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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 20,
1985
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BLESSIR; OP CBILDRBR DATE
As most of you remember, several years ago Mr. Armstrong set
the second sabbath after the Feast as a perpetual date for
the Blessing of Children ceremony. Therefore, the Blessing
of Children ceremony will be held on Sabbath, October
19,
in
all churches.
--Joseph Tkach, Church Administration
MEDIA PURCHASiti:; UPDATE
HO� KO� TELEVISION RESPONSE
The first responses are now beginning to come in for The World Tomorrow
program in Bong Kong, which began airing there in August.
The responses, for now anyway, must come in a rather unusual manner.
The World Tomorrow was the first religious program to be accepted on
Hong Kong's English-language channel, TVB Pearl. But there was one
catch.
Hong Kong's Secretary of 1.:he Television and Entertainment
Licensing Authority, Pritam Singh, accepted the content of the program
but refused permission to offer free literature on the air. So ads
were taken out in the TV section of The South China Morning Post and in
Hong Kong's TV & Entertainment Times magazine. The ads serve a two
fold purpose:
1)
invite viewers to tune in to the program, and 2)
offer free literature related to the program.
The first such ad in The South China Morning Post brpught in 176 re
quests for "The Plain Truth• and two booklets, "The United States and
Britain in Prophecy• and "Revelation Unveiled at Last.•
It is
interesting to note that the first issue of TV & Entertainment Times
that carried one of our ads also carried an article announcing Mr.
Singh's resignation from his position as head of the Licensing
Authority. Perhaps his successor will grant us permission to offer
free literature over the air. Until then, the' present system seems to
be working fine.
--David Hulme, Media Purchasing
FROM EDITORIAL SERVICES
DECEMBER GN; GN CIRCULATION; GN INTRODUCTORY
ISSUE; YES UPDATE; WN FEAST COVERAGE
Greetings from Editorial. Time nev1?r goes so fast as it does when you
work with publications.
Actually, the staff is experiencing Feast
fever for the second time. We work so far in advance on the Festival
editions that we get excited about the Feast of Tabernacles in the
middle of the summer. By the way, lt was the best Feast ever.
It is difficult to believe, but the December •Good News" marks. the
completion of the seventh year since Mr. Herbert
w.
Armstrong restarted
the magazine in its current format. This issue features the annual
index of both ·The Plain Truth" and ·The Good News,• along with helpful
articles on the Sabbath and Christmas •