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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, February 20, 1981
four more programs in reserve; I have recorded six new programs since re
turning home. I hope to be able to do four new programs every week from
now on, except if I have to be overseas.
Yesterday I went to Big Sandy. I was amazingly surprised to see
the well-maintained, virtually irrunaculate condition of the campus there,
even though everything has been closed down so long. Few junior colleges
in the U.S. have such superb facilities. Following is a report on the
visit I wrote on the flight back last evening.
I knew there would be pressure brought to open also the Imperial
School there. I found the Imperial School separate campus and facility
in the same well-maintained condition--an especially fine, modern facil
ity. At Pasadena we have reopened the Imperial School on a basis where
parents' tuitions virtually pay the costs. I have directed a complete
research of this situation as it applies to Big Sandy.
If, as at Pasadena, parental tuitions can defray the costs so that
it will not have to be supported out of the general Church budget, it is
possible the Imperial School may reopen also at Big Sandy simultaneously
with the college campus. The physical facility is all ready to go. I
am told �ost of the faculty is available and waiting. There can well be
a certain amount of cooperation in the teaching load from the college
faculty--as there is at Pasadena. God wants His Church to be concerned
about the children, and close parent-child relationships--that is, whole
FAMILY relationships among God's people.
What we can do within our means, God wants us to do.
All around the world, reports are corning in that growth in the Church
and its Work is once again, for the first time in about 12-14 years,
mounting up close to 30% per year. When WE, THE CHURCH here on earth,
are pleasing GOD, then He blesses us with GROWTH. Success depends more
on how well WE please HIM than on our efforts in other directions. Of
ourselves we can do NOTHING. "GOD doeth the WORK!" We are instruments.
All Church troubles through the years have come from NON-spiritual
political efforts for personal human power, position or money. I have
labored ceaselessly these past 2 1/2 years to put God's Church back on
GOD'S track, PLEASING TO HIM. The fact of -the surge forward in growth
reports, not only over the U.S., but in Britain, Europe, Canada and
around the world (the Philippines, I found,is on a 30% increase now).
Fellow ministers and wives, PRAY and fast, and pray as NEVER BEFORE.
Put your whole mind and heart into GOD'S WORK!