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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, May 23, 1980
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We have received a considerable number of requests to transfer to the
various feast sites.
We are processing these transfer requests and will
be returning them to the members very shortly.
You should remind your congregation(s) that the room housing blocks at
at each site are being held until June 30.
This applies to all sites
except St. Petersburg, Wisconsin Dells, and Lake of the Ozarks.
Housing
will probably still be available after June 30, but we will have no space
held for our members after that date except in Detroit and Savannah,
which are holding space open until July 30.
Housing arrangements should
be secured as soon as possible for proper festival planning and to guaran
tee accommodations.
Let us know if we can be of any further assistance regarding the feast.
--Festival Coordination Team
NEWS ABOUT PLAIN TRUTH PROMOTION
Response from local church pastors and coordinators to the bulletin board
cardholder subscription program has been overwhelming!
In just a ten-day
period, we received 24 requests for 1,250 additional cardholders and
85,500 subscription cards.
We are very pleased to see the enthusiasm for
this method of promoting The PLAIN TRUTH.
During the past few years, a number of church areas have been actively
promoting The PLAIN TRUTH by contacting public libraries and offices
(doctors, dentists, etc.) and offering a free subscription to the maga
zine.
Consequently, many subscribers have been added to our mailing list
because they came across The PLAIN TRUTH in these locations.
Because of the overall success of this local method of promotion, we have
designed two programs which can enlist the services of members in con
tacting public libraries and waiting rooms.
These programs are now in
the process of being mailed to all U.S. pastors.
We also would like to let you know that the new printing of Mr. Herbert
Armstrong's booklet, The United States and Britain in Prophecy, is now
off the press and is being mailed.
This is the updated version of the
original large booklet which we used to distribute a few years ago.
--Publishing Services
MAIL CONTINUES TO BE "UP"
A few issues back we mentioned that 1979 was the first year since 1973
that the yearly mail count j�_<=:_���sed over the year before.
That trend
is continuing and we are haµpy to report that thus far 1980 is seeing a
good increase over 1979.
(Continued on page 11)
LARGE ADVERTISEMENTS CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC
On the following pages are two more full-page newspaper advertisements
that have appeared in selected newspapers around the country.
(See last
week's Pastor General's Report for the first ad of this series.)
This
ad campaign is designed to alert and inform the public to the grave and
imminent danger to every American's religious freedom.