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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 2, 1983
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY--EDMOND MACARAEG: Right after the Feast of
Tabernacles, there was an influx of new prospective members who
have never attended before. Even family members who have not
attended before, e.g. teen-agers, have begun attending. There is
also an increase in requests for baptism.
QUEZON CITY--REY TANIAJURA: We have a very good increase in the
number of people requesting visits for the first time, as well as
people asking where they can attend Sabbath services. It looks
like these people's interest in the Church was generated by "The
WORLD TOMORROW" program.
SAN FERNANDO--ROBERTO GOPEZ:
I counseled with a prospective
member whose case is another example of the strange ways God
directs people to His Church. Prior to his first Sabbath atten
dance, this man had been very anxious to observe the Sabbath with
God's people. But he did not know that there is a Church here.
So he observed the Sabbath in his home. One Sabbath as he was
walking by the hall where the local Church meets, he heard some
body preaching. He stopped and listened. He became aware then
that what he was hearing was familiar to him because of The PLAIN
TRUTH magazine and the booklets he had requested from the
Worldwide Church of God. The following Sabbath he returned to
the hall and is now attending Sabbath services regularly.
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE UPDATE
(Pasadena campus)
--Joe Tkach, Ministerial Services
I hope you ministers and your families all had a joyous and profitable
Thanksgiving. Most of the students were invited into the homes of local
members. A few of them spent Thanksgiving at Camp River Glen in the moun
tains near Pasadena. Apparently all had a good time. It is very good to see
the normal activity of classes, clubs and other extra-curricular activities
going on here· ort campus.
Except for a few minor problems, everything
continues running very smoothly in the College.
I have recently had several budget discussions with various department
heads in the College. We have to finalize the College budget in the near
future before we present it to the Treasurer, Mr. Neff, and his staff.
Other departments here at Headquarters are also going over their budgets at
this time. I hope and pray that God will guide all of us at Ambassador, and
in the other departments of God's Church, to do a very conscientious job as
we plan our 1984 budgets.
We have now sent out approximately 1,145 applications to prospective stu
dents, and have received about 60 completed ones back so far. We have had
fewer requests for application forms this year than the previous year. But
it looks as though we have some very good applicants applying to enter
Ambassador for the 1984-85 college year.
Once again, I ask your continued prayers for all of us charged with the
serious responsibility of educating and training the young people whom God
sends to Ambassador. We need your prayers that we may be enabled to do an