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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
September 14, 1962
Dear Brethren in Christ:
GREETINGS once again, brethren of God's true Church!
Mrs. Armstrong and I have just recently returned to Headquarters
from our lengthy stay at the College in England. College is
already underway here in Pasadena, with another of our large
incoming classes of 120 new freshmen, and here we are rapidly
approaching another wonderful FEAST OF TABERNACLES!
This special letter is being sent only to you brethren
living EAST of the national dividing line we have had to establish,
and concerns the Festival to be observed at Big Sandy, Texas. Be
sure you read and really understand every word!
Once again this year, because of the tremendous GROWTH
God has given His Church, we shall have to observe the Feast of
Tabernacles at TWO locations in the United States, with our
brethren overseas observing God's Holy Festival on Hayling Island
in England, in a mountain resort near Sydney, Australia, and in the
Philippines, Africa and the British West Indies! This great FEAST
is truly WORLD-WIDE!
As I wrote you last year, it was certainly not my doing,
nor my personal DESIRE to have to hold the Feast in two locations
in the United States. I, personally, wanted to see ALL of us
together in ONE place! But God simply made this impossible! He
gave the increase, but He did not direct HIS OWN WORK to build, or
to be ABLE to build the mammoth facilities that would be necessary
for all of us to meet in one place, on our grounds at Gladewater.
Instead, He miraculously opened an internationally famous
resort, SQUAW VALLEY, California, to us! And so, again this year,
almost HALF of God's people in the United States will be meeting in
Squaw Valley, and perhaps more than half at Big Sandy.
This year, we have had to move the dividing line much
further east. Still, however, we expect to be really CROWDED at
our big Tabernacle building. It has been constructed to seat
perhaps a maximum of 7,500 people. There were almost that many
attending last year, and with the great increase God has granted,
there will be perhaps over 8,000 people at Big Sandy this year!
There may be up to SIX THOUSAND meeting together in Squaw Valley!
Think of it! FOURTEEN THOUSAND of us this year! What a sight that