LIFE ASSURANCE MINISTRIES

Life Assurance Ministries: Our Story of Faith
BEGINNINGS
Dale Ratzlaff
First Magazine
In the fall of 2000, Dale and Carolyn Ratzlaff, working with Richard and Colleen Tinker and also Bruce Heinrich, founded Life Assurance Ministries (LAM), a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, for the purpose of producing a newsletter for questioning and former Seventh-day Adventists and other Sabbatarians.
There was no consistent and continuing print ministry for transitioning Adventists, so Dale started Proclamation! Richard Tinker offered to design Dale’s newsletter, and the first issue was mailed in November, 2000.
