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Africa are greater than in the U.S. Yet in the U.S., church attendance is up by
4,000 for the year to date!
This is a report on RESULTS of our increased drive ahead for the year to
date. It is a stewardship report on how your increased sacrifice and additional
offerings have been used, and what they have produced for GOD'S KINGDOM!
YOU HAVE BEEN LAYING UP TREASURE IN HEAVEN! Your REWARD will
come in the soon-coming Kingdom!
As of the first of this month the income financially for the Work in the
U.S.
was up some 22 percent--growing once again, after a 12-year drop, toward a 30
percent increase. But in the last 30 days--since we entered the summer
months--there has been a significant DROP. Now the month to date shows an
increase of only 13.5 percent, and the past five or six weeks has brought the
year-to-date increase down to 18.7 percent. THAT IS ALARMING!
We have been adding very powerful and leading TV stations, and plan to
add more. BUT UNLESS OUR BRETHREN WILL SACRIFICE FURTHER, THAT
MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE. We were, 30 days ago, in the best financial condition
ever in the Work. Right now as I write, the situation is ALARMING! I have to ask
you to PRAY earnestly, and to sacrifice for the most important operation and
activity on earth!
God has been revealing NEW TRUTHS to His Church since the first of the
year. So we are growing in TRUTH, as well as in results of the Gospel Work to
the
world. But are we GROWING SPIRITUALLY, in our own lives? We must PRAY
MORE and more earnestly! We must not become weary with well-doing!
Since the first of the year, I have spoken to church-area groups in
Seattle,
Wash., Big Sandy, Tex., Chicago, Ill., Salem, Ore., Denver, Colo., New York,
Lake
of the Ozarks, Mo., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charlotte, N.C. This next Sabbath, God
willing, I go to Vancouver, B.C. These services have averaged from more than
2,000 up to virtually 5,000 in attendance. And always I have a special meeting
with the ministers of the area and their wives. In May I visited church areas
and
offices in Australia and New Zealand, speaking to collective church
congregations. Next Tuesday I leave for England, Germany and France and the
churches there. We shall stop off and I'll speak to the youths at summer SEP
camp
at Orr, Minn., on the way, and again at a third camp on the return trip from
Europe. I also flew up to Orr to speak to the first of the three summer camps.
So you see I've been trying energetically to speed up my personal part
and
leadership in the Work
God's Work is really plunging forward! We are in harmony TOGETHER as
NEVER BEFORE! Please pray and sacrifice for YOUR part. I know you are 100
percent behind me, as thousands of you have written, and thousands have sent in
group signatures of assurances of support. I'm having a special exhibit made for
the ground-floor lobby of the Hall of Administration here at headquarters for
all of
these. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.