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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, April 18, 1980
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Reminder Regarding Housing Arrangements
Please remind your congregations that very shortly they will be receiving
the special Festival Edition of the Worldwide News. This edition will
give each member a more complete understanding of the changes that have
been made in festival planning for this year, and will also give them a
clearer understanding of the ins and outs of making their housing arrange
ments. We would appreciate it if you would urge your congregations to
hold off making their housing arrangements until they receive their copies
of the Worldwide News so as to avoid any possible confusion in the area
of making housing arrangements.
***PLEASE ANNOUNCE***
Jerusalem Feast Site
We are planning on having a feast site in Jerusalem again this year. It
will include a brief tour to northern Israel prior to the festival, then
the actual eight days of the feast will be held in Jerusalem with side
trips into the local areas. After the feast the tour will return to
London for a few days before returning to the states. Additional tour
packages will be available for those members wishing to continue on to
other areas after the festival. For those members wishing to transfer
to Jerusalem, please be sure to send your application in as soon as
possible as we will only be able to allow 250 to 300 persons to transfer
to this site. The approximate cost of the tour package will be $1,500.
Please plan on this amount when filling out your application. We will
be sending further information to you as plans are confirmed.
--Festival Coordination Team
PUBLISHING SERVICES UPDATE
We have completed testing a "take one" cardholder which is placed on
public notice boards and which carries cards advertising the PLAIN TRUTH.
This is similar to programs used by Time, Newsweek and US News to gain
new subscribers. The program tested out at 26¢ cost per response.
Because of these excellent results we are launching the program nationwide
and you will soon be receiving a supply of the holders and cards for
distribution by your congregation.
Last week we received a request for 1,000 copies of the April PLAIN
TRUTH from the Honorable John A. Blatnik, educator and former congress
man to Minnesota. He had been a subscriber prior to 1974 and had allowed
his subscription to expire when the magazine went to tabloid format. We
picked him up again as a subscriber through one of our circulation pro
grams. Mr. Blatnik had worked with the partisans in Yugoslavia during
World War II and is well versed in current Yugoslavian politics. He was
so enthusiastic about the article on Yugoslavia that he wanted to share
it with friends and the organizations he is acquainted with. He felt
the article was the best he had read on the subject: neither oversimpli
fied nor too complicated.
LETTER COMMENTS
The report this week begins with inspiring comments from people whose
lives have been spiritually strengthened by God's Church. We are also
including encouraging comments on The PLAIN TRUTH's timely content.
--Mail Processing Center