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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 5, NO. 4 0
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 4, 1983
Regional Directors Conference Stresses Unity of Church Operations
"Satan has tried to trouble the Church for 50 years. At last we have har
mony based on the Word of God," said Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong in opening
comments to the 12 Regional Directors gathered together in Pasadena on Mon
day, October 31. "We must continue to speak the same thing," he further
emphasized. Thus God's Apostle set the theme of unity, harmony, and work
ing together for the six-day series of meetings at the Headquarters of
God's worldwide Church.
The Regional Directors who attended the conference and the respective areas
they administer for Headquarters are as follows: Colin Adair--Canada; Guy
Ames--Philippines; Dibar Apartian--French-speaking countries, including
French Canada (Quebec); Stan Bass--Caribbean; Frank Brown--United Kingdom,
Scandinavia, Mediterranean, Mideast, Black Africa and rest of English
speaking Europe; Carn Catherwood--Italy and other Italian-speaking areas;
Bram de Bree--Netherlands; Roy McCarthy--Southern Africa; Bob Morton--Aus
tralia and Asia; Peter Nathan--New Zealand and Pacific Isles; Frank Schnee
--German-speaking countries; Leon Walker--Spanish-speaking countries.
In his talk to the men and a few of the wives who were able to accompany
them, Mr. Armstrong reviewed some of the major God-inspired doctrines of
the Church--truths that God has restored in His Church.
Mr. Armstrong stressed that we must look to God for the wherewithal to do
His end-time work. "If our ways please God," he said, "He will supply our
needs." God will "bless us as we obey Him." Mr. Armstrong said the Church
is in the best spiritual and financial condition everl He told the Regional
Directors that he wants God's will to be done, and emphasized the need to
pray to always be in this attitude.
God's Apostle concluded his comments by telling the Regional Directors he
was well pleased with all of them, expressing special pleasure in the fact
he is surrounded by "conscientious, loyal, hard workers who are diligent
and faithful."
The overall purpose for the Regional Directors Conference was to bring all
of our operations abroad into tighter unity and harmony with the organiza
tion established at Headquarters. "We are a worldwide organization and it
is complicated. We must be organized," said Mr. Armstrong.
As expressed Monday afternoon by Mr. Joe Tkach, Director of Ministerial
Services, "Unity is more important than ever before. We have a great work
ahead, and to be more effective we must have unity." He stressed the impor
tance of guarding against developing an attitude of being separate.
"Physical separation can tend to cause us to develop an independent atti
tude if we are not careful."