Basic HTML Version
RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
May 28, 1958
Dear Brethren of God's Church:
Again GREETINGS!, in Jesus' name. Right on the heels of my
letter of May 20, I have to send you another EMERGENCY letter. A
very serious emergency has just come up in getting our new
Tabernacle started.
I have just had another long distance call from the builders
in Columbus, Nebr. They do all their financing thru their local
bank, and their bank insists that they must have a down payment,
right now, of $100,000. I had offered them a down payment of
$70,000. We have that sum in the bank in a special fund for this
purpose.
The Behlen Company are financing the entire building for us,
and they are sub-letting to other contractors the concrete,
electric wiring and fixtures, brick laying, plumbing, heating,
carpentry, etc., all of which they must pay partly in advance, and
pay in full upon completion. This means they must pay out to
others $125,544 BEFORE the Feast of Tabernacles. On the terms I
offered them--with $12,000 a month in payments, they would not have
enough to pay out these other bills for us.
They are willing to split this into two equal payments of
$56,000 each, both to be paid by June 15th. Their terms call for
the $100,000 to be a MAY payment, even tho May is almost over, and
they will want the $12,000 June payment by June 15th. That means
we have to raise an EXTRA $30,000 in ten days or two weeks, beside
the $12,000 JUNE payment.
Brethren, after having gone this far, we simply CANNOT give
up, now. There are going to be between 1,500 and 2,000 NEW members
at the Feast this fall. NEVER before has God blessed us with such
a harvest of new converts as this year. Our baptizing teams
already have about 1,500 on the list to be baptized--and more
pouring in by mail every day! THINK OF IT! We have had about
5,000 members. God is giving us about 2,000 MORE this one year.
For the first time in these latter days God is adding to the Church
in numbers somewhere near those of apostolic days, when 3,000 were
converted one day, and 2,000 another. This is something to REJOICE
over! The angles are shouting for joy--and so ought we. We simply
HAVE to have this new larger Tabernacle. We have raised more than
$42,000 in ten days before. With God's blessing we can again now!