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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, February 13, 1981
Valley of Oregon, they "laughed me to scorn"--(read II Chronicles 30:5-10).
But when the fledgling
parent
of the
present era,
Worldwide Church of God,
was first raised up, after seven years in 1933, they, mostly converted
through my preaching, all began keeping the annual Sabbaths with us.
It was twelve years later, 1945, when God showed me the PURPOSE of
the Feast of Tabernacles, and that we should leave our homes in this world
for eight days and enjoy a foretaste of the thousand-year reign with Christ
in WORLD PEACE, with Satan gone, as well as the Great White Throne Judgment
for perhaps the next hundred years following. We went that year to the
very beautiful little site of Belknap Springs--but 100 attendance over
crowded it. We held the Feast there for seven years. Then, 1952, the one
and only site was Siegler Springs northeast of San Francisco.
Beginning
1953 it was held at Big Sandy, Texas.
In the early 60's, we added Squaw
Valley, then Jekyll Island, then Mt. Pocono--and the number of sites has
been growing ever since.
But just to remain home at our own local church does not seem to
fulfill God's PURPOSE for the Festival.
In old times the people left home
and travelled to Jerusalem for the Feast.
Following is a list of revised sites being prepared for the 1981
Feast of Tabernacles:
Assigned Sites
Big Sandy, Texas
Cape Cod, �assachusetts
Dayton, Ohio
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania
�orfolk, Virginia
Rapid City, South Dakota
Spokane, Washington
Squaw Valley (or Fresno), California
St. Petersburg, Florida
Tucson, Arizona
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Transfer Sites
Hawaii
Jerusalem
Pasadena
Projected Attendance
9,000
6,000
8,500
3,500
8,000
6,000
8,500
3,500
6,000
5,000
8,500
8,500
5,500
Alaska (operated through the Canadian Office)
Niagara Falls, New York (operated through the Canadian Office)
Other international sites (to be listed later)
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