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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.4, N0.15
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
REPORT FROM THE TREASURER'S OFFICE
April 5, 1982
APRIL 9, 1982
The finaneial picture is slightly better now than when I last reported
about a month ago.
The percentaqe of increased income has crept up a
little. The month of March showed an increase of 14.2% over March of 1981.
The year-to-date increase stands at 13.8%. As of the end of last week, it
was still at that figure.
With this
expand in
ing 1981.
carry the
increase we will not be able to grow in the number of stations or
publishing without using some of the reserves that built up dur
Please continue to pray for more co-workers and donors to help
load so we can go forward with ever-increasing effectiveness.
--Leroy Neff, Treasurer's Office
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Local Church Telephone Directories
Some local congregations, in order to encourage fellowshipping, have
published local telephone directories setting forth the full names and
telephone numbers of the members in their congregations.
Recently, a dissident utilized a Church telephone directory to communicate
derogatory accusations regarding the Church to the entire local congrega
tion.
This incident points out the inadvisability of producing local
Church telephone directories.
Headquarters has taken great precautions to preserve the privacy of the
membership list and the privacy of the individual members.
In fact,
prohibiting the use of the membership list for any purpose other than
Church purposes has been a policy established by Mr. Herbert
w.
Armstrong
for over SO years.
If the practice of preparing local congregation phone books were to spread
to all congregations, a central dissident could, without too much effort,
ultimately compile the entire Church membership list through them, thereby
subverting this SO-year-old policy of member list confidentiality, as well
as invading the privacy of the individual members.
Local Church telephone directories are not really neerHul because each
local member in an average congregation of
300
to
500
members usually
communicates with a small circle of friends and acquaintances. If a member
does have need for the telephone number of some other member, it is
obviously a very simple matter to check the public telephone directory or
to call another friend for the member's telephone number. This slight in
convenience is far outweighed by the benefits of the Church policy