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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 25, 1981
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and are in the ministry. Of the nearly 1500 responses 35%, over a third,
indicated that they are employees of the Church or College, while 65% are
not.
Even more encouraging is the fact that 24% of all [surveyed l
graduates, which is to say 36% of the male graduates, are ordained
ministers of various ranks.
Ambassador College has borne fruit and
fulfilled its purpose in supplying an ordained ministry for God's Church
today!
"Some additional facts of interest from the survey include 60% of the
graduates have come from the Pasadena campus, 30% from Big Sandy, and 10%
from Bricket Wood. In the international areas, however, over half of the
graduates (52%) are from Bricket Wood, and an even higher percentage (41%)
are ordained ministers."
Furthermore, Dr. Albert points out that "Fifteen percent of the respondents
[to this "Alumni Survey"] are single, 83% are married, and between one and
two percent divorced, separated, or widowed." This clearly reveals that
the graduates of Ambassador (despite the trauma and havoc of the many
trials which occurred in the Church) have far more stable homes than the
national average.
The "Alt.::nni Survey Report" concluded: "Figures for graduates three years
out of college (or more) average $27,319 for full-time male employees and
$20,532 for full-time females, so it is quite evident that Ambassador grad
uates have been blessed and prospered as God's Word frequently promises."
This survey makes it very clear that the graduates (both males and females)
of Ambassador do better financially in the world than do the graduates of
other colleges.
Why the Alumni Survey Was Made
It was during the spring of 1981 that I first suggested to David Albert that
Ambassador College might do well to make a survey of its graduates. At that
time I was primarily concerned about how our Ambassador graduates were
doing financially when compared to the graduates of other colleges.
My interest in this area was not because I personally doubted that our
graduates did well financially, but I wanted to knock in the head the notion
(often expressed in the past) that the graduates of Ambassador had only
learned God's way, had learned well how to live, but hadn't really learned
"how to earn a living."
I fully believed Mr. Armstrong's statement:
"Students learn not merely how to earn a living, but how to live!"
(AMBASSADOR COLLEGE CATALOG, 1980-81.)
Over a period of several years I had heard many people voice the idea that
though Ambassador taught the students a lot of valuable things, nonetheless
it did not really prepare them to go out into the world and earn a decent
living. I wanted to stop the mouths of any who, either through misinforma
tion or malice, held this mistaken view of Ambassador College.
Yes, Ambassador teaches its students, first and foremost, how to live, but
it a�so teaches them how to earn� living. In fact, the graduates of A.C.
are 1n many ways head and shoulders above the graduates of this world's col
leges, which do not teach their students character development, leadership,