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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 11, 1981
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ever." The number who attended (a total of 3,334) and the offerings given
were the highest ever recorded in recent years. Beautiful weather pre
vailed throughout the Feast, and brethren were grateful and appreciative of
the spiritual feast of inspired sermons, especially enhanced by visiting
minister Mr. Arthur
w.
Docken who was sent by Pasadena. Some 35 other over
seas brethren and families kept the Feast in the Philippines.
Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong's first-day message was received in Baguio City
through an audio hook-up. It was taped and copies were replayed later at
three other sites.
What a tremendous blessing God has poured out on His Work in the Philip
pines.
Considering the offerings received at all seven holy days this
year, the total represented a 34.9% increase over last year! The holy day
of the Feast of Tabernacles showed a 17.4% increase in attendance and a
46.8% increase in offerings. A late report also showed that some 20 people
were baptized during the Feast of Tabernacles.
New Zealand/Pacific News November was a very light month for mail, with
just 3,717 items received--considerably lower than our average monthly mail
count. Mail income for the month was up 22.8% on the same month last year,
bringing the year-to-date mail income increase to 31.9%.
A series of advertisements in the NEW ZEALAND LISTENER and the local edi
tion of TIME magazine have so far brought in just under 600 new subscription
requests for The PLAIN TRUTH.
Early December will see ads in THE NEW
ZEALAND WOMEN'S WEEKLY and THE DOMINION newspaper, and in February we're
slated to begin placing Mr. Armstrong's powerful "A Voice Cries Out" full
page ads in some of the nations's leading newspapers.
The PLAIN TRUTH newsstand program is really moving now. Back in August
2,000 newsstand copies were distributed in New Zealand, but by December
this had jumped to 20,000 copies.
And with new outlets speedily being
added, 40,000 copies of the January, 1982 issue are now being printed.
Newsstand responses are rising accordingly, with hundreds of cards now com
ing in each month. Adding this newsstand circulation to our current 46,000
subscription copies, we're ending the year with a whopping 86,000 PLAIN
TRUTH circulation, compared with the 39,000 with which we started the year.
Mr. Rex Morgan, one of the ministers employed in the office here, spent the
last week of November visiting our members and prospectives in Vanuatu. He
conducted a Bible study in the capital, Port Vila, attended by 18 Melane
sians, and baptized one man, bringing our membership in Vanuatu to five. He
also took the opportunity of approaching Radio Vanuatu, with the idea of
airing both the English and French-language WORLD TOMORROW programs. The
Director of Radio Vanuatu has been a P.T. subscriber since 1964 and is keen
to audition the broadcasts. The station is government owned, so if the
broadcast is accepted it will be aired free of charge.
We're now gearing up for the 1981 S.E.P. which is to be held on Motuapu
Island, near Auckland, at the end of December. Campers should number well
into the 80's, almost a 100% increase over last year's program.
Update From German-language Area
The German language congregations of
God's Church all showed a great deal of excitement and interest in the re
sounding success of the KLAR & WAHR ad in DER SPIEGEL magazine. People are