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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.l, NO. 9
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
WHAT A WONDERFUL FEAST!
(October 15, 1979)
GREETINGS my sons in Christ's Ministry, and wives!
OCTOBER 18, 1979
Surely this was the greatest, most joyous, inspiring and helpful and
blessed Festival in 1900 years!
And four days before the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, the inspira
tion came to see if the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. could put
through for us a national hookup with all other United States Feast Sites.
I was scheduled to leave Tucson the next day, Tuesday, for the Savannah,
Georgia site, to speak there on Thursday morning, and at the St. Peters
burg, Florida site on Sabbath afternoon.
It was an exciting idea, though one considered technically impossible
without several weeks time. The inspiration had come through Mr. Rader.
He and I discussed it on Monday. Even though it seemed technically impos
sible on such short notice--he had already at
5:30
that
morning
talked with
many telephone officials by long distance--they had said they would leap
swiftly onto the emergency, and see if it could be done. I needed the
answer by noon Tuesday, when we were scheduled to take flight for Savannah.
Telephone officials, and Mr. Rader in constant contact with them from
his home here in Tucson, worked through the day and night and by Tuesday
morning, Mr. Rader told me they had already cleared the way for a hookup
with at least three or four sites from the Tucson Community Center. They
had put all the emergency facilities of the greatest telephone company on
earth into night and day action, and would have to let us know later how
many additional sites might be hooked up--if any.
I had to make a quick decision.
"Already we are assured that you will speak to more festival sites
from here, than if you fly on east," said Mr. Rader. And there was good
prospect that by the Sabbath we would be connected with more sites.
I saw the hand of GOD in this, and made the decision to stay here
--go ahead, and hook up as many more feast sites as possible.
Do you realize the Bell Telephone System is not only by far the
largest telephone system in the world, but the very largest and efficiently
operated corporation in the U.S.? When I travel in other countries I
really do come to appreciate the vast superiority of our American telephone
service.
Even with their vast and intricate technical facilities it would
ordinarily require a few weeks time to accomplish this!