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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, October 10, 1980
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The French PT The French PT is now published in the U.S.A. by the R. R.
Donnelley & Sons Co. The September issue reached France in less than four
days--and its production cost was much lower than when printed in England.
News From Martinique Immigration officers in Martinique have become in
creasingly suspicious of the cassettes we send to the country. Apparently
there is a high black market on U.S. cassettes containing music which is
hurting record merchants in Martinique. So in order to receive the
sermon cassettes we send to the Church, Mr. Carbonnel must personally
prove there is no music on them. He routinely brings his own cassette
player with him to the excise office and plays the cassettes in front
of an inunigration officer before they are finally released.
The Jehovah's Witnesses in Martinique are publishing much libelous and
slanderous material in the local newspapers against Mr. Armstrong and the
Church, referring to the false accusations made by the Attorney General.
Mr. Carbonnel has warned the brethren not to be offended by these assaults
of the Adversary. In general, our members are holding on to the truth be
cause they realize that God's Church and true Christians are to receive
persecution in the end times.
Hurricane Allen has now caused at least a one-month delay in the daily
broadcasting of "Le Monde a Venir" on Radio-Caraibes. The breakdown was
due to damage done to a transmitting station. Fortunately there were no
deaths due to the hurricane, although Martinique's banana plantations were
almost 100% destroyed.
And in the vast unprotected and unpatrolled forests of Martinique, several
marijuana plantations have been discovered. Increasingly, the drug cul
ture is invading and becoming a way of life in Martinique.
Cameroon Mr. Ray Clore is busily making plans to have trained personnel
and an efficient office going once we are officially and legally recog
nized in Cameroon. Due to the poor mail system (a problem as well in the
Antilles), a French office would greatly enhance the chance of our readers
receiving the literature we send them. Presently, international mail
corning in from Paris takes from 6 to 60 days to reach its destination.
Sometimes it doesn't even get through!
Mr. Clore wrote relating his situation in Cameroon:
"As you can tell, I'm
again in Douala. Washington wants to have me transferred permanently down
here. Yaounde wants to have me back around August 1. It's nice to be
wanted but living out of a suitcase and not knowing where we can really
settle down here in Cameroon is not too pleasant.
I think it is somewhat
amusing to see how God manipulates the U.S. government personnel process
to keep me going back and forth from Yaounde to Douala to be able to pastor
the flock effectively here--at U.S. government expense!"
Miracle in Guadeloupe Mr. Dubois, our minister in Guadeloupe, writes:
"God intervened miraculously for the Moradel family in Guadeloupe. Their
son, Freddy, 22 years old and not a member, was helping his father con
struct a small vault at the cemetery in Baie-Mahault. He was putting up
metallic braces with iron shafts. It was while adjusting one of these
iron shafts that it came in contact with a high voltage electric wire
several meters above his head. The current in the wire was 30,000 volts.