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PASTOR'S REPOR�
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 3, NO. 10
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 27, 1979
FROM PASTORAL ADMINISTRATION
Dear Fellow Ministers:
Greetings again from Pasadena! We are all fine here, and appreciate
the many encouraging calls and letters that continue to come in from so
many of you and also your brethren out in the field. Now that the receiver
has been gone for some time, things seem more normal here at headquarters,
and we are able to concentrate more than ever on doing the Work!
We had a fine meeting with the Area Coordinators here last week.
On Wednesday, we flew over to see Mr. P_rmstrong in Tucson and all of us
spent several hours with him. It was truly inspiring, once again, to
have his direction and inspiration in so many areas of the Work and
Christian living. Also, we covered a lot of ground in organizational
matters and manpower planning in our meetings here.
We were all encouraged by Mr. Armstrong's approval to ordain Larry
Salyer as a pastor-rank minister! It was actually somewhat of an over
sight that he had not been ordained to this rank before, but certainly
most necessary now because of his tremendous growth and the new responsi
bility as Area Coordinator that he has been given. So again, congratu
lations Mr. and Mrs. Larry Salyer!
Because of the� tight financial situation we will be in for
the next few months, we want to start immediately to implement a fine
idea Mr. Richard Rice has submitted. It involves church fund raising
projects. We will send you a complete packet on this within a few days,
but I would like to ask all of you personally to start NOW to begin
planning and perhaps even preliminary organization of fund raising pro
jects in your area as a special emergency crusade to raise monies to
be sent to T.ucson at the earliest possible date. Get your leading mem
bers together, and begin to organize different groups to engage in paint
ing houses, cleaning houses, ironing, mending, etc., washing cars, selling
farm produce, artwork, babysitting, conducting paper drives, yard and
garage sales, bake sales, quilting bees, collecting scrap iron, deliver
ing sales papers or advertisements for local firms, etc.
This is one way the members can directly have "a piece of the action"
in SERVING God's Work at this time, and yet it will involve very little
of their own personal money -- merely time, effort and elbow grease. So
please try to catch the vision, fellows, and get your churches enthusias
ticalli involved in these projects as soon as possible. As I said, we
will try to send you a packet of ideas within a few days with further
details, but I would hope some of you would start on some of the obvious
things you could do almost immediately.
God willing, a number of us will be flying out from headquarters to
visit many of your areas during the Passover season! We have already