CBG - A ministry of J Richard & Virginia Fugate : History

The Foundation for
Biblical Research

History

The Foundation for Biblical Research is a sole proprietorship of J. Richard Fugate and Virginia Fugate. Mr. Fugate personally accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and was baptized into the Body of Christ at Reinhardt Bible Church in Garland, Texas in 1968. He and his wife Virginia, who was saved the year before, have attended various Bible churches in Dallas, Austin, Phoenix and Sacramento over the years. Most of their pastors have been Dallas Theological Seminary graduates.

After committing himself in 1971 to serve God anywhere, or in any manner he might be called, Mr. Fugate learned Greek, studied more than 1500 hours of Bible lessons from three Dallas Seminary pastors, and personally studied several thousand hours in the Old and the New Testament (in their original languages). Mr. Fugate founded The Foundation for Biblical Research (FBR) in 1979 "to determine the one true meaning of Scripture based on honest research and a scientifically sound system of hermeneutics." All of Mr. and Mrs. Fugate's books are based on that research.

Soon after his commitment to God, Mr. Fugate was called as Business Manager and later Vice President of Finance for Accelerated Christian Education (A.C.E.). Although he had no formal education or experience in either business or education, God worked through him and many others so that A.C.E. became highly successful within the next three years (1973-1976). In 1975, Mr. and Mrs. Fugate were led to start a Christian school in Garland, Texas based on their experience of home schooling their own children for two years. In 1978, Mr. Fugate began consulting part time with Alpha Omega Publications (A.O.P.) in Phoenix, Arizona while he began FBR in Austin, Texas. In March of 1982 he was hired as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of A.O.P.

Mr. Fugate has been a Keynote Speaker at over 40 State home school conventions over the years and has written three books on home schooling. When A.O.P. was taken over by a California company in 1994 they brought in their own top management team and eliminated the old. Mr. and Mrs. Fugate then went on the road speaking on Biblical marriage, child training, and home schooling while writing 2nd editions of their popular books. He served as Business Manager of Family Ministries from 2000 through 2004. Mr. Fugate is currently functioning as the Director of The Foundation for Biblical Research in Arizona and continues to teach and write Biblical truths on the family and Christian maturity.