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Herbert W, Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
Pasadena
September 2, 1981
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Here we are into September. I've been so busy that I'm about 10 days late
getting this letter to you.
Since I last wrote to you, I stopped off to speak to our youths at the
summer
camp at Orr, Minn., en route to Europe. We are paying very special attention to
the spiritual as well as physical development of the youths of God's people. We
publish a special monthly magazine for them, YOUTH 81, besides a regular
program in all churches--a two-fold program, one called the YOU (Youth
Opportunities United) and YES (Youth Educational Service)--the former devoted
more to sports and recreation, the latter to biblical and spiritual education.
Our
teenagers seem very enthusiastic over these programs.
From the SEP camp in Minnesota, I proceeded with Mrs. Armstrong and my
executive assistant Bob Fahey and wife on to London.
Besides conferences in our British offices regarding the Work delegated
to
their jurisdiction, I spoke to a large assemblage of brethren in London, and the
following day to another combined church group at Glasgow, Scotland, and
visited our SEP summer camp of youths at Loch Lomond, Scotland.
We were in London at the time of the Royal Wedding. Then I spoke at a
meeting of nearly 1,000 brethren in Bonn, West Germany. Brethren had come
from Holland and Belgium. The Dutch-speaking and German-speaking people
who did not understand English were provided with earphones and equipment
that translators could carry on a running translation in those languages. Thus I
spoke to them simultaneously in the three languages. The next day I spoke to
about 500 brethren in Paris. The same system of earphones was used, and a
running translation in French heard simultaneous with those who heard in the
English language.
I also visited our office in Paris, and reviewed a report on the French
Work
worldwide.
A visit also was made to our office in Geneva, Switzerland. While in
Paris
my affectionate friend, King Leopold III of Belgium, now abdicated and ex-king,
visited me with his wife, Princess Lilian.
We returned home at the beginning of the air controllers' strike in the
United States. Afterward I made a third trip to the third SEP camp at Orr. A few
hundred Church members in that general area came in for the service I
conducted.
On Aug. 20, Mrs. Armstrong and I, with Mr. and Mrs. Fahey, flew to Big
Sandy, Tex., for the reopening of the Big Sandy campus of Ambassador College. I