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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
July 18, 1972
Dear Brethren in God's Church:
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! Brethren, for your response to my
letter of May 31, in which I was forced to tell you that a most
severe financial crisis was approaching. I had to ask once again
for SPECIAL offerings to avert it.
I realized that the situation was different than when I
had to make a similar special appeal on March 30, 1970, and I
estimated that our ability at this time might preclude more than
about half the special offering response of the former crisis.
And that is almost exactly what was raised.
However I was able, this time, to foresee the coming
crisis, and ask this special help before the situation had become
so desperate. And now, IF we can keep the regular income up to
normal, we will pull through. However, if there is any letdown in
receipt of tithes and offerings, we shall yet face a very desperate
situation. The income, so far this month (July), is NOT up to what
it normally should be.
But Brethren, HOW WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL AND REJOICE! The
most powerful door our God has ever opened for His Work is already
UNDER WAY! The DAILY TV programs are starting on more than TWENTY
TV stations across the country -- starting YESTERDAY, July 17.
These stations include the nation's number one independent station,
WOR -- channel 9, New York, and Garner Ted Armstrong is now being
heard DAILY on stations in Buffalo, N.Y. (reaching Toronto),
Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle-Tacoma,
Denver, Kansas City plus a network over Kansas, Dallas, Fort Worth,
New Orleans, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Washington, D.C., Austin,
Texas (Ex-President Johnson's station), Nashville, Bellingham,
Washington (covering Vancouver, B.C.), Charlotte, N.C. -- so far,
we have 24 stations carrying the program DAILY, besides being back
on all the stations formerly used once-a-week (until they clear a
daily strip for us).
But ALREADY, that is a FINE national coverage. Our
advertising agency is working daily on opening up DAILY TIME on
more and more stations. We expect, in reasonable time, to cover
the United States as thoroughly by television, as we have been by
radio.
Brethren, it is surely a MIRACLE that in about three short
weeks, we have been able to obtain DAILY TIME on so many stations.
Five weeks ago I would not have thought we could obtain ANY daily
strip on ANY station! This is what I have WANTED to do for 17
years -- but never thought it even POSSIBLE, before.