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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 10, 1981
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Appreciation for the Refresher Program
Dear Mr. Armstrong:
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My wife and I would like to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH to you and to the
refresher program staff for the wonderful program you have thought of
and made possible for the entire ministry worldwide. We were truly
refreshed spiritually and physically after attending the 10th session
of the program. We enjoyed so many lovely and beautiful things and
experiences for the first time in our lives.
We do appreciate very much with our whole heart the opportunity of
being called into God's Church and being chosen by God to be a part of
His ministry. We consider it a privilege also to stay on campus at
Ambassador College for the first time, even for a short three weeks
only.
Truly you have been instrumental in God's hand in so many ways. You
have paved the way to God's Truth, and many thousands are now treading
that path towards eternal life all over the earth. God, through Jesus
Christ, has inspired you and those directly under you to institute
this refresher program so that all in the ministry shall be speaking
the same thing in edifying the Church of God until we all come to the
unity of the faith.
Lastly, we would like to express our love and thanks to God through
Jesus Christ and to you, Mr. Armstrong, for the many blessings of
being in God's Church. Please·extend our very high regards and thanks
to your staff, beginning with Mr. Joe Tkach. We in the Philippines,
particularly the Church of God members in Pangasinan, are backing you
up 100% in doing God's Work.
Dion and Magdalena Catchillar
Dear Mr. Armstrong:
Gail and I have just returned from the 11th refresher program.
We
thank you for it! It was everything we were promised!
We were also grateful that we were able to hear you speak on three
occasions. I was especially glad that you came to close out the last
session for us.
You looked so well!
Your voice is strong, your
presentation clear and logical, and your sense of humour in fine form!
I had not seen you in a classroom setting, teaching without notes and
reacting to the expressions and feedback of your students since the
mid-60s when you taught Principles of Living to my freshman class in
Bricket Wood.
The impact was greater than I expected.
I had not
reflected for some time on it, but since kindergarten you have been
the voice on Radio Luxembourg, the personality in print, or the
teacher--especially through the pages of your autobiography. You have
been the apostle since my birth, and I expect you will be until "my
change" at the return of Christ.
Now that you are back in Pasadena it once again feels like headquar
ters. And I know from the comments of the students they again have the
same joy we experienced in the 60s when it was not uncommon to see you