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AMBASSADOR MUGO,
Kenya's ambassador to France, left, speaks ata dinner in Herbert
W.
Armstrong's honor in Kenya in
1975. Right, Madame Mugo, wife of the Kenyan ambassador, is part of the welcoming party for Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Rader.
end all poverty, ignorance, sickness,
disease, all moral and physical filth, all
crime and ugliness. He will end war and
to all who accept Him bring a universal
prosperity, happiness and joy.
Ever since 1934, Herbert Armstrong
has been sending that great message
to the peoples of the world or taking it
directly to them in four separate ways:
the printed word, radio, television and
the force of personal evangelism.
For the first two decades of its
existence, the Church concentrated its
attention on the cont inental United
States and , to a lesser extent, on
Ganada . In the early 1950s, it was time
to move into the world arena. From
Radio Luxembourg, the message went
forth to European countries, but not
many people could be reached be–
cause officials would only sell time
between 11 p.m. and midnight. Efforts
to purchase radio and television time in
other countries proved fruitless be–
cause in Europe, the government con–
trols all media reaching the mass
audiences. Limited time was purchased
on Radio Ceylon. from which the mes–
sages were beamed by short wave to
the eastern coast of Africa and into
Southeast Asia. Here, too, only a limited
response was received. When Mr. Arm–
strong sought to reach China by buying
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time on Chiang Kai-shek 's station in
Taiwan, he got no answer from the
authorities.
Personal evangelism was the only
answer. So in 1954 Armstrong toured
England and Scotland. Even he was
astounded by the throngs that jammed
the halls, auditoriums and stadiums in
which he spoke.
In 1966, a new phase was begun. Mr.
Armstrong decided the Work had
reached the point where the Church
must reach out its arms as lar as it
could in an intensive effort to bring the
message of Christ's next Coming to all
of humanity.
A traveling evangelism, unprece–
dented in the history of world religion,
was launched. Since that watershed
time. Herbert Armstrong has gone to
virtually every corner of the planet by
many types of conveyance. endured
hardships and risked his lile many times
over to obey the commandment of
Jesus Christ.
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have been privileged to
accompany him on most of these trav–
els and to share in the joys and satisfac–
tions, not to mention the dangers, of this
unique globe-girdling effort.
From 1966 to the present we have
journeyed almos! continuously, inter–
rupted for Mr. Armstrong only by an
illness in the summer of 1977. The list of
countries we have visited reads like a
Baedeker guide: every nation in Europe,
the Middle East, northern and southern
Africa; through most of Asia, including
Japan; lo every country in South and
Central America. And, in the fall of
1979,
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took the commission to the
People's Republic of China on three
separate visits.
We travel between 200 and 300 days
every year. With a small staff we fly
aboard a Church-owned jet aircraft
because our schedule is so full and
demanding that much precious time
would be lost and we could rely on
seeing fewer persons with commercial
transportation. Usually we remain away
from one to more than three weeks at a
time.
The number of persons aboard can
range from about eight to a dozen or
more depending upon the destination.
The airplane, a white twin-engine Gulf–
stream 11 , about half the size of a Boeing
727, carries a crew of tour, including a
captain and copilo! and two stewards.
In the cabin a small office has been
fitted out, where Mr. Armstrong works
en route, typing his own speeches and
pastor's reports on an electric ma–
chine.
From the beginning, Mr. Armstrong
received astonishing welcomes from
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