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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
June 5, 1959
Dear Brethren of The CHURCH OF GOD:
ARE we, as the Apostle Paul called the Hebrew brethren,
HOLY brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling?
The brethren of Paul's day made whatever sacrifice was
needed to supply the financial need of the Church and of God's
work. The brethren of ancient Israel in Moses' day responded so
liberally that Moses had to send out a second proclamation asking
them to STOP sending in for the Tabernacle of that day.
But today we, their successors in GOD'S CHURCH, continue to
come up SHORT! We are continuing to put into the Tabernacle fund
only two-thirds of the need. We are continuing to put in only
$12,000 a month--and our business office at Pasadena Headquarters
is required to send a monthly check to the Behlen Manufacturing
Company of $18,000.
We did have a little reserve in the bank. Month by month
we have had to draw out of that reserve an additional $6,000 to add
to the $12,000 currently received for the building fund, in order
to meet these $18,000 monthly payments.
Oh yes, OF COURSE that is a very heavy monthly payment!
But God's Church is GROWING rapidly in number of members GOD is
adding to His Church. As you will read in the Co-Worker letter I
am sending you, 2,000 prospective new members are right now
awaiting a visit by one of our baptizing teams. What I felt it
best NOT to say to non-member Co-Workers who will also receive that
letter, is that probably a third to a half of those will be found
not yet fully repentant and surrendered to God, and our baptizing
teams will therefore NOT baptize them--but, even so, at least
another THOUSAND to thirteen hundred new members ought to be added
to the Church this year! There are now several thousand of us. If
there were only one thousand members, and each put $18 per month in
this building fund, it would be sufficient. If only 3,000 members,
then $6 per month from each would raise the $18,000 payments.
There are many more than that--but of course some have such low
incomes they are unable to send in even $6 a month, in addition to
tithes (first and second) and regular offerings for the Gospel
work. So others of us, who are able, must send in a great deal
MORE than $6 a month as an extra special offering for this building
fund.