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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 7, 1986
Church membership increased 8.25% while church attendance increased
16.66%.
Incoming mail increased 24.12% while outgoing mail increased 4.7%.
(Submitted by Bram de Bree, Regional Director)
--Larry Salyer, Church Administration
FROM THE TREASURER'S OFFICE
In my last report I mentioned that we were carefully watching the
financial situation day by day. It seems evident to those of us here in
Pasadena that God is providing His Church with a very smooth transition in
every respect, including the financial situation.
The financial outlook is considerably improved over a month ago. God has
provided a good increase, above budget projections, for February. The
month's increase over last February was 14.5%, which brought the year-to
date increase to 10.7%.
Information from our international offices has also been encouraging.
Even though I do not have specific figures, a number of offices (the Dutch
excepted) have reported much larger increases than we have been
experiencing in the U.S.
The Arthur Anderson Company has been working for a number of weeks now on
the 1985
u.s.
& International Audits. At present everything is going well
and is on schedule.
In the area of Financial Services news, I would like t·o report that
members of our staff have been visiting some of our international regional
offices to discuss financial reporting, budgeting and planning. In the
past few months visits were made to New Zealand, Australia, England, the
Netherlands and the Caribbean.
Don Miller, budget coordinator, and
Ritchie Gaston, supervisor of the General Ledger area in Accounting, have
just returned from another such trip, this time to the Philippine office.
This has been very helpful to the headquarters personnel, as well as to
regional office personnel.
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Such visits promote unity and cooperation
between the offices.
--Leroy Neff, Treasurer
EDITORIAL SERVICES
"PLAIN TRUTH" MEETING; "WORLDWIDE NEWS" PERSONAL
•p1ain Truth• Meeting Much of our July-August "Plain Truth" planning
session concerned publications support of television.
Many of you
probably have already seen David Albert advertising "What Is Man?", the
brochure designed especially for the "World Tomorrow" telecast.
The
brochure contains an article by Richard Sedliacik and one by Keith Stump.
When these two articles appeared together in "The Plain Truth" in 1982,
they brought a positive response. The brochure is 12 pages.