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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 6, 1985
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Someone has pointed out that the text of the reprint •Is All Animal
Flesh Good to Eat?• still included sword£ish among the unclean food,
while the accompanying up-dated chart correctly lists it among the
clean <the fish when young has lightly attached scales). This over
sight will be remedied in the next printing.
If you have any questions or suggestions for the publications, be sure
to let me know here in Editorial Services, and we will try to include
some of them in this report later on.
--Dexter Faulkner, Editorial Services
UPDATE FROM MAIL PROCESSING
The growing effectiveness of cable TV
In the past several years the popularity of cable TV has grown substan
tially. Millions of o.s. households now subscribe to one or more cable
stations. Over the past five years, we have acquired time on a number
of these stations. The total responses have been considerable. WOR
has brought in more than 140,000 weekend calls, WGN more than 125,000.
We have received nearly 50,000 calls from WTBS since it began airing
our program two and a half years ago.
Listed below are the cable stations that currently air The World
Tomorrow:
Station
Average Weekend Reponse -- 1985
WGN (Chicago)
795
WOR (New York)
780
WOR (Second airing)
730
LIFETIME (New York)
550
WTBS (Atlanta)
415
TNN (Nashville)
170
SPN (Tulsa)
110
Calls from cable station viewers from 1981 to 1984 accounted for 19
percent of the weekend TV response. So far this year, cable stations
have brought in more than one fifth of the total.
One third of current membership baptized since 1979
A note of personal interest: We have found in studying our records
that one third of our current o.s. members have come into the Church
since the receivership took place in early January 1979.
Presently there are about 58,000 U.S. members -- 39,000 (68 percent)
were added to the Church before 1979. The other 19,000 (32 percent)
have been baptized since then. Clearly, God has blessed His Church
since Mr. Armstrong has set the Work back on track.