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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, January 4, 1980
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offered on radio or TV represents 1,000 who actually heard part or all
of the broadcast. And, after each year, each subscriber to The PT
represents 50 who listened, but did not subscribe. In other words, the
circulation is 2% of the number reached on the air during a year.
Using these tried and tested figures, we may assess something of the
number we have actually reached.
Remember, we are not commissioned to convince and convert members-
but only to proclairn--or announce--the coming I:ingdom of God AS A WITNESS.
We are now in the third generation. How many who were hearing the
Message at age 70, back in January 1934, have since died? And of courie
they have been replaced by others reaching their teens or twenties who
might be listeners during the 46 years since.
Our records show that in that 46 years, approximately 12 MILLION,
worldwide, have for the first time requested literature--the PT, or a
booklet, book, or Correspondence Course. Now of necessity there has to
be some duplication there. About 2 million of those were received by
other offices outside the U.S. IF there were no duplication, then we would
have reached some TEN BILLION in the U.S. alone. In three generations,
there has been perhaps 440 million who could have been reached if we
reached everybody.
But even allowing liberally for duplication, we have to conclude
that, to the extent God requires, we surely have reached to some extent
about 85% of those 15 or older in the United States.
On the same basis I would estimate we have reached 35% or 40% in
Britain--perhaps 15% to 20% in Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, and
perhaps 5% to 10% in such countries as the Scandinavian countries.
We have, on the same basis, reached 35%, or 40% in Australia, and
in The Philippines, and perhaps 15% or 20% in South Africa. A smaller
percentage in other countries--yet we have members in India, South
eastern Asia, other countries in Africa and South America.
HOW FAR does God expect His Work to go? As a witness, only, now
that Christ has opened the doors to China and Russia, I would say He
might bring this Work to a close within a very few years, very likely in
the first half of the decade we now are entering!
WE NEED TO WAKE UP!
BIGGEST JOB, from now on,
JESUS CHRIST AND TO GOD!
It is definitely LATER THAN WE THINK! Our
is to be sure WE, OURSELVES, GET CLOSER TO
So PRAY for all the ministry, and all the Brethren--as I do re
peatedly and daily! Pray for me, and those at Pasadena. We are def·
initely on the LAST LAP of the race--probably on the HOME STRETCH. Give
THANKS TO GOD! Keep praying, "THY KINGDOM
COME!"