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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
March 18, 1959
Dear Brethren of GOD'S CHURCH:
The fate of the needed addition to God's great Tabernacle
near Gladewater, Texas, still hangs in the balance.
The next two weeks will tell. Here is the situation:
Originally we had planned to pay the Behlen Manufacturing Company
a down payment, and then $12,000 per month. I had asked the
membership of the Church to pledge the $12,000 per month, over and
above regular offerings and tithes. All of us, together, pledged
just a little less than the $12,000 monthly. But, in the final
deal with Behlen, knowing that we always have an increase in income
during the fall and winter months, which continues on during the
following year, I felt justified in agreeing with Behlen to pay
them $18,000 per month following the Festival last October.
You remember, we were to raise a $30,000 payment at the
Festival. Actually we raised about $40,000, giving us a $10,000
reserve for future months. Well, our income did increase--but God
opened up new doors for additional radio stations, which took all
of the increase. The membership continued to send in about $12,000
per month special Building Fund money--but we had to pay out $1,000
per month for November and December.
SO, --READ CAREFULLY! Here is what I am afraid many of our
members have not understood. WE ARE NOW OBLIGATED TO PAY THE
BEHLEN COMPANY HALF AGAIN MORE THAN I ORIGINALLY ASKED YOU TO
PLEDGE. The Tabernacle MUST be enlarged to HALF-AGAIN LARGER than
it is now. We will have to try, each one of us if possible, to
send in for the special BUILDING FUND, over and above tithes and
regular offerings, HALF-AGAIN MORE than we planned originally.
Some of you may not be able. Others are able to send in double.
WE MUST ALL SACRIFICE, and GO WITHOUT SOME THINGS WE WOULD LIKE, if
we are to go on with these larger $18,000 payments, and have the
NEW ADDITION.
As a result of special letters I wrote you in January, and
again in February, we raised our contributions for the Building
Fund to $15,500 in January, and $20,000 in February. Of course we
had enough reserve fund money on hand to enable us to meet the
November and December and January payments. EVERY PAYMENT HAS BEEN
MET PROMPTLY ON TIME.
But now in March, we are dropping back to a rate of only