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"PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.5, N0.44
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
International News
DECEMBER 2, 1983
From the French Department This year marks the twentieth year since La PURE
VERITE was first published. In June 1963, it went to 4,258 subscribers.
Presently it is being sent to 150,180 subscribers around the world, and in
addition 80,500 magazines are being placed on newsstands in Canada. The
subscription list is renewed each year, with 30,000 receiving their renewal
letter in November.
Even though 64% of La PURE VERITE is distributed outside of Europe, a three
month trial period has been set to have it printed in England. The English,
German, Dutch, Italian (and soon to be Norwegian) editions of The PLAIN
TRUTH are already printed at Alabaster Passmore' s Ambassador Press in
Radlett, England. Preliminary studies made by our Publishing Department
and by the printers seem to indicate that appreciable savings can be made by
this switch.
The year-to-date income through October, 1983 has increased 26.8% over the
corresponding ten�month period in 1982. This figure is the combined income
for French Canada, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Belgium, France, Switzer
land and French Cameroon. Through October 1983, the total number of donors
has increased 61% over the same period in 1982.
God has opened additional opportunities for us to expand our PV distribu
tion in Montreal, Sherbrooke and Moncton, in Canada. We have just received
permission to distribute La PURE VERITE at 50 newsstands scattered through
out the north of Montreal and 27 in the south. The door has also opened to
us to place our first newsstand rack in the city of Sherbrooke to distribute
The PLAIN TRUTH and La PURE VERITE at the central bus station.
A new French broadcast has been added on Radio CJVA in Caraquet-Gloucester,
New Brunswick on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 p.m., and Sundays at 10:15
a.m.
For the third consecutive year, Swiss TV has offered us free time for a
sixteen-minute program about La MONDE A VENIR. With the help of the tele
vision department in Pasadena, Mr. Apartian prepared a powerful program
warning the Swiss that they cannot expect to sit on the sidelines and avoid
the consequences of World War III. Inserts of Mr. Armstrong's Rotary Club
speech in Athens were also used.
From Canada we received the following letter about a miraculous healing of
a three-year-old daughter of a member living in Trios-Rivieres. "Our lit
tle Evelyne was enjoying herself playing on a large slide. Climbing to the
top of the slide, Evelyne lost her footing and fell about ten feet on her
head. She didn't move at all and at first we thought that her neck was
broken, and she had been killed instantly. Happily, after about 20 eter-