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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Pasadena
February 19, 1984
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
THINK OF IT! We have reached and passed the 50th anniversary of this
great worldwide Work of the living GOD in these very end-time days of this
present world.
I presume you already have received your 50th anniversary number of The
PLAIN TRUTH. It seems like only yesterday since my wife Loma and I carried the
entire printing of the first issue of The PLAIN TRUTH in our arms across the
street
from our little one-room unventilated office in Eugene, Oregon, to the post
office.
Today it requires several large freight cars to transport the paper for just one
issue
of The PLAIN TRUTH.
Fifty years ago it had a circulation only in a couple of counties in one
state.
Today its circulation of over 6 l/2 million copies goes out over every inhabited
continent on earth, and most inhabited islands of the seas.
Yet that is only one phase of this great Work of God in which YOU, with
me, have your vital part to play.
The television program now brings in a telephone response from between
eight and twelve thousand viewers within minutes after every program each week.
Today multiple thousands are requesting counseling with one of our ordained
ministers, educated at Ambassador College, regarding baptism, and thousands are
being converted and receiving God's Holy Spirit, begetting them as very children
of the Great GOD.
God has moved swiftly and with vitality and power to put HIS PEOPLE back
on the track, more fully consecrated and dedicated and deeply committed to HIM
and his Work since 1978. Tremendous strides have been made.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for your own dedication and zeal in prayer,
financial sacrifice and even personal volunteer service on the part of many of
you
in this recent upsurge in the most vitally important and precious Work and
activity
on earth in these closing days of this age.
It has not been easy. This modern END-TIME Work of God was started
when God knocked me down, as surely as he did to the apostle Paul, only in a
different manner. He took away from me all material gains for which I had worked
so diligently for 26 years in the magazine and newspaper business. He brought me
to total defeat in the material world of mammon, challenged me, opened my eyes
to his Truth, brought me to real repentance and FAITH in him--then began using
me, continually revealing to me much biblical TRUTH that had been lost. From