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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
March 26, 1968
Dear Brethren of God's Church:
My time has been so crowded that I simply did not get
around to writing you, at the first of January, in regard to the
renewing of statements of intention for this year for the building
fund.
But now this fund is sinking so low it has brought us to
a serious CRISIS. I am forced to drop everything else and write
you about it.
Brethren, I have done everything I could to make clear to
all members just WHAT IS "THE WORK." It is the Work of God, which
He carries on through HIS CHURCH as His instrument, with the living
Jesus Christ as its guiding Leader and HEAD. But all this WORK OF
GOD is actually done BY AMBASSADOR COLLEGE. It is the Work of
getting Christ's own GOSPEL to all the world as a witness. We do
it by radio and the printing press -- reaching MORE THAN 45 MILLION
PEOPLE EVERY WEEK around the world! And also, now, beginning on
color TELEVISION. But it is AMBASSADOR COLLEGE which actually
purchases the radio and TV time. It is the COLLEGE which operates
the four printing plants -- in Pasadena; Big Sandy, Texas; Watford,
England; and Sydney, Australia.
It is a BIG Work. It is a very GREAT Work. Just to
maintain a mailing list of 1,200,000 subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH
-- and to print all those names and addresses on copies of the
magazine every month is an operation of great MAGNITUDE. Beside,
there is The GOOD NEWS, the CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, and thousands of
booklets to be addressed and mailed out EVERY DAY. Several
thousand names and addresses have to be CHANGED every month,
because people are always moving, and out of more than a million
several die every month. Did you ever stop to think HOW GREAT is
the job of keeping up such a vast mailing list, printing all those
names and addresses every month?
Years ago, Mrs. Armstrong and I did it all by ourselves --
by pen and ink. But there were only about two or three HUNDRED
names on the mailing list, then. Today there are two HUNDRED
THOUSAND more than a MILLION! Today that can only be done on the
very latest COMPUTER which cost 1 1/2 million dollars! Today it
takes BIG BUILDINGS to do this gigantic work!
Today we are building a giant new PRINTING PLANT in
Pasadena -- to be the second largest printing plant west of
Chicago! And all the great subscription list has to be done in
ANOTHER large building that houses this great computer! We have to
keep training MORE AND MORE STUDENTS -- some to be MINISTERS to
pastor the local churches -- some to be technicians trained to