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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPoRT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.3, N0.7
PASADENA. CALIFORNIA
FEAST SITES �GAI� AT SQUAW
VALLEY AND JEKYLL ISLAND
by Herbert W. Armstrong
FEBRUARY 13, 1981
Some thousands of our people will be joyously elated to know that
this fall we shall be using again, in all probability, both Squaw Valley
and Jekyll Island feast sites.
Already I had announced that we are repairing the big tabernacle at
Mt. Pocono and will be using it again. About a third of the Mt. Pocono
tabernacle was ruined by the heavy snow cave-in three years ago. As
repaired it will only seat some 8,000, but the Registration Building is
still intact, and we can again accept two-thirds or more of the number
who formP.rly attended there.
Squaw Valley is not 100% sure yet, but the management does want us
back, and will make certain necessary repairs. I have OK'd it, and I
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sure we will be able to use it, though perhaps not quite as large a
number of members can be accepted there as formerly. It will replace
Fresno this year.
In a sense we still have Niagara Falls. It will be used primarily
by the Canadian churches, but United States members who especially want
to attend at Niagra Falls may be able to transfer there, upon request.
Because of new construction in the area in St. Petersburg, there will
be parking space for only about 8,500 there, whereas we have formerly
accommodated there up to 12,000. So, this year we are again going back to
Jekyll Island where 3,500 can be accommodated. A new auditorium facility
has been added there that will accommodate up to 3,500. Thus Jekyll and
St. Petersburg will together accommodate the same 12,0.00 combined that
formerly went to St. Petersburg alone.
We shall expect a larger attendance of 8,500 at Tucson, Arizona,
whereas we had about 5,000 last fall.
I have asked the Festival Office to reduce the number of feast sites
this year, with larger attendance at several. I felt we were going too
far on the number of sites, reducing the number of brethren at each site.
I could see it leading to a situation where either each local church would
almost stay home and have its own feast--or, two or three churches in a
close area would combine and virtually stay home for the Feast.
God revealed to me, even before or at the time of conversion,that the
seven annual holy days or annual Sabbath�were observed by the New Testa
ment Church and by Christ, and ordained FOREVER! For seven years my \·Ji
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and I kept them alone by ourselves. When I explained them and their con-
tinuous binding by God to the brethren of the Sardis era in the �illamette