Basic HTML Version
PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.6, N0.20
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Cape Cod Festival Site to Be Replaced
MAY 18, 1984
The Festival Office was informed this week by the management of the Cape Cod
Coliseum that the facility has been sold and will not be available for the
1984 Feast of Tabernacles. We are currently looking for a replacement site
in the New England area to take care of the brethren in the region formerly
served by Cape Cod, although on this short notice very few facilities are
available.
All of us on the Festival Coordinating Team would appreciate your prayers
that God will soon show where He wants the festival held in the New England
area.
w�
will announce the new site as soon as it is firm. Housing infor
mation for the replacement site will be provided as soon as these arrange
ments have been finalized.
Some brethren in your area may have requested to attend at the Cape Cod
site. If those brethren desire to attend the Feast at the replacement site
in New England, nothing need be changed on their transfer request. Those
desiring to transfer to a different site, now that Cape Cod is unavailable,
should let their pastor know their new site choices immediately. Please
send a list of any such changes in writing to the Festival Office. We would
need to have this information by June 8. Thanks very much for your coopera-
tion.
-- -
International News
Update From the French De �artment
The French-speaking areas of God's
Church are progressing w1th good growth.
General contributions, first
tithe and donations in France showed a 14% increase through March 1984 over
the first quarter of 1983. French Canadian contributions are up 22.7% for
the same period, and overall the total income is up 13.7%. The 1983 figures
include the holy day offerings while the 1984 figures do not due to the
later spring Feast season this year, so the increase is good indeed.
Donation mail for all French-speaking areas worldwide is up approximately
25% for the first three months of 1984, although total incoming mail was
down just a little, dropping from 51,853 items for the first three months
last year to 50,830 this year. The decline was in mail from subscribers,
not in the white mail count, which increased 9.24%. Outgoing mail for the
same period was up 59.8% to 142,805 items.
Regional Director Dibar Apartian returned in late April from an 18-day tour
of French-speaking Europe, during which he conducted seven Public Bible
Lectures and spoke in many of the churches there. Details of his trip ap
peared in the May 7 WORLDWIDE NEWS.