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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
April 30, 1964
Dear Brethren of God's Church:
GREETINGS, in Jesus' name! It's time to begin planning for
the Feast of Tabernacles already---and this will be the GREATEST
Feast ever, since Apostolic days!
And in this special letter, you'll REJOICE to hear the really
GOOD NEWS about how God is solving our tremendous growth problem!
Feast attendance has been growing RAPIDLY! Almost as soon as God
opens a new location to us, it is outgrown. We have had to look
ahead, and begin planning EARLY, how to handle such staggering
growth---and how to keep making the Festival MORE AND MORE
ENJOYABLE for all of God's people!
Since I wrote you last month, several of us have spent two
days at Big Sandy, Texas, in conferences with our ministers there,
and with architects, and the representative from the Behlen
Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, Nebraska. The Behlen Company
is the firm who built our big tabernacle. It is the lowest-cost
type of construction we know---and yet it is substantial and
durable.
We met there to consider DOUBLING the size of our present
great tabernacle, to seat about 17,000---or, with balcony, perhaps
23,000.
Mr. Reuter of the Behlen Company said: "Mr. Armstrong, we now
have improved our engineering and structural system, so that our
present system makes the type building we constructed for you here
almost obsolete. We can now build you a complete NEW building,
more than twice the size of your present tabernacle, for less
money than we can double the size of the present building."
Let me now tell you OUR PROBLEM, the solutions we had
considered, and the solution we have finally decided on.
Attendance at the FEAST OF TABERNACLES has, for 20 years,
increased MORE THAN 30% a year. Ten years ago we thought the
increase in attendance would soon level off. It didn't. We know
now it WON'T!
God first revealed the TRUTH about His Holydays and Festivals