad as I possibly could in the process (probably

because I wanted to also divert attention away from the real doctrinal issues), one of the most brilliant strokes

that I could contrive would be to say that the person I am seeking to attack and accuse is really attacking and

accusing me. What more effective and clever strategy to deflect attention from the real issues could you think of

while you, at the same time, portray yourself as a victim? Think about this and try to recall even one single

incident where Mr. Tiger attacked or accused Mr. Pack. Mr. Pack has certainly made multiple attacks and

accusations against Mr. Tiger, and even went so far as to send the police after Mr. Tiger. The reason Mr. Pack

refuses to answer his accusers is that he would be faced with three clear and distinct choices. 1) Deny the

statements and be called a liar. 2) Repent and confess his sins and change his ways and be forgiven. 3) Say

nothing at all and hope it will all go away. Mr. Pack chooses to slyly deny anything brought against him by

refusing to comment. Or he says something to this effect: I refuse to answer those who accuse me falsely.

That is of course an answer to the accusation and a counteraccusation. He tries to hide behind his book Should

Accusers Be Answered saying he will not answer his accusers and all the while answering and counter-

accusing. The following is a quote from Mr. Packs persecution statement: As I mentioned above, most people

understand that I will never answer my accusers no matter what those accusations may be. This particular

accusation would never require an answer anyway because everything I do (books, booklets, tapes, and lettersto members, Newsletters and Updates) is public and open for all to review themselves. The question many

people have for Mr. Pack is: How do you explain this in light of your removing updates from the website? How

do you explain this in light of your open door policy? How do you explain this in light of the fact that many

write in with requests, and you refuse to honor those requests? Where are all the things which you mentioned

above public and open for all to review themselves? Mr. Pack, again you are not being honest with your

audience. Why?

I fully expect that I too will be accused of the most heinous of crimes when I am gone. My real crime was

selling my successful business and making the largest contribution to Restored in its history. The majority of the

directed funds I contributed were not spent as directed, by the way. Now I will face certain economic hardship

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in order to stand on principle. I put my family in harms way by coming to work for him, but I do not fear. God

is my rock. He has always been there for me.

As my final act as Trustee I send you this letter. For the above stated reasons and many, many more I hereby

tender my resignation as a Trustee of The Restored Church of God, as its treasurer, my position as Ministerial

trainee and assistant, and my membership in Restored Church of God. I join an ever growing list of former

employees who wished Restored would have lived up to its promises but now believe that the man in charge is

incapable of keeping his promises. You may contact me at 1-330-335-5283 or email me at [email protected]

if you so desire. You may write to me at P.O. Box 771, Wadsworth, Ohio 44282. It has been a pleasure to be of

service to you for the last eight months. I wish you well.

Your servant,

Thomas Munson

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