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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1983
Mr. Tkach then succinctly stated the reason for the conference: "The pur
pose for the Regional Directors meetings is to conform all international
offices under Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong's personal and direct supervision
through Ministerial Services to avoid independent operational procedures."
New worldwide reporting systems will give Mr. Armstrong complete access to
whatever information he may need virtually at the "push of a button." This
will include information such as total church membership anywhere in the
world, church attendance figures, Bible study attendance, financial data,
and much more. Already a worldwide audit was made possible for the first
time in 1982. New financial reporting systems will make the 1983 worldwide
church audit much easier to do.
The better part of a day and a half was taken up with reports from each of
the Regional Directors. These detailed a history of progress, or the lack
of it, in their respective areas over the past 10 to 13 years--especially
the dramatic growth that has taken place during the last three years.
Following these reports were presentations by the directors of the major
areas of Church operations at Headquarters. Included were Financial--Leroy
Neff,
Ministerial
Services--Joe
Tkach;
Editorial
Services--Dexter
Faulkner/Herman Hoeh; Publishing--Ray Wright/Roger Lippross; Media--David
Hulme; TV/Radio Production--Larry Omasta; Mail Processing--Richard Rice;
Legal--Ralph Helge; Ambassador College--Raymond McNair. Thus the Regional
Directors were given information to help them be aware of and keyed into
Headquarters' methods and organization.
It is not the purpose of this report to repeat the interesting and signifi
cant statistics given by all of these men.
But certain facts stand out
which point up the magnitude and complexity of the work of God's Church in
the space age. A prime example of this is Publishing and all that it en
tails.
Just imagine, if you can, a two-mile string of 47 semi-trailer trucks
loaded with rolls of print paper. That's what it takes to print two issues
of The PLAIN TRUTH in the United States 1
R. R. Donnelley of Glasgow,
Kentucky, the world's largest printer, had to build additional storage
facilities just to house paper for The PLAIN TRUTH.
Because of the enormous amount of printing done for God's Church, we are
recognized as one of the largest publishers in the western United States.
During a visit to Pasadena earlier this year, a representative from top
management of READER'S DIGEST told Mr. Wright that no other publisher is
doing what we are accomplishing--referring to our producing six (now soon"
seven) language editions of The PLAIN TRUTH, which are also color
compatible and involving 17 separate versions!
Mr. Wright said that
visiting representatives of publishing houses shake their heads when they
learn what our publishing area is doing. What we're doing and "the way we
do things clearly shows unity," Mr. Wright explained to the Regional
Directors.
The latest technology is being utilized in fulfilling God's commission to
His Church. Not only is satellite transmission already being used regu
larly by the Television Department to transmit the TV program to a number of
stations for replay at their scheduled times, Mr. Wright said similar tech
nology will be used in 1984 to beam magazine copy to our international
editors for translation and then back to Pasadena. Transmission of final