Don Rutledge, former co-worker in Texas, wrote:
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"Starting around 1972, Witness Lee expressed a concern for the financial suffering of the migrating saints and their need to be able to purchase proper meeting places. I was in a meeting of visiting elders and co-workers in which he introduced the Daystar business. He shared that his son Timothy had approached him about a business and that the business seemed to Witness Lee to be ideal for us (the local churches). The brothers and sisters could invest money, earn a nice profit of around 35%, and generate significant profit for the support of the new churches. He then spoke of manufacturing only the finest product. We could produce the product in Taiwan, which would help the believers there with employment and sell the product in the USA. He spoke at length concerning how the members of the churches should only invest their surplus and that he felt very positive that this was of the Lord.
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If you read the historical record of Lee's passionate sales pitch, everyone is a winner -- migrating saints, new meeting halls, investing saints,Taiwan workers, new local churches. What's not to like? Note that there was no mention of Lee or his ministry benefiting in any way from the Daystar enterprise.
Then fast forward 5 years, and what do we learn?
No investor saint, no migrating saints, and no LC was ever helped. No meeting halls were built. The Taiwan assembly workers all got fired.
Only Timothy Lee got wealthy!