Basic HTML Version
A report from England is for a 31 percent increase there. More than a 30 percent
increase
now in New Zealand! ALREADY GOD IS ADDING TO HIS CHURCH AND CAUSING THE
WORK TO GROW AS DURING THE 35 YEARS PRIOR TO 1968!
Brethren, LET'S STRIVE TO PLEASE GOD!
We are ready, now to start with the year 1981. A NEW BURST OF EFFORT--A
RENEWED
BIRTH OF GOD'S WORK! God gave me a RENEWED BIRTH OF THIS PHYSICAL LIFE three
years ago last August. Since then I have been writing more than ever before, day
by day
and year by year!
During 1979 I started overseas trips in Christ's Work again, though now I
must remain
at my office here in Tucson most of the time to administer the day-to-day
executive
administration of the Church, Ambassador College and the Foundation. A year ago
I made a visit
to China, and again to Japan. I was the first leader from Christianity to be
invited as a guest
of the People's Republic of China, and to speak before their leaders. I recently
returned
from the Middle East.
Now I am starting another trip to Tokyo and the Philippines beginning
January 2. I
have plans to stop over and preach Sabbath, the third, at the church in
Honolulu, then on
to Japan. A meeting is planned in Tokyo before PLAIN TRUTH subscribers on the
next Sabbath.
Also a very large banquet is to be held in my honor, with about 300 high-ranking
Japanese
of the government and university--including ambassadors from many countries.
Also a small
dinner with perhaps 15 or so of my "Japanese sons," as they call themselves--all
members
of the Japanese Diet (their law-making congress).
Then on to Manila, the Philippines, where I will meet again with President
Marcos and
his wife (the First Lady). I am to speak at a large new auditorium there, where
we expect
a crowd of several thousand. It is planned for the First Lady of the nation to
appear on the
platform with me. I will speak at our Manila church on each Sabbath.
Then, if I am bearing up on this trip as I fully expect, we shall go on to
Australia. I
will speak at the Sydney church one Sabbath and at Melbourne the next Sabbath,
and other
churches in between, beside checking up with our office staff at Burleigh Heads.
From Melbourne we will stop over in New Zealand for a one-night Bible
study, beside