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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 15, 1985
**** TOBE ANNOUNCED IN ALL U.S. AND CANADIAN CHURCHES ****
Certain Festival Sites Filled to Capacity
The Caribbean regional office has asked us to announce that the
festival sites in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and Nassau,Bahamas have
reached capacity and no more applications can be accepted. If
you have recently applied to one of these sites, you will be no
tified of your transfer status by the Caribbean office within the
next few weeks.
International News
From Mr. FrankBrown 1985 has gotten off to a good start with steady growth
continuing in all areas administered by the U.K. office.
PLAIN TRUTH
circulation in the U.K. and Eire is up 34.3% over January, 1984. A new
series of advertisements will begin in the Sunday newspaper colour supple
ments, and is expected to bring in a good response.
The GOOD NEWS list is up 18.5% over January, 1984. The response to The GOOD
NEWS offer to PLAIN TRUTH subscribers who have been on file for two years or
more has been staggering. Within one week of mailing, the response had
reached 22% and to date stands at 42.7%! With this unprecedented growth in
the GOOD NEWS list, we have now reached the point where it is more
economical to print the magazine for this area in England, and this is
planned beginning with the April issue.
Mail income for January 1985 is down by 7.3% over last January. This is be
cause last January had an exceptionally high income. However, January 1985
still had the third highest mail income ever for one month.
Scandinavia: The English and Norwegian language editions of The PLAIN TRUTH
now have a combined circulation of almost 35,000, an increase of 206% over
January, 1984. The GOOD NEWS 1ist has grown by 8.5% and co-workers by
68.6%.
Europe: The PLAIN TRUTH file for the continent of Europe is now over 40,000
--up 14.6% from January, 1984. This is accompanied by a 63.6% increase in
GOOD NEWS circulation and a 10.2% increase in co-workers.
Literature
mailed to this area increased 41.8% over January, 1984 to 12,597 items; and
the number of letters answered by our Personal Correspondence Department
has gone up by 24%.
Middle East: PLAIN TRUTH circulation in the Middle East continues to grow,
and is now 13,225, 45.9% higher than January, 1984. GOOD NEWS circulation
increased 151.7%, and the co-worker list is up by 76.9%. The January mail
count for this area is 55.6% more than January, 1984 and is almost double
the December, 1984 count. The 9,972 items of literature mailed in January
is up by 245%, and the number of letters answered by PCD increased by over
200%. These remarkable figures show the steady growth in this area of the
world, the focal point of much biblical prophecy.
--Joe Tkach, Ministerial Services
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