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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 4, 1982
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Reminder About Sick Children
It is good to again remind the brethren about not bringing their children to
church services or church functions if they are ill. Children with a bad
cough or cold, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, etc., should under
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circumstances be brought in contact with other children. Any parent whose
child has been in contact with another child who is later found to have
measles should place their child in quarantine for at least 14 days to be
certain whether or not he or she has contracted the disease.
Any minister who notices a child at services or at other Church-related
functions with what appears to be a contagious illness should immediately
ask the parents to take the child home. The basic underlying principle in
volved here is one of showing love to one another--certainly what God would
expect of His people.
International News
Update From Spanish-language Areas More servants are being supplied to
reap the harvest God
is providing in
the
Spanish-speaking
countries. Mr.
Salvador Barragan was ordained April 3rd in Mexico City by Mr. Tom Turk; Mr.
Mauricio Perez was ordained April 11th in San Juan, Puerto Rico (he serves
the Church in Colombia) by Messrs. Leon Walker and Pablo Gonzalez; and Mr.
Daniel Vasques was ordained April 24th in Jalpa, Mexico by Mr. Turk. There
are now 17 ministers serving in the Spanish-speaking areas.
Income from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking areas from January through
March of 1982 indicates a 37% increase over the same period last year.
Through the end of April last year, there had been only 12 baptisms, com
pared to 39 through the first four months of this year.
Total mail received through the end of April stood at 87,424, or 77% over
last year at that time, and the most ever received in the first four months
of any year in the past! Also, two records for most mail received were set
--on one single day 3,269 pieces came in (February 5th) and during one week
9,453 pieces arrived (February 1st-5th) •
Response from the semi-annual
letter created most of this record-breaking surge.
Certain countries
responded much higher than the average:
Costa Rica, 54%; U.S.A., 30%;
Colombia, 35%; Guatemala, 47%; El Salvador, 50%; Ecuador, 35%. Several
thousand more responses are still expected.
We have some very good news about new mailing methods that will save money
and speed delivery of the Spanish PLAIN TRUTH. Most non-u.s. PURA VERDAD
subscribers will now be sent their copy of the magazine by air mail through
Costa Rica, at a total cost of only $.14-.18(U.S.). Magazines will be sent
to the capital city, San Jose, by airfreight from the printing plant in
Kentucky for a cost of approximately $.lO{U.S.). Then the magazines are
sent via air mail to most of Latin America (except Mexico) and Spain, for
less than the cost of sending the magazines by· U.S. surface mail!
This
sounds too good to be true, but because of devaluations of the Costa Rican
currency, low postage rates and the prestige of handling a large-circula
tion U.S. publication, the Costa Rican air mail rate ranges from $.04-.08
(U.S.) to any point in the Americas or Europe. This same service would cost
$.76-l.32(U.S.) for each magazine, using the U.S. Postal Service!