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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 25, 1984
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A double-page ad placed in the March WOMAN'S DAY magazine has resulted in
the highest response so far for any advertisement we have placed. By the
end of April, 4,076 responses were received from the ad, representing 0.69%
of the readership.
Mail and income for April continued to show a healthy increase over 1983. A
total of 12,620 pieces of incoming mail were received and 101,432 letters
and envelopes containing publications were mailed out. This volume of out
going mail was up 16.4% over April 1983. Due to the fine holy day of
ferings, income for April was 18% higher than in the same month last year.
This brings the year-to-date increase to 15.4%.
Comments From Monthly Church Reports
From the British Isles
SOUTH WEST ENGLAND AND SOUTH WALES--DAVID BEDFORD:
Everyone
seems to have benefited greatly from the Days of Unleavened Bread
as a renewed zeal is evident amongst the brethren.
SCOTLAND--COLIN WILKINS:
A number of the brethren have really
taken to heart the meaning of the Passover and Days of Unleavened
Bread and have more of a sense of urgency to get sin out of their
lives.
NORTH WEST ENGLAND--DAVID SILCOX:
Attitudes both prior to and
during the Days of Unleavened Bread this year were very good,
with virtually everyone attending on both holy days.
The
beautiful weather and excellent offerings made a most profitable
holy day season, and I think shows that the Church is in
excellent health at this time.
NORTH EAST ENGLAND--DAVID MAGOWAN:
One word sums up this past
month of baptisms and the holy days: Excellent!
A tremendous
time was had by everyone, with the kind of sermon/sermonette
material from speakers that has benefited the congregations
enormously.
It seems that God's Spirit was given in extra
measure this year. Mr. Armstrong's pre-holy day member letter
set the tone and members responded with record offerings for
these days. It was very encouraging.
SOUTHERN ENGLAND--DAVID HOUSE:
Mr. and Mrs. Sayers had a very
close shave when the row of flats in which they live, above a
parade of shops, was struck by a lightning bolt of great power.
Flames one to two feet long came out of all electricity points.
Their one-year-old son was lying a few inches from a point but
was not hurt. Elaine was about to bath Benjamin: had he been in
the bath he would have been killed as everything capable of
conducting electricity became live.
A hardware shop two doors along caught fire and was severely
damaged. The fire raged around containers of bottled gas and
kerosene which did not however catch fire. Had they done so the
Sayers' way of escape from their flat would have been cut off.
And if the gas had exploded they could have died. As it was, the