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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, November 28, 1979
Page 7
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Hall Rental Payments
Occasionally we have received requests to arrange for hall rental pay
ments to automatically be mailed without a hall rental voucher being sent
each month. We wanted to take this opportunity to let you know how this
can be done since many of you may be considering your hall rental needs
for the coming year.
The Accounting Department can mail the rental payments automatically each
month as long as the amount is the same each month. If your church meets
in a hall that has a monthly fee instead of a weekly one and you can send
us a copy of the contract, the monthly payment can be arranged. It will
be your responsibility to make sure the Accounting Department receives
a new contract if the old one is about to expire. You will also need
to remember to notify us if something should happen midway through the
contract and payments should be stopped.
Please, whatever you do, don't arrange a contract with equal monthly
payments at the expense of the budget just to keep from having to send in
hall rental vouchers. Our hall rental budget has severely suffered the
ravages of inflation during the last couple of years and we don't want to
make the situation any worse.
Ambassador College Calendars
We will be sending all the U.S. Church Pastors a supply of the 1980
Ambassador College Calendars. Since the Bookstore was unable to sell
all the calendars that had been ordered, it was decided to send the un
sold inventory to you in hopes they could be used for local fund-raising
and/or given to members who might want them.
This will be a one-time opportunity. Next year the plan is to prepare
the calendars specifically to be sent as a gift to everyone who contrib
utes to the Building Fund.
--Joe Tkach
FLEET NEWS
We are happy to announce the resumption of our fleet vehicle replacement
program after an eleven-month moratorium. Obviously, the rapidity of
replacement will depend upon our cash flow circumstances. Since current
vehicle bank loans are prohibitive, running at 18 to 20% interest, we
will be making cash purchases.
Mr. Herbert Armstrong has authorized vehicles to comply with the necessity
for increased fuel economy and combatting spiraling inflation. All of us
are only too aware of the sharply escalating cost of doing business. Our
rebate schedule for personal usage of the automobiles remains fairly
constant but is graduated based upon fuel mileage and depreciation.
I.. addition to altering the vehicle list, we are seeking to reduce some
of our administrative costs by absorbing the operation of the fleet program
here in Pasadena. As you know Alex Kroska has administered the fleet
program for a number of years in conjunction with his own business. Now,
we·will be working directly with other dealers as well as Alex to conduct
our fleet business.