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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
February 1, 1960
Dear Brethren of GOD'S Church:
If ever we, who compose the CHURCH OF GOD, need to WAKE UP it
is now!!
Here we are, in the second month of this new decade of the
1960's. Time is flashing by, faster and faster. The really BIG
work Christ is doing in and through His Church must be accomplished
during this decade. In constantly greater measure God is blessing
us, and the progress of His work. NEVER has so much been
accomplished as last year.
Yet, in one way at least, you Brethren are letting down--
unless I constantly remind and prod you on! The additional SPECIAL
offerings, over and beyond tithes and regular offerings, for the
building fund, are falling 'way down again--to about half the
amount we are obligated to pay out.
We had the most profitable Ministers' Council in January we
have ever had. The invisible presence of Christ in our midst was
very definitely felt and experienced by all. We were all brought
much closer to Christ our Head, with deep spiritual experience and
clarity of understanding. Important and large plans were laid for
the future, both during and following the main sessions.
One important program for the immediate future--the next two
to five years: to build a number of smaller tabernacles, which will
be designed also to serve as school class-rooms, at certain central
locations to provide for district Festivals during days of
unleavened bread at Passover time. Elementary and High Schools are
to be established at each of these district centers.
The first one to be established will be at Portland, Oregon.
We hope to have it ready to open a new school by September of 1962
definitely, and if possible by September of next year--1961. The
plan is to purchase a few acres of ground a short distance outside
the city limits, and the building will be designed first of all to
provide school rooms, but also the auditorium--or tabernacle--for
holding the spring festivals. We hope to use the same aluminized
steel construction we have used at Big Sandy, Texas.
All the brethren from Seattle, Tacoma--and points north; and
also from Eugene and Salem, and points south in Oregon, will meet