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Out of our fourth graduating class at the college here,
we are sending seven men out into the full-time ministry -- six to
the United States, and one to South Africa to serve under
experienced ordained ministers. We feel that these men, after a
year of this actual ministerial experience, will be ready for
ordination -- in fact we have the matter under serious
consideration as to whether two or three are not fully qualified
for ordination before leaving here.
In the United States, the usual three or four baptizing
teams are now on their annual summer tours throughout the United
States and Canada. Several graduates were ordained as ministers at
Pasadena Headquarters, after graduation there on June 1st. One,
recently married, is being sent to become pastor of a church in
Brisbane, Australia. Others will be used in full time service in
the ministry in the United States.
In every way, God's Work is growing -- growing --
GROWING! And meanwhile TIME is whipping past. The time we have
left as God's instruments before the end of this age is growing
constantly shorter and shorter. A very few more years remain!
The College building programs are proceeding right on
schedule! We broke ground for the first of the large new buildings
in the Pasadena expansion program last February. Already all the
walls are up, and roofs on, on this new Physical Education plant.
The large new Ambassador College press building, housing our giant
new presses -- our new million-dollar printing plant, now one of
the major printing plants on the West Coast, is now completely
remodeled and in operation. An additional 2 story unit is to be
added later. The August issue (U.S.A.-Canada edition) of The PLAIN
TRUTH will be printed on our own big new magazine press -- for the
first time.
One of the important purposes of my present trip to
England was to have a meeting with the Hertsfordshire County
Council officials relative to obtaining building permission for our
big new auditorium-physical education building here. Architect's
preliminary plans and request for the building permit had been
filed with them almost a year ago. It is a large new building --
and we are in the Green Belt surrounding London. It is almost
impossible to obtain a permit for the construction of any new
buildings in this beautiful green area.
Finally the top officials, headed by the Chairman of the
County Council (this office would compare to that of Governor of
any of our middle-or-smaller-size states in America) asked for a
conference with me, our top ranking College officials here, and our
Los Angeles architect. The architect flew over for this meeting,
which was attended also by the London architect of our
architectural firm. Upon our agreement to sink the big main part
of the building ten feet down in the ground, and to lower the roof
level of a second portion of the building by six feet, we came to
a very happy meeting of minds. It is now our understanding that
official permission will be forthcoming at the Council's next
meeting, in August.