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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
March 15, 1976
Dear Co-Workers and Brethren in Christ:
In the 42 years since this Work of the living Christ started,
there have come times, on occasion, when I had to take you
coworkers and brethren into my confidence and tell you we are
close to one of those occasional financial crises.
I am sure you realize it has been a "long haul." We have
not traveled an easy road. Christ said the "easy road" leads to
destruction. But the road to success, accomplishment and eternal
life is a hard, rutty, difficult road. It has its ups and downs.
We must expect that. He said it would be replete with persecution.
It has been. Yet He would never leave nor forsake us--and He
never has and will not now.
I am sending you a copy of the letter I am sending to non
co-worker subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH. I feel that we MUST
now go back to our former newsmagazine format for The PLAIN TRUTH.
It will give the Work a "lift"--yet we must go back to less
costly paper than formerly. I feel that this letter will find
many subscribers who really want to "pay their own way" by
contributing an amount to cover one or more subscriptions.
But I must also say to you who share this financial
responsibility with me, that we have once again, as we have at
intervals in the past, come to the point where I have to lay
the problem frankly and candidly before you and ask you for
SPECIAL efforts and for a VERY SPECIAL financial SACRIFICE for
God's Work--a special and generous offering ABOVE regular tithes
and offerings. And I ask you once again to go to your knees and
take this VERY SPECIAL need to Christ in special fervent and
prevailing PRAYER. Even FASTING and prayer.
Brethren, whenever in past times of crisis we have united,
FASTED and PRAYED, GOD HAS ALWAYS HEARD AND ANSWERED. He is the
same today and will answer if we put our hearts in it.
I ask you to take this seriously to heart and join me in
FASTING and PRAYER.
I am writing this special emergency letter from 39,000 feet
above the Pacific Ocean--flying to Seoul, South Korea--to prepare
for a special campaign there. Also, I will have another brief
public campaign this trip in Manila, the Philippines; and I am to
give the address at the investiture ceremonies inaugurating the
new President of Angeles University in the Philippines.
Then I am going to Cairo, Egypt, for another meeting to speak