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PASTOR'S REPORr�
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.
3,
NO.
3 0
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Mr. Armstrong Speaks at
SEP Again
Greetings, Ministers and wives:
JULY 30, 1979
I flew up to Orr, Minnesota again to speak to the second contingent
at SEP--Sumrner Educational Program.
This winds up the second camp session at Orr for the summer of 1979.
I found this second group of teen-agers slightly larger than the first con
tingent, to which I spoke three weeks before. This SEP program is a
wonderful thing. It brings the teen-agers (12 to 18) into an activity
that definitely increases their interest in the activities of God's Church.
I sp�ke on a subject that will appear as an article in the September
GOOD NEWS.
It involves a whole new program in the church, bringing our young
people and still younger children into a far greater relationship than be
fore with their parents.
I am exuberent, enthusiastic and vitally interested in the new YES
(Youth Educational Service) program now being launched in the church. It
works in conjunction with the YOU program. But I feel it is even far more
important. So much so that I am bringing both YOU and YES programs direc
tly under my own personal direction and supervision, and the leaders of
both will work directly under me, and in close personal touch with me.
By way of brief summary of my message this last Sabbath at Orr: There
were more than 600 there altogether, including teen-age campers, crew, and
about 100 visiting parents, since these youths will be returning home about
Wednesday this week.
I
put emphasis on the fact that God Himself has a very special in
terest in children of all ages--from infants on through teen-agers.
What the world does NOT know is that God, at the creation of MAN, set
a definite Master Plan for reproducing Himself--a Plan that definitely
involves the entire FAMILY as the basic unit of society. God's Great
Master Plan includes children from infancy to adults.
As God's renewing of the face of the earth--recorded in Genesis,
verses 2 through 31, and even into following chapters--took place in seven
literal days (including creation of the Sabbath day), and since a day is
as a thousand years to God, and a thousand years as a day, so those first
seven days represented the 7,000 years of God's Master Plan.
When God drove Adam and Eve out from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:22-24),
He said, to put it in modern lJ.nguage, "YOU have made your own decision,