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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 8, NO. 7
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FEBRUARY 14, 1986
Dear Ministers of Jesus Christ,
God continues to richly bless the response to the "World
Tomorrow" program!
This past weekend produced the second highest
response ever with 44,207 calls on the WATS lines! These responses
are indeed encouraging, and serve to further illustrate that there is
a great Work yet ahead of us.
I hope each of you really understands the importance of the Work
God is doing through you! The whole world has been deceived. Only a
few have been called through history to know the truth about who God
is and what He is doing. The truth about God's purpose and plan, His
way of life, His law, His mercy, the great significance of the blood
of Jesus Christ, the glorious future of mankind--all these are
precious treasures beyond description that have been entrusted to you
by God Himself through His Church, for you to faithfully pass on to
others God chooses to call. Can you grasp how important that is to
God?
I now find myself responsible to God for you.
Don't let
anything come between you and God. The apostle Paul speaks of sin
which does "so easily beset us."
Be on guard
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Be wary of Satan's
devices. Be strong in the faith of Jesus Christ.
The time has come to stir .!:!E the gift of God that is in you
through the laying on of hands.
God has placed a great deal of
responsibility on your shoulders as a part of His ministry. Take that
seriously!
And remember that God will give you the help you need
through His Spirit. Great growth is beginning, and much work awaits
us. Let us draw ever closer to God so that we may, with His help and
blessing, be prepared to meet the challenge!
How time goes by! Meetings for U.S. Festival Coordinators were
held this week on Wednesday and Thursday, February 12 and 13.
Plans
were laid for the 1986 Feast of Tabernacles, to be held in more than
90 sites worldwide with a projected attendance of 136,000.
These
Festival Coordinators, representing 22 United States Feast sites, have
their work cut out for them.
I opened the meetings Wednesday morning, reviewing a little of
the history of the Feast since Mr. Herbert Armstrong first held
meetings on the fall Holy Days in Eugene, Oregon, in 1933.
Total
attendance that year was 21. Growth continued slowly but steadily
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Pastor General • • • 1
From Church Administration . 3
On the World Scene • • • • • 5
until Belknap Springs, Oregon,
became the sole site in 1945 and
later Big Sandy, Texas, in 1953.
In the United States, Squaw
Valley, California, was added in
1961, Jekyll Island, Georgia, in
1963, Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania,
in 1967 and Lake of the Ozarks,
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