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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 15, 1982
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Some have felt the added expense would be limited to two additional
faculty salaries during the 1982-83 year, and two more the fourth year.
However, I know by experience that a larger four-year college would involve
many additional programs and activities and great additional expenditures
not foreseen by the present faculty.
Second, the need for additional ministers does not warrant it. we now
have a considerable reservoir of Ambassador graduates, many local non
salaried elders--others who could be--all well qualified
to
become preach
ing elders
to
pastor local churches.
Third, although it appears God has held up the flow of world events
toward the Great Tribulation and coming of Christ, we are most certainly
ten years closer
to
it than we were ten years ago. And a new resurrected
"Holy Roman Empire" is undoubtedly being secretly planned right now in
European capitals and the Vatican. It could EXPLODE in the world news any
day now. We simply do not have the time.
Fourth, I am now in my ninetieth year, and will reach my ninetieth
birthday this summer.
I :mow that starting something that would escalate into a complex,
many-faceted new wing of the Church at this stage IS NOT GOD'S WILL, AND
JESUS CHRIST THE HEAD OF THIS CHURCH TELLS ME IT WOULD BE FOLLY, AND NOT THE
POINT OF WISDOM.
I know some of us would like
to
see everything GROW and GROW--would
like
to
have the sun, the moon, the earth, the stars and the universe. But
wisdom comes with age and experience, and God emphatically leads me in
this, HIS decision.
This Work is more nearly accomplished--completed--than we have real-
ized!
The IMPORTANT thing now is that we be sure WE ARE READY for the Great
Tribulation and Christ's coming!
NEWS FROM THE PASTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE
Mr. Armstrong Continues Church Visits
Mr. Herbert w. Armstrong continued his church visits with a stop in the
nation's capital on the Sabbath of January 9. About 3,000 members from
three church areas met at Washington's famous Constitution Hall to hear
Christ
1
s message given through His Apostle. The service started late due
to a 45-minute delay on the ground at New York's Teterboro Airport. (Mr.
Armstrong had spent the previous two nights in New York City.)
But the
delay didn
1
t dampen the reception of God's Apostle. Mr. LaRavia gave the
sermonette on unity, comparing the disharmony of the 70's with the peace
and cooperation now at Pasadena.
Following special music, the Apostle