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It is MISSION IMPOSSIBLE -- ACCOMPLISHED!
This is by far the MOST POWERFUL means of reaching people
with Christ's Message ever possible. IT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE
BEFORE! Some stations are putting on RE-runs of old former weekly
half-hour shows, such as "Father Knows Best" (which I recommend),
The Martian, I Love Lucy, Rifleman, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, etc. But
I don't think ANY half-hour program has ever run, NEW and first-
run, DAILY before!
To get started, for the first four weeks, we ourselves are
running RE-runs of our former weekly documentary programs, but
after that the NEW daily hard-hitting series will be ON THE AIR.
Garner Ted already has done 25 NEW daily programs. We are doing
them, full color, on TV tape, which will be sent to the stations.
My son is now doing SIX new programs a week -- for the past four
weeks plus the first ONE of which I wrote you before. He has
already proved that he CAN produce six new TV programs a week. IT
IS A REAL ORDEAL -- never done before! But IT'S GETTING DONE!
My son, Garner Ted, also is working hard on getting the
PERSONAL APPEARANCE programs organized. The first one is to be
held at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is very well known there --
has spoken there twice before national conventions, and been on
weekly TV for a long time. He is planning to take along a slightly
abbreviated chorale from the chorales of both Pasadena and Big
Sandy campuses, a band, an MC, and uniformed ushers -- male
students. We found, in the America Listen campaigns, that
audiences love to see our sharp, clean-cut students, and talk to
them.
These new Personal Appearance programs will be for THREE
NIGHTS -- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, beginning August 25,
at Calgary.
Two weeks ago, I flew up to Oakland for the Sabbath
service. A special large auditorium was engaged, and 1495 Brethren
from six Bay Area churches attended. Last Sabbath, I spoke in the
morning at Des Moines, and in Omaha in the afternoon. Three Iowa
churches combined in Des Moines, with 726 present, and also, I
think, three churches combined at Omaha, with more than 1,000
present. Ministers, Local Elders and their wives and I had a most
enjoyable dinner together in the evening at Omaha, and I flew the
ministers and elders from Des Moines out there with me. It was a
wonderful get-together.
Having the jet plane makes it possible for me to get to one
or two churches on a Sabbath, like that, and I will try to do more
of that in the future. Also I visited the Imperial Summer Camp at
Orr, Minnesota, Thursday evening and Friday. The young students
put on a combined "sing-along" and entertainment show Thursday
evening, and the annual water show Friday afternoon. It was simply
GREAT! It's the largest such camp, for both boys and girls, in the
U.S. And no other is remotely like it. The one disadvantage is
that we can't take more of the children of our Brethren. It's
too bad there can't be THOUSANDS of such camps. There will be,