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operate the computer -- some to be editorial writers for The PLAIN
TRUTH -- some for the expanding News Bureau -- some to be office
managers, department heads, or to operate new branch offices. Just
last year we opened up THREE new branch offices -- in Jerusalem,
Palestine; in Nicosia, Cyprus; and in Mexico City.
Do you realize that GOD'S WORK keeps on in full-time
employment EVERY GRADUATE from our three college campuses -- except
the VERY FEW who may fail to qualify, or some of the young women
who marry some of our young men. But even those who marry become
either ministers' wives, having THEIR PART in the ministry, being
a HELP to their minister husbands, or a help to husbands who have
other important jobs in THE WORK. And nearly all young women
graduates who do not marry are employed FULL-TIME in the Work.
And so AMBASSADOR COLLEGE I S the "Work." And God's Work
has to GROW. You know how Jesus said "The harvest truly is
plenteous, but the laborers are FEW; PRAY YE, therefore, the Lord
of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest."
(Mat. 9:37-38). Do YOU PRAY for more laborers -- more students
to BE TRAINED for this labor in THE WORK? And do you HELP provide
the necessary buildings, and equipment, and facilities for their
training -- and for their WORK?
Do you know that every year God has been sending FAR MORE
laborers to apply for admission to Ambassador College than we can
take -- BECAUSE YOU BRETHREN HAVE NOT KEPT UP THE BUILDING FUND,
and we had no dormitories for them to sleep and study in -- not
enough class and lecture rooms for them to be taught in -- not
enough buildings for them to WORK IN?
Right now a large new dormitory is nearing completion on
the Pasadena campus to house 144 men -- and one in England to house
80 women. But we only have about HALF enough at the Texas campus,
and so even when Christ SENDS laborers, we have to turn them down
-- for we do not have a place for them to sleep and study!
For more than 34 years I have tried to be very careful, as
a steward, UNDER CHRIST, handling God's money in God's WORK. It
has been a long, hard, uphill STRUGGLE. But finally we have
succeeded in getting the Work into a very fine financial standing
that is RESPECTED in banking and financial circles. A large
Los Angeles bank LOANED US SIX MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS -- a 100% loan -- so we could build the direly-needed new
Administration building for THE WORK'S HEADQUARTERS OFFICES -- and
this new printing plant, and the new dormitory building on the
Pasadena campus. This made it possible for us to BUILD NOW,
IMMEDIATELY, and pay it out at the rate of $150,000 per month. Now
we simply made this arrangement with the bank, BECAUSE you brethren
-- GOD'S OWN CHURCH -- were sending in $150,000 per month in extra
special offerings for the building fund. We knew you could back us
in this obligation, because YOU WERE ALREADY DOING IT!
But BRETHREN! You didn't keep it up! When I had so many
things to attend to that I didn't send you a special letter to PROD
YOU ON, many of you JUST LET UP -- you just quit sending these
special offerings!