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PASTOR'S REPORTCIJ!!>
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL 3, NO. 2
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JANUARY 30, 1979
FROM PASTORAL ADMINISTRATION
Dear Fellow Ministers:
Greetings from beautiful Pasadena! We are having overcast skies
today, but there is a breeze blowing and the snow on the mountains is
clearly visible with no smog in the atmosphere! It is good fireplace
weather, and a glass of red wine tastes good in the evening.
Thanks so much for the hundreds of good wishes and the encourage
ments expressed t o me by you fellows and your wives! I appreciate it
and will do my very best during this difficult time in God's Work.
Please pray for all of us here at headquarters, as we do need extra
strength and guidance at this time.
W� did have a wonderful ministerial conference in Tucson, and it
was good to see Mr. Herbert Armstrong so active and vibrant and also
so positive about the future. I know many of you were able to greet
him personally and will no longer wonder about him being "senile!
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The
great, swelling tide of rumor and verbal garbage about him and .Mr.
Rader is beginning to subside as the real facts come to light. A lot
of people realize they have been
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had
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in this attempt to discredit
God's apostle and the Work.
We on the P.A.D. team are having long meetings every day trying
to get a "handle" on things and, of course, deal with the constant
deluge of letters, memos and phone calls asking all manner of questions
about various aspects of the current crisis. Things are going well,
however, and we are grateful that a small number of ministers who have
had doctrinal questions or who have just been overcome with
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battle
fatigue" have either chosen to go non-career or quietly resign from
the ministry in an honorable manner. We want to be as open-minded and
fair in all of these situations as we possibly can be.
But I sincerely feel that the vast majority of God's ministry,
worldwide, is stronger now than it has been for some time. Because of
the recent challenges and attacks upon God's Work, many of our minis
ters and brethren have begun to rekindle a zeal and fervency that they
have not felt for many years. And in spite of some bad side effects,
resulting from the attacks made on the Work, the Worldwide Church of
God is gaining national attention and publicity to a degree it might
have taken years to acquire by normal means, and this may yet be used
by our God to open doors for our message in a virtually unprecedented
manner.
So keep your chins up, fellows! Let's all keep praying fervently
for the Work, for Mr. Armstrong especially and for one another. I'll
be trying to write you more detailed plans for the future in the next
Pastor's Report, but meanwhile we're very busy getting caught up on