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PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 3, NO. 18
PASADENA,
CALIFORNIA
MAY 21, 1979
FROM PASTORAL ADMINISTRATION
Dear Fellow Ministers:
Greetings from Pasadena. We are all fine here and in good health.
The Personal Appearance Campaign, concluded here last night,went very well
and we had about 550 average total attendance--even though we had earlier
discouraged most of our Church people from coming. However, realizing
that with the negative publicity we have had in this area and the severe
gas shortages affecting people's driving, the attendance was not going to
be what we thought, we did encourage the brethren, somewhat belatedly to
go ahead and attend. In spite of the above problems, brand new people
attending were estimated at about 60 to 80 each night and interest was
excellent. From the responses we achieved, we hope and expect that at
least 12 to 25 of the new people will come to follow-up Bible studies
and, we pray, that at least several new people will be brought into God's
Church.
An additional bonus along with the campaign was a much better-than
average article on the campaign by Pasadena Star-News reporter, Dick
Lloyd. We will reproduce a copy of this entire article for your interest
here in the Pastor's Report. Although I did not ever use the word
"scourge" or turn to Obadiah or Nahum, Mr. Lloyd's article was, on the
whole, objective and in itself served as a type of witness to those who
read it here in the Pasadena area.
For this we are thankful. As Mr.
Herbert Armstrong said, this is the first positive publicity we have had
around here for a long time! And it was in direct connection with preaching
the Gospel of God's coming kingdom.
Mr. Raymond McNair took most of the faculty members over to Tucson
this past Thursday for a fine visit with Mr. Armstrong. Everyone said it
was a most inspiring and encouraging visit, and the faculty was able to
get better acquainted with Mr. Armstrong and receive from him instruction
and exhortation as to how to continually improve the approach in the
courses taught at Ambassador. As Mr. Armstrong told me on the phone yes
terday afternoon, he does want us all to follow his lead in getting the
Church back really close to God and in helping prepare the Church for
the coming marriage to Jesus Christ! I hope all of us can grasp this
concept, and enthusiastically follow Mr. Armstrong's lead in preaching
the kind of instructive and heartfelt sermons and in giving the Church
the kind of constant advice and example in Bible studies, personal visits,
social activities, etc., that will make them inspired to prepare themselves
for that ultimate union--on a spiritual plane--with Jesus Christ Himself.
I am sure a lot of information will be corning further from Mr. Armstrong
along this line, so please note it and act on it.
Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any
members who attend GTA's campaigns, church services or other meetings.
Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in
direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them,
or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the under-