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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
May 20, 1958
Dear Brethren of GOD'S Church:
GREETINGS, in Jesus' name! After many delays, with trying
suspense during periods when it appeared we could not go ahead with
the Tabernacle this year, I have just received the final completed
bid from the Behlen Manufacturing Co., who are to undertake the
entire completed construction.
We had hoped to hold the total cost under $300,000. At
Passover time, the Behlen people informed me the indication then
was that we probably would be able to cut under that figure, as
they were getting in some bids on sub-contract work at lower
figures than their own estimates. However, the final firm bid,
as always happens in any building construction, comes to a figure
higher than anticipated or estimated in advance. The total cost
will be $331,550. However, this is a firm bid--not an estimate.
It cannot go higher.
And this price includes everything on the Tabernacle
building--the aluminized steel building itself, the concrete for
floors and porches, etc., brick facing over the front, all electric
wiring and fixtures, all plumbing, heating, air ventilating, public
address wiring, and complete finishing of all conference rooms,
mothers' room, and children's play-room. The main auditorium room
is not to be insulated or its walls or ceilings finished--just the
plain corrugated aluminized steel with no finish---but we believe
this will be satisfactory.
lt probably will be difficult for most of you to realize
how big this building will be--the main auditorium room 121 x 251
feet, and seating about 5,500, beside ample rest rooms, emergency
first-aid rooms, eight insulated sound-proof ministers' conference
rooms, a large ministers' conference and dining room, an office for
me, and a large room for chorale rehearsal and for ministers'
wives. The rostrum will be much larger than the present one, with
special elevated tiers behind the pulpit for the chorale, so that
it will never be necessary to move the pulpit or rostrum furniture
when the chorale sings.
If this size building--with no pillars or posts in the
giant main auditorium--were built by ordinary construction methods,
it would probably cost about $600,000 or more. This is the least
expensive type of building construction ever known--so far as we