We have just held an ordination in which Barbara J Rich of Las Vegas
Nevada and Esther Christiane Trefzer of Switzerland were installed as
ministers of the Church of God Unlimited on campus here in Campo
California.
The two candidates spent a weekend on campus listening to lectures
and interacting with the monks of the Absolute Monastery.
Rev Barbara Rich has traveled worldwide to every possible spiritual
center looking for a philosophy which works every time.
The law of cause and effect has been high on her agenda and has so
proven effective. Her warm heart and open mind made her a receptive monk
in the Absolute Monastery and the Church of God Unlimited.
She operates a school for youngsters who were unable to finish
their work for a high school diploma. School Director Rich has 300
students who are not all that eager to do the work
required, but who are willing to do as their parents have suggested and
finish for their recognition. When they do graduate their gratitude is
boundless.
As Rev Rich
works with the youngsters she finds that she is uplifted and illumined
because she daily sees the children wakeup to their inner wisdom and to
their inner learning ability. "To see the look on the faces of the
students who finish their work is so rewarding. I would like to have
schools all over the country meeting this need of so many would-be high
school graduates," she said.
As Mrs Rich participated in campus life she was required to do many
things she did not normally do at home but she fell into the procedure
with enthusiasm and humility.
Rev Esther works with massage and affirmations in her profession in
Switzerland. She has dozens of men and women who come to her for the
work of her healing hands. She has traveled the world in quest of a
spiritual program which she could claim as her own. She said she has
found it in the teachings of the University of Healing.
One of the greatest lessons Monk Esther learned at the Monastery is
to be unjudgmental and untouched. These two virtues are ones everyone
coming to the campus grounds studies and applies diligently in their
lives because it is something that they all have ignored most of their
lives.
On campus she watched the interplay of the monks as they lived
their daily lives. Constantly she had the privilege of seeing through
the illusions and recognizing the purity of purpose and result. It is
something that many people miss because they think about the illusions
only as "problems" and not as a "solution." With a smile on her face she
rose over all of the hurtles and obstacles which faced her to stand
forth majestically master of herself and her world.
Every Church of God Unlimited and University of Healing ordination
does not have such a dramatic turnaround, but every ordination assures
each that everyone is a minister, ministering to themselves and their
creation.
-Dr Herbert L Beierle
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