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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TOTHEMINISTRYOFTHE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 6, NO. 7
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Passover and Holy Day Supplies
FEBRUARY 17, 1984
Every year we receive requests for reimbursement of expenses for Passover
supplies such as basins for footwashing, towel rental, etc. Because of a
very limited budget, we will not be able to reimburse these expenses this
year. With the increased number of members attending, we will be using all
of our budget and then some just to cover the cost of the wine glass and
bread trays that have been requested. Anything other than some minor ex
penses, such as wine and bread, that cannot be covered by your current
expense allotment, will need to be paid for out of the local activity
accounts.
In case there should be
policy decision that the
ceremony. In Pasadena we
her own use.
some misunderstanding, there has never been a
Church should rent towels for the footwashing
have everyone bring a towel from home for his or
With regard to holy day offering baskets, we do not have any in stock here
that we can provide. The expense for additional baskets will also have to
be covered locally. Hopefully
this type
of expense is infrequent enough
to
not be a burden to the local activity accounts.
If any of these expenditures does create a financial burden for your
church(es), please contact Mr. Glenn Nice at Ministerial Services.
International News
From Bonn, West Germany January was another month of KLAR & WAHR subscrip
tion 11st growth. A total of 32,363 new subscribers were added to receive
various language editions of The PLAIN TRUTH, 25,950 of which were for the
German magazine. The successful back-page ad which appeared at the end of
December in the ADAC MOTORWELT magazine has so far brought in 39,254
responses. The KLAR & WAHR list now stands at 183,000.
Something else which kept us very busy here in the Bonn office this past
month was the 73,139 KLAR
&
WAHR renewals which were sent out at the
beginning of January.
36,000 renewals were sent to "primes" (readers who
have renewed once before) and 37,000 to new subscribers who were scheduled
to receive their first renewal notice. At the end of the month, 29,038 (or
39%) of the renewals were returned.
Approximately 48% of the primes
renewed and about 28% of the new subscribers renewed.
The high renewal rate seems to be the result of our new renewal method,
which we began using in January. The prelabeled renewal card is placed on
top of the KLAR & WAHR magazine and then both are plastic wrapped.
(We had
previously been placing the renewal card inside of the magazine.)
Using
our present method guarantees that each reader will immediately be aware of
the renewal card before the plastic wrap is taken off. This is also a