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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TOTHEMINISTRYOFTHE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.3, N0.43
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE UPDATE
(Pasadena Campus)
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 13, 1981
Ambassador College is now back in full swing after the Feast. This week's
classes will end the first quarter of the college year--i.e. will bring us
to the mid-semester point.
It was encouraging to many of us faculty members to meet and talk with you
ministers during the Feast of Tabernacles period. We are always happy to
have your input concerning the college, and are also happy to explain what
is happening at Ambassador College.
We were very encouraged to see that the "Festival '81" film shown was well
received at all Feast sites. Mr. Armstrong recently told me that he really
enjoyed "Festival '81." we are, in fact, now in the planning stages of next
year's "Festival '82." Yesterday, Ellis LaRavia, Joe Tkach, Larry Omasta,
Ross Jutsum and a few others of us got together to discuss various points
relative to the production of next year's festival film. This is quite a
production and requires much thoughtful planning, scheduling, etc.
We had a very good response to the 1981 ENVOY. We have already sold approx
imately 13,000 copies. We still have a number of orders to fill. Plans are
now being made to publish a 1982 ENVOY which, with more direct input from
Mr. Armstrong, should be even better than this year's ENVOY.
Recently, I received an encouraging letter from Mr. C. S. Kelly (Festival
Elder in Malaysia) regarding the input of the Ambassador College students
during the Feast. The third group of Ambassador College students are now
nearing the completion of their six-month's stint of teaching duty in
Thailand. They have been teaching English to the refugees, and also have
been imparting knowledge concerning Western culture. This will enable the
refugees to adapt more easily when they are relocated in a western nation-
mostly in English-speaking countries.
I thought it might be worthwhile to include in the PGR a portion of Mr.
Kelly's post-Feast letter to me--a letter in which he praised the good
example of the Ambassador College students who attended the Malaysian Feast
of Tabernacles:
The main purpose of this letter is to let you know how much I feel that
the students from Thailand contributed to that turnaround.
They were true Ambassadors.
Many commented on their involvement in special music, the assistance
they gave with children's games on the Family Evening, and their
enthusiastic involvement in all the activities. They also went to