WWN 1977 (Prelim No 02) - Herbert W. Armstrong

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8 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Jan . 17 , 1977
Updnte: the interruuionnl Work
(ConttnUlld from pege 1)
North America (Ca nada and Mexico
), 10 Ca ribbea n co untries , seven
in South Americ a. eight European
nation s and five co untries in the
Pacific area .
Thi s does not include many other
countries in which we have a small
but growing Plain Truth list and a
scattered but growing number of
membe rs. At the time of this writing
we are in the process of establishi ng
legal status in several other co untries.
BETTY THOMPSON
Eight y-six rad io stat ions carry The
World Tom orrow br o ad c ast
wo rldwide (b e sid es the Uni ted
Slate s) . In Canada 71 stations carry
the broadcast (63 in English and eight
in French), in Australi a six, in New
Zealan d one, in the Caribbe an area
10 (six English, four French) , in
Europe o ne (French) and in the
Philippines one .
185 TV Sla loms
Plan s are to increase dramatically
the number of radio statio ns as God
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Box 111
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department will be pleased to furnish whalever limited
informalio n it may have available.
Feels intensity
Poet's work honored
By John Torgersee
MtLWAUKEE, Wis. - Betty
Thompson, a membe r of the Mil ­
waukee South church and a teacher
of Spanish at Lane J unior High
School in We st Allis, Wis.• has had a
poem publi shed in the 1976 issue o f
National Poetry Asuhologv.
Na tional Poet ry AnJhology is a
book publ ished yearly by .he National
Poetry Press in Los Angeles.
Teachers a nd lib rari ans of h igh
sc hoo ls and colleges from acro ss the
United Slates annually submit poem s
10 the Nation al Poetry Press. and
those judged best are publ ished .
Miss Thompson submitted several
poem s. The o ne selected happened to
be one of the few she has writt en in
free style, she says. The poem , abo ut
autumn leave s, is e ntit led " T he
Fallin g Battle ."
Miss Thompson has been writin g
poet ry for eight years , but it's not just
a pasti me for her .
"Poetry is as many worlds as there
are thoug hts and words to describe
them . but on ly the author really understands
and feels the intensity of
the one bei ng described," she says.
" To me poetry is like an intimate
express io n of word s. It know s no
limits; it surpasses all boundaries .
Tbe unreal becomes actual ; reality
become s even more . In a se nse each
becomes immo rtalized by the mood
of its writer ."
Her winning poem is pri nted
below .
THE FALLING
BATTLE
The wind breathes hard and
whistles.
Exhau sted leaves stir and
strugg le.
Th e ballIe for life be gin s
aga in.
A rustling sou nd begi ns to
grow .
Tan gled bran ches twi st and
bend too far.
Sudde nly, a snap!
And a crac k fills the air .
Shuddering leaves crash to the
ground .
Still attac hed, they clin g to
life .
Oh . Wind , be not crue l to falling
leaves .
The invisible power continues
to gus t.
The weakened leave s break
and slow ly die .
TIle mighty wind does not sto p
or even sigh .
Belly Tbom""",
Milwaukee . we.
The writer just completed a
ssudv program while on sabbatical
al Ambassador Coll ege ,
Pasadena , and has since trans ­
ferred 10 become regional direclor
of lhe Australian Work_He is
an evangelist andformer regional
director of tbe Canadian Work .
· /l e worked closely wilh Leslie L.
McCullough, director of the International
Division, during his
stay OJ headquarters.
opens them 10 us and the finance s
pennit.
Television is another new and exciting
area that has good potential
and seem s to be ope ning up to us. We
have 175 statio ns in Can ada (inc luding
145 so-ca lled satell ite stations,
which rebroadcast programs that
originate at other stations), seven in
Australia, two in the Caribbean and
one in the Philippine s, for a total of
185 aro und the wor ld o uts ide the
United Stares .
Churches, outlying Bible studies
and new members are bein g added
almost dail y. As o f Nov . I, 1976 , as
near as we can approximate from
data from around the world, we have
250 ministers and assi stan ts serving
more than 220 churches with a cornbi
ne d attendance o f mo re than
:'2 ,(X)() and a tota l membe rsh ip in
excess of 16.50Ct
(~ trom _ ' )
lated the first ones who wro te in and
gave tbem first choice:'
The 10 days of meetings included
" approximately 50 hours of classroom
se ssions ," Mr . Mo karo w
said . " Tbere were classes on biblical
doctrine , human deve lopme nt and
growt h, TM Plain Trulh and its impact
on the United States and the
wo rld, fami ly and marriage counseling
and how to counsel familie s with
prob lems . legal effects of being a
min iste r in the Ch urc h and also
classes on New Testament problems
in the light of the ministry . "
Instructors included Gamer Ted
Arm str on g; Mr . Dart; Le sli e L.
McCullough , director o f the Interna ­
tional Division ; Steve Martin , Wcstem
Area coo rd inato r and ass istant to
Mr. Dart; Mr . Mokarow; Robert
Kuhn. an exec utive vice president of
the Amba ssador International Cultural
Foundation; David A ntion o f
the Amba ssador theo logy faculty;
Geo rge Geis , cha irman of the Theol ­
ogy Department; Brian Knowl es.
managing editor of The Plain Truth ;
HEAD IN HIS WORK - This member of the Ambassador College
Television Production Department hasn't1osl his head; he's just videotaping
the YOU-conference activitiesat Big Sandy Dec. 26 to 29. (The
Worldw ide News, Jan . 3 .) [Photo by John Wright)
40local elders attendseminar
Ralph Helge , director o f the Work's
Lega l Department; and Ray Wrig ht,
the Work ' s assistant vice president
for financial affairs.
Mini sters and their wive s stayed in
ot her ministers' homes , Mr.
Mokaro w said . "We paid full ex ­
penses for the minister and his wife
as well as any lodge costs and meals .
This is oot the first time this has bee n
done , but it' s tbe first time we've
everdone it where we've offered it to
unemployed elders. Our previous
ministerial seminars have just been
withi n the pastor group."
BenefICial In formation
Me. Martin said Mr. Arm strong
and Mr. Dart ., were very pleased
with the prog ram. And the elders '
e ruhus rasm was ex tremely hig h.
They felt the information the y rece
ived was very beneficial."
Ted Maliso n, 57, a loc al elder who
traveled here from his Tulsa, Okla.,
c o n gre g atio n for the se ss io ns ,
agreed. And , after listening to the
speakers and attend ing the se minars,
his " impressio n was that the Work is
LOCAL ELDERS MEET - Art Mokarow speaks to local elders in
Pasadena. [Photo by Warren WatsonI
in very good hands . I am plea sed
wit h the caliber of men who are heading
God ' s Wo rk."
Mr. Mokarow said the new program
mak es it feasib le for elders not
on the Church' s payroll to " benefi t
from the same type of program that
employed min isters make use of
while attending college for a year on
sabbatical."
A simi lar seminar schoo l is set for
the Big Sandy campus o f Amba s­
sado r this summe r and ano ther next
winter in Pasadena.
Those Who Alk nded
The 40 elders who atte nded the
schoo l, and thei . :j\ areas , are as
follows:
Cha r" Barrett , Monterey, Calif.:
John B ,- . ~ . ~ . Ca lgary (Sout h), Alta .;
Ken Brady, Miami, Fl a .; W ile y
Brisco, Fort Worth , Tex .: Burt Burbach,
Toronto (west). Ont.: Verdon
Conrad , Halifax, N.S. ; Ken Co urt ­
ney , Jackson, Miss.; Richard Cox .
Toledo, Ohio; A .C . De Bre e .
Montreal (E n gl is h) Que . ; D ic k
Eckman, Anchorage, Ala ska.
Scott Erickson. G rand Rapid s,
Minn.; Herschel Foote, Coffeyville .
Kan .; George For syth, Det roit
(East), Mich.; Dou g Hard in, Ca r­
tersville , Ga .; Dou gl as Ho lco mb .
Portland (Wes t), Ore .: Walter Johnson.
Vancouver (No rth) S.c.; Eric
Livermore, Ott awa, Om.: Ted Mattso
n, Tulsa , Okla . ; Jim Nork .
Phoenix (P .M .). Artz.: Frank Parson
s, Jackso n, Miss.
. George Peyton, Sa n Antonio ,
Tex.; Donat Picard . Quebec , Que .:
Gary Porter, Blackfoot , Idaho; Pat
Regoord , Buffalo. N.Y .; Ed 5