Gita Saraydarian shares her story:

Before I had any idea I would become a publisher, Torkom casually mentioned to me one day that it would be great if I would be interested in publishing his books. I thought nothing of it at the time.

Ten years passed and one day, like a bolt of lightning, I knew I had to start a publishing company. I quit my job and called Dad. He said, “You quit your job? Why? Are you sure?” I said, “Yes, that was what I wanted to do.” He said “Okay, come to Sedona when you are ready and we can load you up with manuscripts.”

So I started TSG in my bedroom on top of my family’s garage in California 28 years ago. I had just a little idea what the work would entail, however I had plenty of passion to share the inspiration from my father’s writings. I wanted to publish his books, teach from them, and distribute them. Even at that time, I had a plan to train teachers and leaders to carry on the work. Little did I know the impact of that decision. Something I loved grew into a company that now reaches people all over the world. All the stories, the emails, and letters I receive from people everywhere touch my heart. I know that every day, someone benefits from our work.

I had to start by learning about publishing! I needed to study and do lots and lots of research. I had to start reading my father’s manuscripts. I needed a desk. So I had my brother make one out of two saw-horses and a door. With a lovely table-cloth to cover the door, I now had a huge desk. But, where to put it? Just in time, my youngest brother moved out of the bedroom next to mine, so I moved TSG into that room. Now I had a proper office and a desk and was ready to work.

Soon, TSG grew out of that one room and had to move out. I rented a house in California and moved TSG. I had one assistant and two volunteers. We occupied the garage with our printed books and made the two bedrooms and the dining room into offices. Every day, volunteers and staff would come to my home to work. It was no longer a one woman operation.

My father lived in Arizona and I wanted to be near him to work with him on his books. After searching for two years, I purchased a home in Arizona. I carpeted and fitted the two-car garage for the new TSG office. We placed four desks in the garage with an area to pack books and do the accounting. We stored all our printed books in two home garages. After two years, I realized that we needed space to hold meetings and classes.

So, we moved out of the garage and we spread our operations into the entire house: bedrooms for offices, living room for lectures, and dining room for library. The garage was now filled with printed books, and we had to rent a storage space to store the rest of the printed books. Upon Torkom’s death, we received his collection of library books and our living room and dining room were filled with several thousand books. We also received Torkom’s handwritten documents and manuscripts and they were categorized and boxed in storage boxes in the garage. Boxes and boxes of original manuscripts, archived videos, and audios were also stored. Our classes and seminars increased and more people began to take courses and attend lectures and meditations.

We ran out of room once again so we built a storage facility next to the garage and brought all the printed books from offsite storage and put everything in the second garage. Now, TSG was all in one place.

What a journey!

Now we are fast outgrowing our current space and I have realized that we need a permanent home that is accessible to the public. We need space in which to grow. We need larger offices. We need a TSG Center. We can no longer afford to move from one room to another. A permanent, accessible, public space is needed if we want to make sure that Torkom’s work can continue and be sustainable into the future.

We have been given a $200,000 Challenge Grant. Whatever we can raise this year, will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $200,000. That’s $400,000!

With your support, we can make this Challenge Grant a reality, thus ensuring TSG’s sustainability. TSG needs financial support. TSG Foundation is non-profit, tax-exempt organization. All of your contributions are tax deductible and serve the important purpose of leading humanity into its glorious future.

Torkom assured me that our work was God’s work and that financial assistance will come to us if we work diligently and keep with our principles. I see how this has taken place through generous contributions from people such as yourself. Now I call upon you to help us once again in this huge project.

Please help us fund our new home. Share the Ageless Wisdom Teaching with the world. Help us anchor Torkom’s work in a place worthy of his stature and contributions to humanity.