Editing Grace Communion International (section)

=== Ambassador International Cultural Foundation ===
During the 1960s, "Armstrong had sought to put into stronger action what he later termed God's ''way of give''",<ref name="RtR2324">{{cite book |last=Flurry |first=Stephen |url=https://archive.org/details/raisingruinsfigh0000flur/page/23 |title=Raising the Ruins: The Fight to Revive the Legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong |date=October 30, 2006 |publisher=Philadelphia Church of God |isbn=978-0-9745507-1-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/raisingruinsfigh0000flur/page/23 23–24] |url-access=registration}}</ref> which was said to include "the way of character, generosity, cultural enrichment, true education: of beautifying the environment and caring for fellow man." He began undertaking humanitarian projects in underprivileged locales around the world, which led to the creation of the church-run Ambassador International Cultural Foundation (AICF) in 1975. The Foundation worked in several countries, providing staffing and funds to fight illiteracy, create schools for disabled people, set up mobile schools, and conduct several archaeological digs at significant biblical sites. The church auditorium hosted, at highly subsidized ticket prices, hundreds of performances by noted artists such as [[Luciano Pavarotti]], [[Vladimir Horowitz]], [[Bing Crosby]], [[Marcel Marceau]], and [[Bob Hope]].<ref>Flurry, pp. 25–26</ref>  

''Quest'' periodical was published monthly by AICF from July 1977 to September 1981. Originally named ''Human Potential'', the project was directed by Stanley Rader as a secular outreach of the church-funded AICF. ''Quest'' publishers hired a professional staff unrelated to the church to create a high-quality  publication devoted to the [[humanities]], travel, and the [[arts]]. The periodical was created in the aftermath of Armstrong's poorly received ''1975 in Prophecy!'', a publication which caused accusations of false prophecy to spread like wildfire. (The use of the year 1975 was defended by church ministers as a device to explain biblical prophecy, by contrasting it with the scientific world's declaration of 1975 as the year of technological "Utopia"). The AICF become secular in its approach and thinking and the church began to cut back on its funding. Eventually it was discontinued by Armstrong and its assets were sold to other interests.{{cn|date=April 2024}}