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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 16, 1985
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BAGUIO CITY--in the mountainous, cooler region of northern Luzon.
NOVALICHES--a suburb of Quezon City; part of Metro Manila.
LEGASPI CITY--at the foot of the still active Mayon Volcano.
CEBU CITY--site of the landing/death of explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
CAGAYAN DE ORO--picturesque city of northern Mindanao.
Since the brethren are spread over many islands in the archipelago, it is
necessary to choose Feast sites that will minimize travel by coastal fer
ries and boats, which sometimes take several days. Attendance at the Feast
this year is expected to be close to 4,000, including visitors from the
United States, Canada, Malaysia, Australia and Britain.
We are delighted to be expecting Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hoeh as our guests from
Pasadena this year. The Hoehs have not visited the Philippines before, and
it will be a delight for the brethren to meet a long-standing evangelist
whose name they know well, but whom they have yet to see in person. Plans
call for Mr. Hoeh to speak at four sites during the Feast, and the fifth
area on Atonement. Also visiting the Philippines this year will be Mr. Marc
Masterson, pastor of the Beckley and Summersville churches in West Vir
ginia, and his family.
In the office, we were pleased to welcome back as an employee Gloria Angel,
who graduated from Ambassador College in Pasadena this past May. Gloria
will greatly assist in the Ministerial Services and Mail Processing areas
where the work load is heavy and the staff few.
At the end of June, the work of God's Church in the Philippines could be
summarized by the following statistics:
Churches
Outlying Bible studies
Full-time ministers
Local church elders
Office employees
Members
31
1
23
12
15
1,865
--Joseph Tkach, Ministerial Services
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE UPDATE
(Pasadena Campus)
This summer seems to me to have been the busiest I can recall, with only two
more weeks remaining before the fall semester of the 1985-86 college year
begins.
On Wednesday, August 7, we held our annual summer graduation exercises,
this time in the Lower Gardens of the Ambassador College campus. Fourteen
Ambassador College students were given degrees.
(Six received B.A. de
grees, two received A.S. degrees and six received A.A. degrees.)
Because
we had more students graduating this summer than in past summers, we
decided to hold a more formal ceremony.
Mr. Les McCullough, deputy chancellor of the Big Sandy campus, recently in
formed me that they still plan to enroll about 180 freshmen this August. On