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was a prominent magazine called Youth's Home Companion. But I feel that
YOUTH 81 is far superior, and I'm sure our young people will be much profited.
Now God has given me a NEW IDEA for our youth! I have set a ceiling
of a total of 500 students in Ambassador College. If we go beyond that we
would be unable to maintain the high morale of GOD'S college. That means
we can accept only 150 new freshmen each year. But we have between 300
and 400 acceptable applications--young people--almost altogether YOUR CHILDREN -
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those of our Church members--and at present we can accept only about one
in three of them.
We are besieged with letters from high school seniors asking us WHAT
CAN THEY DO IF WE CAN'T ACCEPT THEM? Can they go to some other
college or junior college? Our experience is, candidly, that if they go to some
other school they will be indoctrinated in the materialistic evolutionary
approach
to all knowledge, and in too many cases, RUINED so far as God's teaching and
way of life are concerned. THIS IS A VERY DEEP AND SERIOUS PROBLEM!
God gives me this SOLUTION: For some reason God has blocked the sale
of our Big Sandy campus. We still have it on our hands. So I now have in mind,
as I believe God leads me, that we immediately start a JUNIOR COLLEGE
at Big Sandy. We would accept 100 new freshmen for Big Sandy for this coming
fall. We would transfer 75 out of this year's freshman class at Pasadena, who
will then be sophomores, to Big Sandy, to implant there the AMBASSADOR
character and atmosphere. That means that, in addition to the 100 additional
new students we can accept for Big Sandy this fall, we can accept an additional
75 freshmen at Pasadena--to keep our combined student body at Pasadena at
500. So, this year, instead of accepting only 150 out of close to 400 acceptable
applicants, we can accept 175 more, or a total of 325 instead of only 150.
Then, next year we would accept 225 at Pasadena instead of only 150,
and an additional 100 at Big Sandy--total 325, or close to the total number
acceptable. We would have to reject very few or none who can qualify and are
acceptable. THIS WILL SOLVE OUR PROBLEM.
The new junior college at Big Sandy will thereafter accept up to 150 or
more per year. After two years at Big Sandy, some who qualify would transfer
to Pasadena for the third and fourth years, and graduate at Pasadena.
I have to consider this budget-wise, of course. But, with tuitions
helping,
study of the budget situation indicates we can squeeze this new junior college
in. Plans are already well under way for providing faculty.
GOD IS BLESSING HIS CHURCH AND ITS WORK!
We are now all set to PLUNGE FORWARD in the Work as NEVER BEFORE!
New time availabilities are opening up on both radio and TV. God is generating
in me increased power and energy, and better programs are coming.
WE SERIOUSLY AND URGENTLY NEED INCREASED INCOME! Not
because we are behind. I don't have to say we are in a hole, unable to pay our
bills--come to our aid and bail us out, THANK GOD! We have as of today a
BALANCED BUDGET! But the WORK must now plunge forward in GREATER
POWER!