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WORK would have to slow down and start going backward!
Late last winter we appointed a new firm of architects--
one of the largest and most competent in the world. With them, we
have now completed the new MASTER PLAN for the Ambassador College
of the future here at Pasadena. It has had to involve the purchase
of at least four vitally necessary additional blocks of property,
beside several more smaller parcels. It involves a large addition
to Ambassador Hall, to provide additional class rooms. It provides
for the new dining hall, new auditorium, new Administration office
building, a large addition to our Press Building (for printing,
mail-receiving, reading, and letter-answering departments, mailing
room, etc.). The college MUST have these facilities, or it cannot
grow. But this is a five to seven year program.
We now have 400 students jammed into this outgrown
campus. The new Master Plan is designed to accommodate 550. That
will be the maximum enrollment we shall accept on the Pasadena
campus.
Plans are proceeding rapidly for the Master Plan for the
NEW Ambassador College campus for our 1,200-acre property in east
Texas. We plan eventually to accept 550 students there. Plans,
however, call for starting one year from now with only 65 students,
and with NO new buildings. They will have to "rough it" with
existing facilities the first year. We do not plan to begin actual
construction of new buildings either at Pasadena or Texas for about
another year.
The reason for this is simply that we do not have
sufficient funds in the special Property and Building Fund to begin
building operations sooner. And we shall not be able to start
construction even then, UNLESS more of our Co-Workers will start
making SPECIAL and EXTRA contributions to that special fund. The
fund is growing--but it is growing TOO SLOWLY to allow the start of
this direly-needed construction!
That is why I must STILL ask many more of you Co-Workers
to send in a STATEMENT OF INTENTION, that we may know how much you
will undertake to contribute monthly to this fund--that is, SPECIAL
contributions IN ADDITION TO your tithes and regular contributions
you have been sending in. THE REGULAR OFFERINGS MUST GO FOR
OPERATIONAL EXPENSES FOR THE GOSPEL WORK. The new buildings must
be built out of ADDITIONAL and special offerings, marked for that
special PROPERTY FUND.
I hope, in the near future, to be able to show you the
architects' sketched picture of the Pasadena campus now planned, in
color.
Now, WHAT OF THE GOSPEL WORK?
The four baptizing teams, covering the United States and
Canada, have just completed their summer tours. The living Jesus
Christ has given us the BIGGEST HARVEST of precious lives for His
Kingdom of any year so far. Several hundred were baptized.