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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 3 , NO. 19
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
BLESSINGS FLOW FOR OUR "ON TRACK" PERFORMANCE
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
MAY 8, 1981
We moved to put ourselves "back on God's track." Now God is moving to
shower blessings on His Work. IN EVERY WAY THE WORK IS LUNGING AHEAD and
God is increasing membership and income.
I have said before that when our lives and performance are pleasing to
God, He bestows on us blessings. He is adding conversions. He is prosper
ing us so that financial income is once again increasing as it was during
the first 35 years of this Work.
At services on the Unleavened Bread holy days, attendance worldwide
averaged around 9% increase over the year before. Holy day offering in
creases were sensational. First and last holy day offerings increased as
follows: In Australia, 57% and 72.4%; in New Zealand, 42.5% and 57.8%; in
Canada, 35% and 33.7%; in Germany, 78.1% and 31.9% (the only country with
loss in attendance--1.2%); United Kingdom, 26% and 20%; United States,
26.6% and 24.9%; South Africa, 31.5% and 38.7%. Even considering infla
tion, these are splendid increases.
In March, 100,000 new subscribers were added to The PLAIN TRUTH sub
scription list--not counting newsstand distribution. This is United States
only. Mail subscribers, 1,090,384; newsstand circulation, 740,000. In the
first 3 months of this year we added 206,000 new subscribers. An estimated
130,000 more were added in April. The present trend indicates close to
1,000,000 new subscribers will be added during the current year. Newsstand
response--those adding new mail subscriptions--has doubled the past few
months. Requests for magazines and equipment are twice what was projected.
Newsstand response is 2.35% and growing.
Introductory PLAIN TRUTHS are being sent out three times the usual
rate. Normal 6-7 months supply exhausted in 2 months. Cardholder Program
has added 24,145 new subscribers, and on the Waiting Room Program 53,000
doctors' and dentists' waiting room copies have been added so far this
year. Forty thousand new subscribers have been added in 3 months by blow-in
subscription cards.
The renewal rate for regular subscribers is 54%.
In all these 48 years of the Work perhaps no other part of the Work has
accomplished as much as The PLAIN TRUTH. During these 48 years no other
facet of the Work has done as much to spread the Gospel message as The PLAIN
TRUTH.
Stop a moment and compare this Work with other professing "gospel"
works in the world. Bi
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