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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, April 17, 1981
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I showed you that we are to withdraw ourselves from every BROTHER-
or sister--son or daughter, etc. If it is a father or mother, we must
still HONOR them, even in withdrawn fellowship.
Let us realize the JUSTICE of God's way, and that it is, truly, more
just than the way that may seem right to a man.
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
International News
From New Zealand Mail income for the month of March was easily the
highest monthly income figure we have ever achieved! The total was a
whopping 47.4% increase over the same month last year, bringing the year
to-date increase to 31.5%. The major reason for this excellent result was
a very fine response to Mr. Herbert Armstrong's latest co-worker letter.
God is certainly abundantly blessing His Work at this time, and we are
very grateful to Him for that.
Excitement is mounting and preparations are well underway for Mr. Herbert
Armstrong's proposed visit in May. Mr. Armstrong plans to conduct a Bible
study in Auckland on the afternoon of May 17th, followed by a meeting with
the New Zealand ministry and wives. We're making arrangements to estab
lish a possible video link with Christchurch and audio links with other
church areas so that brethren throughout the entirety of the area will
have the opportunity to hear from God's Apostle.
In April we're launching a new series of promotions aimed at stepping up
the size of our PLAIN TRUTH mailing list. This will consist of a full
color flier advertising the magazine, to be placed in leading newspapers
nationwide. Late last year this promotion was tried in The Christchurch
Star and The Otago Daily Times resulting in the addition of 11,400 new
subscribers. In April it will appear in Wellington's morning paper, The
Dominion, and after that it will be placed at two-week intervans in various
newspapers in other centers.
German Office News Although the month of March showed a slight decrease
compared to last year, our total mail for the year is still 75% more than
in 1980. In March of last year we renewed our entire list and therefore
our solicited mail was very high, accounting for the slight decrease in
March 1981. However, the booklet requests in 1981 are continually increas
ing each month as our more than 35,000 new subscribers (resulting from
1980's advertising campaign) order more and more booklets with the con
venient "booklet order card" placed in each KLAR & WAHR issue. We also
sent out 5,000 US & BC IN PROPHECY booklets this month, as a result of
advertising in the magazine.