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the work through friends, some of whom are Church members).
In less than two months we've received 30,000 names as a result of
this program. We follow up by sending a specially prepared flyer/
card mailing which introduces these new people to various major
aspects of the Work such as Messrs. Armstrong, the Worldwide Church
of God, Ambassador College, AICF, the radio and television programs,
booklets and other literature. Response thus.far has been ranging
from 4% to 5% which, in a mailing effort to new names such as these,
is considered excellent by the direct mail industry.
The weekly mail picture is continuing to do well also. Al.tho_ugh
mail is down slightly from the past two weeks, it is still currently
about 10% higher than last year at this time.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing
WATS TELEPHONE TRAHSFERS In order to provide the best service to the
vast majority of our callers, we need to make a change regarding WATS
telephone transfers, or "patches" as we call them.
You have probably called during a busy period and heard an operator
say, "I'm sorry, you came in on a line that cannot be transferred.
Could you please call again in about 5 minutes?" This was because
we only have the ability to "connect" the first three lines to other
departments, and they have become increasingly busy during the week
due to media activities.
We� continue to transfer all incoming calls to Ministerial
Services,�!_!!. the past. For all other departments, however, we
will simply relay your message and have your calls returned.
--Larry Nelson, Mail Processing Center
AN
INVITATION FROM
Y.o.u.
Our fourth National Basketball and Cheer
leading finals are just a few weeks away (March 21-23) in Big Sandy.
We invite any of you who happen to be in the area at the time to
stop by and see some good basketball and enjoy an Ambassador
prepared meal or two "on Y.O.U."
If any
of
you have any college quality ball players
who
would be
interested in getting in a couple of scrimmage games with our student
assistants, have them come on down. The A.C. coaches will be there
to watch them (and they will have scholarships available if the boy
is good enough). However, all who do come will have to� all their
own expenses for the entire period, and will have to abi�by all
tournament rules. Since space is limited, we need to have them give
us a call if any are interested. Any boy showing up without a
reservation will have to make his own housing arrangements.
--Mike Blackwell,
Y.o.u.
ON THE
WORLD SCENE
HEAL THYSELF,
GERMANY TELLS AMERICA A couple of weeks ago, U.S.
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Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal drew a complete blank from West
German Chancellor Schmidt in his request to have the Germans inflate
their economy a bit in order to take the strain off the plummeting
dollar.