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PASTOR'S REPOR��
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 3, NO. 12
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 9, 1979
FROM PASTORAL ADMINISTRATION
Dear Fellow Ministers:
Greetings from gorgeous Pasadena! We are having another sparkling
clear day with the mountains visible, "clear as a bell" from my office
window and a breeze blowing outside. We are all fine here and some of
our team is already on the way for their respective trips during this
Passover season. I won't be leaving until Wednesday morning so that I
have a maximum amount of time here to handle the constant deluge of
problems, calls, paperwork, etc.
Messrs. Sherwin McMichael, Burk McNair and I flew over to see Mr.
Herbert Armstrong last Thursday and had a very profitable visit with
him. We were able to go over and gain his approval on all of the ordi
nations to be conducted during the Passover season. Also, we talked over
in detail with him all of our plans and the entire format for the three
night Evangelistic Campaigns coming up within a few weeks. He continues
to be in good shape and good spirits and gave us some very helpful ideas
about the campaigns.
For those of you who might be concerned, we want to let you know that
things have been so terribly busy that we will not be able to complete
making our summer assignments until after the Days of Unleavened Bread.
So if you are in any way involved in some of these changes, please be
patient.
In this regard, I am sorry to report that Bobby Boyce sent Mr. Luker
a note last week expressing his desire to go non-career. He may have had
many reasons for this, but I know he was disappointed that we felt it
imperative to assign someone else to the Longview, Texas church at this
time, which he had asked for. However, none of us in P.A.D. had in any
way encouraged him to go non-career and it was a sincere surprise to us,
as we had planned to give him another assignment in the general area.
However, we wish him well and all of you fellows who choose the non-career
route -- though I hope that some day in the not too distant future, the
Work will move forward with such obvious power and inspiration, and
prophecies will start happening so rapidly that all of you -- along with
many others
will again want to literally GIVE YOURSELVES full-time to
the service of the Work of God.
Another matter I feel should be discussed openly at this time is our
decision to make a change in the Oklahoma City pastorate some time this
spring or summer. This was done after visits to the area by Messrs.
Waterhouse, Neff, and McMichael -- all from our headquarters team. How
ever, because of a truly saddening situation regarding the fact that young
Joe Pyle has very recently been found to have cancer and has only been
given one to three months to live, we have decided to postpone any final
decision and action on this matter until summer. It turns out -- which
I did NOT know earlier -- that Joe is right there in Oklahoma City staying