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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH CF GOD
VOL.
4,
NO.
30
PASADEi'JA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Church Tape Libraries
JULY
23, 1982
Some have misunderstood the recent instructions regarding tape recording at
services, and in particular those instructions involving church tape li
braries. Please so back and carefully reread both articles regarding tape
recordings in the June
11, 1982
issue of the PGR.
It is permissible to have a local church tape library. It should contain
only tapes of sermons or Bible studies given or played in the local congre
gation. Although individual members may not record services, they are free
to check out tapes from the church library.
Members who check out tapes should not duplicate them or pass them around,
but retu:n them to the library by the due date. Pastors should look at the
records periodically to be aware of who has checked out what. Pastors
should also see that shut-ins and those who are ill have tapes of sermons or
Bible studies that they missed made available to them.
Whether you have a local church tape library or not, an official tape of
every service should be made and kept.
International News
German Office Following the Western Leaders' Summit Conference in Paris,
France, Mr. Gene Hogberg, News Editor for rhc PLAIN TRUTH, came to Bonn to
cover President Reagan's tour 0f west Germany.
The Bonn office staff
especially benefitted from the cpportunity to talk with Mr. Hogberg during
his five-day visit.
During June the world's largest print.ing exhibition, called DRUPA, took
place in Dusseldorf. Mr. Roger Lipprcss of Publishing Services arrived on
June
10
and remained a week in order tc k��o abrea3t of the technical ad
vancements in the printing and publishing (1�lds.
Looking back on the first six months of
l·:182,
i.,·�
c:n recognize distinct
positive trends in the Church and Wor�. Cur L0tal mail of
103,044
pieces
thus far represents a
76%
increase
CJ\.!r
the same period in
1981 (78,313
pieces of mail). So far this y�ar regular mail is up
74%;
donation mail is
up
15%;
media response mail (advertising respor,se) stands at a plus
107%;
and solicited mail has incr�ased 52%.
The main contributing factor to our incrcxsing mail is, of course, the
rapidly growing circulation of the German-language edition of The PLAIN
TRUTH, "KLAR & WAHR." Our JL1r12 subscription list of
101,872
subscribers
shows a 9 2 % increase over 19 81. Since January,
19
8
2
we have added some
52,000
new subscribers,
15%
of which
(7,800)
requested a language other
than German.