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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOO
VOL.6, N0.40
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
SEPTEMBER 21, 1984
**** TOBE READ IN ALL U.S. CHURCHES ****
ON SEPTEMBER 29
On-site Festival Assistance
Members should not go to the Feast of Tabernacles with
insufficient funds, expecting to receive financial as
sistance at the festival site. Only limited funds for
genuine emergencies will be available there, and then
only with the local pastor's recommendation.
Feast Bumper Stickers for Local Church Elders (U.S. Churches Only)
The Festival Office normally mails ministerial bumper stickers for local
church elders to their pastors for distribution.
Due to an oversight,
there were not enough of these stickers available this week for that mail
ing. However, there will be a supply of these stickers at each site suffi
cient for all the elders attending there.
If you have not received a
sticker from your pastor, please pick one up at the information booth at the
site you will be attending. We regret any inconvenience this may have
caused.
International News
From New Zealand August was an exciting record-breaking month for God's
Church in this part of the world. Mail income reached the highest monthly
figure God has ever blessed us with, posting an increase of 15% over August
last year. The Eternal also blessed us with more incoming mail than for any
other month this year, with an increase of 41% over August a year ago.
Our offering "World Tomorrow" radio listeners in the Auckland area the
opportunity to phone the office in response to the program is working well.
More broadcast responses were received during August than in any other
month this year. Also, responses to the July/August newsstand PLAIN TRUTH
far surpassed responses to any other issue in 1984.
August saw our first venture into direct mailing, with a test of some 18,000
letters being posted. By the end of the month we had received around 800
replies, already a very fine 4.4% response, with replies still coming in
steadily.
In September there will be a series of 30-second spot ads for The PLAIN
TRUTH shown on New Zealand television. This will be our first television
campaign in several years, so we're eagerly awaiting the results.