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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1986
Now we face sanctions and at this time do not know what economic hardships
are ahead of us. Our prayer is that God will protect His Church and allow
circumstances under which we can complete His Work.
(Submitted by Dr. Roy McCarthy, Regional Director>
NOTICE TO ALL MINISTERS
(Rot
to
be
announced)
By mutual consent the Church has granted Mr. Ellis La
Ravia a leave of absence for family reasons. Mr. La
Ravia, who has maintained a hectic pace at
Headquarters for several years, will now be able to
have a well-deserved rest and personal time with his
family.
We would appreciate your prayers on their
behalf.
--Larry Salyer, Director of Church Administration
EDITORIAL SERVICES
•plain Truth• Meeting
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The Plain Truth
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will begin the new year by taking
a look at the old.
In our planning session for the January issue, we
discussed a special section of articles on 1986's hot spots in the world.
Titled
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Great Challenges Facing Mankind Today,• these articles will
support an overarching article by senior writer Ronald Kelly that lists
seven critical problems facing the world today. Together, these articles
will fill one signature (16 pages> of the magazine. These seven problem
areas insolvable by man are: 1) Politic.al and religious ideology, 2) The
world debt crisis and the population explosion, 3) World health, 4) The
curse of war, 5) Weather and environment, 6) Moral crisis and
7) Technology:
curse or cure?
Pastor General Joseph
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Tkach's
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Personal,
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Does Truth Make You Feel Threatened?
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to this thought-provoking January issue.
We will follow up in the
February issue with a look at what's to come in 1987.
We've received quite a response to the article on teen pregnancy in the
September
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Plain Truth.
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Some excerpts follow:
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I am a 12-year-old girl, and in fifth grade. I have been subscribing �o
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for almost three years now.
And I find your article
about teen pregnancy rather interesting. After I sat down and read it I
realized it could happen to anyone even my best friends or even me.
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in reading the article•••on teen pregnancy all that keeps running through
my mind is where was it six years ago. I am a 21-year-old mother of three
children. My husband and I got married five years ago at the age of 16,
seven months later at the age of 17 we had our first child. We lost a lot
of friends and most of our relatives deserted us. I was not taught as a
teenager about sex••••
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For several years now I've been a subscriber. Nowhere have I seen the
ever-growing crisis of teenage pregnancy, the rampant epidemics of
sexually spread diseases presented in more rational, unbiased reporting.
Keep up the exceptional workl
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