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State of Oregon. A family who had been drouthed out in the
middle-west had moved to the Pacific Coast, and in getting a new
start had saved up enough money to finish building their house. At
the time they had only the outside shell---no partitions, no rooms,
no up-stairs---just a ladder thru a hole in the ceiling so they
could climb up to their beds in the attic. They sent us all the
money they had saved to finish building their home. Mrs. Armstrong
and I travelled over a hundred miles to take that money back to
them---we felt we simply couldn't accept it and deprive them of
their home. They told us, with tears in their eyes, they would not
take the money back---they couldn't enjoy the home when they knew
it would deprive THOUSANDS of hearing about an eternal home in
God's Kingdom FOREVER over the radio station on which this
money would buy time. They insisted the money be used to expand
the broadcast, and assured us that in another year or so they would
save enough more to finish their own temporary home in this world.
I could tell you dozens of heart-touching experiences like
that. But it illustrates how this work has been financed, and kept
FREE to SPEAK OUT with God's truth, without fear or favor!
So here is our policy---which we believe is GOD'S policy.
We do not ask for money over the air---will not permit the
announcers to make any such request. We send no request for money
with the free literature. We DO have a precious family of Co-
Workers whose tithes and offerings finance this work---but one must
join that family VOLUNTARILY, and not of our urging!
WHO is a "Co-Worker"? If a listener sends in, voluntarily,
an offering twice inside of six months, we carefully read the
letter, and if the tone of the letter indicates the writer wants to
have a regular part in supporting God's work financially, he or she
is put on our "Co-Worker" list---but if not, he is left on what we
call our "Regular" mailing list. IF they are put on the "Co-Worker
List" a letter is sent, explaining our action, and explaining that
we have done so because Jesus said, "Where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also"---and so we believe their hearts are in
this work. If so, we tell them candidly that I will send them my
regular special "Co-Worker" letters, giving them inside information
about this work, its plans for the future, its progress, and, when
necessary, which seems to be most of the time, its NEED---even as
Moses sent out a proclamation asking Israel for material help, and
as Paul admonished the Christians. But if we have mistaken their
intentions, they are asked to tell us so, and they will be kept on
our "Regular" list to continue receiving the magazine and other
literature without any request for money. We believe this is GOD'S
WAY as we find it in the Bible.
Of course the entire expense of broadcasting to you dear
friends in Britain, over Radio Luxembourg (208 meters), has been
borne by our Co-Workers in the United States. This is the LOVE-
GIFT from many of your American "cousins"---for we consider of
course that you in Britain and we in America are really the same
people. I can tell you that those thousands of American Co-Workers
have been THRILLED with joy that their financial sacrifice has made
it possible for you people over there to share with them those
precious truths of Christ's Gospel and of God's Word. And most of