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and Ev on the other. Next to me was Mrs. [Lelah] Upton,
Mr. [Stanley] Rader's secretary. [Mr. Rader is the Work's
vice-president for financial affairs.] Over a fruit cocktail
Mr. Rader was dictating an article for the Worldwide News, and
Mrs. Upton was taking it down discreetly in shorthand. Anyone
sitting much farther away than I would never have known what
was going on. Mr. Rader mentioned several announcements that
he had made that evening after Mr. Armstrong's sermon and
general news for the Church as a whole.
Later that night as Ev and I sat and talked -- we were
too excited to sleep -- Mrs. Upton was sending the copy back
to [Big Sandy] for immediate publication. Somehow she also
managed to get some typing done for me and another message
regarding the accommodations through to Tokyo before leaving
early the next day for Japan.
Mr. Rader and Mr. [Osamu] Gotoh [Ambassador's director
of Asian studies] were busy the whole time I was in Kenya
with communication with headquarters, meeting various
officials and ambassadors and setting up appointments for
Mr. Armstrong. And other more mundane but equally vital
functions, such as hiring film crews and airfreighting the
film to Pasadena, hiring the halls, cars, microphones and
who knows what all else, seeing to it that the Plain Truth
was on every seat in the auditorium, hiring ushers and
usherettes, setting up ads in newspapers and billboards
throughout the city and, of course, hotel accommodations,
protocol arrangements, and becoming aware of the local
conditions, economy, history, etc., etc. When you see
how much they do it's amazing that Mr. Armstrong's "team"
is only made up of three men, counting Capt. [Ed] Black
[pilot of the G-II].
Mr. Armstrong said that he couldn't do the work without
his team. I believe him! They all work together extremely
well, and each contributes his own part selflessly. I was
struck by how much each one of the men respects the
contribution of the other. It seems that is one of the
fundamental reasons for the success they have achieved.
They truly respect each other's strengths and seem determined
to carry their own responsibility faithfully. I never saw
an instruction given twice nor an excuse for a lack of
success (in fact, there didn't seem to be any lack of
success!), nor a suggestion of any kind that another
hadn't done his job fully. I agreed with Solomon about
the four things that are "beautiful in going."
So the "team" preached the Gospel in Nairobi with
the approval of President [Jomo] Kenyatta in a powerful
and clear way. And for Nairobi it's the beginning. Now
the Worldwide Church of God moves in as a support function
to the main arm of the Work.
Mr. Rader hopes we can begin printing the Plain Truth
there, and he announced that we would have a minister
there within two months of the campaign. The Plain