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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, March 20, 1981
Any young people who apply to enter Ambassador College at Big Sandy should
be informed that the College there will not be a four-year college. Only
a few students accepted at Big Sandy wil-r-I"ater be able to transfer to
Pasadena after completing two years. More details will be published in
the near future.
Even though we will now be able to accept more new students (about 300 at
the two campuses) because of reopening Big Sandy, we will be unable to
accept all who would like to enter Ambassador College this coming fall.
We have now received over 600 applications for the coming college year,
and we anticipate that about two-thirds of them will be "acceptable."
(We have accepted 126 applicants thus far.) This means that even with
the opening of the Big Sandy campus, we will still not be able to accept
about 100 students who are qualified to do college-level work. Even so,
it is very encouraging to see the Big Sandy campus opening again, thereby
enabling us to accept many more than we would have been able to accept
otherwise.
Recently, we announced that four Ambassador students will get to go to
Germany to serve in the Work there during the coming summer, while three
will serve in the Canadian branch of God's Work. Two young Ambassadors
will also go to Australia for one full year's training, plus one young
Ambassador to Central Africa for a year's training. Besides this, many
other students are getting to serve at S.E.P. at Orr or in Scotland next
summer; and over thirty are being sent to work at the "Big Dig" in Jeru
salem during the summer. And, if Mr. Armstrong approves, a third group
of students (probably the final one), will be sent to Thailand for a six
month's period of service. This is proving to be a fantastic opportunity
for the students. These many golden opportunities are truly "opportunities
of a lifetime," and are very valuable in further developing and training
the students of Ambassador College.
Many of the ministers on the Ministerial Refreshing Program continue to
mention to me and to others how friendly the Ambassador students are.
Also, many comment on the high standard of dress, grooming and especially
the high moral standard which the students are now exemplifying. We who
are privileged to assist Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong in this important area
of training God's young people, are overjoyed at this priceless privilege
which we have been given.
By the way, I would like to mention that it is always a joy to meet
the ministers who are here on the Ministerial Refreshing Program. This
gives all of us a chance to get to know the ministers better, and to help
serve them while they are here. My wife and I usually try to have some
of the ministers (especially the overseas ministers) over for a visit
while they are here. We are happy to see you ministers very supportive
of Ambassador College.
Please continue to remember the administration, faculty and students of
Ambassador in your prayers. We ask that you pray that we may be enabled
to diligently, faithfully and competently assist Mr. Armstrong--that we
may keep Ambassador on track, constantly gaining momentum.
Again, I wish to express our thanks for your prayers and your general
support of Ambassador College.
--Raymond F. McNair, Deputy Chancellor