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PASTOR'S REPOR�
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 3, NO. 5
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FEBRUARY 20, 1979
FROM PASTORAL ADMINISTRATION
Dear Fellow Ministers:
Greetings from rainy Pasadena! Even though the sun is gone, I
am enjoying our "English weather" as it still brings us plenty of
fresh air.
My wife and I just returned from a most enjoyable and profitable
visit to the San Francisco area. It was good to be there again,
speak to the church, attend a church social, and have a fine dinner
and long visit with Messrs. Carlton Smith and Dennis Adams and their
wives. They are doing a fine job, but I hope to see them and all of
you oscasionally to renew or deepen our acquaintances and our capacity
to know, to understand, to love, and to be able to work together more
effectively.
Things are quieting down around headquarters the past few days,
and we hope and pray that the receivership will be lifted soon. Our
P.A.D. "team" is beginning to function well -- although some are
still in the process of moving out here -- and we have all been under
a certain strain because of the traumatic problems of last month as
well as the recent budget cuts that had to be made.
I want to publicly thank Messrs. Sherwin McMichael, Jim Thornhill
and Ted Herlofson and their respective staffs for the fine work they
did in helping us trim our overall division budget. I certainly do
appreciate their cooperation, yet hope that we can always retain all
the necessary core elements of each of these vital programs.
Perhaps it would be helpful for all of you in the ministry
around the world to realize that Mr. Raymond McNair, Mr. Dennis Luker
and I -- and others on our team -- have regular phone conversations
and/or meetings with Mr. Herbert Armstrong. Some ill-conceived
rumors are still circulating implying that we are in some way "cut
off" from the chief -- which is simply not so! I, personally,
regularly cal.l Mr. Armstrong at least two to four times a week for
extended conversations about the field ministry, the Work in general,
and the state of the universe! To a lesser extent, perhaps, Messrs.
McNair, Luk.er, and others do the same. And we will be flying over
to Tucson to see Mr. Armstrong personally every month or two as well.
Our team of dedicated senior ministers are trying, prayerfully
and with God's help, to restore the doctrines, the way of life and
the approach to the Bible that Mr. Herbert Armstrong wants throughout
this entire Church, worldwide. As most of you realize, a sizeable
minority of God's ministers were affected by the liberalism that began
to be rampant in our theological approaches and in our approach to