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in the World Tomorrow!
Sunday I must leave for Tokyo again. A meeting is arranged
with Japan's new Prime Minister Tanaka, whom I already know. His
picture will be on the front cover of The PLAIN TRUTH in the
September number, and my meeting with him will provide the cover
article. A request has come from Foreign Minister Malik of
Indonesia (who also is President of the General Assembly of the
United Nations) for me to stop by Djakarta this trip for a meeting
with President Suharto. Also another meeting is scheduled with the
King of Thailand, where Ambassador College is assisting in the
King's educational program for his mountain people. Then there
is to be another meeting with the President and Prime Minister of
Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and a telex today said they will provide a
helicopter at the airport to fly us to Colombo (an hour or more
by car).
Then on to Jerusalem, where we have 90 students winding
up a summer's work at the archaeological project, clearing off the
debris over David's throne, where Christ is to sit and rule the
world. Each year at this time, the officials of Hebrew University
host a banquet in my honor, with all our students and staff
attending.
Brethren, Garner Ted's new DAILY TV programs are, in my
judgment, FAR better than his documentary-type programs. In these
he can really cut loose with the GOSPEL Message. They are going
to have tremendous IMPACT on millions of people.
Next week's TIME magazine will have a full page ad we are
running to refute false attacks, and tell the TRUTH about the
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD. This week's TV GUIDE carries the same
ad -- 19 million copies!
Brethren, the Work is plunging on ahead in GREATER POWER
THAN EVER BEFORE! But it can FINISH the WORK OF GOD ONLY if we
are a real believing and PRAYING Church. Garner Ted has assigned
to all who will participate in the Personal Appearance campaigns
not less than ONE-HALF HOUR of prayer on their knees EVERY DAY!
Unless the power of God's SPIRIT is in us, and behind this Work,
it will fizzle. With that POWER nothing can stop it. REMEMBER
-- pray earnestly for me, and for Garner Ted and his wife. Pray
earnestly for THE WORK -- and that God will provide, through His
people, the needed financial income. It's going to be a very tight
squeeze during the next six months. YOUR CONSTANT AND EARNEST
PRAYERS ARE NEEDED, as well as financial sacrifice. Garner Ted
and I, Mr. Portune as Executive Vice President and manager of
financial affairs, Mr. David Antion as the new Director of Church
Administration, and all of our leaders here at Headquarters are
PUTTING OUR ALL -- an ALL-OUT EFFORT -- into finishing this Work.
But we seriously need YOU to back us up. Satan will continue to
work harder than ever, especially through the malcontents and
dissidents who are trying to destroy God's Work. A man with a gun,
who already has killed one man and recently got out of the
penitentiary, is reported to be in the vicinity now to "get" either
Garner Ted or me. Our lives are on the block. Will YOU pray
earnestly for our protection? Remember, GOD'S power is supreme!