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On the Sabbath of August 5th the: Pittsburgh Church was combined
with a number of the area churches for a 20th anniversary service.
My wife Doris and I very well remember June 7, 1958, the first week
the church in Pittsburgh met for services. At that time this new
church was the only one east of Chicago!
It was great to see at this recent anniversary service quite a
number of the faces that were present on the opening day in 1958.
Our hopes and best wishes are that our brethren in the Pittsburgh
area have many more "anniversaries" and fruitful years of service as
members of this great Work of God.
By way of purely personal interest, I hope you will bear with
me if I as a father mention that my only daughter was a beautiful
bride at her marriage to Howard Davis in Vancouver, B.C. on August
16th. It was quite a thrill to be able to perform the ceremony for
my own daughter. To make things even more special, Patricia and
Howard decided to marry on the 25th wedding anniversary of my wife
and me! I've been kidding about looking ahead when we have our 50th
anniversary they*ll have their 25th.
Mr. and Mrs. Burk McNair have been in Pasadena the past few
days. They have just seen the marriage of two of their three children
on consecutive days. Our congratulations to Burk and "Susie" McNair,
and especially to their son Kerry and his wife -- the former Debbie
Wendt, and Karen Sue and her husband Mark Weaver.
There are a couple of items I especially want to comment on in
this letter. First -- rumors have apparently circulated widely that
Y.O.U. has either been,or is to be,cancelled. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Mr. Rader did ask, on behalf of Mr. Armstrong,
for a report from the administrative offices of Y.O.U. The purpose
of this was primarily to inform Mr. Armstrong more about what Y.O.U.
was, what its objectives and structure are, etc., and further, to
enable Mr. Armstrong to make adjustments and give necessary guidance.
Contrary to being cancelled, we hope to see Y.O.U. continuing to
operate in an even more effective way. Mr. Armstrong has asked that
it be a direct part of the total Church Administration area, so we
will be directly involved in the future.
Let me quote for you a very brief report from the Y.O.U. office
I just received:
During the recent Y.O.U. Regional Coordinators' Conference
held in Salt Lake City, Utah, much was accomplished in the
way of planning, scheduling and preparing for the up coming
Y.O.U. events for the 1978-79 year. One of the main areas
of discussion was the way in which future regional and
national competitions would be conducted under the new
twelve region delineation.
Upon completion of the conference, Jim Thornhill assured all
of those present that the future of Y.O.U. looked extremely
bright with many new and exciting ideas to be implemented in
this coming year.
The other item I wanted to have covered in this Pastor's Report
is the "Human Potential Center." We felt it good to update you on
this center of activity and redefine objectives, plans, etc., so I