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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 30, 1984
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time highs this month.
countries and 3,663 donors
UPDATE FROM MAIL PROCESSING
Presently there are 1,626 co-workers in 26
in 35 countries.
--Joe Tkach, Ministerial Services
Bible Correspondence Course Enrollments Set New Record
An
all-time record number of new students (195,941) were enrolled in the
Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course in 1983. This year the pace
has accelerated, with 25,459 new students added in February alone--the
highest monthly total ever! About two-thirds of these new enrollments came
from advertisements in The PLAIN TRUTH.
The majority of the others came
from booklet ads.
We continually receive comments from CC students who say they have never
before understood the Bible or learned so much about it until enrolling in
the course.
"Bar Codes" on Return Envelopes
A number of members and subscribers have asked about the vertical lines
which appear on many of our preprinted return envelopes.
We'd like to
explain their purpose.
Faced by an ever-increasing volume of mail, the U.S. Postal Service has
implemented several automated systems to handle its workload.
In some
cases, letters are not only untouched by human hands but also unseen by
human eyes while being processed.
Machines which operate like the scanners used for pricing in many
supermarkets, read and sort much of the mail the Postal Service processes.
One type of machine, called a "Bar Code Reader .. (BCR), interprets vertical
lines or bars which appear on the front of the envelope. These bars re
present zip codes.
In order to cooperate with the Postal Service, we have begun to use bar
codes on some of our envelopes.
This system of mail sorting increases
efficiency and is faster and more accurate than previous methods. Below is
a sample of what one of our envelopes marked with bar codes looks like.
111 I
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA. CALIFORNIA 9T 123-0001
11,l,,..,ll,..ll,,l,l,,ll,11...11...11......11..11.1