Basic HTML Version
Ambassador Colleges DESPERATELY NEED additional
buildings. We are literally bursting at the seams. Pasadena
students do not have enough dining-room space, and some have to eat
out-doors. This has been rather inconvenient during our recent
record-breaking continuous rains and storms. Our business and
accounting department is in dire need of an additional office--but
so are our professors and ministers in our small administration
building. It seems we now must deprive the business and accounting
department of an office in order to provide one for Mr. Roderick
Meredith. All these years I have been doing my work in an office
too small even to use a regular office desk. I have had to use a
lady's dressing-table for a desk. I have had to work without a
private secretary or stenographer, because there was no space in
the Library building, where my little "cubby-hole" office is
located.
So now, at last, we are enlarging my office in a
remodelling and building operation. When completed, I will at last
have a nice large office, with adjoining filing-cabinet room, two
secretaries' offices, and an office for Garner Ted Armstrong. These
are in close proximity to our radio studio, giving us quick access
for broadcasting.
Plans are on the architect's drawing boards now for
a new dining hall, which also must serve as assembly-hall,
auditorium, class-rooms, and social center. In England we must
complete a major remodelling operation to provide a new dining hall
and girls' dormitory before next fall, or we cannot take in any new
students for the next year. The County Council visited our college
in a body last Friday, while my son Garner Ted was there, to pass
judgment on whether to approve and issue building permits for this
enlargement. They approved it.
Beside all this, our business managers, both here at
Pasadena, and at the college in England, have informed me that they
have EXTRA LARGE bills to meet this coming month.
So you see, dear fellow Co-Workers, God's Work is
under heavy pressure and great need for an increase in funds
through tithes and generous offerings--which it pleases God to
supply through YOU and the other Co-Workers. If worldly colleges
and universities with only materialistic goals can raise 75 million
dollars or more per college, cannot we raise the few hundred
thousand we need so desperately--for GOD'S WORK--the most IMPORTANT
activity on earth today?
I must ask you to try to increase the amount you
send in for the Work for the next months to come.
Let us remain AWAKE to the speeding up of world
conditions--and the speeding up that MUST keep pace, in God's Work.
We need now to PRAY for this work as never before. We need to
really PUT OUR HEARTS INTO IT! We need to put God's Work FIRST,
above everything else in our lives! God is BLESSING His work.
About 50% more people have been converted through this work, and
baptized by our men, during the past year than any other year of