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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
In Flight, Republic of Transkei to
President and Pastor
Cape Town, South Africa
March 22, 1977
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
An hour ago I had just ended an address before the ministers of
the world's newest government, the entire legislative assembly and
others of the general public.
This morning Mr. Rader and I both spoke to the Prime Minister
and his ministers in their ministers' or cabinet room.
It was a rare once-in-several-lifetimes experience. Because a
week ago across Africa on the west coast I addressed the 80 or 85
delegates who were drafting a new constitution for another soon-to-be
NEW nation, Southwest Africa. I addressed them in their famous
Turnhalle in Windhoek, their capital city. They held this special
session for the sole purpose of hearing my address. Everyone I
talked to in Cape Town, it seemed, was simply amazed that such a
special session had been called to hear an address from one of
another country.
So far this has been one of the busiest, most productive trips
of my life. Mr. Robert Fahey, Manager of our South African office
in Johannesburg, surely takes me seriously when I give my age as
"37 going on 36." Not many of that age could keep up the pace he
has set for me--and he does the planning for my South African trips
before I come. There have been meetings, addresses, speeches,
interviews, luncheons, dinners planned for morning, noon, afternoon
and night nearly every day since Mr. Rader and I arrived.
However, my badly sprained ankle (it happened last November 11
just after I finished a campaign speech before hundreds in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, on my last trip down here before this one)
has improved.
I will try to fill you in on what's happened so far on this trip.
I had been in Bucharest, Romania, expecting to stay two more
days, when I was suddenly called to London by telephone. This got
me out of there just barely the day before that devastating
earthquake (7.2 on the Richter scale). In London on Thursday night I
had dinner with all the ministers stationed in England we could get
together. On that Sabbath I preached once again at Bricket Wood.
By telephone they managed to reach about all from the London Church
and also several from churches to the north in England, so the
gymnasium was well filled.