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'PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, APRIL 18, 1986
EDITORIAL SERVICES
"YOUTH 86" UPDATE; Y.E.S. LESSON PROGRAM GROWING;
"WORLDWIDE NEWS" UPDATE
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•Youth 86• Update The circulation of "Youth 86" is now _ around 230,000.
That's about 10 times as many as it started with. The magazine goes into
138 countries and territories. About 48,000 copies go into libraries in
the United States and another 17,000 in Canada. Also, 13,500 copies go on
newsstands in Canada. The copies in libraries add between 2,000 and 4,000
new subscribers each month.
More than a thousand new subscribers to
"Youth 86" have been added, and responses aren't complete yet, from
running the article "Are You Sure Everybody's Doing It?" in the April
"Plain Truth." Hundreds of letters have come in, showing we have quite a
few teens reading "The Plain Truth" as well.
"Youth 86" continues to get positive responses. A reader from Trinidad
and Tobago writes, "Your magazines always seem to come at the right time
when I'm in need of some help or guidance over a problem or situation."
A reader in the Philippines writes:
"Your magazine really helps me a
lot--in different ways.
The lessons in it teach me how to overcome
problems, forming good habits and traits.
They brighten my murky and
perplexed mind and stir me to do the right things.�
As always, we appreciate those of you in the international areas sending
us suggestions and news clippings of interest to teens.
We want to
continue to try to make the magazine as international in interest as
possible.
Even though we are right now at the Passover season, we are planning for
the Feast of Tabernacles edition of "Youth 86."
We are planning to
include in the magazine an eight-page Feast supplement that will be sent
only to young people in the Church. We would appreciate any suggestions
for articles or Church-related questions teens have asked. Please send
this material to us in the next three weeks.
The Ambassador College magazine writing class we're teaching here in
Editorial is really bearing fruit. In the August issue of "Youth 86" we
have three of our students' articles included. Other student articles are
scheduled for later issues.
YES Lesson Program Growing The Youth Educational Services (YES) program
has grown tremendously in the 1985-86 academic year. More than 30,500
students are enrolled in the program worldwide. Enrollment for non-Church
youths is more than 12 percent in the United States and more than 9
percent internationally. This is a record enrollment for this period of
the year.
Youth Bible Lessons are now being translated into French,
Dutch, German and Spanish.
•worldwide News• Update The "Worldwide News" staff is working on the
final issue you will receive before the Spring Holy Days. Featured in the
April 21 issue are charts showing various statistical records broken by
the Church and the 25th anniversary of the Vancouver, B.c., regional