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PASTOR'S REPORT·
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PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand!
I am dictating this brief report only 15 minutes after arriving at
our offices here in Auckland following about a 10-hour flying day
yesterday from Honolulu, with a refueling stop in Western Samoa.
It's a cloudy, rainy day, but the vivid greens and bright colors
of New Zealand are striking nevertheless. This is, of course, my
very first visit to New Zealand in my life, as it is for my wife
and son David. We are to fly this evening to Christchurch on South
Island to meet with a group who would have been driving over two
lane difficult roads from as far away as 200 miles or more for
meetings from 7 to 9 p.m. Then tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in
Wellington on North Island, and the following night here in Auckland,
and then on to our offices at Burleigh Heads near Brisbane in
Australia.
I was able to visit my father again briefly just barely before our
departure, and he still appeared to be making very slow but steady
progress.
I hope you will all encourage your congregations to pray
that God will intervene especially in helping him to overcome the
current difficulty of his lack of red blood cells, and also the
need for his own body to provide him with the energy and strength
to gradually increase his walking and exercise so that he can con
tinue to regain his strength. We were able to chat about essential
things in the Work, including the recently announced personnel
change in discontinuing our need for the service3 of Professor Osamu
Gotoh, and of course the upcoming ministerial conference.
I was very relieved to be able to finish ten more five-minute pro
grams, a column and one 'I". V. program the last two days prior to my
departure. I am now completely ahead in half-hour radio, half-hour
T.V., five-minute radio and columns so that I can turn my attention
to the speaking, and hopefully creative writing, on this trip.
As I mentioned in my personal in the Woi:-ldwide News, I am absolutely
elated over the tremendous response from the brethren to my letter
offering them a free copy for each head of household of my new book,
The Real Jesus. The letter has already broken all records for the
percentage of return in the history of the Work:
Will try to keep in touch with you in each Pastor's Report.
With love, in Jesus
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