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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 8, 1984
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in church who almost destroyed me. I had to leave the church and
go to another. The minister at the other church made me feel wel
come but the people made me feel unwelcome. I left and went to
another and the minister made me feel unwelcome and the people
made me f�el welcome.
I
don't know where
I
belong.
I
know that
I
believe in God and
that I want to be with people who are Christians. Could you help
me? I am so confused about church. You are closer to God than
I
am. You know so much more. What would your advice be to me?
D.O. (Garland, TX)
I
have been a subscriber to your PLAIN TRUTH magazine and have
read a great number of your booklets for the last three years.
I
just completed twelve lessons of your Bible correspondence course
and am presently working on number thirteen.
I live in a very small community with no church to attend. I grew
up in the local church and they do not teach the Bible. I made a
comment once about them being incorrect and showed them the
scripture and I was told to be quiet. Very nicely, of course. I
will not let my children attend the church because of their
teaching.
My problem is, I would like to attend a church and fellowship
with Christians. Is there one in this area that I could attend?
If not every Sabbath, then at least occasionally? I have so many
questions, plus
I
would like my children to meet other children
being taught as they are.
Any information you could give me
would be greatly appreciated.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
L.K. (Fola,
WV)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
HOLLAND'S FAR-REACHING DECISION; FRUSTRATED EUROPEANS
WORRY ABOUT THEIR DEFENSE� MITTERRAND'S APPEAL FOR UNITY
In a half-expected outcome, the Netherlands government on June 1 announced
it would accept the positioning of cruise missiles on Dutch soil--but not
until 1988, the very last year the new weapons may be deployed. Holland had
been scheduled, pending a majority approval in the Dutch Parliament, to
begin deploying its share--48 missiles--of the new weapon two years
earlier. And the actual number deployed, the government said, would depend
on the success of u.s.-soviet missile talks.
The Parliament has yet to give its approval to even this time-expanded
schedule. There is strong anti-missile opposition to the decision in the
Parliament. Deployment has already started in Britain, West Germany and
Italy, while another 48 cruise missiles are still to be based in Belgium-
which country also will now be under heavy pressure to postpone its deploy
ment share as well.
The biggest concern in top NATO circles is that anti-missile pressure will
spread beyond Belgium and into the key European country of the Alliance,