Basic HTML Version
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
Airborne
February 22, 1974
Letter to all Ministers Worldwide
Dear Fellow Ministers of God's Church:
I am en route to Manila for the FIRST of the world PUBLIC
APPEARANCE campaigns next Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
This is an historic FIRST! It is the first PUBLIC
meeting, hopefully before audiences of many thousands, in world
capitals resulting from approvals and endorsements from the very
TOP of the governments of these nations. It is the BIGGEST THING
that has happened in God's Work since it started, in our time, in
January 1934!
I face a very busy week. On Monday there is another
personal meeting with President Marcos, accompanied this time by
the Minister of Education. I am to give a Graduation Address at
the University on Wednesday, and receive an honorary Doctor's
degree. I am to speak before the Rotary Club, the Lion's Club, the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the Press Club. There are to be
interviews on radio and television. The Friday and Saturday night
meetings are to be in an auditorium seating 1800, as I understand,
and the Sunday night meeting in the Coliseum, seating about 15,000.
The first of these world capital PUBLIC appearances was
originally scheduled for Saigon. But as you know the Viet Nam
war "Cease Fire" has never ceased, but recently has flared up,
and government officials there, sponsoring it, felt it better to
postpone it until late in March. I hope the war situation permits
us to hold it about three weeks after the Manila meetings.
The officials in the Philippine government were willing
to move the meetings there three weeks ahead of the original plans.
The Living GOD has moved, these past four years to give
me, as your fellow Minister whom YOU call God's Apostle, and as
God's chosen servant for getting His true GOSPEL into all the
world, for a witness to ALL NATIONS just before the END of this
age, almost unbelievable prestige, favor, and stature in the eyes
of many kings, emperors, presidents, prime ministers and OTHER HIGH
LEADERS OF MANY NATIONS. I am now, by God's grace, received in
many world capitals as an AMBASSADOR FOR WORLD PEACE. I can
assure, with authority and confidence, world leaders and heads of
state that WORLD PEACE not only is possible, but is definitely
coming in our time. And this in spite of the fact that the efforts
of world leaders for six thousand years have brought no peace but