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PASTOR'S REPORT, May 7, 1979
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for the first time thorugh personal visits made by Stan Bass and
Albert Sousa. It seems as though God may have opened a door in the
Dominican Republic, and hopefully a church can be started there in the
not-too-distant future.
Philippines
The month of March 1979 had 37.5% increase in income over March last
year. This excellent increase brought our year to date increase to
21.70% -- up from February's year-to-date increase of 14.50%. A total
of 7,144 letters were received in the office for March -- another fine
figure.
There are now 16 churches or local congregations in the Philippines as of
April 1. Santiago, Isabela, some 330 kilometers northeast of Manila
was inaugurated March 31; the inauguration was attended by Messrs. Colin
Adair, Pike Mirto and Pedro Ortiguero. Eighty-seven (87) were in
attendance including visitors from Manila and neighboring Benguet
Province.
While in the area, Mr. Adair spoke on moral values to almost 100
elementary-level school teachers. He also held a PLAIN TRUTH Lecture.
Circulation Statistics dated March 15, 1979 had the following data:
PLAIN TRUTH
CC Active
Members
French
33,296
13,549
1,344
Co-Workers
1,079
Donors
228
Mr. Apartian has just returned with exciting news from four weeks in
Europe in which he conducted 9 public lectures. The one conducted in the
Sheraton Hotel in Paris was att�nded by approximately 400 new people --
a majority being listeners to "Le Monde a Venir" radio program at 5:30 a.m.
The first Bible study conducted after the lecture by Mr. Sam Kneller,
pastor of the Paris church, was attended by 51 new people.
Campaigns conducted in both Brussels and Liege in Belgium were attended
by approximately 50 new people on each occasion. Mr. Apartian reports the
churches are very strong and solidly behind Mr. Herbert Armstrong.
��L"3LISHING SERVICES UPDATE
A short update on Quest magazine. Things are going much better than
expected and we are much closer to breaking even than we had planned.
This is mainly due to very careful control of our production costs, both
here in Pasadena and in New York. The April issue was the first of our
new style monthly format magazines. As you know, we were publishing
every other month but Quest was so well received by the public and the
big advertisers that we decided to go monthly and reduce the cost to
$1.75 per issue on the newsstand and $12.00 per year for a mailed sub
scription. This may seem a strange way to cut costs but by going