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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPoRT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 4, NO. 7
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
FEBRUARY 12, 1982
News From Germany All the Churches here were excited over the 20,000 new PT
subscribers resulting from our January flyer campaign in three major daily
newspapers. Everyone is praying that our present subscriber list of 90,000
will yield new laborers to send into the harvest.
This month some 840,000 PLAIN TRUTH flyers were distributed by Germany's
best known national daily newspapers. On January 19th, 280,000 flyers ap
peared in the SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, on the 20th 182,000 in DIE WELT, and on
the 21st, 380,000 in the FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (FAZ). Just over
two weeks later (5th of February) some 24,571 requests for The PLAIN TRUTH
in one of the five languages have been received. In January a record break
ing total of 19,692 new subscribers were added to the German-language file
as a resu1t·of the advertising campaign.
The month of January proved to be an outstanding start for 1982. Although
we had a good month for mail in January, 1981, the mail this year showed a
165% increase over last year.
Members closely followed Mr. Armstrong's trip to the Far East. His safety
as well as his effectiveness in preaching the Gospel are obviously very
high up on people's prayer lists.
Our lone member in Poland, Wiktor Przybylla, and his family are holding
their own in the present crisis, according to reports from our brethren in
East Germany. To keep the Przybyllas supplied with the many consumer items
currently unavailable in Poland (including candles, matches, washing pow
der, canned meat, items of personal hygiene, etc.), the 12 German-language
Churches alternate in sending "CARE Packages" to them every week.
French-language News Mr. Armstrong's television program began in Belgium
over Tele-Luxembourg at 11:15 p.m. on January 1st. The amount of mail
received following four of the successive programs is as follows:
First program:
Second program:
Third program:
Fourth program:
96 letters
137 letters
60 letters
76 letters (mail still coming in)
Mr. Apartian is currently on a visit to the Caribbean. His itinerary in
cludes public Bible studies in Martinique and Guadeloupe with the possibil
ity of an interview over Radio-Caraibes in Martinique.
We have just learned that our advertisement in the magazine PERSPECTIVES in
Quebec has broken all records with a whopping 5,000 responses received. We
also placed an advertisement in the magazine L'ACTUALITE from which 1,476
responses have been. received so far.