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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH
OF
GOD
VOL. 8, NO. 29
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 18, 1986
Dear Ministers,
· .
Bola from old Mexico!
As this letter is due I am in Guadalajara, Mexico. Our traveling
party (Mr. and Mrs. Leon Walker, Mr. Joseph Locke, Mrs. Ellen Escat, Mrs.
Esther Apperson and a television crew consisting of Mr. John Balford, Mr.
Steve Bergstrom and Mr. Russ Alsobrook) arrived here midday from
Monterrey, where I was able to meet and speak last night to
110
of our
Mexican brethren from the Monterrey and Torren congregations, pastored by
Mr. Alfredo Mercado.
Tonight I am to be with about
200
brethren from the Guadalajara and
Tepic churches. I have had just a wonderful time with these joy-£illed
brethren 1
Their enthusiasm for God's Work and appreciation for their
calling to Bis Church is infectious! Wherever I visit God's people I am
further impressed with the powerful unifying force that God's Holy Spirit
isl God is truly making us one! Language barriers, nationality barriers,
race barriers, even distancebarriers become nothing before the mighty
power of God's Spirit.
We departed �asadena Sunday, November
10,
for our first stop in El
Paso, Texas. There we were met by Mr. Tom Turk, office manager in Mexico
City, Mr. Gilberto Marin, pastor of the Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua,
Mexico, churches, and Mr. Dennis Johnson, pastor of the El Paso, Texas,
and Las Cruces, New Mexico, churches. Sunday evening the brethren from El
Paso and Las Cruces joined those from Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez for a
combined service in the Hotel Presidente in Ciudad Juarez (just across the
border from El Paso>.
Monday we flew to Monterrey, and now Tuesday in Guadalajara.
Tomorrow we will visit our Feast of Tabernacles site in Acapulco; then it
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is on to Mexico City on Thursday to
visit our office there.
Messrs.
Walker and Turk have planned a tour
of Mexico City
(now the world's
largest city with a population of
18 million) for us on Friday.
Then, this Sabbath, I will speak to
the brethren from Mexico City and
surrounding areas.
Surely one of the greatest
blessings God has given me as
pastor general is the opportunity
to visit God's people from all