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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
Palm Springs, California,
November 13, 1961
Dear Staff:
I have just been reading an article about TV in the
Saturday Evening Post. It suggested things I'd like to say to all
of you on our executive and administrative staff around the world.
We are becoming a large, powerful, and far-flung
organization. We are scattered, now, to all parts of the globe.
There have become too many of us for me to keep in contact with
each of you, either personally, or by personal letter. So now I
see the need of a regular Staff letter from me to all of you. It
ought to go out at least monthly. I am not sure I shall be able to
keep this going with regularity, but I do see the serious NEED, and
want to do it if I can.
The College was started at Pasadena, not only to provide
a trained and educated ministry for God's Church, but, with
increasing heavy duties descending on my shoulders as the work
expanded, to provide a competent and trained staff to relieve me of
some of this snow-balling load. But you know what has happened.
The work continued to expand in such multiplied scope that, instead
of my duties being lightened, new larger ones at the top level kept
looming up so that my own responsibilities seem to be increasing.
It seems no one can do certain things for me--writing the
monthly double-page messages for Reader's Digest, the monthly
Co-Workers letters, the semi-annual letters to the entire 350,000-
name mailing list, most of the sex classes at the two colleges,
(and I ought to be teaching other classes--especially in Graduate
School), the top major planning of the whole work, frequent visits
to leading radio station managers, decisions as to policies,
planning of campuses, new construction, etc. And I ought, above
all, to be carrying at least two-thirds of the broadcasts, beside
writing articles for the Plain Truth and the Good News. The most
difficult of all this is changing from one subject, or problem, to
another in my mind. Of course I forgot to mention the need of
preaching--I do preach most Sabbaths at Pasadena when there, and at
London when in England. I ought to appear and preach at each
Church everywhere around the world, at least once every year or two
--but this seems now impossible. But what I'm trying to say is,
that with several of these segments of the work on my mind--or with
world news and prophecy reappraisal and research on my mind--or,
with matters of market conditions, radio station ratings and