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this coming year, see this glorious Work of God operating with
adequate cash balance, and plunging ahead with greater growth than
ever.
The colleges are both growing. Ambassador College at
Pasadena now has enrolled more than 400 undergraduates, beside some
thirty-five in the Graduate Schools. The new college in England,
starting its third year, now has 111 students--as a coincidence,
the same number as our Pasadena post-office box number.
Plans are now being rushed to start a third Ambassador
College next September!
This will be located at our l,000-acre project in east
Texas, near Big Sandy, 100 miles east of Dallas. On these
beautiful grounds we already have all the buildings and facilities
we shall need for the first year, except for the addition of about
four class rooms. We already have the competent and experienced
faculty and administrative staff, so that the new college will not
add to the payroll.
This summer and fall we were unable to accept three-fourths
of the nearly five hundred students who eagerly applied for
admission, at Pasadena. It was almost heart-breaking to be unable
to accept so many who wanted to come.
But, with those facilities already existing, with the
entire staff, both teaching and administrative, already active with
us and so occupied that, by some doubling up, they can be shifted
to Big Sandy, Texas, without increased expenditures, it has become
inevitable and imperative that we now open the third of God's
colleges. The housing facilities for the Big Sandy campus will
certainly not be deluxe, and pioneer students at that new
institution will have to "rough it" and put up with some
inconvenience the first year or two--but all the real NEED is
there.
After additional grounds are cleared and new landscaping
done within the next two or three years, we shall be provided with
a campus in Texas just as beautiful and magnificently landscaped,
on scenic contoured wooded grounds, as the Pasadena campus or the
lovely Gardens and grounds at Bricket Wood, here in England.
It seems that always, just when a real NEED arises, God
provides it--and suddenly we realize "here it IS!"
In my next letter I hope to find space to tell you in more
detail of the marvelous advances and successes of God's Work during
this year--by far the most productive year in the history of this
great Work.
More precious lives have been converted--changed--brought
to Christ and begotten as children of GOD--than ever before.
MORE MILLIONS of people all over the world have heard
Christ's glorious GOOD NEWS--His true Gospel--in more languages--
now some 22 million in our radio audience every week.