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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, August 14, 1979
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There has been a noticeable increase in co-worker activity over the past
month along with a growing number of positive comments on the radio program.
Mail received is beginning to turn around now, after a period of several
months of year-to-date de cits. It seems that regular subscribers, donors,
co-workers, and members alike are reacting very excitedly to the upgrading
of the Church and its publications under Mr. Armstrong's direction.
The latest statistics on membership, co-workers and donors in Canada are:
Members 5,664; Donors 3,828; Co-workers 8,850. Another growing group
of involved people are the 9,754 Bib
Correspondence Course recipients.
The Church in Grenada
(In the Caribbean)
The church in Grenada had its beginning back in 1975. At that time, the
church was being served both from Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Services were
held twice a month, once by a sermon tape and the other time by a visiting
minister.
Since July 1977, Mr. Victor Simpson became responsible for Grenada,
traveling from Barbados twice a month to conduct services. There are 35
baptized members and more about to be baptized, and the church's attendance
is around 65.
The church is also well served by a recently ordained deacon,
Mr. Desmond Andrew, and another church pillar, Mr. Harold Joseph helping
out with sermonettes.
In addition, there is a local Spokesman's Club, a YES program, and a pro
gressive newsstand program with 1,000 magazines going out monthly in Grenada
and in Carricou, a neighbouring island.
One sad bit of news is that the broadcast which has been on Radio Free
Grenada since 1977, has been banned now due to the current political changes
in the island. So as of now, we are no longer on radio in Grenada. Never
theless, the church is planning other projects such as o
ring select
pieces of literature to subscribers and extending an invitation to local
lectures. The church in Grenada intends to find a way to continue genera
ting responses as the broadcast used to do.
--Compiled by Rod Matthews, International Of ce
ON THE WORLD SCENE
EUROPEANS AND ARABS FORGING NEW LINKS: In a dramatic, but quiet, manner,
a "special relationship" is developing between major oil producers in the
Middle East and the industrial oil-importing powers of Western Europe. The
United States, at the same time, is being shut out of the new arran8ement.
Led by France and Kuwait, the nine members of the European Community (Common
Market) and six of the oil producers on the Persian Gulf have one major ob
jective in mind: long-term, guaranteed oil supplies for the Europeans and
access to Europe's markets, technology--and possibly military assistance-
for the Arabs.
Since the revolution in Iran and the worsened oil crisis, French diplomatic
activity in the OPEC countries has been intense. Both the Prime Minister,
M. Raymond Barre, and his minister for Foreign Trade, M. Jean-Francois
Deniau, have been to Iraq.