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·i>ASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.7, N0.42
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 8, 1985
FROM CHURCH ADMINISTRATION
ACTIVITY FONDS: HOME SCHOOLING: U NITY: FEAST REPORTS:
PRAYER UPDATES: INTERNATIONAL NEWS--GERMANY
Activity Funds I appreciate the enthusiastic response from our United
States and Canadian pastors to last week's request for local activity
funds to be sent in to help us through the projected cash-flow squeeze.
To clarify one point for those who have not called in to ask: In most
cases it would be best to go ahead with activities that you
have
already made financial commitments to, such as down payments, prepay
ments or contractually required payments. Activities that you have no
financial commitments to as yet are the ones that should be canceled,
or postponed until future fund raisers make them possible. In cases
where you had earmarked certain funds for a specific purpose that in
your judgment would be best not postponed, feel free to go ahead with
those expenditures as well. Of course, any activity, whether Church or
YOU, may still be held as planned if upcoming local fund �aising can
provide the cost beforehand.
Boae Schooling The subject of home schooling has often come up here at
Headquarters and in the field for both members and ministers.
In
response to the many questions that have come to the attention of
Church Administration about home schooling, we want you to be aware of
the following guidelines and recommendations:
• The Church neither advocates !l2!. prohibits home schooling. Deci
sions about how parents wish to educate their children, whether through
public education, private schools, correspondence course or parent
education, are individual, personal choices. The Church and the minis
try do not suggest that there is only one
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right way
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of education for
all Church youth. However, there are some very important guidelines
that need to be followed.
• The Church emphatically recom mends that no parents pursue educa
tion methods that are in violation of state or national laws (except
when those laws violate God's laws, of course). God's people are to be
law-abiding and
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Subject to the governing authorities
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(see Romans
13:1-7, RAV).
IN THIS IS SUE
From Church Administration . 1
From Media Purchasing.
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YOU Update
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From Media Services. • •
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Publishing Services update . 6
On the World Scene • • • • • 8
Parents who choose to ignore
state laws requiring compulsory
school attendance and have not
gone about home schooling in a
legal manner do not have the
support of Church or ministry.
Refusal to submit to such laws
could result in legal problems
greater
than
the
problems
encountered in public schools!
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