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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 21, 1984
in your prayers, both for its success and for the safety of the men and
their wives in transit.
I hope all of you are reading the reports from the Regional Directors that
we include in the PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT. We should all rejoice together
in the continued blessings and growth God is giving His Church around the
world. I'm sure the brethren would enjoy hearing some portions of these
reports read to them from time to time.
Please keep two things particularly in your prayers at this time--the SEP
camps getting under way in the Southern Hemisphere, and the efforts of Re
gional Director Mr. Colin Adair to obtain a second class mail permit for The
PLAIN TRUTH in Canada. Although our final appeal for this permit had been
turned down, Mr. Adair has since been able to meet with the Canadian Revenue
Minister. He has promised to once again review our application with the
Chairman of Canada Post. Approval would mean a savings to the Church of up
to $200,000 Canadian per year. This could be a long process and could mean
the changing of the law regarding periodical rates for everyone.
Ministerial Feast Transfers for 1985
All ministers employed by the Church are required to attend their assigned
Feast sites with their local congregations. The Feast of Tabernacles is
considered a part of your routine responsibilities in serving the brethren,
even though you may have no specific assigned duties at the site your con
gregation will be attending.
Only those who are requested to fill a need at another site will be permit
ted to transfer. However, if you feel there are extenuating circumstances
in your case, please send a written request and explanation to Ministerial
Services for consideration. All international ministers requesting trans
fer should send their requests to their Regional Directors.
Note: All ministerial requests for transfer to U.S. or international sites
must be received
.QY
February 15.
International News
From Mr. Colin Adair The direct mail campaign to French Canada has been very
successful. We mailed approximately 100,000 packages to people in the Pro
vince of Quebec and received over an eight percent response. This is a much
higher response than we received from English Canada.
�ewspaper insert responses continue to arrive at the office. As of this
writing we have tabulated over 39,208. Of these, 8,067 arrived on one day!
The newspaper campaign will extend into January, when we wrap it up with our
test package in Winnipeg. Final details of the TV ad to be used in combina
tion with the newspaper insert have been worked out. Production will be
done by our TV studio in Pasadena, reducing the cost of the ad considerably.
The ad will picture a young boy delivering a newspaper to the front porch of
a home. As the paper lies there the wind will blow the pages open to the
insert. There will be a background narrative drawing people's attention to
the insert and the magazine it offers. We are certainly eager to see how
this impacts the response pattern we normally see from Manitoba.