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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 22, 1985
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Last night, I actually talked {via phone) to a minister of the
Worldwide Church of God. I am waiting for a visit in my home and
a chance to attend one of the meetings of the Worldwide Church of
God and wish very soon to be baptized.
So sir, with tears in my eyes I am writing this letter to say
thank you. Thank you so very much for obeying God so many years
ago and working to get this Gospel to all the world.
M.A. {Mt. Airy, NC)
My husband and I are prospective members at the time of writing
this letter, but by the time you receive it, we will have been
baptized! With our baptism only a few days away, we felt this a
good time to write and express our deep love and gratitude toward
you for everything we learned through you.
We hope Ambassador College will continue to educate such fine
ministers as the ones who have helped and instructed us along the
way to our baptism.
Mr. & Mrs. J.C. {Amsterdam, NY)
When I talked with your minister, I was impressed with much of
what he said. The most noticeable thing was that he pressed me to
read and study my Bible and compare it with your literature to
prove to myself whether your church really is God's Church. He
also insisted that I wait until I had studied further before I
even attend my first service, and said that I would not be con
sidered for membership until I had attended for a sufficient
period of time to be truly convinced that this was God's true
Church and that I would be convinced enough to never again wish
to change churches.
As someone who has changed churches four times in three years and
been baptized into two of them, this was a refreshing approach.
In the past, I've felt that I was being pushed to join, to meet
some minister's quota of new members rather than being led into a
congregation of believers with whom I would wish to remain for
the rest of my life. Your minister gave me the feeling that he
really cared.
The attitude of "study and wait till you're sure" is a much more
comfortable and welcome one than that of "hurry up and join." It
is an attitude I would expect to find in the true Church of God.
C.H. {Salem, OR)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center