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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1986
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• Prayer requests: giving encouragement to those who are sick and
letting them know we care.
• Counseling for financial and personal problems.
• Basic Bible questions dealing with the Sabbath, Holy Days, unclean
meats, etc.
Any question needing a more
controversial issue is handled
minister.
detailed answer or dealing with a
by letter or referred to the local
Since this program was instituted, 7,000 callbacks have been made.
Reminder About Offerings
With the Feast of Tabernacles corning up shortly,
there is something that you as ministers can do to assist us in Mail
Processing.
In order to help us process Holy Day offerings quickly and
accurately, would you please read the following to your congregation. Ask
the members to:
1. Use the indexed offering envelopes provided from Headquarters
whenever possible.
Members can carry these envelopes in their
briefcases or Bibles to make sure they are easily available and
not forgotten.
2. Have the PT subscription number handy in case the indexed
envelopes are lost and unlabeled envelopes provided at the site
must be used.
Members can always write their subscription
numbers in their Bibles.
3. Be sure all checks and money orders are signed and/or
countersigned, with money amounts properly filled out.
4. Smooth out currency before placing it in the envelopes. This
saves
many
man-hours
which
would
otherwise
be
spent
straightening out crumpled bills.
5. Enclose only Holy Day offerings in the envelopes.
Tithes or
other funds should be sent separately or turned in at the
Festival Business Office.
We would like to thank you and the brethren for your continued help and
cooperation.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
CHERNOBYL IMPACT SPREADS; DIPLOMATIC FLURRIES IN SOVIET BLOC AND ASIA;,
RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE IN EASTERN EUROPE
Chernobyl Aftermath
Soviet authorities attending a meeting of the
International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna have reported new details on
the aftermath of the explosion of a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl plant
last April 26.
Their report--rernarkably forthright in the opinion of
Western experts--attributed the accident primarily to a succession of six
operator errors at the plant.
Plant technicians, in conducting an
experiment, had shut off emergency cooling systems on the Number 4 reactor
for more than 12 hours. This enabled the unpredictable graphite-regulated
reactor to suddenly surge in power, resulting in an explosion.