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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
Gladewater, Texas
August 12, 1958
Dear Brethren of GOD'S Church:
I have just arrived here in Gladewater, Texas, to
inspect the new Tabernacle project and make final plans for
construction of additional sanitary buildings in the camping area,
altering the original tabernacle so as to convert it into a large
dining hall, making decisions on wide sidewalks between the two
buildings, paving the drive-ways, parking lot, and the many things
that must be planned for the big fall Festival of Tabernacles.
The gigantic NEW tabernacle is going up, now--FAST!!
The Behlen Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Nebraska, who are
erecting this big tabernacle according to our own architect's
plans, already have 22 trained and specialized workmen down here on
the job, and many more are due to arrive in a few days.
WHAT A SURPRISE this big Tabernacle is! It is hard to
visualize, from architects' drawings and blue-prints how BIG it
really is. I found the whole floor already laid--in concrete. It
is about 175 feet wide and 250 feet long. You can't picture this
in your mind--you have to be there and SEE IT to realize how big it
is!
They only started rearing up the walls three days ago,
but the entire rear wall is up--towering some 45 or 50 feet above
ground--and today the two side walls were going up into the air.
As each section of side walls is erected into place, the same width
of roof is set in place.
It was really thrilling to see these great long sections
of aluminized steel being lifted up by big cranes into place. It
is going to be a race against time to get it completed in time for
the festival, but the foreman on the job, and our manager on the
grounds, Mr. Roy Hammer, told me they fully expect to have it
completed on time.
Following the terrible tragedy that took the life of our
elder son, Richard David Armstrong, my wife and Dick's wife with
her little 2« month old son, also named Richard David (the Second--
not "Junior"), took the train to join our other son Garner Ted, in
Springfield, Missouri. We arrived in time for the last two
meetings of the evangelistic campaign that had been in progress for