Basic HTML Version
-5-
"Hats Off" for a Job Well Done: In closing, we want to express our sin
cerest gratitude to Dexter Faulkner and the staff of The GOOD NEWS and
"Worldwide News" for the excellent service and help they have given to
Subscriber Development. Their contribution in producing the "Co-Worker
Newsletter" and "Sermon Summaries" have been MUCH appreciated!
--Richard Rice, :Mail Processing Center
PUBLISHING SERVICES UPDATE
Los Angeles Airport is overcast and it's raining as I sit and write this
report in the airport lobby. i•m doing this now so I can phone it in to
Richard Sedliacik in order to meet the Monday noon Pastor's Report dead
line. We just got off a National Airlines flight from New Orleans where
a few of us teamed up from Publishing and Pastoral Administration to hold
a workshop-type seminar over the weekend. The seminar was held with a
group from the New Orleans and Baton Rouge churches.
The purpose of the seminar was to find out if local church members are
interested in becoming involved in the promotion and handling of Quest
magazine through newsstands, bookstores, businesses, etc. in their local
area. And to show how Quest is benefiting the Work in the outside world
plus get feedback in general from members.
Everybody felt the weekend was a great success and thanks to men like Mr.
Jim Chapman, Mr. Jim Servidio, and Mr. Karl Beyersdorfer, everything went
smoothly. It was both inspiring and exciting to meet new people in God's
church and make some new friends. We have planned a few more fact-finding
weekends. The next one is in Cincinnati on January 7th. All being well,
"e will present our preliminary findings at the conference in January.
This was a team effort where Publishing and Pastoral Administration worked
on a project of benefit to both areas and the church. Special thanks to
Art Mokarow, John Halford, Diane Gilchrist, John Kossey, and other people
in Pasadena who made the first session so successful.
--Roger Lippross, Publishing
ON THE WORLD SCENE: THE BREAKTHROUGH TO CHINA
Following an intensive 72-hour flurry of secret diplomacy, President
Carter stunned the world on Friday evening, December 15 with a terse
televised announcement that the United States and the People's Repub
lic of China had agreed to establish diplomatic relations as of Jan
uary 1, 1979.
At the same time, Hua Kuo-feng, China's Premier and Communist Party Chair
man read the joint communique to about 100 Western and Chinese reporters
in Peking -- and afterwards held an unprecedented news conference.
Coincidental with the new agreement, U.S. ties with the Nationalist Chinese
government on Taiwan are to be terminated on the same date, with the
special defense treaty between the two nations playing out a year later
(terms of the treaty stipulate that it can be terminated one year after
either party notifies the other of its intent to do so.)
Reaction in Taiwan was, predictably, one of anger. And Nationalist China's
thinning ranks of supporters in the U.S. Congress were outraged. Senator