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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.2, N0.10
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FEAST PLANNING
MARCH 7, 1980
Mr. Herbert Armstrong has approved the festival sites for 1980. However,
there are some contractual arrangements to be verified before all sites
are confirmed. We will be publishing all of the locations in the United
States in the very near future.
We appreciate the assistance of everyone involved in making recommenda
tions and providing some of the legwork in gathering information for the
potential sites.
According to Mr. Armstrong's guidelines to locate festival sites within
easy access of church members, we are increasing the number of locations
even this year. Projecting into the future, we will probably have even
more sites with an average attendance of 3,000 per festival location.
We are already planning the Feast of Tabernacles for 1981 and future
years. If you have any suggestions and information regarding potential
feast sites, please forward them to me.
--Ellis LaRavia
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Good News from Ghana!
At long last we have a residence permit for Melvin Rhodes and his family,
the pastor of the churches in Ghana! The process that was initiated by
Mr. Abner Washington, when he was the pastor there in September, 1976,
has finally been completed. Melvin received the permit late last month.
It's a residence permit for one year with ability to renew after that.
In addition, they now have a multiple re-entry visa which will enable
them to come and go as needed.
The granting of this permit together with the re-entry visas will save
Melvin an incredible amount of time, as they have been existing in Ghana
on two-month extensions of a temporary visa. Every time they needed to
go outside of the country for shopping or visiting Cameroons, Nigeria,
etc.,they had to get a new re-entry visa. The wheels of government turn
very slowly in Ghana. Added to that was the constant need to chase
people about the residence permit. That is now something of the past.
It certainly will make life easier for the Rhodes having that residence
permit, and we would like to thank all of those who asked for God's help
in this matter. But the problems the Rhodes face are not over by any
means. It's just easier for them to handle them. They now can travel to
neighbouring Togo (former French territory) to do their shopping as often
as they need--within the limits of their miniscule petrol allocation--6
gallons per week!