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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, January 25, 1980
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Wednesday, Messrs. McCullough, Wilson and Tkach spent an afternoon
with me here in Tucson. I am making Mr. McCullough more and more a
supervisor over the foreign Work, and reports from South Africa, Britain,
Europe, the Caribbean and Canada, along with reports from Mr. Wilson
about the Work in Australia, Southeastern Asia, India, Sri Lanka and the
South Pacific are all exciting.
The invasion of the State of California against God's Church head
quarters at Pasadena has had an electric effect in all these areas world
wide! Just as in the U.S., the churches and brethren have been drawn
closer to CHRIST and to one another! The Church is actually growing
faster SPIRITUALLY than in numbers--but as God blesses the spiritual
growth, He ADDS TO our numbers! There is increase in membership and
income in all areas.
And of course you all know of the strides in the U.S. in the past
year!
But this spiritual and physical growth is JUST IN TIME! We are closer
to the GREAT TRIBULATION than we think! OUR TIME IS NOW SHORT! Let's get
ON THE BALL even more enthusiastically than ever!
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MOONLIGHTING AND WORKING WIVES
I have been quite disturbed at reports of a limited number of our
salaried ministers "moonlighting''--taking part-time, extra-paying jobs on
the side, secretly. Also of some of the ministers' wives earning extra
incornes--mostly by joining in a national cosmetics-pseudo-religious
enterprise of selling cosmetics to women members of the Church.
Fellows and wives, I think this has been mostly stopped--I hope
altogether--and I think most who were doing those things are no longer in
God's ministry. Perhaps they are ALL now gone from us. I hope so. But I
feel it should be put on notice, that sort of thing is NOT ALLOWABLE IN
GOD Is CHURCH!
I hope no further notice on this score will be necessary. Ministers'
salaries are supposed to cover whatever complete HELP a wife should give
her husband in his work! To do this sort of thing secretly on the side,
thinking those Jesus Christ is using in authority will not find it out,
totally unfits a man to be a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in His own
one and true Church!
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