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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
June 5, 1975
Dear Brethren in Christ:
This is to announce a BRAND-NEW MAGAZINE! It is to
fulfill a new and necessary purpose in carrying out our great
commission. I want to tell you about it.
Suppose God had called you, yourself, individually, to
start His Work for this time -- to think out the plans and
ways to go about it, to preach and publish Christ's Gospel
MESSAGE of the soon-coming KINGDOM OF GOD IN ALL THE WORLD
for a witness to ALL NATIONS! Would you be overwhelmed?
Would you know how to go about it? Ever think about that?
Forty-two years ago God laid that awesome responsibility
upon me. I had no money then -- not even a car. I had to
hitch-hike to preach in a country schoolhouse. There was
only a very small handful of brethren to help me. They were
only able to find and raise about $1.40 a week to help me
get started. I started the first Sunday in 1934 broadcasting
the Kingdom of God Message on the smallest-power radio station.
It cost $2.50 per week. I had to take the remaining $1.10 per
week on sheer FAITH. I found a way to start the Plain Truth
magazine on a borrowed mimeograph in February 1934!
Gradually others began joining and standing behind me as
co-workers with Christ in His Work. The Work grew slowly but
steadily. In three or four years we were reaching the
Pacific Northwest. In due time I was reaching the entire
United States and Canada, coast to coast.
In January 1953 I began reaching a scattered listening
audience in Britain and Europe over Radio Luxembourg. But
the time available was poor -- 11:30 to midnight once a
week. I bought time on fly-by-night radio stations in small
countries across the borders from China, India, Argentina,
and such large population countries. But they gave very
poor listening times.
Most countries around the world have a very tight
communications control by their governments. There is little
freedom of press or freedom of speech. They will not sell
radio time. Countries like China, India, Indonesia, Thailand,
Brazil, Argentina, Britain, and all the main European countries
have government-controlled radio and television. All such
doors were closed to us.
It took us FORTY YEARS to get Christ's Message with
fairly good coverage over the United States and Canada, and