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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER
30,
1986
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budget for next year. Therefore, I'm asking all churches
to
earmark a portion of their local fund raising to help buy the
building.
Many of our congregations are quite proficient in fund
raising, and here is an opportunity to put those talents
to
work in direct service to God's Work.
I am not asking any to give what they don't have. All
church-activity and YOU needs must be considered, but brethren,
I know God will specially bless your efforts to provide this
genuine need.
As
this special building fund grows, results
will be reported in 'The Worldwide News."
In this way, the purchase of this vital tool will not have
to affect the overall budget during this rapid growth period
God has given.
As
I've written you before, the pressing needs
of the Television Department for updated equipment and
additional personnel will also have
a
major
impact on the 1987
budget
.
We are relying on God's overall direction
to
carefully and
prudently control the growth He is granting
so
that no one area
of the Work outstrips our ability to support it with the
resources God has made available.
Now let me tell you .about some of the decisions made in
the publications.
The tremendous growth in the Work has forced me to take a
hard look at how we are accomplishing God's commission. Are we
directing our efforts most effectively? Do we need to
restructure and perhaps refocus in some areas? Are we using
the resources God has given us to their greatest effectiveness?
To
take some of the pressure off our hardworking
television staff and presenters, the writers and researchers of
Editorial Services are now preparing material to be used on the
telecasts well in .advance of scheduled programs. We will now
be able to plan far enough ahead
so
that 'The Plain Truth' and
the telecasts can be more precisely coordinated in their
approaches.
To allow
Mr.
Dexter Faulkner and the Editorial Services
staff the flexibility to make this coordinated effort fully
successful,
I
have directed that "The Good News' and "Youth 87'
each be published six times a year, alternating monthly,
instead of the 10 issues each we have been producing annually.
This change will take effect next spring.
I will just say here, brethren, that I have been quite
concerned for some time that many of God's people simply
are
not reading "The Good News" as they should and as a result are
missin
a
wealth of the spiritual, Christian'-living instruction
a out the a lication of God's law of love in their lives that
they vital-
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Outstanding, spiritually strengthening
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