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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 16, 1985
If any U.S. pastor has any questions about whether these guidelines apply
to his congregations, he should contact Ministerial Services. Internation
al ministers should contact their respective regional office.
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From Mr. Guy Ames Though two typhoons, one close on the heels of the other,
brought severe flooding to Metro Manila and other parts of the Philippines,
they did not dampen the enthusiasm of the brethren, ministers and office
staff for what was an excellent first six months of 1985.
At the end of June, our year-to-date income was up 36.3% over the same
period in 1984.
Pentecost brought a fine 16% increase in attendance
(3,251), and the offering was an outstanding 85.9% increase over last year.
These excellent figures appear to reflect the enthusiasm among the brethren
for the increasing depth and focus of the preaching and teaching of the
pastors as a result of Mr. Dean Blackwell's Ministerial Education Program
(MEP) over the past six months.
On June 19, a four-month recess began in the MEP to enable those ministers
who had not yet attended the Ministerial Refreshing Program in Pasadena to
do so. This involves a majority of the ministers, including those hired
during the past year. They will be traveling to Pasadena in three groups to
attend the last three sessions of the third round of the MRP.
Mr. Blackwell, who has taught classes three solid days each week for nearly
six months, and then preached in churches across the country on the Sab
baths, took a well-deserved break to visit his mother (who is seriously
ill) and Headquarters at Pasadena. He and his wife, Maxine, will then
travel to Tonga and Fiji where he will cover some of the same MEP material
with the ministers there. After visiting New Zealand, the Blackwells will
then observe the Feast of Tabernacles in Australia. The MEP classes will
resume, God willing, immediately after the Feast and continue for another
11-week session until the end of the year.
The final session of the MEP before the break was highlighted by five ordin
ations, as reported in the July 12 PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT. It was a very
moving experience for Mr. Blackwell to see the obvious fruits of the MEP in
these men, and the prospect of more ordinations later in the year.
Preparations for the Feast of Tabernacles are well under way.
there will be five sites in the Philippines:
In 1985,
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