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This month it is 825,000 copies--read by some 2 1/2 or 3 MILLION
people!
AND--WHAT IS MORE--time is running out! It is LATER THAN YOU
THINK. There are but few years left to complete this job,
preparing THE WAY for the return of Jesus Christ IN POWER AND
GLORY, to rule all nations and bring this world PEACE, and
HAPPINESS! To fulfill God's Mission to which we have been called
as Co-Workers, THE WORK MUST CONTINUE GROWING AT THE RATE OF 30%
EACH YEAR!
But RIGHT HERE is OUR CRISIS! This year, so far, the INCOME
to keep this Work going has fallen BELOW 30%--down to around 20%!
That means just ONE THING! It means we Co-Workers HAVE NOT
BEEN PRAYING as urgently, as prevailingly, as we should. And it
means WE MUST bring the increase in tithes and offerings up to
about 40% increase for the remainder of this year!
(I DO NOT mean that each one of US Co-Workers should make our
own contributions, in tithes and offerings, 30% bigger each year.
I mean that the TOTAL amount reaching the Pasadena Headquarters
must average that for the year.)
But it DOES MEAN that we need to PRAY FOR GOD TO INSPIRE MORE
AND MORE PEOPLE TO BECOME CO-Workers with us and with Christ, so
that there will be MORE OF US to pick up OUR part in God's Work.
Right now we are faced with another situation. Each year, it
seems, only about 45% of the year's income is received during the
first six months--and 55% the last six months. This year, we
budgeted the operation of the Work on a 27% increase over last
year, and on that basis only 44% was received the first six months.
So WE MUST PRAY EARNESTLY for the other 56% to come in during this
last half of 1966.
Co-Workers, time is running out on us! It is, as I've said
before, LATER THAN YOU THINK! Let us PRAY for God to speed the
coming of HIS Kingdom--when HIS WILL shall be done on earth, and
deliver us from the evils of THIS world! But also let us REJOICE
that God has DRAFTED US into HIS PEACE ARMY, proclaiming the GOOD
news of that coming day of PEACE and happiness and joy over the
earth--helping to CHANGE THE WORLD--preparing the way for CHRIST'S
COMING! PRAY FOR GOD TO PUT IT INTO THE MINDS AND HEARTS OF MORE
PEOPLE TO VOLUNTARILY BECOME CO-WORKERS that there shall be MORE
added to our number SUPPORTING this great Work!
I cannot, and will not, as you know, ask for contributions
over the air, in any of our literature--or in any way solicit the
public for money. GOD'S WORK simply cannot, and does not, do that.
But, just as God called me into His Work--just as He somehow laid
it on Your heart to voluntarily start contributing offerings or
tithes, He can, and WILL, if we ask Him earnestly enough, in this
same manner DRAFT many additional Co-Workers by laying it on their
hearts to start sending contributions. We need to INCREASE our
Family of Co-Workers by 30% a year ALSO--and this year the increase
is less than that.