Good News 1978 (Prelim No 22) Nov 6 - Herbert W. Armstrong

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PASADENA, CALIF . 

A PUBLIC A TmN FOR MlfMBERS OF THE WOR LDWIDE CHURC H OF GOD VOL. VI, NO. 22 NOV. 6, 1978 

HOW THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH 

OF GOD CAME INTO BEING 

By Herber t W, Ar mstrong 

o SET the record straight , 

T once and fo r all, I gi ve 

you here the actual FACTS 

rel ati ng to my fellowshi p 

ping w ith -the Churc h of 

God, Seventh Day , 

Sta nber ry , M o . , and t he 

A .N. Dugger " C hurch of 

God , " Salem, W . Va. 

Rumor s have been started 

that Garner Ted Armstrong is 

now doing the precise thing 

his father did in the years 1933 

to 1937. Like most rumors 

started for wro ng reasons, this 

one is FALSE! 

Mr. Armstron g's ccn version 

No biblically organized 

tr ue Church still existed 

Errors usually originate from a 

false premi se ca re less ly 

ASSUMED , unproved. 

The true original Church of 

We are really in the third generation of the present era of 

the WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD. Few are still liVing 

who remember how God started it. HERE IS EYE-OPENING 

NEWS to most members of God's Church TODAY. And it 

corrects a false rumor concerning Herbert W. Armstrong 

and the "Sardis" era of the Church. Mr. ARMSTRONG DID 

NOT " LEAVE" THE CHURCH OF GOD (Sardis era) TO 

START THE PRESENT WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD. 

Nor did he ever seek to draw away any of their members 

after him! He was never a member of either of the two factions 

of that church - though he fellowshipped and gave 

help to each of them. Mr. Armstrong's relation with " Sardis" 

was one of "GIVING" not "GETIING." 

'78 Feast is 'spiritual revival' 

PASADENA - Wor ldwide 

Church of God brethren gathered at 

75 sites this year from Anchorage. 

Alaska . to Suva, Fiji. for eig ht days 

(Oct. 1610 23) of spiritual food. fellowship 

and fun. 

For the first time in the history of 

th e Fe as t me m be rs of God ' s 

worldwid e family had the opport u 

nity to see and hear Herbert W , Arm- 

FESTIVAL SERVICES - Members watch Herbert 

W. Armstrong's opening night film at the Sierra de la 

Ventana. Argentina. site, above, and Hsten during 

services at Fresno. Calif., right. IPhotosby Tom Williams 

and Dave Knightl 

God was founded A .D. 31 by 

Jesus Christ. 'It was a SPIRITUAL 

ORGAN ISM - not a worldly organization 

- yet well organized 

on GOD'S PATTERN . 

It was headed by JesusChrist, 

who already had ascended to 

God's throne in heaven . It was 

strong speak at the Feast. 

As the Festival got under way the 

even ing of Oct. 15 it was Mr. Arm 

stro ng who greeted Peastgoe rs , 

whe the r the y we re mee ting in 

coco nut-palm huts or Church-owned 

tabernacles such as the ones at the 

Lake of the Ozarks. Mo.. and Wisconsin 

Dells. Wis. 

Film s that Mr. Armstrong had 

founded on "" SOI.In FOUND....TJON 

- a spiritual foundat ion - the 

apostles (New Testament) and 

prophets (Old Testament) with 

Christ the actual HEAD . 

Under the apostles and the very 

f ew prophets after A.D. 31 were 

evangelists, pastors, other elders 

made befo re the FCJst for this purpose 

were shipped 10 all points of the 

globe . For German-. French- and 

Spa nish-spea king: brethren the film 

was translated. 

Some attend ing the Feast in African 

sites had never seen M r. Armstrong 

before. Festival coordinators 

reported delight at bei ng able 10 have 

the films. wi th many calling the presentations 

the highlight of the Pestival. 

Mr. Armstrong himself made personal 

appearances at three U.S. sites. 

Accompanied by his assistant, Stanley 

Rader. be spoke before a combined 

total of 28, 000 brethren in St. 

Petersburg, Fla.. Big Sandy. Tex .. 

and finally Tucson , Ariz. Mr. Rader 

also gave talks at the three sites. 

Mr. Armstrong hailed the Feast as 

(See FEAST 78 . paga 81 

and reachers. deacons and 

deaconesses. It was truly the 

" . . . household of God ... In 

whom all the building filly 

framed together , . , unto an holy 

temple in the Lord" 

2:19-21). " . . . the whole body 

fitly joined together and compacted 

by that which every j oint 

supplie th ." (Ephesians 

4: 16). 

But after A.D. 33 violent persec 

ution set in (Acts 8: I). But 

about A.D . 53 to 59 another gospel 

was taking over the churches , 

and before A.D. 70 the Gospel 

C hr ist had preac hed was 

SUP PRESSE D! Th e C hurch was 

fo rce d vir tuall y to go under 

gro und, hold ing mee tings secretly. 

The apostle Polycarp (a discipleof 

theapostleJohn) andalater 

apostle, Policrates, had heated 

co ntroversies with the Roman 

bishopsin the false"Babylonian 

Mystery" rel igion (Revelat ion 

17:5), which, under Simon the 

Sorcerer (Acts 8), had adopted 

the name ' 'Christianity ,., 

In Revelation 2 and 3 are the 

messages inspired by Christ from 

God' s throne. 

The seven chu rches 

The apostle John relates, "I 

was in the Spirit on the Lord's 

day ..." (Revelation 1:10). In 

other words , John was taken IN 

VlStON , by theSpirit of God, into 

the far future DAY OF T HE LORD . 

From the time of Adam to nowapproximately 

6.000 years - we 

(Ephesians have bee n in the day of MAN, 

deceived and led by Satan. 

The period foretold in more 

than 30 prophecies called the 

" Day of the Lord" is the lime 

when God supernaturally intervenes 

and begins taking over the 

world - starting very shortly, 

perhaps one to three years, before 

the seco nd coming of C hrist to 

RULE ALL NATIONS . 

The apostle John, in vision, 

(See HOW. paga 31 

'GOODNEWS' TO CHANGE 

FORMAT, 'WORLDWIDE NEWS' 

TO RESUME PUBLICATION 

As announced by Herbert W. Armstrong in a co-worker 

letter dated Oct. 16, The Good News will soon be 

changed into a full four-color magazine and the tabloid 

pape r will continue publication under the name The 

Worldwide News. Work has already begun on the first 

two issues of The Good News magazine, and it should 

begin regular publication within the next few months. 

As explained by Mr. Armstrong , the new Good News 

will be devoted to biblical and spiritual food for members. 

The Worldwide News will resume its emphasis on news 

of the Work and its leaders through out the world and 

continue its coverage of local church activities, announcements 

of personal news, features on members 

and additional articles of a spiritual nature. 

We welcome your comments and look forwar d to serving 

you with continued news and encouragement through 

the pages of TheGood News and The Worldwid e News. 

Dexter Faulkner 

Managing Editor

2 

The GOOD NEWS 

Monday , No v. 6, 1978 

HOLY DAY OFFERING UPDATE 

We are still in the process of enteri ng all the Holy Day 

offering information into ourfilesforthe FeastofTabernacles 

and last Great Day, so we do not have final figures at this 

time , but we would like to give you the preliminary numbers in 

-, this report (Un ~ed States only ). 

.Treasurerdetallscampus sales 

By Sta nley R. Rade r 

PASADENA - Now that we are 

com pleting the negotiations for the 

sale of the two campuses (Brickel 

Woo d, Eng land, and Big Sandy, 

Tex .) I would like to share some of 

the deta ils with you . 

As early as 1973, Mr. Herbert 

Armstrong had determined that both 

the Big Sandy and Brickel Wood colleges 

should be closed. This is a task 

that could not be 'accomplished overnight 

as there were a number of person 

nel and financial considerations 

to be hand led . The rest of the story 

has already been told. 

In J974 we closed the Brickel 

Wood college and approached the 

firm of Cl unon s of Londo n to assist 

us in tbe sale of the campus. We had a 

numbe r of interested parties, both 

from England and foreign countries, 

but we were unable to co me to a 

. equitable agreement until the middle 

of this year. We fil!.aIly ag r ee~ on a 

~ _.., 

price 'of 2 mi1lion pounds (approximately 

$4 million) for the sale of the 

campus. .T bls is more than o ur investment 

in the property . 

The Big Sandy campus, closed in -. 

1977 when all college operations 

were co nsolidated in Pasade na, has 

now recei ved one offer of purchase 

that is being cons idered bytbeexec u-' 

tive c omm itt ee. T he offer is 

SIOO,OOO higher than o ur origi nal 

asking price and about 25 percent 

higher than the estima ted market 

value we had obtaine d in July. We 

have been carrying the ca mp us' 

value on our books at approximately 

S8.4 million . 

We fed that we have been good . 

stewards in these transactions . We 

have not lost money on these transactions 

nor have we obtained unreasonably 

high return s. It is our intentio n 

to utilize the funds received from 

these sales as an investment that will 

provide much-needed underpinning 

for our working capit al, and at the 

sha.ring... 

», 

A Feastfarewell 

The Fe ast of Tabernacles . 

1978, is over. For some it may 

have been their first; for others 

their fifth , 12th o r even 25th. For 

my fam ily it was the 20th . From 

all indications as report s come in 

to T~ Good News from aroun d 

the world others felt as we did 

that it was a mov ing , encouraging 

and uplifting Feast. A Feast that 

dep icted peace ,and unity. One 

that ':'Ie will riot soon forget. 

However, it is easy to slip back 

into o ur routine of life and forget 

the spiritual and physical lessons 

we learned during this past Pesrival 

season . 

The following poem , written 

by Michelle Bride n of the Toronto 

West ch urch, first-p lace 

winner in the 1977 Feast of 

Ta bernacle s Canadian YOU Talent 

contest , was read on the Last 

Great Day at the Festival sue we 

attended . I felt it was worth y of 

sharing with all our reade rs. . 

Feast 

Gather ye together now. 

_Here in the place of God . 

A place where angels guard your 

sleep . 

With holy staff and rod. 

-c.Enjoy this time of happ iness, 

Of peace , of joy , of love . 

Grow closer to your fellow man 

And(0 the Lord above. 

This issue's column was written 

by Dexter Fau lkner, manag 

ing editor.of T he Good New s. 

Take in the beauty ofthis time 

When summer turns to fall. 

The glory of the changing Ieaves, 

Of creatures large and sma ll. " 

Drin k in the word s 

Of all the wise , 

Of heaven's holy men . 

And under stand old things anew . ' 

Stir up your zeal again . 

Pict ure a time when life will be 

As it is now today . 

Remembe r, all you chosen ones, 

To' study and to pray. . 

Plug in your mind. 

Recharge yo ur heart . 

G row solid in this word . 

And when you go back to your 

home 

Remem ber what you've heard. 

. For if yo u do I'm sure you ' ll find 

Yo ur smile will never fade .' 

And you will leave a happy heart 

In every place you' ve staye d. 

You'll find your feet have 

grown quite light; 

' Yo ur hand will work with ease . 

Your faith will soon come.na rurally. 

And love will be abreeze. 

Reme mber , you must reach· for . 

God, 

Then He will reach for yo u. 

And when you know Him as your 

heart , 

Then He will know you too . 

Soasyouleavethisplace of God. 

Remember what you' ve viewed. 

And go with love, with peace . 

with joy 

And with your faith renewed . 

BIG SANDY, TEX., PROPERTY 

Negotiationsarebeingcompletedfor 

the sale of the Work's Big Sandy, 

Tex ., property. Aerial viewshowsthe 

former AmbassadqrCollege campu s. 

Inset: The Roy Hammer Memorial 

Libraryisafocalpointonthe grounds. 

same time prov ide interest , which 

can be added to our income in the 

years ahead. 

Total offering 

Average attendance 

Per person 

19n 

52, 099 ,107.29 

66.072.00 

$ 31.43 

Change 

+ 5.1 perce nt 

+0.7 perce nt 

+ 5.4 percent 

F east over, butchallengeremainswhatdo 

we dowithwhat welearned? 

By Val J. Aspenns 

Wit h the singi ng of the final hymn 

and a closing praye r, anot her Feast of 

Tabernacles becomes histo ry . · We 

can easily recall the inspiring, meaningful 

messages given from the pulpit 

and can still savor the millen iallike, 

abundant, joyful living experi 

enced dur ing the eight days or mo re. 

Probably we all feel encouraged, uplifted 

,and spiritua lly rejuvenated . 

And as a result of the Feast , we've 

come away with a ' greater sense of. 

comm itmen t, ded ication and resolve 

1~w~r4~ ~ " . H~..lY,~ rk . , ~"4 life in 

general. ... .... 

But will this reso lve arid renewed 

enth usiasm last? O r will it be as 

short-lived - as the proverbi al 

New. Year's reso lution, which lasts 

.about as long as the hangover? Will 

this year's Feast give us an added 

spiritual boost that will raise us to a 

higher. spiritual plane of existence 

whereby we will personally reflect 

the image and characte r of Je sus 

Christ more profoundly than eve r before? 

. . 

Kno wled ge put ' t~ use 

The answer · lies ~O l so much in 

what we ' ve heard , or seen or experi 

, enced, but in what we will person ally 

·do right now and in the days ahead . 

. As Herbert W . Armst rong has often 

said. know ledge is of no real value 

· unless it is put to use . Thi s is espe 

ci ally true in respect to spiri tual 

knowled ge. What will we' do with 

our Feast expe rience? Will we use it'? 

Wi.1I we ponde r over it, and build 

upon it, o r will we let it lie dormant 

and die a slow death ? 

It' s quite cle ar that unless we use 

the know ledge and apply it to our life 

·and circumstances, it will be lost, 

perhaps never to be rega ined. There 

is an old motto, " use iror lose it." It' s 

si mp le, yet so profound. W hen 

viewed in this light, it seems that our 

optio ns are somewhat limited. It is 

hoped we' all will make the righ t 

choice and with God's help will use 

the spiritual momentum of the Feast 

to success fully proje ct us through 

another year, no matter what obstacles 

or trial s this life may bring, individually 

o r as a Wo rk . 

Paul led the way 

In anoth er time , in another setting, 

a man named Paul trod this same 

Christian road before us. He wasnot 

unfamiliar with the tri als and tests of 

life. Few can match his reco rd " of 

labour s, of beatin gs, of imprisonments, 

of perils', of fastings .. 

(see II Cori nthians II). His life is a 

glowing example of how to be a 

1978 

$2,205.465.~7 

66.555.00 

$33 .13 

There will be additional offeringscoming from U.S. citizens 

who attended Festival sites inCanadaand in the international 

areas, so these figures will go up sligh tly. 

Mr. Armstrong is enco uraged by the financial suppo rt of all 

the loyal members and wants to thank each of you for your 

part in this great Work of God. 

Stanley R. Rade r 

Treasure r 

Val Aspenns is a senio r corr es- . 

pondent with 1M Work ' s Personal 

Corr espondence Department Ln 

Pas adena . 

Chr istian no matter the ci rc umstances, 

be it in poverty or wealth, in 

' sick ness o r in health, If the stress of 

life is see ming ly too much, take 

heart, Paul has been there . He overcame 

and freely gives us the bene fit 

of his experience. 

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Ch rist , 

,I predati ng the recem jogging -fad; on a 

. number of occ asions used an-intere sting 

ana logy comparing o ur call ing to 

. a race and exhorted us to '". : . run 

with patience the race thai is set before 

us" (He brews 12:1). 

To participate in thi s race 'yo u 

don 't have to be a beautifully condit 

ioned athlete. There is no specific 

age qual ifi c ario n c- and the rac e 

chairman doesn 't even' di scriminate 

agains t women . But yo u.do have to 

be aC hristia n-c- willing to wo rkh ard 

and put o ut,a lot of effo rt; 

A tong-distan ce run 

The race Paul alludes to is not a 

short 60- o r lOG-yard dash over a 

perfectl y level aruflcial running turf 

encompassed by sta nds fiBed ..with 

admir ing, cheeri ng fans. It is more 

like a long distance cross-country run 

winding ove r unpaved dirt o r gravel 

roads as well as hard con crete , with 

stretches of level gro und and hilly , 

gut-wrenching terra in. 

Because of the long distance , the 

field of runners spreads our quic kly 

and you may feel you' re runni ng all 

alone. At other times, you see runners 

pass you and yo u' re tempted 10 

. drop o ut in disco uragement. After 

"all, who would know (or care) ? And 

then there's the pain of blisters or j ust 

.plain .fatigue. W hat a relief it would 

be to quit. There' s also the double 

threa t of heat and humid ity. which 

can sap your strength, but you go on . 

The drive and resolve has to come 

from within' ast here are no cheering 

throngs to ' encou rage . you along 

but , finally , the long-awai ted finish 

line. 

While only one can come in f irst, 

when you've run bard and done your 

best, you know yo u' ve won . Th ose 

who have experienced this know the 

joy of running . Al the end of his life 

the apostle Paul expressed thisjoy. 

knowi ng he had run his spiritual 

mar athon well and won the crown of 

righteousness (ll Timo thy 4:8) . 

We must r un 

We -Christians have been called 

and chosen to partici pate in this race 

for eremal life. To reject this opportunity 

co uld mean our salvat ion . So 

run we must , day byday, week by 

week . Along the route we mi ght 

stumble at time s or have to sto p 

momentarily at an aid station for 

some thirst-quenching wate r, but 

remember that Pau l, who was tried 

· and tested in much tbe same manner , 

is_cheering u·5'on ; ··5o run, that ye 

may obtain [the prize]" (I Corinthians 

9:24) . 

. . 

The Feast of 1978·is over , but for 

us the challenges and ' trials !O f ' 1ife~remain·.::Wehave· 

been ' g iven the 

'knowledge, and we have the tools, It 

" is-now o ur responsibi lity to meditate 

on the bless ings we have been given , . 

to ass imi late the rich spiri tual 

nourishment rece ived and renew o ur 

· resolve and 'co mmitment to back up 

Mr. Armstrong and this Work in it' s 

end -time commissio n. 

The apostle Paul met his challenges, 

accompl ished his work and 

ran his race. He won his crown . We 

", too have a crow n prepared for. us. 

"Behold,) come quickly: hold fast 

which thou hast, that no man take thy 

crown " (Revelation 3:11) . So in the 

com ing year when the road of life 

· getstough . remember Paul and keep 

on running. . 

CIRCULAllON : 54,500 

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Monday, Nov. 6,1978 

The GOOD NEWS 

HOW·THE WORLDWIDE CHU'RCH 

OF GOD CAME INTO BEING 

(Continued from page 1. 

was taken into this " Day of the 

Lord" called "the Lord's day " 

in Revelation I:10. This period , 

"the Day of the Lord," especially 

that phase of'it PRIOR to 

Christ's coming (although it shall 

continue through the millennium) 

, is the THEME of the book 

of Revelation. . 

Cont inue in Revelation I:10: 

" . . . and heard behind me a 

great voice . as of a 'trumpet, 

Saying , I am Alpha and Omega 

[A and Z], the first and the last: 

and. What thou seest, write in a 

book , and send it unto the seven 

churches which are in Asia . .." 

Then Christ named the churche s, 

starting with Ephesus and ending ' 

with Laodicea . 

Then. in his vision John lumen 

'and saw seven golden candle 

sticks and". . .i n the midst of the 

golden candlestick s one like unto 

the Son of man [Christ] .. . And 

he ' had in his right hand seven 

stars .. ." 

Then He (C hrist) said , " The 

mystery of the seven stars which 

thou sawest in my right hand ; and 

the seven golden candlesticks , 

The seven stars are the angels of 

the seven churches: and the seven 

candlesticks which thou sawest 

are the seven churches " (Revela- 

, •• c tion 1:20). . . ._'_ , '. 

Then follow. in chapters 2 and 

3, Christ' s messages to the angels 

of these seven churche s. 

1 studied deeply into the se 

. seven churches and Christ's mes 

, sages to them 51 years ago . And I 

concluded, on exhaustive re- 

"But God's Church, though continuous 

through all generations from ~ D. 31, 

LOST much or all oilts original organizational 

pattern established BY CHRIST. . ." 

, , 

search , that they represented the 

seven cond itions that would he 

found in the Church of God at all 

times, from A .D ~ 31 until . 

Chri st's coming - BUf t'J..SO 

the seven ERAS of God 's Church , 

during these 'mo re than 1,900 

years. God showed me that the 

Ephesus condition here descrihed 

would he PREDOMtNANT durin g 

the first era, the Laodicean cond i 

tion described in the last era ju st 

prior toChrist's second comin g, 

predominant just hefore Chr ist' s 

coming , But definitely they de- 

.piet SEVEN S UCC E SSI V~ ERAS•. 

'Loss of first love 

The predominat e characteristic 

of the Ephes us era-the first, 

heginnin g A.D. 31,-:- was loss 

of its first love. The Church in 

A.D : 31 on the day of Penteco st 

started out with great rejoic ing 

and, deep spirituality. But by approximately 

A.D , 59 to 59, they 

already were turning to ANOTH ER 

GOSPEL - the GOSPEL MESSAGE 

OF JES US C H RIST W AS 

BEING SUPPRESSED! 

A violent 'persecution had set 

in by A.D . 33. By A.D. 70 the 

true Church was virtuall y forced 

to go unde rground. They were 

discouraged - had lost their first 

love . But , also , that has heen true 

of every era of the Church 

only not so dominant as in the 

first two centuries. 

The Church did become 

scatteredl Never again after the 

first century was ' it ONE \WEL L ~ 

ORGANIZED, COMPACTED BODY! 

This is a fact that most today 

have not realized - and Perhaps 

most have supposed there existed 

a centrally organized closely knit , 

Church from the fir st century 

by very disturbing dual challenges. 

My wife , after nine years 

of happy marriage, had hegun 

keeping the seventh-day Sabbath 

. I was aghast ! That , to me , 

was religious fanaticism! She 

claimed to have found this teaching 

in the Bible . 

My first upsetting thought 

was, What will my business contacts 

and friends say? It was a devastating 

thought, humiliating! 

AIlthearguments carnequickl y 

to my mind . The y were of no 

"The Church did become scattered! Never again after the first 

century was it ONE WELL-ORGANIZED, COMPACTED BODY!" 

until now . BUT THAT IS NOT 

TR UE . 

Yet . when Chri st come s, He is 

comingto a Church that IS wellorganized 

- the " . . . household 

of God .. . in whom all the 

building fitly framed .together 

groweth unto an holy temple in ' 

the Lord " (Ephesians 2:19-21). 

THAT IS THE - TEMPLE TO 

WHICH CH RIST SHALL CO ME . 

THATis the one and only Church 

that shall , RESURRECTED, MARRY 

CHRIST ! 

But , when.l first was converted 

and came on the scene , the 

Church ( Sardis era) was 'widel y 

scattered. There was a U .S . 

headquarters at Stanherry, Mo . 

But there were a few very small 

scattered groups, which we have 

discovered since , in Central and 

South America and Europe. 

These brethren were still keeping 

the Sabbath, the Holy Days 

(which the Sardis people in 

America WERE NOT), and still 

kept the NAME, Church of God . ' 

They are now .p art of the 

Worldwide Church of God . 

NOW - Herbert W. Armstrong 

'an d the Sardis era 

-I was hom of stable and up. 

right parents with an ancestry in 

the Quaker faith that had emigrated 

from England to Pennsyl - ' 

vania with William Penn, a 

hundred years hefore the United 

States became a nation . 

At age 18 1dropped all but the 

most passive interest in religion. 

I had put myself through an inten 

sive self-examination, coupled 

'with a survey of the various 

occupations and professions, to 

determine where I helonged ~ to 

avoid fitting the proverbial 

square peg in the round hole . 

This led into the advertising profession 

and a busine ss life . 1 was 

unusually successful. I had con 

tinued through the year s diligent 

stud y and . application. I had 

planned that .my business contacts 

were largely with the great 

and the near -great. 

Then , at age 34, I was assoiled 

in Genesis. First I -delved 

'- thoroughly into the works of 

Darwin, Lyell , Haeckel, Huxle y, 

Spencer, Vogt , Chamherlin and 

Moore, and even into the earlier 

' works of Lamarck and his theory 

of " Use and Disuse," which 

preceded Darwin's "surVival of 

the fittest " hypothesis. 

-Immedlatelythose writings 

appeared convincing. T hey , 

necessarily are , to have won .virtual 

universal acceptance in the 

world ofhigher education. I readavail. 

She said she found this . ily understood how the field of 

teaching in the Bible . 

education had been gripped in the 

" But the Biblesays," I pro- clutch of the evolutionary co n' 

tested , "thou shalt observe Sun - cept . ' 

day." 

Evolution, as I finally learned, 

" Can you show that to me in is the athei sts' attempted explathe 

Bible?" she asked . 

nation of the presence 'of a crea- 

" No ," I replied, " 1 don ' t tion without the preexistence.of a 

know much about the Bible. My Creator. 

interest and studies have been in This initial stage of my rethe 

area of business. But I know searchrudelyshook my faith in 

the Bible teaches Sunday obserthe 

existence of God . It brought 

me to realization that I had 

vance , because all these churches assumed the reality of God , be- 

=an'/ be wrong, and they receive cause from childhood I had heard 

their heliefs from the Bible ." _ and therefore assumed _ it. 

" If," she smiled sincerely.- For a whil e my head was literally 

buttome·exasperatingl y.= o··You . ( swimming/ Was all I had ever 

can show me where the Bible belie ved mere myth and error 

commands Sunday observance, after all? 1 was awakened to the . 

I'll go back to it," realization 1 had ne ver seen 

, There was no dodg ing the chal- PROVED the reality of God! Now I 

lenge . My marriage depended on . was determined to know the 

it! TRUTH! My mind was being 

A second challenge 

Coincidentally, a sister-inlaw 

; newly married and fresh out 

of college, hurled at me a second 

cleaned out from ideas and beliefs 

previously taken for 

granted. 

.Ofall tbe writings on evolution 

Moore, alone, had culled out 

humiliating challenge. 

u Herbert Armstrong. H 

',' 

she 

many discrepancies in the theory. 

Yet he, too, went along with the 

accused contemptuously, "you doctr ine overall. 

are just plain ignorant! But now I had , first of all , to 

Everybody who has any educa· prove or disprove the existence of 

tion knows' human life bas come God . It was no casual or superficial 

study. I continued in this re 

by evolution." 

I was proud . I had not neglected 

search as if my life depended 

study and ' education. I upon it- as in actual fact 

itdid, 

thought 1 knew the facts about 

evolution, and I didn't believe in 

it. But now I had to admit I had 

never pursued a thorough, indepth 

research of the quest ion . 

The dual challenge drove me 

into a determined almost night- 

, .and-day research. That intensive 

study continued for six month s 

before ,I found -t be pr oved 

answer . Yet the study to this day 

has never cea sed . - 

1 was not only humiliated and 

,angered by these challenges, I 

. wasderennined to proveboth my 

wife and sister-in-law wrong. 

Both challenges focused on a 

common starting point, the' book 

of Genesis in the Bible , although 

that was only the beginning. 

These challenges came at a 

' period in life when I had ample 

time on my hands . I plunged with 

inten se concentration into the 

study . 

Evolutionary writings 

researched 

But I did not begin the;r,:;

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·HOW· THE ···W"ORLn WIDE· CHURCH 

OF GOD CAME INTO BEING · 

(Continued from page 3) 

all three : were nephesh as Moses 

was inspired to write. 

Next, I happened to read 

where Jesus said,"And no man 

hath ascended ~p to heaven, but 

he that came down from heaven', 

even the Son of man , , ," (John 

3: 13), I researched the heaven 

and hell teaching further . I saw 

where the inspired Peter. on the 

day he received the Holy Spirit 

said, "For David is not ascended 

into -tbe heavens .. ." (Acts 

2:34) . 

Taught opposite of Bible 

- -I was , in utter astonishment, 

, coming to realize that what I had 

been taught growirig up inchurch 

was the precise opposite of what 

/ the Bible says inclear language . 

This is'. not ' the place for a 

lengthy, detailed account ofmy 

intensive search in the Bible 

bent on proving-t6my satisfaction 

that "all these churches can't be 

"I WaS, in utterastonishment, co;:'ing to 

realize that what I had been taught growingiJpin 

church was the precise opposite 

ofwhat.the Bible SC;IYS in clear languagtfJ." 

. .. • . . 

wrong .Tor their teachings came 

from·).~~ . !BJ~lf1/·,' · Tbeessentlal . 

point here is,the simple' fact that I 

did find irrefutable PROOF of the 

divineInspiration and 'suPREME 

'. AUTHORITY of the Holy Bible 

as the revealed Word of God as 

originally written. Even "all .the 

so- c a lle d ~ contradictions evaporated 

upon unbiased study . 

Yet • .to my. utter ,dismay and 

chagrin. I was forced. to " eat · 

crow" in regard ' to my . wife's 

supposed "fanaticism." It .was 

not what I wanted to believe, 

THEN! Bui by now I had taken a 

real beating. I had proved truth 

contrary to what I 'wanted to believe 

. . ," , 

Let me pause here to add a . 

point to what I wrote above, saying 

most people believe what 

they have , repeatedly heard or 

. read or been taught. There are 

two other psychological truismsin 

regard to WHYpeople believe 

whatthey do .. One is, people 

carelessly ,acc e pt what those 

around them believe. Most Thais 

are ' Buddhists because. those . 

aro und them in Thailand 'are 

Buddhists. Ther'e is the 

psychological tendency to. go 

along with one's peers. - 

One other reason for people's 

beliefs is that human nature tends 

to cause one to believe what .he 

wants to believe, and .refu se , regardless 

of proof, what he does 

not want to believe. There is the 

old saying, " O ne convinced 

against his will is of the same 

opinion still ." 

God's Word alone 

is'truth 

That is why I have said the 

experience I was painfully subjected 

to in this six-months' intensive 

' study was UNIQUE in 

human life and conduct. I know 

of no world religious leader who 

arrived at his teachings in such 

manner. Perhaps . that" is why 

GOD'S INSPIRED WORD alone 

as I proved - is TRUTH ; Only 

GOD is infallibly correct! 

I was brought, by the spring of 

'1927, to a complete MIND 

SWEEPING - my '-mind swept 

clean of previous assumptions 

.and beliefs' - surrendered to 

tbewonn OF GOD, which by 

thenI had proved TRUE,and the 

SUPREME AUTHORITY . 

More, "! had been brought to 

realize my own inadequacy and 

nothingness, I had been brought 

to a · real repentance .---.:. 

CONQUERED by the GREAT MA 

JESTIC GOD - and with a 'Solid 

rock-based FAITH 'in Jesus Christ. 

I was bapdzed-and the infilling 

of God's Spirit opened my mind 

to the JOY UNSPEAKABLE of 

knowing God and Jesus Christof 

knowing TR.UTH.· and the' 

warmthof God's divine LOVE! 

_ What . 1 once hated ·. 1 now , 

LOVED. I found the greatestand 

mostahsorbing joy of my life in 

.:continuing to dig, out those gold 

nuggets of TRUTH .from God's 

Word. - . 

Now came a new enthusiasm . 

in biblical study and receiving the 

REVEALED knowledge of God . 

I.began to ask , "WHERE, then , 

is the real true Church which 

CHRIST founded?" 

The true GOSPEL · 

My sho;'king,disappo'inting, 

. eye-opening discovery , upon 

looking into the Bible for myself, 

had revealed in stark plainness 

that.rhe teachings"of traditional 

Christianity were. in' most basic 

points. the very opposite of the 

teachings ofChrist, of Paul and 

ofthe original true 'Church! 

Could the original and only 

true Church have disintegrated 

, and disappeared? Could it have 

ceased .to exist? No, for ,I .read 

\.vhere,'Jesus said the gates of the 

grave would never prevail 

against it. 'A lso He had said to His 

disclples who, formed His 

Church, " Lo. I am with you always. 

!' : . 

Then I saw that the very 

PURPOSE of the Church was to 

preach Chrisr's GOSPEL! It is 

HIS' BODY - His instrument by 

which He carried "on GOD'S 

WORK! . . 

I looked carefully at that Gospel 

as Christ Himself preached 

and taught it to His first ministers: 

It is recorded in the ' four 

books of Matthew, Mark, Luke 

and John . At almost every point 

of teaching thatJesus enunciated, 

the teachings of traditional Christian 

bodies today are just the opposite 

. 

THEY WERE NOT PREACHING 

THE SAME GOSPEL ATALL,BUTA 

TOTALLY OPPOSITE MESSAGE! 

This was shocking - incredible 

- unbelievable! Yet I was compelled 

to seeit was true! 

Jesus began the Work of 

preaching the very Gospel that 

GOD the Father had sent to mankind 

through Him.. He commissioned 

His disciples - His apostles 

- to carry the same Gospel 

to all the world , And He has said 

He would never drop the 'Work 

He had begun! But WHERE was it 

going on today? 

Seeking an obedient Church 

I knew now that when I found 

the one and only true Church, I 

would find a Church obedient to 

God - keeping His commandments 

- having the testimony of 

Jesus Christ, which is the TRUTH 

of the Scriptures. . 

I had been much impressed by 

a description of the true Church, 

' a~ }t ist~ bef?~n:~ j.nourtim~.-ijust 

before the second ~o~ing of 

Christ7 0'0It 1 i s -1'ou ndt ~ i n' Revelation 

12."It is the time when Satan is 

filled with wrath against God's 

Church, -t' because he : knoweth 

that he hath hut a short time" 

(Revelation 12:l2),Satanismaking-war 

with ' ~ t he remnant of her 

seed ;" , The remnant means the 

very last generation in this age . 

The -C hurch is definitely. de ' 

scribed. It is those i'. ; • . which 

keep the commandments' of 

God, and have the testimon y of 

Jesu s Christ" (Revelation 1-2..: 

17). 

My intensive study had , revealed 

one thing plainly : "The 

commandments . of God" mean 

.. Sabbath keeping " to most traditional 

denominations. They say. 

"The commandments are done 

away!':,.They reject "thecomrnandments 

of God. •• " 

That automatically ruled out 

all churches observing Sunday. 

So far as I could learn. it reduced 

the search to three small groups ' 

- the Seventh-Day Adventists, 

the Seventh,Day Baptists, and a . 

little, almost unheard-of church 

called the Church of God , which 

maintained a small publishing- 

. house headquarters at Stanberry, 

Mo , 

So I examined Seventh-Day 

Adventist teachings - just as I 

did those of many other denominations. 

I obtained their 

magazines, their booklets ' and 

pamphlets, their large book of 

Biblereadings orBible "home 

instructor.' , 

The true Church is the one that 

lives by EVERY WORD of God 

the words of the BIBLE! 

Never an Adventist 

It seems necessary 'to add here 

that I have never ,been a member 

of the Seventh-Day Adventist 

denomination. False "statements 

have appeared in various church 

or religious . m a g a z i n e s ~ pamphlets 

or tracts that I am a former 

Seventh-Day Adventist. Idid'obtain 

much of .the ir literature to 

compare wirh the Bible , I did ex.. . 

amine and study.it with an open ' 

mind, and without . prejudice. I 

was happy to find that like most 

denominations, they do have certain 

points of truth . None is 100 

Percent ' in error.. .' . 

But my familiarity with Adventist 

doctrmes.bas come entirely 

through their published literature.1 

have never attended a 

regular Sabbath church service 

of that denomination! 

Next, I looked into the teaching 

of the Seventh-Day Baptists. 

I found it to be virtually identical, 

except for observing a different 

day of the week. with other Protestant 

denominations ..,- especially 

the Baptists .'. 

l:;,\But; of these threc 'chiu.ches to 

which the.search..had .been-narrowed, 

only ..9t:te bad rhe ..right 

NAME for the true Church. This 

was the small; lillie-heard-of ' 

Church of God whose headquarters 

we~e . a t ~ t a n~.erry , Mo . 

Twelve ti~s in the New Testarnent, 

I found the NAME of the 

Chu'rch that Christ established 

plainly stated as , ~ ' TH E .CHURCH 

OF GOD.',' ' :, ,, 

Could GOD'S Church 

be fruitless? 

. The only Church I had so far 

f~und . that " k.ept the command- . 

ments of God, ' and the testimonyof 

Jesus Christ," and at the same 

time bore the ' NAME of the 'original 

true Church, was this almost 

. unknown little Church of God 

with its small publishing house in 

Stanberry, Mo. . 

But this. left me quite confused. 

For this was a 'li tt le, 

church. especially compared 'to 

the Roman Catholic • "the 

Methodist, the Baptist , tbe Presbyterian; 

' the ' Lutheran or other 

large churches numbering mitlions 

of members.' Then I saw 

where Jesus called His 'C hurch 

the " little flock ," 

But still I was not completely 

~ "This initial stage of my research rudely shook my faith in the 

existence of God. It brought me to realization that I had assumed 

the reality of God, because from childhood I had heard - and 

therefore assumed - it. For a while my head was literally swimming, 

Was aliI had ever .believed mere myth and error after all?" 

-satis fied . I was deeply concerned; 

1prayed a great deal over 

it. For here was a church, which , 

compared to the large-scale activities 

of the Catholic and ,big 

Protestant bodies , was ineffective 

. I could see 'that it was imperfect. 

It wielded no great powe r. 

Jesus had said ; " . . . ALL POWER 

is given unto me in heaven and . 

earth" (Matthew 28:18). I read 

'how Jesus Christ was to beIN His 

Church! He guides, it! H~ directs 

"This was the 

small - actually in ~ 

finftesimal-stanof 

what was destined 

to grow in 38 years 

to a major worldwide 

Gospel Work 

reaching millions 

. . ~ everyweek. " . 

it! He"EMPOWERS it! He said His 

Church was to RECEIVE' 'POWER 

(Acts 1:8)', ' 

, N~ person is even a'member of 

the true Church unless he has re, 

ce ived and is filled and led by the 

Holy Spirit - and the Hol y Spirit 

is the Spirit of POWER! This little 

church seemed to be powerless 

- comparativ~~y . ~mpotent ! J 

failed to see'where itwas bearing 

much if any fruit! Could a fruitless 

church be the ONE AND ONLY 

tille, C~Ut

Monday, Nov. 6, 1978 The GOOD NEWS 5 

CHURCH 

IContinued from page 41 

Therefore, I began to fellowship 

with their scattered and few 

members in Ore gon , while at the 

same time re fr aining fro m 

acknowledgiog membership. 

We were living in Portland, 

Ore. , at the time . I knew of no 

members of this church in Portland, 

but there was a sprinklin g 

of them through the Willamett e 

Va lley betwee n Salem and 

Euge ne, in Oregon - mostl y 

fanners or truck gardeners. The y 

welco med the fellowship of myself 

and Mrs . Armstrong . 

We found them to be simple, 

plain and humble people, hard 

working and industrio us, and 

loving the Bible TRUTH - as 

much as they bad - willing to 

suffer persecution for it. -:" 

And so it was, in this detached 

fellowshi p, that Mrs. Armstrong 

andI continued the first 3 ~ years 

of my ceaseless night-and-day 

STUD Y of the Bible - of history, 

especially as connected with biblical 

history and prophecy 

and of pertinent allied subjec ts. 

- These, too, were years of 

much and earnest prayer. Much 

. of the Bible study done at bome 

was don e on my knees. 

co mbining study with praye r. 

Much time was spent during 

these years, as it had been that 

first six months, at the public library. 

I delved into intensive resea 

rc h in -the co mme ntaries, 

Bible encyclopedias, Bible d ictio 

naries , comparin g various 

trans lations of theBible, examining 

Greek and Hebrew texts of 

doubtful or -quest ionable passages,' 

chec kin g"w ~ t h ' lexicons 

Conference. I learned that they 

were organized as a General Conference, 

with elections of officers 

'. -; ... .. we didnotyet realize ourselves that 

CHRIST had started, in us, the Philadelphia 

era ofHis Church, committedwith the 

GREAT COMMISSION." 

and Robertson's Grammar of the 

Greek New Testamen i. I made an 

intensive study of ancient history 

in co nnection with biblical his- . 

tory and prophecy. 

Meanwhile, 0 0 their urging. a 

few of these articles bad been 

mailed in to The Bible Advocat e 

in Stanberry , Mo . These article s 

began appearing on the front 

page. 

The near fight 

at a meetlog 

Along in Novemher of 1930 

the Runeorns, neighbors of my 

parents, asked me to go with 

them to a business ,meeting 'of 

brethren of the Church of God , 

being held in the home of Mrs. 

Ira Curtis, near Jeffe rson, Ore . 

Although I was a guest - I bad . 

never become a member of this 

church, whose headquarters were 

at Stanberry, Mo . '- \bey asked 

me to act as "secretary and take 

down the minutes of the meeting. 

I learned that the meeting was 

called for the purpo se of organizing 

these Oregon memhers into 

an Orego n Confer ence . 

, I sens ed imm edia tely the re 

was a feeling of di vision "among 

them. Elder A.N. Dugger was 

the real leader of the church at 

Stanberry . He was editor of the 

church's weekly paper sent 10 ' 

membe rs. He either was, or had 

been, president of their General ' 

held biannually. Most of the 

Oregon memhers lived in the 

Willamette Valley in the vicinity 

of Jefferson . Most of them were . 

in attendance at this business 

meetin g. 

About balf of them were opposed 

to Elder Dugger. They 

"wanted to organize a state conference 

. Some of the other states 

"had state"conferences . The pur- . 

pose of this Oregon State Confer 

ence was to bold the tithes and 

churc h funds contributed by 

Oregon member s in Oregon . 

But actually, it was born of 

opposition to and dissatisfaction . 

with the Stanherry memhership 

" and state conference. The other 

half were ju st "as"verbal in their 

loyalty and . support of Elder 

Dugger and the Stanberry regime 

. 

Tbe dispute over Stanherry 

politics and Elder Dugger ' s personal 

fitness and integrity waxed 

more and more heated . One tall 

man who weighed considerably 

over 200, and was a leader , spoke 

of "dirty politics" and called 

Elder Dugger a " ward-healer" 

An equally vociferous man on the 

other side of tbe dispute rose to 

defend the honor of Mr " Dugger . 

Words flamed hotter and hotter. 

Each side was sincere and 1n 

'roused earnest. Under the tense 

pressure tempers were flaring . I 

· hecame afraid it was going to be 

settled (or unsettled) by fists. 

- At that instant I rose , and in a 

loud but calm voice asked if I 

might say a word . Since I was a 

guest. ithey didn 't refuse . 

"Brethren.Y-Lsaid, " you' all 

know how ;' as recorded in the 

first chapter of Job, when the 

sons of God came together, Satan 

came also. You also know how, 

in the 12th chapter of Revelation, 

we are told tbat the people Satan 

is most angry with 'are those who 

keep the commandments of God . 

and have the testimony 'of Jesus 

Christ . That meansus. Satan "is 

here . He is stirring up rage and 

anger in your hearts , I am going 

to drop to my knees right now and 

ask God Almighty 10 cast Satan 

out of this bouse ! All of you who 

wish may kneel with me and pray 

silently." · , 

Without another word, I 

quickly'dropped 10 my knees heside 

my chair and began asking 

· God to rebuke Satan and this controversial 

spirit that was rousing 

these men to anger and to drive 

Satan from our presence and to 

give !Js pe a~e and love -: 

When I rose there were some 

wet eyes, but there were no angry 

voice s. These people were sincere 

. They simpl y helieved what 

they believed and had allowed 

· themselves to becaught off guard 

and roused to ang~r. " 

R.L Taylor arrives 

.In early summer of that -year, 

1931, a forme r Seventh -Day Adventi 

st minister, a Robert L . 

Taylor , came to Oreg on from 

California. It was practice among 

the~ Church of Gnd people to 

"Jesus said we should KNOW 'by their truns.' Andnow they were 

splitright down the middle.Ahouse dividedcannotstand, andtheir 

two houses - Stanberry and Salem- did NOT stand!" 

hold all-da y meetings about once 

a month . It was at one of these 

meetings that Mr. Taylor 

preached . We were all quite impressed 

. . 

"He's a better preacher than 

any of the leading minister s from 

Stanherry," seemed to he the 

common exclamation. Indeed we 

·were all rather swept off our feet 

by his preachin g. 

After a few weeks, the breth 

ren of this Oregon Conference, 

which bad been formed the preceding 

November, wanted to 

· team Elder Tayl or with me to 

hold an evangelistic campaign. 

They were becoming anxious to 

see a linle life in the work of the 

Church. 

They found Elder Taylor very 

receptive to theidea . By this time 

·a modest balance had accumulated 

in the new conference 

treasury . You will remember that 

the object in forming this state 

conference was to create a local 

state treasury and keep their 

tithes and offerings in the state 

instead of heing sent to Stan ' 

berry , Mo . Tbe se were days of 

rapidl y descending economic depression. 

but several of these 

brethren were vegetable gardeners 

. They were doing very well 

financiall y. 

This made it necessary that the 

Oregon Conference ordain me to 

the ministry . 

ORDAINED Christ's minister 

~ ' B~'i :~'g o~d~~~d ::an~t: ~~~e~ i'ng 

the ministry full time meant a 

complete change in my life. In 

former years the idea of becoming 

a minister was the very last 

thing I should have wanted to do. 

But by June , 1931, I had heen 

preach ing a great deal for 3 ~ 

years . By this time my whole 

heart was in it. 

I shall never forget that mo 

.merit of my ordination. 

The meeting was being held 

· outdoors . I do not remember 

where - except it was in the 

general rural area of Jefferson. I 

do' not remember other circumstances. 

But I do rememberthe ordination 

itself . It was one of those 

once -in-a-lifetime experiences 

like heing married, and heing 

baptized. Only this seemed to me 

to be the most momentous event 

of my entire life . 

AllttW, brethren -,- as many as 

could get their hands through to 

my head - laid their hands on 

me-on my head, my shoulders, 

my chest'and my back (like Acts 

13:1-3). 

I am sure it was the weight of 

the experience". from a spiritual 

and emotional standpoint; rather 

than tbe physical weight ofhands 

and arms - but it seemed I was 

entirely weighted down with the 

heaviest load I had ever stood up 

under . 

To me this was symbolic of the 

tremendous respons ibilit y that 

now came down on my head and 

shoulders. 

And let it be made plain here: I 

was ordained by. and under the 

authority o f tbe Oregon Confer 

ence of The Chur ch of God , separately 

incorporated; nor by the 

Stanherry, Mo ., headquarters. Sunday night. July 9. The Fishers 

and I decided to start the meet - 

The Oregon campaigns ings at the Firbutte scbool the 

•The campaign was held in same night. I arrived at the Fisher 

Eugene in a tiny tent seating 50 farm , leaving my wife" and chilpeople. 

R.L. Taylor there turned dren at our home in Salem about 

out to be Pentecostal . No results .July .5 or 6 ~ _ 

came from the six-weeks,"six- 

.nights-a -week meeting s, except 

SmaU start of 

one night when it was too stormy worldwide Work 

to hold a service. Thi s was the small - actually 

One lone couple came that infmitesirnal-start ofwhatwas 

night ~ Mr . and Mrs. Elmer destined to grow in 38 years to a 

Fisher. They came with me to the major worldwide Gospel Work 

room I had rented, and .that night reaching millions of people every 

Mrs. Fisher accepted the Sab- week . 

bath . He already.believed in it. But if 'small, it started with a 

After this , employed by the burst of energ y and inspiration. 

Oreg on Conference, I teamedup First.jt started with intensive and 

with a youn g .minister of the ..earne st private praye r. To the 

Stanberry church, Ro y Daily. . rear of the Fisher fann bome was 

We held meetings at St. Helens, a fair-sized hill. Running over 

Ore . • and Umapine, Ore ., neat this hilltop for exercise I discov - 

Walla Walla, Wash. . . . ered a rock about 14 inches 

The only results came after high . It was in a secluded spot. It 

Mr . Daily left Umapine, on find -: came to mind bow Jesus had dising 

the conference treasury was ~issed the mu.ttitude and gone up ' 

ab?ut gone , and saying, "I'm mto a mountain apart to praygolOg. 

back m:;re to protect my -", alone with God . I dropped to my 

own interests. ." ' _. knee s before this rock , which 

I said I would serve Goo 's in- seemed just the right height to 

terests in faith - and after he left . kneel hefore , and began praying 

a small church was "raised ~p . . earnestly for thesuccess of .the 

But. like others raised .up by my meetings. . It became son of a 

preaching, there .was .no .local daily-pilgrimage , during my 

minister and the church evapo- .stay at Fishe rs', to this, which 

rated after a few weeks. 

. beearnemy prayer rock . I'm sure 

InMarch, 1933, we planned a that I drank in much energy, 

six-nights-a-week campaign in a spiritual strength andinspiration 

small empty store building in tbe at the prayer rock. . 

Hollywood_ re si ~~~~~ .'ftia,~ ~t .- .. I'reparing for. tbe meetings, I 

Salem , Ore. .. , . borrowedatypewiiier~"hhfnktIiC 

Now appeared on the scene Fishers arranged "this for me 

two more former Seventh -Day through one of their relat ives. 

Advent ist ministers, A.J. Ray , With carbon paper, I typed out 

and Sve n A. Oberg . Oherg swept some 30 notices, annou ncing the 

. the brethren offtheir feet with his meetings, and the topics of me 

superb preaching more than had sermons for the first week or 10 

R.L. Taylor. He was a man so days . 

perfect we wondered if he was 

not actually an angel in disguise . The first broadcast 

He was in disguise all right ! He, "The six-weeks meetings in the 

too, tumed out to he Pentecostal . one-room Firbutte schoolbouse 

Soon the Pentecostal people with carne to a close on Sunday night ,. 

Mr. Obe rg 's help were taking Aug. 20 , 1933. A total of more 

over the meetings .. tban 20 bad come with us - but 

Results? 'NONE! The sbouiers . .this apparently included the ·1O 

drove away others who had been. members of the Fisher and Ellis 

interested. After the meetings. families , memhers of the Church 

Mr . Oberg went to Harrisburg , hefore the meetings started . 

where a church building was The Oc t. I, 1933 , Bulletin - 

leased , to hold a campaign of his carries the report that " with the 

own. ~ Fisher and Ellis familie s, more 

"Here was a church, which, comparedto 

the large-scale activitiesofthe Catholic and 

big Protestant bodies, was ineffective. ' I 

couldsee that it was imperfect. It wieldedno 

great power.. Jesus hea said, '.. . ALL 

POWER is given unto me in heaven and 

earth . . .' " 

I had heen invited to hold a 

six-weeks campaign in a country " 

schoolhouse, eight miles west of 

Eugene, Ore . First, however, 

Mrs. Arm strong and I visited privately 

in their homes some of the 

people who had attended the 

meeting in Salem. Result? A new 

church of close to 50 members 

organized. I had asked A.J . Ray 

to pastor it. Under his "Ieadership" 

it lasted six weeks. 

Mr. Oberg was start ing his 

new meetings in Harrisburg on 

than 20 signified their desireto 

establish a new Sabbath-keepirig 

Church of God in this district ." 

In September, the living Christ 

began opening doo rs for the 

MAss-proclaiming ofHis Gospel. 

It was then that someo ne brough t 

to my attention the fact that the 

local rad io station at -Eugene ,. 

KORE , then the very smallest 

minimum-power of 100 watts, 

had a morning devoti onal program 

scheduled, but that they 

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6 The GOOD NEWS Monday, Nov. 6, 1978 

WORLDWIDE-CHURCH OF GOD 

BALANC"E"·SHEET 

WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD 

WOR L DWID E CH URCH OF GOD/A It BA SSADOR COLL EG E 

Current assets: 

Cash a nd Certificates of Deposit 

Sho rt -term investments 

Rec e i va bles . c urre n t 

Inventories a nd prepayments 

Total c u r r e n t assets 

P la ~ t a ssets; net (Note 1) 

Capital leases , ne t 

Plant assets held for s a le ( Note 1) 

Ambas sador College, United Kingdom 

(No t e 2) 

Noncurrent r eceivables 

Deposi t s 

To t a I asse ts 

VVORLO HE ....DQUARTERS • 

"""SADEN A,. CAI.!FORNA 9nZ3 

BA LA N CE 

S H E E T 

December 3 1 , 1977 

STAM,.lVR.1'AO(1I 

~- -_..- 

' To t a l 

~ Percentaqes 

2 ,307,800 2 .8 

157, 30 0 . 2 

794,30 0 1. 0 

1 ,614,800 1.9 

S 4 , 874,200 .,-;g 

61 ,713 ,000 · 74 .3 

2,4 75,300 3.0 

8 , 400 ,00 0 10 .1 

3,979 ,100 4 .8 

1 , 58 2 , 500 1.9 

1 , 200 

-$83. 02 5.300 ~ 

In the Sept. 25 edition of The Good News, a Statement of 

Income and Expenditures w~h accompanying charts was published. 

Since ~ is customary that a Balance Sheet accompany the 

foregoing statement, the following combined balance sheet of the 

Worldwide Church of God and Ambassador College for the year 

ended Dec. 31, 1977, is presented. This statement, however, 

includes only our Un~ed States operations . 

The combined Balance Sheet was derived by combining financial 

information contained in the certified individual Balance 

ShBets of the Worldwide Church of God and Ambassador College. 

, . 

On behalf of Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, we want to express our 

deep and sincere appreciation for .your continued support of 

God's Work. - 

NON CUR R E NT 

/R E C EIVABL E S 1.9% 

Liabi I i t i e s a n d Fu n d Boll an c e s 

Current liabilities: 

Accounts payable 

Ac c r u ed lia b i lit i e s 

Current po r tion of Icng v t e rm de bt 

Current po r tion o f obligations under 

capita l leases 

Deferred a mounts 

Ot he r c u r r e n t" liabilit i e s 

. Total c u r r en t liabilities 

Lon g e t.e rm d e b t (No te 3) 

Obligations u nder capital l e a s e s 

. Depo sits owed to . s t u d en t s and o t hers 

, To ta l " lia bilities - 

Fun d ba La nc e s : . . 

Available for c u r ren t use 

Inve sted in AC UK and p l a nt as s e ts 

of discontinued op e r ations held 

for- s a l e 

Ne t i n ve stment i n p lan t 

To tal fund ba l ances 

Tota 1 liabil i t i e s and 

f phd ba l a nc e s 

1,652, 200 7 ,5 2 ,0 

481, 500 2 , 2 .6 

2,973,500 13 ,5 3. 6 

358.000 1. 6 . 4 

280 . 40 0 1.3 . 3 

205 ,200 1.0 , 3 

$ 5.950 ,800 --rr:T ~ 

13,176 ,700 59 .9 15.9 

2, 819 ,200 12 .8 3 .4 

38, 100 . 2 

· ,6'.5 

' $1 1 , 98 4 , 8 00 

ill.:.2. 

3 , 800, 500 4 .6 

1 2 , 379 , 100 14. 9 - 

44 ! 86 0. 900 54 . 0 

HI, 040 , 500 73. 5 

$8 3 ,02 5 , 30 0 

l!!2.:1 

. DEPOS ITS O W E D T O 

STUDENTS AND OTH E R S 0 .2% 

I 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

. .'O~ esllmated malkel valueollhe Big Sandy campus i8 in e ~ c e s s ol $10 

m~'on . 

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Note 1 

: PLANT ASSETS \ 

At Dec. 31, 1977, the book value of plant assets 

other than those held lo r sale as a result of the discontinuance 

of operations at the campus in Big Sandy, 

'Ie x., are as follows: 

Land and improvements, net .. . .. • • $ 9.396 ,100 

. Buildings and improvements, net . . 39,376,000 

Business aircraft. net 

(G-Il and.Cessna Citation) 2.915,900-. 

' Equipment and furn is~ ing , net 6,790 ,000 

Libr~ry books -. . . . . 1,237:100 

vences. net . • . . _. . . 1,407,2 00 

Construction in progress .. . ..•. . •'• . . . . 349 .500 

Leasehold improvements, net .: 241.200 . 

Total 

$6 1,71 3,000 

Ptant assets located at the campus in sig Sandy are 

presented below: 

Land and improvements $1 ,092,10 0 

Buildings and improvements . 6,044,100 

'Equipment and furnishings, net 910.500 

Library books . . . . 263 ,100 

Vehicles, net '. . . .. • . .. . . . .. . . 66, 700 

Alrerafl, net . . . . . 23,500 

Total 

$8,400 ;000·· 

"OIJI Giu mrniln GUllsli eem I] eifaalt actually app!e Cialed in value and 

nes 8 market value in excess 01$5 miltion. The CesSl'l8 CIt81ion has 

siJJsequenlly been sold . 


AMBASSADOR COLLEGE, UNITEO KINGDOM 

The Ambassador College real property inthe United 

.. Kingdom has been sold for an amount in excess of $4 

mili on. 


LONG -TERM DEBT AND CREO IT AGREEMENTS 

Long-term debt, eXduding the portion due within one 

year, out~tarn ng at Dec..31 . 19n, is as follows: 

Mortgages payable: 

Ambassador Auditorium , . . . . . •.• 5)5,807,600 

Student center, parking structure 1.17 8.200 

Press and transportation buildings .. : 1.163, 800 

Hall of Administration . 630,500 

Grove Terrace - student dorm ..... • •. .. . .431,300 

Other buildings 2,189,100 

Total mortgage. payable $11 ,400 ,500 

Loans payable . . . . . 1,7 76,2 00 

Total mortgages and loans payable $13,1 76.700 

CREDIT AGREEMENT 

The Church's princ i p~l bank line of credit agreement 

provides for loans of up to $4 .3 million as follows; $1 

million unsecured line of credit to support cash flow. 

interest at prime;$2 million unsecured constructio n line _ 

of credit. interest rate at prime plus one-hell percent. 

repayable at $75,000 per month plus interest; $1.3 

rrnljon secured motor-vehicle-fleet line of credit. interest 

at prime plus three-fourths percent. 

LONG-TE RM 

DE BT 

A VAI L.ABL E FOR 

C; UARE.NT USE 

. IN VESTED IN 

AC UK AND 

PLANT ASS ETS 

OF D ISCON TI N UED 

OP ERATIONS 

HELD FOR SALE 

59.9 % 

...- - - ... " 54 .0 % 

,, 

TOTAL LIABILITIES 

AND FUND BALANCES 

IAC!WCG COMBINEO) 

14 .9% 

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LONG-T ERM 

D E B T 

F UND 

BA L AN C ES 

N E T I N V ES T M E N T 

IN PLAN T

Monday, Nov. 6, 1978 The GOOD NEWS 7 

Excerpts ofMr. Rader'stqJk on Last Great Day 

I would like to announce something 

that gives me great pleasure.T 

had the choice of announcing it at the 

end of my sermon or at the beginning, 

but it is the kind of thing Ideo'! 

want to postpone . My daughter 

Carol, whom Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong 

married last June at our home 

in Beverly Hills, Calif. , has told Mr . 

Armstrong and me that she wants to 

be baptized. She is here today .with 

her husband Me. Larry Little and my 

wife. Immediately upon our return to 

the Pasadena area, shewill be baptized 

by one of the ministers. 

Thi s give s me a tremendous 

amount of satisfaction, because although 

I reall y haven 't tried to teach 

her about these things, which I feel 

are so personal, between man and 

God, I have tried to set the right example 

and I have tried to inculcate in 

that way those values that have become 

important to you and those values, 

that, of course, have become so ' 

important to me. AU of my family', 

my children in particular, I would 

say, have been very much influenced 

by Mr . Armstrong. lust by what he 

does in their presence , what he says 

in their presence and what they have 

generally , observed, and t hey are 

leading the kind of lives indicative 

that much of what Mr. Armstrong 

stands for, and what the Chur ch 

stands for has indeed rubbed off. 

Five years ago at the Feast of 

Tabernacles I spoke about the fact that 

the Work of God was unique, and 

I' m sure by now all of you understan 

d that. As Mr . Arm strong's 

closest adviser, then as now, I could 

see many, many change s that would 

actually lie ahead for the Work . 

Changes that would be beneficial for 

the Work. Changes that J felt would 

be a s j g~ ~~a:t the great co~ m i ss i o n. 

w as : , be i ng ~fu l fi Jle d. And some of 

tho se changes ; I believe , were 

foreseeable in the aftermath of the 

events of 1971 and 1972 - events I 

felt would ultimately compel ' the 

brethren of this Church to come to 

grips with the only reality -the reality 

that this was, and is, and will be the 

true Church and a Work of the living 

God and not a Work of.mere men. 

Television interview 

l ust a few days ago I was interviewed 

by a television journalist for a 

program devoted to the work . its 

past, its present and its future. Once 

again I proved, I believe, to that 

journalist thai the Work of the living 

God does not exist to make a partlcular 

radio program, with a particular 

frequen cy of airing , in ' particular 

places and at particular times. The 

same for television. The Work does 

not exist to produce a television program 

with a particular fonnat for airing 

at particular times and places. It 

doesn' t even exist for the purpose of 

produci ng and distributing a 

magaz ine or any number of 

magazines with. a particular format 

and frequency of publication . It 

doesn' t exist to maintain one or two 

or three collegiate-grade academic 

institutions in one or more places 

. around the world. It does exist, however, 

for one and only one purpose, 

and that is, of course,' to propagate 

source of great strength and knowledge-the 

written Word of the living 

God, the Bible. We don't have to go 

to management textbooks to learn 

how to govern God 's Work . We 

don't have to go to graduate schools 

of business and,finance to learn how 

to govern God's Work. We , don 't .. 

have to go to academic and scholarly 

treatises of a theological nature to 

understand the message in the written 

Word of the living God , and we 

know that we can rely on the faith 

that has been given to us and with 

hope and with -love for God and our 

neighborwe will be able to overcome 

any and all problems, as they arise. 

Changes have indeed taken place 

over the pastfive years, and many 

changes havetaken place during the 

last five months. J am certain that you 

all realize, however, how necessary 

these changes have been . I am certain 

that you are as grateful as 1 that we 

arebackon the right track, that God 

is on His throne ..that Christ is heading 

thisWork and Mr . Armstrong, as 

Christ's apostle in this end time, is 

being led as alway s byOod the 

Father and Christ the Son. 

God truly does work. however . in 

mysterious ways. He gives us'faith, 

and we pray and we hope for ' the 

miracle that will save us from our 

most dreaded fears, 'from our worst 

afflictions.. He has answered our 

prayers this time; a miracle has occurred 

. He has intervened 10 restore 

life and vigor to Christ's apostle. 

1 would .like to share a little bit ~ f 

my own experience of witnessing the 

miracl e that unfolded before my 

eyes. 1would like to share a bit of the 

drama , a bit of the story that now can 

and should be told . Little did Mr. 

Armstrong or 1 suspect-that congestive 

heart failure ' would strike him 

down so suddenly 14 months ago 

when we returned after a worldwide 

journey from the middle of the African 

continent . ·Little did we know 

thatmore than one time in a threeweek 

period he would be on the 

threshold of death, that during this 

three-week period he would in fact 

die 'as he has written to you, and that 

he would bave .to be revived by 

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and by 

manual heart massage . Little did we 

know that many ; in high places, 

within the Work, would write him off 

as ,dead. would write him off as 

buried, would write him off as never 

to return. And little did weknow that 

many in high places, seemingly free 

.to abandon God' s Way and God' s 

laws, would be so willing to do so. 

- Yes, the first few weeks of Mr. 

Armstrong 's illness were very critical 

indeed. Yes, Mr . Armstrong did 

die - yet he was revived . But the 

living GOd in His mysterious ways 

saw fit to let some remain blinded to 

Me. Armstrong's recovery, even 

while he caused Mr . Armstrong to 

give evidence of his recovery and to 

give everyone the opportunity to 

realize that the miracle had indeed 

occurred. But just as the Jews in 

Christ's time refused to recognize the 

Messiah so long awaited, SOtoo those 

in high places refused to believe Me. 

Armstrong was alive and well. 

the right thing in God's eyes. 

Mr . Armstrong consented and said 

nothing about the rebellion and said 

nothing about the decisions. Mr . 

Armstrong was assured that he need 

not remain for the conference because 

he was further assured that doctrines 

"of this Church would not be 

discussed and would not in any way 

be involved at the ministerial confer 

ence. Me. Armstrong and I returned 

to Tucson , Ariz., after we each addressed 

the ministers. Me. Armstrong 

related much of what I have 

now told you about his miraculous 

recovery, and I spoke on the need for 

unity, love, harmony and coopera- 

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Board of Directors meeting , 

Mr. Armstrong finally returned to 

Pasadena, immediately following 

New YeersDay, and lan . 3 he tion in God's Work . 

chaired a meeting of the Board of Since January , Mr. Armstrong has 

Directors jof the Church . He an- point by point reported all' subsenounced 

to the members of the board quent events to you in personal letthat 

he had indeed recovered , that he ters , in articles _in The Good News 

had been restor ed to 'life by the and in sermons in Pasadena, Tucson, 

gift of the living God . Then he Phoenix and Big Sandy , Tex . He has 

outlined what 'must be done to save literally poured his heart out to you. C 

the Work of the living God . What He has revealed much of what: he 

must be done to get the Work moving hopedwould never have to be made 

again . What must be done to get God known to many. He has been literally 

the Father and Christ the Son back heartbroken, over the loss of a physiinto 

God' s Work . Some of 'these cal son in whom he had placed so 

board members were astounded , not much hope. and from whom he has 

only by Me. Armstrong 's recovery suffered so much pain and anguish . 

but by the insight that he had as to Don't think for one moment that it 

what was needed in God' s Work. But was easy for him; don 't think for one 

_though astounded , they were happily moment that he has not suffered; 

astounded . Some might havebeen a don't think for one moment thai he 

bit incredulou s, unbelieving but also has not been sorely grieved and dishappil 

y so. One person was resent- appoinred ..J know better; I've lived 

ful : That one person shocked the with him every day, for all practical 

others by his open and naked hostility purposes, as he just said a few moand 

his unveiled and all too revealing ments ago, for the past 10 years . And 

disrespect. But Christ's apostle was · 1 myself have never worked so hard 

. equal to the occasion . He calmly and so futilely, so unsuccessfully to 

reemphas ized his points, gave over- bring about a contrary result. 

all directions to the others to carry out What has not been told in my opinthe 

Policies that he had enunciated ion is that there were two miracles as 

and.to keep in touch with him over I view the events of the past 14 

t~e ensuing . ~o?ths. ~:.: < _ . ':.1 + ; "; ; ?2-~o n t h s The first miracle was, as.J 

The nex t morning Me. Arm- . ,already stated, Mr. Armstrong was" 

strong' s son sent his wife .and an restored to life and vigor, restored 

assistant to Me. Armstrong's home, with his faculties so ' necessary to 

and they pleaded that Mr. Armstrong carry on the Work of the living God , _ 

make no mention of the open rebel- ' facultie s that were bestowed upon 

lion that had OCcurred the day before him by the living God , undiand 

10 make no menti on of the minished , undiminished, and Me. 

momentous decisions that Mr. Arm- Armstrong has been given the opporstrong 

had made, when he, Mr. Arm- tunity to continue as Christ 's apostle 

strong, was scheduled to speak in this end time . But the second mirawithin 

the hour at the opening oftbe cle was one that wedidnot prayfor; it 

ministerial conference in Pasadena . w~as one that we did not hope for; it 

A few moments later Mr . was one that we did not foresee, and 

Armstrong- a son pleaded with his we did not envision . God struck 

father on his own behalf 10 make no down Me. Armstrong in such a way 

announcement s about the decisions as to permit him after being restored 

that had been made and to make no to life to see firsthand what the .Work 

mention before the ministers of the would be like if he were no longer 

rebellion .' Me. Armstrong decided here, if, in fact, he were dead, if, in 

once again at that point to give his ' fact, he were not to move to correct 

son one more chance . One more op- the mistake s that he had made in the 

portunity was thus given his son tod o past in order to protect his son. lei 

the Gospel of le sus Christ - the 

Gospel of the coming Kingdom of 

God - to propagate that message, 

that announcement for awitness to 

all nations. If is this immutable purpose 

that we hope is best being 

served by the various activities ofthe 

Work tha t Mr . Armstrong. as 

Christ's apostle, feels will best fulfill 

that great commission. 

We know that our doctrines, as 

well as the basic purpo se of the . 

Ch urch, are immutable also : We 

know, or should know. that we can 

reach an understa nding of what those 

doctrines are, as well as the resolution 

FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH - The Stanley R. Rader family poses with Herbert W. Armstrong lor an informal family 

of all of our problems , by loo k 

ing to _one place . primarily for a 

portrait. From left are son Stephen , 23, daughter Janis, 26, Mr. and Mrs. Rader, daughter Carol Liftle, 25, and Mr. 

. Armstrong. Mrs. Liftle was baptized Oct. 27 after counseling with Mr. Armstrong. (See "Update:' page 20.) 

other words", God gave Mr . Armstrong 

another chance to render to 

Him that accounting that Mr. Armstrong 

always knew he would have ro 

render, because he has always said he 

is accountable to God . He gave him 

another chance to render that ac 

counting after making all of the cor 

rections that were necessary before 

the accounting would have to be ultimately 

submitted and -he gave Mr. 

Armstrong an opportunity to take all 

the steps necessary to ensure that 

God's Work would be done , that 

God 's ways would be preserved, 

even if God should decide in his wisdom 

and 'mercy that Mr . Armstron g 

will not be able to complete it in his 

lifetime. 

Mr. Armstrong has told people 

that he could very well outlive all of 

· us and ' J believ e that very , very 

strongly, and we all hope that Mr. 

Armstrong will be able to complete 

, the Work, jfthat is what God's overall 

plan has provided for Mr. Armstrong 

. But, if not, Mr . Armstrong 's 

timely action , as a result of the two 

· miracles as I have seen them , his 

timely ,measures, his timely actions 

"willensure that the Workwill bedone. 

Faith enhanced 

. So, brethren, there were two mira- . 

cles that the living God performed for 

the direct benefit this time of His 

Work . Miracle s 'performed before 

our eyes, if we were simply of the 

mind to see them . Is there any wonder 

that my faith has been enhanced a -, 

thousand-fold! Should there be any' 

doubt that there is a living God in the ' 

minds of any of you. Is there any 

· doubt in your mind now that this is 

the true Church , the only Church and 

a Work.of the living God and not a 

work of mere men . " ' : 

}obavea lot more that I could share-, ' ~ 

with you, but I don't want to take the : 

time now. I know that you're waiting 

as I have for so long to hear Mr. 

Armstrong speak here again in Tucson 

. I shall write mare to you in the 

future in the pages of The Good News 

and from time to time maybe some of 

my comments given in forums or else 

reach you by cassette or videotape. I 

cannot thank you enough for your 

letters of encouragement, of support 

and of your prayers for me, for my 

wife, my children . for Mr : Armstrong 

and Mrs. Armstrong . Please 

let me continue to hear from you. 

I would like to share one letter that 

I received just before Lleft Pasadena, -, 

_l Odays ago . From awoman signed 

Nettie . She says: "Helle, Stanley 

Rader. After listening to the tape of 

your forum , J was moved to express 

appreciation for you and all you have 

done for the Work . Many years ago, 

before you were baptized, Mr . Armstrong 

often told us about your great 

service on behalf of the Church . We 

thank God for you and ask Him to 

bless you mightily. Word came .that 

you were baptized and I was jubilant, 

happy, thankful, for Jknew your work 

would be more effective than ever. 

" Since the traumatic events in the 

last few months, my heart went out to' 

you almost as much as to Mr. ~A rm 

strong . I prayed for you, felt for you 

and always felt very thankful for you. 

"The Irials have been a bit severe, 

but they have caused ju st about 

everyone to know for sure whether 

they had built their house on sand or 

the rock. . 

"Thank you, Dear Sir, for all you 

have done, are doing 'and will'continue 

to do for Me. Armstrong , the 

Work, and for me, Sincerely , Net- 

' tie." - 

I tell you with great candor and in 

all humility that this kind of letter 

tens me , that although 1 have not 

done as much in the past 20-some 

'odd years as J would have liked to 

have done for the Work , that I 

haven't done as poorly as I sometimes 

think I have. Thank you . 

_=_=====-0"

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8 The GOOD NEWS Monday , Nov. 6, 1978 


the fin est in years in a letter of 

gratitude to the worldwide ministry . 

"It was a spiritual revival. " he 

said. "After o ur living Head of 

Go d's Churc h move d to set His 

Church back on the track v.then His 

college. now Hehas set His Festivals 

back on the track . 

" It seemed all member s were up 

for this Festival ," Mr . Arm stron g 

said as he praised the leadership of 

God's min isters for making it so . 

Atte~dance up 

. U.S. Fe stiv al director Sherwin 

'McMichael said attendance was up 

significantly at several site s from 

what the Big Sandy-based Festival 

Office had expected. 

According to Mr . McMichael Big 

Sandy was expecting 6.700 brethren 

bot ended UP.with 8,800. The same 

seemed to be true at the Lake of the 

Ozarks site amo ng othe rs, he said . 

As of press lime Mr. McMichael's 

office did not have final attend ance 

figures.' An unoffic ial tally by The . 

\ Good News ba sed o n re ports 

, gathered from sites around the world 

- shows 90 .200 brethren kept the 

Feast. (O ur figures are derived from 

registrat io n, high attenda nce and estimated 

figures. ) . 

In addition to the 075 sites around 

the world, The Good News is also 

rep or tin g o n the l , 383-str on g 

Pasaden a and ' Jerusalem ( 177) 

Feasts, which were not official sites 

as design ated by Mr. McMic hael's 

office. " ' 

Better a t~sp he re 

Mr . McMichael. who this year 

spoke at four new U.S . Feast sites 

(Fresno, Ca lif.; Seattl e, w ash.; 

Saratoga Springs, N.Y .; and Norfolk. 

Va .) , said the reaction he got 

from the Festiva l coo rdinators and 

the audiences he spoke to was that, 

"this year the atmos phere was better, 

more enthusiastic, more responsive 

than 'l'd'seen it in years an-d years. " 

" Jt was noticeable everywhere I 

went , and It' s what the other coo r 

dinators said as well," he said. 

Accordi ng to Mr. McMic hae l, 

Mr. Armstrong expanded the numbe r 

of church pastorswho spoke, maki ng 

for a grea ter variety of speakers . 

"More people at various sites saw 

their churc h pasto r speak than they 

had in recent years," he said . 

Influence Ielt 

Mr. Mc Mic hae l pointed to the . 

purpose ofthe Feast as the dom inant 

theme thi s Iyear a nd said, : ' Mr. 

Armstron g's influence was felt more 

so worldwide this year than ever before 

with his keynote address and full 

address on the first Holy Day. Every 

Festi val site around the wor ld had the 

opport unity to hear,Mr. Armstro ng, 

which has never been the case ." . . 

Mr. McM ichael summed up his 

feeli ngs o r the Fea st by say ing . 

" Considering the many difficu lties 

the Ch urch has faced over the past 

year, to be able to experience such a 

wonder ful Festival with enthusiasm, 

sincerity and purpose is deepl y 

gratifying ." 

Following are individual report s as 

of press time from 73 of the 75 

Feast sites around the wor ld. 

These reports were written from 

information supplied The Good News 

by Festival coordi na tors whose 

names appear at the end of each report 

(except in a small numbe r of 

case s when a non-Eng lish speak ing ' 

coo rdinator had someo ne else file an 

account): 

UNITED STATES 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A relaxed 

and warm atmos phere in wh ich 

the world tomo rrow was the theme 

Was" enjoyed by 365 brethren here . 

Most or the brethr en .stayed in the 

same hotel in which services were 

co nducted. Speakers spoke on the 

contrast between today 's world and 

the wo-rld tomorrow (John' Robinson) 

, God's government on earth 

FEAST 

.OFTABERNACLES 

(Earl Roemer) and-what tbe world 

tomorrow wiU be like (Phil Shie lds) . 

The Feast and those attending it 

received a full-page articl e in the 

main Anchorage newspaper. Earl 

Roe~r . 

BIG SANDY, Tex. - A visit by 

Herbert W. Armstrong in midweek 

was high point for the 6,630 brethr en 

registered for the Feast here. In his 

sermon Mr . Armstrong emphasized 

theJorward thru st of the Chur ch and 

REPORTS WORLDWIDE 

the headship of Christ , also later addressing 

the ministers attending the 

Festival in Big Sand y. C . Wa yne 

Cole delivered a much·aJ:W:cciated 

sermon on the importance of remaining 

in the Body of Chr ist, where 

Christ is working . . . 

The Feast was upliftin g and enco 

uraging 10 the people, who were 

excited about the emphasis on good, 

basic doctrine and pleased to have 

excellent we ather throughout the 

eight days. David Robins on . 

FRESNO, Calif. - Six thousand. 

'registered Feastgoers tried o ut the 

new Feast facilitie s here ar the Selland 

Aren a. . 

Vast social and recreational 

facilities along with film presentations 

highlighted the Festival . 

Sherwin McM ichael spoke on the 

Ambassador International Cultural 

Foundation, Hal Baird on the world 

tomorrow , Ellis La Ravia on' Chris 

tian maturity, Dan Orban on Christian 

refining, G ra emme Marsh al) o n 

realism in today' s wor ld. Greg AI· 

brecht on peace in the world and Ron 

Ke lly on the meani ng of the Last 

Great Day. Ellis La Ravia . 

LA HA INA , Ha wai i - One 

thou sand six hundred brethren regis 

" tered for the Feast held at the Lahaina 

Ci vic Cente r on the island of Mau i. 

Sermons were delivered by Gary 

Antion on per sonal aspect s of how to 

make a better Feast, Denni s Pyle on 

an overview of the world tomo rrow 

and looking 10 Christ. and Richard 

Rice on God's Spirit in us. 

Almo st an of the brethren attended 

the scheduled luau , and most took 

advantage of the fabulous weather to 

make short side tri ps 'in the islands . 

The 'relaxing and rejuvenatin g Feast 

was the best in years. John Ouvri er , 

LAKE OF TIlE OZARKS , Mn . 

- A total of 9.041 brethren registered 

for the Feast at the Church of 

God Co nvention Center in th e 

Ozarks, whe re the Feast ran very 

smoot hly and the members enjoyed 

clear skies and bright sunshine every 

day. 

Key speaker s were Robe rt Fahey; 

discussing the meaning of the Festival 

, Guy En glebe rt , speaking on 

Jesu s Christ as the cent ral figure in 

our li ves, Dea n Bl ackw ell , empha 

sizing the wo rl d tom orr ow,' 

Raymond McNair, discussing Icyalty, 

and David Antion, wind ing up 

on the Last Great Day . A high point 

for all the brethren was being able 10 

see Her bert W . Arm strong o n 

16-mm . film. 

Excelle nt attendance preva iled 

thr ou ghout the Fea st, and God ' s 

peopl e were well recei ved by the 

local residents and businessmen . 

Jerold W. A USI . 

NORFOLK , ·Va . - A total of 

8,4 15 Peastgoers registered at the 

' Norfolk Scope , o ne of severa l new 

- Peast sites in the United States this 

·,;r'Y e~ t O_:!*.~ '"" +- "~".t .~~ ' ;-; 

The abilit y to see and hear Herbert 

W . Armstro ng on film, the traveling 

speakers, the numero us recreational 

activ ities, ° t~ dances and a talent . 

show co ntributed to a full Feast. 

Main speakers addressed rededieat 

ing your life to God and the Work 

(Steve Martin ), walking with God 

(Dr. Roderick Mered ith) . and the 

Ambassador International C ultural 

Foundat ion and the meaning of the 

La st Gr eat Day " (Sherw in 

McMich ael) , 

The enthusiastic and inspi ring 

Feast had a sense of ser iou sne ss 

about it. The importance of being 

active in God's Work, reded ication 

and the prepar ation we haveto make 

to beco me part of God' s Kingdom 

was emphas ized . Dick Thompson . 

PASADENA. Calif. - The unoffi 

cial Pa sad en a Festiva l ra n 

smoo thly, with attendance on the 

Holy Days reach ing 1,294 and 1,383 

respectively. The weather was delightful 

and helped to create an enthu 

siast ic and co ngenial atmo sphere. 

In additio n to sermons by Dr. 

Her man Hoeh , Ben Chapman and 

Fred Co ulter, Leon Walker flew in 

from Tucson, Ariz., to add spice to 

the Festival and Bob Fahey presented 

the Amba ssador Jn t~nat ion al Cu.l· 

rural Foundation slide show and a 

~ sermon on the Last Great Day. 

Joseph Tkach, associate pastor of 

· the Pasad en a Aud itorium P .M . 

cong regation . was designated as the 

Festival coordinator. Activities were 

des ign ed with all age-groups in 

mind . Bill Bra zil and his countryand-western 

band played for a dance 

in the Student Center , children and 

adults enjoy ed an evening of ro llerskating, 

and a banque t was held for 

the: seniorcinzens.The eldest present 

was Lizzie Hender son. rot. 

The succe ss of the Feast was the . 

result of a total team effo rt by thosc 

serving and those being 0served. 

Jos~ph Tkach , 

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BAEA N SANDS , ENGLAND 

REPORTS WOR LDWIDE 

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The 

opening sermon by Herbert W. Armstrong 

set the stage for a fine Feast 

here. Feastgoers registering to attend 

services at the Bayfront Center Arena 

numbered 10,500. 

Principal speaker s were Mr. Armstrong, 

whose sermon on the hope we 

have in the future was videotaped for . 

later use , and Rod Meredith . David 

Anrion and Wayne Cole ; who d iscussedthe 

reality of what the Feast 

Days picture and how 10 weather the 

trials ahead . _... --". 

The ' wea ther was beautiful and 

warm enough for members to go to 

. the beach. Tbe only discomfort was 

the somewhat crowded conditions. 

.At services the people were 

~ genui nely happy . ••A much needed ,- 

. Feast.'J "an "up' Feast," and " a 

shot in the arm " were some comments 

heard . Jim Chapman . 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.c- , 

Brethren here made the best of record 

co ld temperatures at the beg inni ng of, 

the Feast as the y huddled in the 

Saratoga Performing Arts Center . a 

semienclosed auditori um . 

Despite the cold the 4,800 brethren 

had feeling of being at one as they 

heard Roderick Meredith speak on 

the need for the coming Kingdom, 

Steve Martin on marriage and the 

family , Sherwin McMichael on reports 

from other Feast sites and leslie 

McCullough on the .need to be 

prepared for the diffic ult days ahead . 

The weather warmed up mid-Feast 

mak ing for a very successful Feast 

ove rall . The brethren here also made 

a real:' imp act On .the community '" 

David Bierer . -" . 

SA YANNAH , Ga : ~ This scutb-. 

ern city proved to be a historical as 

well asenteriaining city for some 

5.2po brethren obse rving the' Feast ., 

here fo r the first time . 

The example of Jesu s Christ was 

preac hed (David Ant ion ) as wa s 

walking w ith God (R oderick 

Meredith) and the Last Great Day (C . 

Wayne Cole). 

, God has poured out his Hol y Spiri t 

on his people this year as the attitudes 

. of the brethre n were exemplary of 

- real Christianity. Ray WOOlen . 

SEATTLE . Wash . - A larger 

number of Festiva lgoers than expected 

gat hered in the Seatt le Cen ter 

Arena for the Feast this year. The 

highe st attendance reco rded was 

5,413, which topped the offic ial registratio 

n figures . 

Everyone see med to be o n a 

" spiritual high " from da y one to day 

eight. Attendance was larger than 

expected - offerings very good 

very few problems . Our Church 

members are reall y hang ing in there . 

Main speakers were Leslie McCullough 

, speak ing on the . meaning of 

the Feast in genera} ; Sherwin 

McMichael on the wo rld in which we 

live and the importance of the Work ; 

Art Mokarow on human potential; 

Bob Bertuzzi on rewards of the saved; 

Ronald Kelly , what it will be like to 

·be spirit; Dale Schurter, we are perfecta 

ble -in the - Kingdom; and Joe l 

Lille ngre en on what we are promised 

in the Kingdom . 

The 74 acres of the Seattle Center 

offered rec reational and educational 

opportunities for yo ung and old 

alike. Dale Schutt er. 

TUCSON. Ariz . - A positive approach 

on-the part of the ministry and 

brethren here marked a fine Feast for 

6,391 brethren. 

Herbert W. Armstrong made Tuc 

son his last Festival stop and ad 

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dressed the brethrentheLastGreat Day 

as he spoke on the great day of judg- . 

' ment. 

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Other subj ects co vered were 

God' s presence in the Wo rk (C. 

Wayne, Cole), why do we suffer 

(Leo n Walker) and God's wrath \ 

(Clint Zimmerman). 

Services along with active pani cipation 

in ectivhies such as a wido ws 

and wido wer luncheo n and YO U day 

add ed up to make the Fea st a 

strengthening experience . Walter 

Dickinson, . 

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WISCONSIN DELLS. Wis. 

Registered Feastgoers numbered 

6,875 at this Chur ch-owned site . 

Weather varied from cold to warm, 

from wei to dry. always with a back 

.grou nd of autumn COIOIS, and brethren 

were mOre exci ted, united . and 

happy about the Feast than ever hefore 

. 

Visit ing minister Raymond 

McNair spoke about lhe purpose of 

the Feast and loyally. Raben Fahey 

discussed ~ the Ambassador International 

Cultural Foundati on and our 

international .commission;and Dean 

Blackwell covered the meaning of 

the Last Great Day. 

The cho ir provided outstanding 

music throu ghout the e ight days . 

Leroy Neff. 

CANADA 

". CA LG ARY. Aha . - 'Main 

speakers were Leslie McCuHough, 

Ron Kelly. John Halford . Charles 

Bryce and George Parrickson at this 

Canadian site in the Calgary Conv en- 

; tion Center, with 1.58S··Feastgoc;rs 

registered ., . ,- .- . . 

Brethren were up for the Feast, 

concluding with a rec ord offering for 

the site of $30 per person. An g-f oot 

Church seal set the tone for the stage 

decor. N~iI E(Jr(~ . 

CHARLOTIETOWN. P.E.I. : 

A highly famil y-or iented f east with 

. maximum participation was enjoyed 

he re by 526 b rethren who "re p 

resented 10 Canadian province s. 

Sermon topits included the mission 

of the Church is the sameioday 

as for the original apostles, feeding 

the.spiritually hungry whh food that 

satisfies (Co lin Wilkins), marriage 

should reflect the relationship between 

Chr ist and the Church (Ken 

Kne ebone ) and co mpass io n fo r 

other s (Bill Rabe y) . Ken Kneebone. 

PENTJCTON , B.C . - Record attendance 

( 1,825 registered) and record 

offerings set a positive note to the 

Feast held in·the Peachbcwl Convention 

Center. 

Special speakers Leslie McCu l 

lough and John Halford gave extensive 

interviews to the local press, 

which treated the Church's Festival 

in an eve nhanded manne r. 

Sermons ranged from God's plan 

for our personal Jives as seen in the 

Hol y Days (Leslie McCullough) to 

the misery of the third world and how 

we can qualify to change it (John 

Halford) to learning to be a savior, 

de livered by evangelist Norma n 

Smith. 

The sermons were positive and up-: 

lifting and extremely applicable to a 

person's life. The attitude of the people 

encouraged the speake rs and the 

two worked together to build a spirit 

of enthusiasm a nd appreciation that 

lasted th roughou t the Feast. Bob 

Millman 

REGINA. Sask , - Tremendo us 

weather , record offerings and strong 

sermons made for a great feast here. . 

Record hiih temperatures spelled 

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'good news for this Canadian site as 

the 1. ~ 00 - st ron g brethren he ard 

amon-. ,,:'lers Lesl ie M c Cu n.~ , ugh 

speak on being a salesman for Christianity, 

Ron Kelly on what it is going: 

to be like to be a spirit,.and Richard 

Pinelli on the covenant of God. 

A strong empha sis. was placed on 

the fam ily and many activities revolved 

around that theme Ron Howell. 

' ABOUT OUR PHOTOS - Each picture included in our eight -page 

Feast coverage seems to speak for -itself so we have -added only 

the name of the site it was taken at. The Good News thanks the 

photographers for their overwhelming response : PhiUp Stevens in 

Brean Sands, Engla~ ; Scott Moss in Wisconsin Dells , Wi$. ; Rick 

Stodola in Tucson., Ariz.; I Tc»Uls'u Ha'angana in Tonga; Ron Prociw 

.in St.. Petersburg, Fla.: Mark Streapy in St. Petersburg ; Big Sandy , 

. Tex., and Tucson; HaroldVan Lerberghe in the Netherlands; Peter 

. M~1s in New Zealand: Tom Wijlams in Argentina ; Tom Hanson In 

Fresno . Cal f.; Dave Knight in Fresno ; Ken Treybig in Tucson; U. 

Colas from Haiti; I.WennertHom from Sweden ; David Shutz from New 

Zealand ; Jun Ruslia and Joe Binuya from the Philippines; Rodney 

Larson In Jerusalem; Phill Halford in Brean Sands ; Stephen Odell 

from Tasmania: and all the uniden tified photographers who 

responded also. Good News staff photographers were Dexter Faulk 

. ner. Klaus Rothe, Scott Ashley and Sheila Gr,aham. 

SHE RBROO KE, Que . - Atte n 

dance at this new Cana dian site was . 

20 percent highe r than expected as 

.w as the offeri ng on the first day (91 ., 

percent above last year's). - 

Some 570 met at the Salle Mo urice 

O'Brady at the University of Sher 

; brooke to hear Festival coo rdinator 

Colin Wilk ins speak on the world 

tomorrow - a dream soon to be a 

reality, Bernard Hongerloot on toler- 

. ance , Don Picard on prayer and Bob 

Scott o n gr o win g in grace an d 

knowledge . . 

Brethren at this French-language 

site showed a renewed fidelity to the 

l aw of God , mak ing it a smoothrunning 

Feast here . Henry Sturcke , 

TORONTO, Ont o - A smoo th• 

runnin g Feast that saw mo re volunteers 

than were needed summa rizes 

this Feast for 2,200 brethren , who 

met at the Etobicoke Olym piurn. 

The city of Toront o-offered much 

to Feastgoers as did speaker s John 

Halford. Leslie McC olJoogh. Richard 

Pinelli and Geo rge Lee among 

others. ;' . 

Rea cti on to He rbert W . 

Armstrong' s film was excellent and 

nany co mme nts were made on Stanley 

Raders film from membe rs who 

wanted to know more about him . 

An interesting item', a five-ounce 

bar of gold, turned up in the offe ring. 

Larry Greider. 

EUROPE 

BONNDORF, We," Germany 

An estimated 550 brethren attended 

the Festival here in the Black Forest, 

gathering for services, meals and activities 

in the mode m Bonndorfmeeting 

hall. Activities were plan ne d 

around tbe motto, " Promo te Interpersonal 

Rel ation ship s, to ranging 

from a, coc ktail reception after the 

opening service to a hike for all ages 

in the picture sque Black Fore st. 

Main speaker was Frank Schne e, 

spea ki ng abo ut deve loping godly 

love and news of the Work . Also 

speak ing was Victor Root , who discussed 

how to combat spiritual stress 

situations. Herbert Arms trong's film 

was show n with siJrnultaneo us translation. 

About 50 promin en t citizens of 

Bonnd orf, includin g the mayor , attended 

the Festival formal da nce. Activities 

were o rganized by the area 

churches, giving many the opportunity 

to help and pitch uv.K taus Ober 

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BR EA N SANDS. England 

Her ber t Armstro ng' s se'rmo·a.. on 

film were well rece ived and 'ap. 

preciated by 2,050 brethren meeting 

in this seaside village in Somerset. 

Fresh and bright weather accompanied 

sermo ns by Brian Knowl es on 

the family, Frank Brown on Church 

unity and over co ming discouragement 

and Reg Plan on facing crises . 

The overall theme was facing the 

future optimistica lly with anricipation 

for grow th personally and cc llectively 

to fulfill the commission.David 

Bedford. 

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CARLSBAD, Cle~hos lov akia ~ 

Gathering' in the Florentine Room of 

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First-time ~esstgoers find.Fessttime-fine 

REPORTS WORLDWIDE· 

IContinued from page 11) 

· the elegant Gra nd Hotel Moskva 

~ Park here . the East Germ an brethren 

enjoyed the Feast with a small family 

atmosphere, eating two of their three 

daily meals togethe r in the hotel din 

ing room . Afternoon trips were made 

to the Marienbad and Car lsbad health 

spas and to Prague . Czecboslovakia" 

Sermons were given by Victor 

Root on how God is deve loping His 

c haracter in us, Alfred Hellemann on, 

true Ch ristianity, Frank Schnee on 

Christian love and John Karlson on 

how marriage and family are preparing 

us for God 's family. Gary Hop- 

, kins. 

HJO, Sweden - Thou gh this new 

Festival site was among the smallest , 

100 brethren from the Scandinav ian 

co untries , the Uni ted States, the 

United Kingdom, the Nethe rlands, 

Canada and Sout h Africa attended. 

An services were held in English ex- " . 

cept for one Scan dinavian service in . 

Danish . Swed ish and Norwegian, the 

first one ever . 

Meeti ng in the Hotel Bellevue on 

· Lake Vaettem, the breth ren heard 

me ssages from Frank "B rown on 

ove rcoming dis unity in the Ch urch. 

Peter Shento n on God 's ete rn al 

triangl e (marriage) , John Meakin on 

vision as a motivat ion to change and 

To rin Arche r on a realistic fear of 

Satan. 

Another highli ght for the brethren 

was an all-dey outing around Lake 

veeuem to view the beautiful au 

, tumn colo rs and 'enjoy the sunshine. 

Peter Shenton. 

HUNZE B,E!lGEN. Netbe rlands , 

- TIle resort -co mmunity of Hunzebe 

rgen near the town of Ex100 was 

· attended by 275 brethren, a positive 

Feast for .everyone with an atmosphereo 

f being one team and family . 

Activitie s incl uded a sq uare 

dance . a formal dance and a talent . 

sho w. J . Ursem S1. was ordaine d 

deacon for the Dutch c hurches . 

'Sermon topics were pilgrims and 

strangers, marriage , and the three resurrecti 

ons, by A.C . De Bree; our 

calling, youth in the Church, the old 

and newcovenants, and the new 

heaven and new earth. by B. Burbach; 

the millenium, by J . Wilm s; 

and our free will , by J. Korve r . A.C. 

De Bree . 

PASADENA - Whil e thousands 

of Feastgoers o bserv ed their-fourth, 

10th or in one case 30th Feast (see 

story on Mr. .and Mrs. Eddie Eck-. 

en, page 13), this year marked the 

first Festival for a number of ':!ew 

membe rs in God ' s Chu rch . - 

The Good News tracke d down a 

few such membe rs for an impression 

of what the Feast of Ta bernacles 

means to a fi rst -time Feastgoer, 

Their reactions follow : 

" Everybody is so frie ndly and 

wonderful and warm." 

Alice John son , Wichita , Kan . 

' 'I t' s uniqu e. No other Chur ch that 

I can think of has this type of thing. 

, To me its just a uniqu e type of thing. 

Th ere ' s a whole lot of act ivities, a 

whole lot of happ y people , and the 

sermons are j ust great. " 

Matt Matteson . Tucson , Ariz. 

" Spiritually I' m very impressed . 

I' m impressed with God 's Work and 

the very idea of it. I can see the millenium 

here at the Feast ." 

Walter Gibb, Carson City, Nev . 

.. Over 2.()(x)voices raised in praise 

. . I was overc o me by the sheer 

volume of sound. A very emotional 

experience . Keeping the Feast added 

a new dimension to my under standing 

of God's plan fo r mankind , explained 

throu gh His Holy Days." 

David Co x, Bristol , England, chur ch 

" Meeting brethren from othe r 

lands is a very inspiring aspect of the 

Feast. All things co nsidered it surpasses 

my expectations. " 

Michael McGunners, Dub lin, ireland 

. churc h 

"II is mo re enjoyable than I 

imagined it co uld be." 

.Greg and Deb Trook , Roca, Neb. . 

"Overwhelmi ng. All these people 

. .. qui te an expe rience .,. 

Wade Malw itz , Blue Earth, 'Minn. 

" After atte nding such a small 

church, the num ber of people was 

ov e rw he lm ing . T wo thin gs impressed 

me, the beha vior of the children 

and the general friendliness of 

everyone.,. 

Hilary Calweli, Car diff , Eng land, 

ch urch 

KENMARE, Irela nd - About 

300brethren gathered for the Feast in . 

the Silver Slipper Ballroom of the 

Kenmare Bay Hotel , enjoyi ng the 

friendship and the hospita lity of the 

· people in the area. 

Herbert Annstrong 's filmed mes- ' 

sage opened the Festival, followed 

by se rmons by Sidney Hegvold , . 

Franci s Bergin and Paul Suckling . 

In addition to the Irish brethren, 

about 30 member s attended from the 

United States , one from Australia, 

twp from South Africa , a few from 

Ca nada and a large numbe r from England. 

Sidney Hegvold. 

PRAZ -SUR-ARl Y. France - 

'. Sermo n messages by Dibar Aparti an 

on real repentance. joy and prayer 

highlighted the Fea st for the 700 registered 

bret hren attendi ng the Feast 

here at the ViJlage -Vacances 

Famille . 

SCARBOROUG H, England 

Herbert Armstrong' s' Festiva l message 

on film set thin gs of f to a 

dynamic start for the 1,200 brethren 

gather ed for the Feast at the Futurist 

Theater here. 

Also speaking were Frank Brown , 

Paul Suckling, David Stirk, Mark 

Ell is', Da vid McG ow an , Barr y 

Bourne and visiting min ister Brian 

Knowles. . 

Brethren also enjoyed coach tours 

in the beautiful York shire moor s and 

coastal area arou nd Scarborough, a 

ta le nt sho w and a coun try-and 

_western evening. Dav id Sttrk , 

The Fe stival was uplifting ," enco 

uraging and uni fying. as two - AFRICA 

deacons were ord ained and 10 people . 

baptized . The offering was rhe h igh - '~ BLA NTY RE. Malaw i - Only 22 

est ever for the French' site, .in eddi- .. registered for the Festival, htld the 

tion 10 a special offeri ng of $2 ~600 lase fo ur .da ys only, but average atthe 

brethren gave 10 'help members t. ten dance here was between 60 and 

living in Haiti . .' .. ( : .:~~'."-:. .;" '. ./ '~ ::' ' 70.P lain Truth"reader s in 'the area 

The publ ic was invitedto -.afu~:; = . respond ed to IO spot ads on the nashow. 

which was foU~w~}>y' a re: :' :."tional . radio 'service and were de· ' 

ce pti on att ended by.-)he{mayo r. lighted ' ~o '~e Herbert W . Armstrong ": ' 

'Bernard Andrist. • :-' : ., i ; :: ~ . C!;'~~ .: · on film / Overall member attendance 

was slightly down from lastyear because 

offinancia l and transport problems 

, butall who came were excit ed 

to see M1. Armstro ng' s filmed message, 

watch ing it three times . 

Services were held in the Kudya 

" Entertainment Ce nter he re , with 

Pete r Hawkin s delivering sermo ns on 

why we obse rve the Feast of Tabe r 

nacles, God 's family in the world 

tomorrow, sho uld we seek a reward. 

building a firm foundation for growtfi" 

in God ' s Ch urch and the Last Great 

Day. Peter Hawkins. 

CU REPIPE and FLICEN 

FLACQ, Maurit ius - The two sites 

on this Indian Ocean island had an 

average . atte nda nce of 48 to hea r 

French . nd English sermons. The: 

meetings were held in two hotels for 

four days each. •. 

Visitors from other countries ineluded 

mem bers from Madagascar , 

.the Seychell es and South Afri ca . 

Spea ker s wer e Fe ast coordinator 

David Hulme and Dan G reyling, a 

So uth African Church member. 

The main theme for the Feast was 

preparin g for the world tom orro w 

through our relationship with God, 

family and fellow man. 

One highlight ofthe Festival was 

Mr. Hulme' s Plain Truth lecture in 

French, atten ded by 133, of which 

114 we re no nmem bers . Da vid 

Hulme. 

and ox-braai (T wo bullocks roasted 

whole) . Overall . offe rings were up 

by 6 perce nt, attenda nce up 4 percent. 

Andre van Belkum, 

GEORGE , So uth Africa - Backing 

DURBAN, Nata l - Ministers and 

up Herbert W. Armstrong and 

completing the commission Chri st 

gave to the C hurch summ arizedthe 

theme for' 220 brethren gathered at 

this pict uresque site: 

Sermon s were delivered by Gerald 

members unanimously agreed that Waterhouse . Dr. Roy McCarthy, 

Herbert Arms trong's two films set 

the pace and theme at the South African 

Dan Botha and Bill Whitaker. Andre 

van Belkum , 

sites. Here 1. 100 brethren were 

enco uraged by the inspired messages KUMASI. Ghana - Sermons on 

and the strength of Mr . Arm stro ng' s practical, positiv e and inspiring subpresentat 

ion. 

je cts such as the 'meaning of the 

Other Feslival messages were on Feast, God's promise of the Kingthe 

importance of loyalty (Dr. Roy dorn, the role of gentiles in Cod's 

McC arthy) andtheimpon ance ofen- plan, and marriage and tribal cusdurin 

g loyalty to God and His gov- toms in re lation to God's law were 

em menr through His phy sical leader, the focal point for 85 brethre n as they 

M r . Arm strong (Gera ld ' W ate r- for ~heJ irs t. l ime obse rved the Feast 

house) : ' , ... , . .:., \ for eight days . 

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Speakers were Elbert Atlas, Melvin 

Rhodes and Peter Nathan. Members. 

most of whom were able to be 

together in a newly ope ned hotel, 

agreed the Feast gave them lots to 

think about. Melvin Rhodes. 

LUSAKA , Zamb ia - Brethre n in 

Zambiacelebrated halfof the Feast in 

the capital city of this central African ' 

natio n. W ith 38 people attending, the 

highlight of the Feast was the showing 

of Herbert Armstrong' s films. It 

was the first time the member ship 

had the opportunity to see Mr. Armstrong 

on film . . 

Other activities included a dinnerdance, 

a barbecue and an evening of 

entertainment. Owen Willis. • 

NARO MORU, Kenya - Four 

days of the Feast were 'held here for 

the first time 3s '71 people enjoyed a 

foretaste of the world tomorrow in 

beautiful surroundings on the banks 

of aclear trout stream flowing off 

majestic Mt. Kenya towering above. 

Brethren saw films , sang, ate an 

ab undance of food and when not in 

service s had plenty of time for fun 

_ and feJlowship . Owen Willis : 

SALIS BURY, Rhodesia - A 

total of 230 "brethren attended the 

Festival in the Court auld Hall of 

Music here, a 30 percent increase in 

attendanc e. 

The Fe.a,st was set off on a good 

beginn ing with messag es by Ger ald 

Waterhouse on the Day of Atonement 

'and Herbe rt W. Armstron g (on 

film) on the first Holy Day. Other 

speakers were Ron Stoddart on the ~ 

animal creation and the plan of God , 

Fr ank Nelte on the pla n of God 

shown in the minor prophet s and Adriaan 

Borha on the plan of God as 

revealed in the book of Romans. 

Mashonaland defeated Matabelaland 

in a soccer match , 8-3. Ron 

Stoddart . - 

SONESTA, South Africa - The 

Sooe sta holiday re sort, about 72 

miles from Cape Town on the western 

seaboard of South Africa , was the 

sire for 217 breth ren obse rving the 

Feast. - ~ 

Herbert Annstrong's films provided 

a most auspicious stan and this 

high note was maintained throughout 

the Fea st . Sermons delivered by 

speakers such as Dr. Roy McCarthy, 

Bill Whitaker and Sydney Hull focused 

constantly on the theme of thi s 

Festival: the Kingdom of God. 

A spirit of uniry and love as well as 

the presence of God was strongly felt 

here . Sydney Hull . 

UMGABABA, So~th Africa 

Two-hundred happ y black and Indian 

brethren kept the f irst and last 

Holy Days in nearby Durban (just 20 

miles north), but spent the rest of the 

Fe ast enjoying services at the 

beachfro nt facilities at the Umgab aba 

Holiday Resort . 

. Visiting specia l spea ker Gerald 

Waterhouse encouraged the brethren 

with the under stand ing of how black 

nations will fit in with Israel in God ' s 

plan. Other sermons were given by 

Gord on Te rbla nche , Jo hn Whi te , 

The GOOD NEWS 

John Bar thol om e w and - Dr . Roy 

McCarth y. Andre van Be/lcum. 

VICfORIA ISLAND. Nigeria 

A change in the Festival site this year 

bro ught the entire membership of the 

Church of God in Nigeria and visitors 

fro m ne igh bor in g West Af ric an 

co untries togethe r in the luxurio us 

enviro nment of the Eko Holiday Inn 

here , ov e rl ooking the Arl an tic 

Ocean, for the last four days of the 

Festival. 

Attendance on the Last Great Day 

was 125, and all the brethren enjoyed 

the sermons and company of Eiben 

Altas, coordinator for tbe New York 

area, and his wife after they had spent 

the first half of the Feast in Kumasi, 

Ghana. 

The Peastgoers alsowitnessed the 

ordinations of Lateef Edalere as local 

elder and FIiljah Chukwidi and 

Lazarus J . Ekwebelem as deacons. 

The Feast was rounded off with a 

, banquet for all the members and their . 

familie s. Lateef A. Edalere. 

AUSTRALIA, 

OCEANIA 

ADELAIDE, South Austr alia 

.Feast message s here brought cut the 

impo rtanc e of man's relation ship 

_with God and his need for unity. conce 

~n and affection for his neighbor . 

Speake rs addressing the 478 registered 

brethre n spoke on how man 

may enjoy this physical life within 

the bounds of God's law (Ted Tup 

per) . under stand ing and appl yin g 

God ' s law (Bob Mitche ll), the need 

to overco me and grow using God ' s 

Spirit (JohDMclean), and the meaning 

of the Last Gre at Day (Rod 

Dean). 

Brethren also e njoyed a river 

cabaret cruise, a dinner-dance , a visit 

to the zoo along with a host of activitie 

s. Beautiful weather accompanled 

the Feast. Ted Tupper . 

AUCKLAND . New Zealand 

Trillo's Convention Cen ter in downtown 

Auckland was one of two New 

Zealand Festival sites chis year . A 

total of 698 registered brethren en- 

. joyed the spiritual food served by the 

main speake rs: Bob Morton on overcoming 

and child rearing, Jack 

Croucher with an overview of the 

Holy Days and Jerusalem, and Karl 

Karlov o n " Why Did God Call 

You?" 

The Fe st iva l', coordin ated by 

Richard lynch, included a dinnerdanc 

e , a barbecue at the 1bermal 

pools and a YOU Gang Show. Jock 

Croucher . 

BLACKHEATH, New South 

Wales - A most positive attitude 

registered among 812 brethren attendin 

g the Feast located in the spectacular 

Blue Mountains. 

Br ethren gathered at the site, 

which is own ed by the Chur ch , heard 

Gene Hogberg speak on today' snations 

in prophe cy, Keith Crouch on 

the language of the Bible and what 

parables tell us , Jo hn Larkin on what 

the world tomorrow will be like and 

Colin Sutcliffe on liber alism , Satan 's 

weapon . 

A famil y day, teenage disco, etas 

s ical evening and forma l ball 

rounded out the Festival. Rus Couston. 

CAIRNS , Q ueensland - A close 

family atmosphe re , wa rm th and 

friendliness were experienced by the 

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CHRISTCHURCH , New Zealand 

- TIle worst floods in 90 years ju st 

south of the Festival site here did oot 

sto p anyone from attending the 

Fea st, and the 260 registered enjo yed 

their best atmo sphere ever . 

Bob Morton spoke on repentance 

and child rearing, Gary Harvey discussed 

the meaning of the Last Great 

Day, Colin Riseborough addressed 

the new coven ant and faith in God's 

promi se s a nd Colin Kelly spoke 

about the central figure of the Holy 

Days and a nation of priests. '. 

Highlights for the breth ren were a 

family evening, a sports afternoo n 

and a visit from Gene Hogberg of 

Pasaden a. Colin Kelly. 

EMU POINT, We stern Australia 

- The Festiva l bere at the marquee 

in the Emu Beach Caravan Park , near 

the city of Albany, was opened by 

Dean Wilson. the directo r of the Austra 

lian Work , fo r the firs t time. 

Other spe akers' were BiU Dixon on 

building spiritual self-esteem, Colin 

Jack son o n building -th e mind of 

Christ and Peter Whinin g on our.relationship 

with God . 

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243 registered brethren attending the 

Feast here, who also enjoyed a scenic 

mountain train trip, a da y on tropical 

Green Island , a Festival ball and a 

family da y at Lake Barrine ; an extinct 

volcano . 

Main speakers were John Camin o 

and Rod Matthe ws. who spoke about 

the return of Chri st , putting effort 

into keeping the Feast and the " better 

resurrection: ' Bill Whit e, a former 

deacon in the Cairn s chu rch, was ordained 

a local elder on the first Holy 

Day of the Feast. Bill White . 

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30TH FEAST FOR THE ECKERTS - Eddie and Irene 

Eckert, above, keep their 30th Feast in Tucson, Ariz., 

along with thousands of brethren, some of whom are 

pictured, top, in Auckland, New Zealand; Lake of the 

Oza~ Mo.; and Tucson. 

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14 The C;;OOD NEWS Monday, Nov. 6, 1978 

- REPOR TS WORLDWIDE 

(Continued fr om page 13) 

A spirit of love and fellowship 

prevailed, along wit h beautiful 

weather. Activi ties included a hillside 

dinner-dance and a steam train 

picnic. a ride into nostalgia. Lloyd H . 

Longley . . 

GOLD COAST, Queensland 

An air of expectation and excitement 

, ent husiasm and a positive altitude 

prevailed at tbe Feasthere held 

in the Miami Great Hall on the Gold 

Coast Highw ay. The 1.504 brethren 

regist ered sensed a new direction and 

grea ter accomplishment in the Work 

of God . 

Gene Hogberg spoke on world affairs 

and prophecy. David Noller 

discussed the Philadelphia. era _and 

· our position in the Kingdom of God, 

Peter Mclean spoke about mercy . 

Rod King talked about the -impor - 

· lance of the family arid Ross Beath , 

who was raised to preaching elder, 

.-' spoke abo ut the shield of faith . 

Breth ren also enjoyed a spectacular 

evening at the Sea World complex 

and a talent show. David Noller . 

HOBART, Tasmania - Activities 

here centered on family togetherness' 

as brethren lunched- in 

open air at botanical gardens and held 

a family sock hop. .' 

The Hobart Town Hall served as . 

die Feast 'site for 286'brethren a's they 

heard Alan Dean speak on how the 

Sabbath and Holy Days "stand or faU 

together, Kerry Gubbon .g rowth 

thro ugh stress, Dean wilson on early 

millen ial developments 'and Orest 

Solyma on love of etemallife . , 

Goo~ : :w~at~r, fun cooperatio~, 

thought-provcklng cand .e d ifyi ng 

messages were the order of the day . 

Oresr Solyma .. 

NUkUALOFA. Tonga - Fortyfive 

brethren registere d for the Feast 

here in Tonga , the Friendly Islands, 

meeting in the Church's tabernacle 

building. . -~ 

. Main speakers were I. ' Toluta' u 

Ha' angana; who spoke abo ut God 's . 

plan for salvation and the meaning of 

the Feast. of Tabernacles; S.T. 

Panuve, who spoke about family life; -. 

T.F . Fungalei, who spoke about the 

antichrist; H;K. Ta'ufc'ou, who discussed 

" for my yoke is easy and my 

burden is light"; and P. 

Taumoepeau, who spoke on procrastination. 

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The brethren are coming anew in 

spiritual .li fe as a res ult of this ' 

reawakening by Herbert Armstrong, 

and fellowshipping isreal happi ness : 

J. Toluta'u Ha'angana . . 

SUVA, Fiji - Even tho ugh the 

Feast was held only four days here, it' 

was enjoyed by some 50 brethre n at 

the Travelodge Hotel Convention 

Cen ter . 

The brethren saw Herbert Arm 

strong on film and heard the ir mini s 

ters speak on God's Holy Days and 

prayer(Neville Fraser), why Ch rist is 

our Savior (Kinnear Pe nman) and 

God 's master plan and the Last Great 

Day (Epeli Kanaimawi). , 

. The group took an ,interes ting visit 

to Orchid Island , toured the Pacific 

· harbor and had an ' enjoyable island 

night Oct. 23 . Epeli Kanaiwawi. ~_ 

WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria 

The new Festival site, he ld in 

.Warmambools Capito l Theater was 

attended by 807 members, who enjoyed 

the inspiring messages and the 

excell ent weather. 

Main speakers included Dean Wil 

son, Bruce Tyler, Keith Crouch and 

Gavin Cullen, who spoke on agriculture 

in the world tomorrow . 

The brethren were welco med .by 

the mayo r, and the ministers were 

given a civic reception. A 

4.000 -meter fun run along the beach 

toppe d off activities for Feastgoers. 

'Bruce Tyler. 

ASIA 

BAGUIO CITY. Philip pines : 

The largest Festival site in the Philippines 

was in Baguio City, where 

1,056 peop le registered for the Feast . 

Weather was beautiful, wit h only 

some afternoon rain on three days. 

God scatter ed threatening storms just 

befo re the Feast and during it. 

Meeti ngs were held at the Beni tez 

Hall Teacher's Camp, where the' 

bret hren ,hea rd sermons from regional 

d irect or Co lin Adair, who 

spoke on the mystery of Go d. forgiveness. 

building the Church of God 

and rhe Las t Great Day; Pacifico 

Mirto , who spoke about the huma n 

family , prophecy and faith; Festival 

coordinator-Bien Macaraeg, who 

.1 spoke about two aspec ts of the Gospel 

and why .we need to keep God's 

laws; and local elder Max Fab 

ricanre, who spoke on God 'sworks. 

Pete Melendez and Rey Ta niajura 

were o rdained as local elde rs during 

the Feast. 

Ove rseas guests , numbering about 

30 , remar ked on the fine atmosphere 

ana friendly d-isposition of the brethren 

and were especially grateful for 

the stabilizing sp iritual food received. 

Colin Adair . 

BANGALORE, India - Mee ting 

' . in the Roma Hote l 'in Bangalore. the 

garden city of India, ,85 brethren especia 

lly . enjoyed, Herbert W . 

Armstrong's film, 'as well as severa l 

baptisms' and wonderful weather. 

Sermons were givenby Spa ulding 

Kulasingamon .the coming utopia, 

the Festivals and prayer and by Ken 

Lewis on the transition of t his 

wo rld's govern ments into the- world 

tomorrow. Th e Last G reat Day 

marked the end of 'a campaign' fo r 

Plain .Truth readers in So uth Ind ia. 

'Spaulding Kulasingam . 

CAMERON HIGHLANDS. 

Malaysia - The Cameron Highlands, 

a bea utiful temperate moun-' 

lain area, provided an inspiring setting 

for this yea r's Feast in Malaysia. 

T he Merlin Hotel played host for 190 

bret hren fo r this eighth Malaysian 

Peast .. . 

Rod McQ ueen spoke on how we 

can know what the will of God is and 

the meaning of the Feast . Festival 

coordinator Yong Chi n Gee spoke on 

pride and Lim Seng Joon spoke 011 

o ur importance to God and His mas - 

ter plan. ' 

Brethren radia ted happiness, joy 

and appreciation as they enjoyed a 

close -bonded fellowship in the realization 

of the purpose of the Feast : 

Jo hn Ursen , 

CEBU CITY, Phil ippines - T his 

site in the Visayan Islands was coordinated 

by Jose Raduban. The brethren 

(176 registered) met in the T riton 

Hotel Ceb u, where Mr . Raduban. the 

main speaker, spoke on the .world 

tomorrow. Colin Adai r. 

DAVAO CITY, Philippines 

Edward Macaraeg was the main 

speaker for this Fest ival site .at the 

Don Mariano Marcos Traini ng 

Center on the island of. Mindanao. 

Mr . Macaraeg, the Festival coo r 

dinator, spoke about the world tomorrow, 

prayer and responsib ility to 

the 286 registered brethren. High 

- lights incl uded a first-ever young 

peo ple's get-together. Colin Adair. 

DON CARLOS, Philippines 

Coor dinator Encardio Benitez and ' 

his brot her , Eustiquio Benitez, spoke 

to the 450 registered brethren meeting 

in the Worldwide Church of God 

building in Don Carlos. Bukid non , 

on the island of Minda nao. Col in 

Adair , 

MAMBUCAL, Philippines 

The Mambucal Hea lth Resort in 

Negro s Occidental was the site for 

167 b rethren. Main speaker was 

Pedro Ortig uero, who spoke on the 

world tomorrow and ' C hristi anity , 

and Festival coordi nator . was Bernardo 

Cast illon . Many of the breth 

ren saw and heard Mr. Armstrong for 

the first time on his film. In spite of 

the small attendance -en th usias m and 

zeal were hig h. Colin Adair . 

MANILA, Philippi nes - This 

year marked the firs t time 'a Feast of 

Tabernacles has been held in Manila, 

and all the brethren were most.e nthusiastic 

. Meet ings were in the Manila 

Overseas Press Club and Girl Scout 

Audito riurn.v'Ibe Festiva l was coord 

inated by Dr . Sam uel Librojo, and 

Rey Ta niajura was manager. The 

"brethren,' numbering 265 , heard Dr. 

Librojo and Mr. Taniajura speak on 

prophecy and Chr istian living, and 

visiting speaker Pac ifico Mirto dis-, 

cussed Revelation 2 and 3. Colin ' 

Adair . 

RAN VELl BEACH. Sri Lanka 

The Feast here started off wit h the 

o rdination of the first deacon for the 

Sri , Lanka "cburc h, Tilak Peris. 

Anothe r first happened a few days 

later as the church held its first family 

. night. 

Fifty Feastgoers.spent the Feast in 

structures made of coconut branches. 

Ken Lew is and Mohan Jayasekera 

conducted services as they spoke on 

the profile of the pres ident of the 

world tomo rrow , Church government 

and preparing to be a king or 

priest .. 

Four baptisms during the Peast 

caused the church to grow by 12 percent: 

Mohan Jayasekera , 

LATIN AMERICA 

. EL TABITO. Chile- O ne 

hundred brethren gathered fo r the 

Festival here, enjoying the fabulous 

oceanside .resort and the inspi ring 

messages in unity and love . 

Main speakers were Robe rt Flores 

Jr. and Pilidor Illesca, disc ussing the 

meaning of the Feast, the world tomorrow 

and being a 'son of God. 

Robert Flores Jr . 

LA PAZ, EI Sa lvador ~ Ninetyfo 

ur brethren enjoyed the Feast in the 

Izalco Cabana Club here, enjoying a 

wedding, one baptism and a talent 

show in addition to the Festival ser- . 

mons . 

Speak ing at the site were H erbert 

Cisneros on the Kingdom of God . 

Jose Man uel Biamo nte on being a 

soldier of Christ , Re ne Lopez on the 

proof of t he Churc h and Jose 

. Ma uricio Pinto on being a bette r 

Christian; Herbe rt Cisneros. 

LIMA . Peru - Atte ndance was 90 

at t he Festiva l here in the Country 

Club Del Bosque.ilocated in one of 

Lima 's best resort areas . Brethren en 

joyed the beautiful weather and a rest 

from the extreme infl ati o n and 

economic difficulty in Peru . 

· Ma in sermons were given by Larry . 

Hink le and Wilfredo Saenz on the 

· mea ning of the Feast of Tabernacles, 

the prom ises of God, perseverance, 

faith and the power of God. Larry. 

Hinkle . . 

MELGAR, Colombia - Ajoyous 

Feast, fu ll of meaning and enthusiasm, 

was enjoyed by 140 people 

at the Club Militar de Oficiales in 

Melg ar, 103 kilometers sout h of 

Bogo ta. . 

People representing six countries, 

we re happy to hear the meaning of 

God 's Holy Days , the plan of salvation 

and the principles of Ch ristian 

living expounded by Pablo Gonzalez, 

Mario Seiglie and other loeal 

members. 

No one wanted to 'return home 

~ a ft e r enjoying ' the most delightful 

eight days of his life . Everyone 

commented on two things: the ' 

priv ilege of seeing Herbert Arm 

strong on film (which was shown 

twice) and the especially good services 

the brethren receivedfrom the 

personnel and members-of Club 

Militar de Oficiales. A talent show 

and a night of Serenatas for everyone 

united us all into one singl e family . 

Pablo Gonzalez. 

OAXTEPEC, Mexico-It is said, 

"First the re was the Garden of Eden , 

then Oaxtepec.' About 650 brethren , 

half of whom traveled down from the 

United States, filled the small auditorium 

here. ' -'. 

Sermons delivered , by Festival ' 

coordinator Tom Turk, Fernando 

Ba rriga, 'Pablo Dimakis, Alfredo 

Mercado, Mario Sanchez and Mike 

Isaac emphasizedthe meaning of the 

Feast and family life. 

Plenty of activities kept the brethren 

busy throughout the Feast, which 

was blessed by mild and pleasa nt 

weat her. . 

Ordaine d to ministerial rank was 

Pab:lo _Dimaki~ . Dominga Bur- 

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FA SADENA - This year The 

Good News decided to ask some 

ch ildren (12 and under) "what their 

impressions of the Feast were. We 

hope d for and were rewarded with 

their candid comments complete 

with humor and the usual surprises . 

We'd like to share their analysis of 

the Feast here as we present a look at 

the Festival through the eyes of a 

child. 

Responses"were taken from various 

sites and unfortunately do not 

include co mplete ident ificatio n on all 

those kind eno ugh to share their 

tho ughts with all of us . Sorry .. but 

because of limited space we cou ld 

not include every photograph and 

co mment recei ved . 

" I like the Feast because of the 

luau and the Chu rch Bec ause it's 

fun . I like the Feast iI' s fun ." · 

Shereena Spangler. Yaki ma, Wa sh -. 

" Th is is my favori te Feast ever. 

But 1like seei ng my friends and get 

ting Feast present s. And Iju st want to 

say that I feel very lucky having a 

Feast site like Hawaii. " 

Dan iel Kni ght , Lahaina , Hawaii 

" I like the Feast because . .. 1 

meet new friends." 

Heathe r Spangler. Yakima , Wash. 

" I like the Feast because 1 get a 

vacati on from school. And if we go 

on a trip I can go swimmi ng with my 

brothe r. My da d lets metake pict ures 

with his new camera," 

Michelle Hierman, Pasadena. Calif. 

.. ) like the food you get. It is the 

best food you get in the year. On the 

who le ) think. the eight days of the , 

Feast are the best and most exc iting 

, ones in the· year ." 

, Lorna MacDon ald, Bushe y, England 

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" I like the idea o f children entertainment 

because it gives the parent s 

a chance to get out and aro und. I like 

the nursery. as well, because whil e 

ser vices are on the mother s don ' t 

have to loo k after their babies." 

Susan Stoke s, Radle tt, England 

" 1like it whe n mum and dad give 

me a present. ,. 

Andrea, England 

. "I think that God has plan ned all 

'of the Ho ly Days well. Some of the 

sermons have bits for us chil dre n, 

like what we will be doing in the 

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AS SEEN BY CHILDREN 

wo rld tomorrow. There is no doubt 

about it, F .O .T . is great." 

Che ryl Donchect, Co lches ter , England 

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" { don' t Jike it when we have to go 

home because it ha s been so nice." 

Mari a, England 

" The thing I like best abo ut the 

Feast is the donke y derby and the 

sand-castle co mpetition. The donkey 

stood on my mummy's foot." 

. Gordo n Wilson , England 

" I like ch urch the best. but every- 

A RT BY SUSAN ANTI ON 

~ thing is fun at the Feast." 

Jan ice Bates , Bakersfield, Calif. 

" I like traveling and I bope 1can 

go to more Feast sites than j ust here 

[Hawaii]." 

Victoria Wood, Lahaina. Hawaii 

" I think the Feast is a grea t time . 

Because every body can get away 

from thei r proble ms. You can relax 

and nor really wo rry abo ut anyth ing. 

And all the peop le are friendl y." 

Scott, England 

"I Ihink it's wonderfu l to have a 

mum and dad in the Church. and I 

enjoy aU theFeasts.'.' 

Gw yneth Sa lter . England 

"Going on a big tri p," 

Rene e McKi nney, Denve r, Co lo. 

" I like the Fea st becau se yo u get to 

see so man y places . You also get to 

do differen t things. Soth ar's why I like 

the Feast of .Tabernacles;" 

Janice Antion, Pasaden a, Calif . 

"The Feast is a time to be with 

yo ur fami ly and different people 

fro m differen t place s." 

Su san Annen , Pasa dena . Calif. 

" I like being with my fathe r and 

moth er and gra ndma and grandpa, 1 

lo ve the Fea st and all the other 

things ." 

Rac hel Stoc ker , Pasadena, Ca lif . 

"I come to the Feast to enjoy myself. 

Go to churc h, obe y my elde rs 

and obey mom and dad . 1 also co me 

to learn and to eat of the Hol y Spirit ." 

Scott Borst 

"I like the Feast very much best of _ 

all when we hear Mr. Annstrong 

speaking and you [Brian Knowles] 

speaking so I' m writing this letter for 

you and I hopeyou will have a lovely 

time." 

Kristine Shank s, United Kingd om 

" I think the Feast of Tabernacles 

is brillia nt. I .like especiallyeveryone 

- meet ing everyone we have not see n 

for a whol e yea r. The singi ng is very 

loud and we have a band acco mpanying 

the hymn s. But most of all l like 

the spirit o f rbeFeast. The only thing 

wrong with the Fea st is J wis h it" 

wou Jd last longer ." 

Ruth, Great Brita in 

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CHURCH 

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were having diffi culty 'gelling 

local ministers to conduct the 

program . It was free time. carried 

by the station as a public service 

sustaining program of 15 minutes, 

7:45 to 8 a.m. 

Immediately"] we nt to the 

radio station . A woman secretary 

told me she felt sure they would 

be glad to have me take the program 

for a week. I was to call 

back later for the exact date . 

On my second call I was assigned 

the week of Oct.' 9. 

Oct. 9 was surely a great big 

f day in my life - the day of my 

very first experie nce before ) a 

microphone, ON THE AiR! 

I took this opportunity very 

seriously . It, was an opportunity , 

to spe ak to several HUNDRED 

people at once! I had ne ver 

spoken to that many hefore . 

I spent the preceding' week 

preparing rather extensive notes 

would see what I could do . 

But, $2 .50every week! WOW! 

That was almost as much as my 

entire salary had been ! And I had 

just previously renounced even 

that small salary! 

Today, $2 .50 per half-hour 

broadcast seems incredibly 

small. We have to pay two or 

three times more than that per 

minute on most statio ns today! 

But it seemed lik e an insu r 

mountable barrier then . 

: Yet I knew ' this - was GOD'S 

WORK, not mine . I was only an 

instrument . God had promised to 

supply every need . 

God had OPE NED THE DOOR OF ~ 

MASS EVAN GEllSM! 

He had opened the first radio 

door (Revelation 8:8). I knew He 

wanted us to walk thro ugh that 

and script . [ might never again door . ] knew He would somehow 

have such an opportunity, so I 

decidOd to strike .directly at the - C supply that $2 .50 every week. I 

knew also that we had to do our 

very heart of the Gos pel of the part, not lie dow n, do nothing, 

Kingdom of God . Since the and expect God to do it without 

Kingdo m of God is based on the any effort from us . 

promises made to Abra ham , I I was co ntin uing to hold meet. 

began, on Monday mo rning's ' ings at the Firbune schoolhouse , 

program with the PROMISES made . 

to,Abraham. twice weekly - Sabbath afternoons 

and Th ursday eveni ngs . 

The S1Il)lrising response Parent church of.World wide 

It must have been about Church of God founded 

Thursday morning that the an- Now ca me a mo st crucial 

nouncer told me .the station event . It was a TURNING POINT - 

owner. Mr . Frank Hill, wanted to AN EPOCH - I N T HE 1.900-VEAR 

see me in his office Iater in the 

morni ng. 

msrosv OF GOD' S CHURCH . 

He had receive d several letters And NOTE CAREfULLY THIS 

and telephone calls from listeners ' FACT. I was still cooperating with 

requesting copies of my talks. I . the Oregon Conference , although 

had offered no literature of any " upon 's tarting this ' new era of 

kind . I had Invited no rnailre-" God 's Church God had moved 

sPonse . . me to drop the infinitesimal sal- 

" This is rather surprising:' ary ] had bee~ receiving from 

said Mr ...Hill. "We never had them . . ' 

any response ofany kind, before, 'But most of their memher s in 

from this morn ing devotional the Willamene Valley now began 

program . They told me you had attending with us at Eugene . 

not invited any. Yet it has heen Oct. 21, at the home of Mr . 

coming. I listened in on you this and Mr s. Ed Smith, just across 

morn ing to see what was causing the road from the Jeans school. 

it. You have an excelle nt radio four miles west of Firbutte, this . 

voice and -a way of deliver ing new Church of God was Ofyour 

message that arouses in- ganized, with Mr. E.E . Fisher as 

terest and bolds an audience . deacon and myself as pastor. 

" Now, Mr . Armstrong;" he ' Meeti ngs continued from that 

continued, "I want 'to suggest date, three times a week , Tuesthat 

you work out a regular Sun- day and Th ursday evenings aod 

da y morning C hurch service, Sabbath afternoo ns. Attendance 

condensed into a half-hour. I' d .was avefaging 22 . A flrst action 

like to put that on as a regular of the new Church was the deci - 

o sustaining program - free time' sian to go ahead with the broad- 

- but I can't do that without of- cast. Three new members and the 

fering equal time to every church lay brethren of the Orego n Con- 

" These people at Stanberry and Salem, 

originally, had been truly the Church of 

God -ofthe Sardis era. But their era was 

over, and by the truits, looking at them, I 

came to realize God was raising up the 

Philadelphia era of His Church," 

in town . However, I will sell you 

the time at less than bare cost of 

operation, $2.50 per half hour. " 

And THAT suggestion from 

Mr. Frank Hill is what put the 

idea of The World Tomorrow 

program in my mind! 

Altogether 14 letters and telephone 

calls came in to the radio 

station, requesti ng copies of the 

messages 1 had broadc ast . 

I thanked him and told him I 

, planning of mine that the threepoin 

t ca mpaign the n being 

launched was to expan d into its 

present global scope arid influ 

ence . 

The three-point ca mpaign 

that buUt the Work 

I plunged with energy into the 

GIAN T DOORS God was opening. 

"Of course those doors, were not 

GIANT at first. God always starts 

things He does throug h humans, 

like the grain of ,mustard seed, 

the very smallest. But I, and the 

newly ra ise d-up very small 

Church backing me, started on 

the very smallest wattage of any 

commerc ial radio station - 100 

watts - andonce a week. 

whenever possible . 

Furt her, to - stop VICIOUS 

rumors, I was NEVER A MEMBER 

of either the Stanherry , Mo . or 

the 'Salem, W .Va ., faction s of 

the C hurch of God . I worked 

WITH, in friendly cooperation, 

both factions, but never was a 

member of either . 

More important, all those who 

have GONE OUT or BEEN DISFEL 

LOWSHtPPED from the Church 

have sought by eyery means to 

STEAL AWAY OUR MEMBERS ! 

One minister who was doing 

this ex plained it this way: ' 'Well, 

where else can we go to get ' 

members ? We can 't make any 

headway again st the Seventh 

,?ay A~venti sts, so it leaves us 

"Could the original and only true Church have disintegrated and 

'. disappeared? Could it have ceased to exist? No, for I read where 

-Jesus said the gates of the grave would never prevail against it." 

ference all approved itjoyfully as 

an effective evangelistic activity 

of the Church . 

SuRELY NOTHING could have 

started smaller. Born in advers ity 

in the very depths of the Depression, 

this Work of God was desti 

ned ,to grow to wo rldwide 

power . 

BUII did not realize its desti ny 

then. There were no illusions of 

grande ur. It was not through any 

' ~ 

Not only did I set o ut with a 

will to produce the radio pro- . 

grain , butthrough 20 years of 

, advertis ing experience] knew it 

had to he followed up. 

'1 had conceived the idea of 

publishing Th e Plain Truth 

magazine in 1927 - had engaged 

a professional advertising 

artist to design a front cover. But 

fo r that seven years no way 

opened to make possible its 

' launching. Now, my making it a 

mimeographed " magazine" ~ 

cutting stencils ' on a 'bo rrowed 

typewriter and gaining permis- .. 

sion of the local A.B. Dick Co. to 

borrow the use of his mimeograph, 

I was able to produce the 

first Plain Truth - ahout 350 

"copies f or ahout $5 . '.' ,':' .. ,.. ' 

On the first Sunday in 1934 the 

radio program was on the air .:.....,; 

TO STAY! And TO GROW! 

Response was heyond expectations 

. -. . '" "" " 

Feb. I The 'Plilin Truth made 

perhap s tbe most humble how 

any magazine ever made! 

And, to.round out the threepoint 

cam paign, we cont inued 

holding evangelistic services. 

Since "we were holdi ng service 

s T uesday and T hursday 

nights, beside Sabb ath , at the 

Jeans schoolho use --; ,the first 

mee -ting place of the present 

Worldwide Church of God - I 

hired an ' upstairs hall in down , . 

town Eugene for $10 a month, for 

services Sunday , Monday, Wednesday 

aod Friday nights. I had 

mimeographed handbills circ u 

lated to draw a public audience. ' 

Still coope ra ting , 

with 'Sardis' 

I interrupt at this point to 

further spike a nasty rumor some 

have attempte d to circulate 

against GOD 'S Work , by saying 

that the ministers who went am of 

the Church in 1974 and since are 

" only doing , what Mr . Armstrong 

did when he went out of 

the Sardis era church to start one 

of his own:' 

NOTtnNG COULD BE FARTHER 

FROM THE TRUT H . In this present 

history of the Church . we are in 

1934 . The parent Church of 

today ' s Worldw ide Ch urch was 

. already organized - as of the 

preceding Oct. 21 . The PRESENT 

WORK wa s welt under way , small 

though the start was ! An d 1 

WAS STILL COOPERATING WITH 

THE OREGON C O N F E R E N C E ~ 

BRETHREN, who atte nded .at 

Eugene fo r so me years. 

eral-conference system - each 

local ch urch of five o r more ' 

members having one vote . But 

now Mr. Dugger cla imed a new 

" Bib le organization" by ' a 

bizarre combination of New Tesonly 

the Worldwide Church of 

God ." 

NEVER ONCE'did I in any man' 

ner, directly or indirectly , make 

any effort to draw their members 

into the present Church God had 

raised up thro ugh me! 

I pray very earnestly and regularly 

for my son. whom Ilo ve, that ' 

God will OPEN HtS EYES TO THE 

TERRI BLE SIN HE IS COMMllTlNG, 

sowing the seeds of d iscord 

among Christ's brethren, trying 

to draw away God's people FOR 

HIMSELF! And, whenever be 

ceases this unholy activity of try. 

tament office s, "imputing to them 

a totally unscriptural meaning . 

He claimed falsely that Jesus' 

original 12 'apostles formed a 

permanent board of 12 as a 

,church hierarchy. Then he took 

the seven deacons of Acts 6:3, 

,who were appointed to wait on 

tables serving the 'widows and 

orphans. In the King James translation, 

this duty was translatedas 

"This business," the Revi sed 

Standard Version , Moffatt and 

others translate it simply as a 

DUTY . But Mr . Dugger "seized on 

that word business and construed 

it totally out of conte xt to be a 

BOARD OF THE SEVE N . which 

were to handle THE MONEY of the 

church. 

The board of the '12' 

Because there had been much 

complaint about M,. Dugger 

" running things" and assumi ng 

all authority, he adroitly appointed 

12 others ' (b y, HtS 

, CHOOSING) to he the Board ofthe 

12 and appo inted himself chair 

man of the Board of Seven to 

handle the money . This gave him 

absolute authority, while he pretended 

to give it to the " 12." 

The n, because Jesus had sent out 

70 , two and two, on ' a special 

. one-time to ur ofplaces where He 

was to come later (Luke 10: 1), 

Mr. Dugger appointed what he 

called " the Board of the 70" 

70 "leading elders"-although 

there were not anywhere near that 

many elders in the church. 

Actuall y, far from heing a true 

"I was not at all convinced this was the 

one and only true Church, Yet, if it was not, 

which one was? Thisone came closer to 

the Bible qlJalifications than any I knew," 

'mg to t~e ~ur m~~be rs after him 

and will lnstead PROCLAIM THE 

GOSPEL TO THE WORLD r I will 

pray for his ' success. But when 

CHRIST was virtuallythrown out 

of Ambassador College under his 

unauthorize d policy setting and 

doctrinal changi ng, and every effo 

rt was be ing made to 

SECULARtZE the Church (which 

really means drive God out), I 

most certainly ' cannot up hold 

such satanic activity! He has been 

MARKED and MUST BE AVOIDED ! 

" Factions of Sardis era 

Now On wit h the history of 

God 's Church . For some years I 

continued 10 coope rate with both 

Stanhe rry and Salem factions of 

the Sardis era , 

True, ''some of their ministers 

opposed GOD'S WORK, but I never 

opposed them ! 

About August :1933, a cornplete 

split had occurred in ' the 

church headquartered at Stan 

herry , Mo. Its leader and editor 

of the weekly Bible Advocate had , 

heen voted out by a single vote . 

Instead of remaining loyal , he 

proceeded to joi n a C.O . Dodd , 

in Salem, W.Va., insetting up 

what they termed the "Bible or' 

ganization " of the Church and 

made every effort to take Stanherry 

followers with him . 

At Stanherry , they had heen 

organized under a biannual gen 

biblical fo rm of-organization ~ 

(which God 's Church d oe's follow 

today), it was a ridiculous 

twistin g out of context of biblical 

scriptures. 

BUI ~e in Oregon at that time 

were CONFUSED on the subjec t of 

biblical C hurch organization. 

Mr . Dugger had made it sound as 

if hi: had ,put together a trul y 

" BIBLE organization ." 

The brethren of the Oregon 

Conference were confused, but 

they did want to do whatever was 

the Bible way. They did notgo 

with this Dugger organization 

immediately, due to this confusian. 

Most of them lived too far 

away from Eugene to attend regu 

larly w ith God's Church at 

Eugene (we'soon bought a church 

property- in Eugene) . 

Off to a good start 

The Work of God was already 

off to a good start at Eugene . I 

had soon appointed Claude Ellis 

as elder and :II.., Mr . J.M . Day, 

(past 80 years of age) and Mr. 

W .E . Conn and Mr. O scar 

Heibel as deacons, in addition to 

Mr . Fisher . 

The Dugger people had, without 

my knowledge, put my name 

down as one of "the 70 leadin g 

, elders ," 

The truth is, I) we were all 

confused as to Church organ izerion 

, and 2) we did not yet realize 

ourselv es that CHRIST had started, 

in us, the Philadelphia era of His 

Ch urch, committed with the 

GREAT COMMISSION. 

Before Elder Day had been or 

(See CHURCH. p.g. 11)

This year.in Jerusalem , 

By Mark Robinson 

JERUSALEM - FOI the 177 

Church member s who participated in 

the Ambassado r Internat ional CuI· 

tural Foundation's fall tour of Israel. 

it wasn' t like an y Feast they had eve r 

attended before. In fact, the trip was 

far more akin to Succoth, the Je wish 

eq uivalent of T~bern a cles . To a Iarge 

number of these members the eight 

day whirlw ind tour ofthe Holy Land 

was one of the most moving and 

spiritually rewardin g times of their 

lives. · , 

"If it wasn' t my best Feast, it certainly 

ca me close," said Charles 

Dorot hy, minister and one of three 

tour guides. "The Feast in Israel had 

an extra dept h of meaning since the 

millenial peace pictured by Tabernacles 

will beg in in Jeru salem." 

T he to ur included vis its to 

Samaria , Galilee ,Caesare a, Beth 

lehem , the Dead Sea, Beersheba, and 

the fortress of Masada , in addi tion to 

scores ofsites in Jeru salem. 

For Cy ndi Colburn, Fo rt Worth , 

Tex.• Church member, the trip was 

unforgettable She now has seen 

many of the places mentioned in the 

Scriptures and recommends, .. aL ,"" 

least one Feast in Israel for everyone 

fulfill the obligations made by the 

Amba ssador Foundation to provide 

group travel benefits , adding , "What 

better place to start than Jeru salem 

with its ric h histo ry and deep theolog 

teal roots." 

TIle retu rn to the United States was 

delayed _fOI one day because of a 

cracked windshield on the chartered 

Trans World Airline 707. However . 

all of the inconvenie nced we re 

lodged atTWA ' s e xpense in a lux ury 

beach front hote l overlooking the 

Mediterranean in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Is 

-tael. 

INJERUSALEM - Brethre n who 

traveled to Jerusalem to observe 

thiS year's' Feast make a s iza ble 

group at the Dome of the Rock. 

The trip, which included a tour of 

israel, was organized by the Ambassador 

International .G utt ural 

Fo un datio n. 

By Bob Smith 

to help make the Bible live." JERUSALEM - The people of 

God . 177 strong, were moved with 

Liberty Bell Park on tour excitement as tbey sat in the area of 

One site of particular interest fo r the Mount ofOli...es and chorused the 

the to ur wa s Libert y Bell Park , a new _~ wor ds .to ' " Co me Thou Almighty 

recrea tional facility in Jeru salem par- King" ! 

tiall y sponso red by the Amba ssador God ' s people were keeping the 

Foundatio n. A Jeru salem physician Feast of Tabern acle s in the very city 

told former "Jerusalem office man- to which -Jesus Christ will introdu ce 

~~~S~;.~~~?~:;e~~:~:~:~r~ ~~t:~i~n~r;a7~~:te~l ivaJde . 

bro ught tremendous joy to thou sands At the first Holy Da y ser vice. 

of children." - , ' . Abilene, Tex., pastor Mark Robin- 

During -aspec ial presentatiori 'after ". 'sp ~ . ' s ~o k e . o ft- the bal ance.d 

. the first...fio~Y~'~~ro',.J>Y .JI]r;J gfS.rn.A-:-'; :': ~ ~~,m! 4a1 ·~ h~ ,~~ca~ ap.p.r~.a~ h, ~,ed:~ .!n 

tio nal Cultural Center for Youth , IS4 order \0 p r~~ r~y observethe Feast. 

rael i minister of tourism Moshe Kol I followed With a sermon about the 

praised Mr. . Armstrongs hum an 

itaria n effort s to Israel and spoke 

of an " i ron:~ridge ' ~ buill between 

Pasadena and rSiael . ~ ' .'. _ ',___ . 

For the Frankel famil y the'"tou'r'vias r .,:. 

their first chance to see Israel after 

leav ing three years ago . Joyce frankel 

voiced amazement at how much 

the Old City had been clea ned up . 

Mr . FrankeJ' s expert knowledge and 

contacts were of immen se benefit to ' 

the tour leaders . Bob Smi th, pastor of 

the Riverside"and Bannin g, Calif. , 

churches, served 'as' the third tour 

guide . 

AICF-org~:nized t~ur 

The trip, orga~ized b; .H~ma n Po· 

tentia l employee Bob Ellsw orth, had 

a base price ' of just under' $1 ,000 

- per person . tMr . Ellsworth ce rnmented 

that the trip was o rganized to 

CHURCH 

IContinued from page 16) 

da ine d , I discussed th is seriou sl y 

with Elmer Fisher and Claude 

Ellis . We decided not to rush into 

it. 

Where was the true Church? 

I mentioned earlier that I was 

searc hing for the one true Church 

of God . These Stanberry -based 

brethren, as I had staled above, 

seemed weak and impotent. They 

we re bearing NO FRUIT! . , 

When one of their mini ster s 

held a small "evangel istic effan" 

it w as al wa ys . fruitless. 

T he re were no conversion s. This 

had contin ued to bewilder me . 

Je su s sa id we sho uld KNOW 

·· by their fruit s." And now they 

were split right down the midd 

ie . A house divided c a nno t 

s ta nd , a nd their twohouses 

Members keep Feast in the Holy La,,!,d 

The following is a fir st-person 

account of this year' s Feast in 

Jerusalem as obse rved by the 

Riverside and Banning. Calif., 

pastor Bob' Smith . 

awesome eve nts j ust o ve r the bor i 

. zen, of which Jesus Christ warned, 

". , . if .if were possible rhey shall 

decei ve even the elect.. :.:.... but which 

will usher in the onl y true and lasting 

millen ial peace. 

At the close of services on the first 

Holy Day, Simha ("Joy";n English) 

Gombo of Israel was .baptized by . 

Charles Doro thy , Wayne D_unlapand -, ') 

myself in -the pool oftheDiplomat 

Hotel in Jerusa lem . 

SPECIAL PRESENTATION - Members of the ICCY·(see story , left) 

present a s pecia l program fo r Fe as tgoe rs duti ng thei r stay in J e rusalem. 

[Photo by Rodne y Larson ] 

St anberry and Salem 

did ·NOT. st and! As of 

TODAV . 1978: each of those two 

ha s been split an d re-split into so 

many fragments that . no one 

cou ld probably discern just bow . 

many bra nche s they have split off 

into . 

,.-'" 

Yet everywhere I went, FRUIT 

was borne - except when I tried ' 

to ho ld a campaign with one of 

their me n, elders Tay lor.Tiaily, 

Ohe rg and Ray . BUI whenever I 

preached ato ne, tbere were conversions.1 

did not realize the n, as 

I do-now , ' Ihal it is GOD who 

" ADDS to the Church." God was 

adding wherever I we nt. 

Then I discovered that they are 

described by Christ Himse lf in 

Revelation 3:1-6. They had been , 

a couple of generations or more 

hefore my time , a Church of · 

more vitality and larger member 

: ship . But they had dwindled to 

the state of Revelation 3: I - still 

h aving the NAME of the true 

Church but SPIRITUALLY DEAD . 

Apparently a generation or two 

before my time . the y had not 

been so spiritually dead. 

Truly God's Work 

Butnow, l knew that what God 

had led me into wa s , truly, GOD'S 

WORK! it had vita lity . It was bearing 

rich fruit. And , after find ing . 

the identification in' Revelat ion 

3:1-6 and verses 7-11. I finally 

carrie 10 re a li ze where GOO 'S 

TRUE CHURCH WAS! T hese people 

at Stanberry and Salem, originally 

, had been tru ly the Ch urch 

of God - of the Sardi s era . But 

the ir era was over, and by the, 

fruit s, loo king at them. I came to 

realize God was raisi ng up 

t he Ph iladelphia era o f His 

Church. . 

And. as we grew, God was 

showing me HIS B1B'LE FORM OF 

CH URCH ORG ANIZ ATION . 

~ 

Mrs. Gombo (a native of Morocco 

who now reside s north of Haifa , Israel) 

has been interested in bapti sm 

for severalyears and was last visited 

months ago by Great Britain mini s 

ter, Paul Suckling. - 

Since Mrs. Gombo speaks Hebrew 

and French fluently but only a few 

words of English , .prebaptism coun 

seling was aided by the expert tran s 

lating of Yonah, a young Jewi sh girl 

from Canada , And, thus, Simha 

Gamba became onl y the second person 

10be baptized in Je rusalem in rhis 

modern era of God's Church. . 

, ~~ n exciting : ~o,~r, . ,.' , .:,'. , 

Aft er traversing tiny Israel -efrom 

the on -the -spot excit ement of the 

Garden Tomb , the Mo unt of Ol ives, 

Garden of Ge thsemane, the We stern 

(Wailing) Wall and Dome of the 

Rock (all in Jerusalem), to the Sea of 

Galilee and Capemaum, Nazareth, 

Cana and .Caesaree. and do wn to 

Masada and rhe Dead Sea ---'the tired ' 

group assembled on the weekly Sabbath 

and heard Gerald Weston , paslor 

of the Midl and and Ga ylord , 

Mich .• churches. reiterate Herbert 

Arm strong's very fam iliar " W hy are 

we here ?" - and then answer it fro m 

Deuteron omy 14:23 " . '. . that you 

" may learn to fear the Lctd thy God 

;. always !" " 

Richard Frankel , former manager 

of the Church's offices in Jerusalem 

and now pastor of the Woodb ridge, 

N.J ., church, painted a word picture 

of the trans ition from todays down 

trodd en world to ~ he exci tement." 

Mea nwhile, I was holdi ng services 

three time s weekly at Jeans 

schoolhouse , 12 miles we st of 

Eugene and fo ur nigh ts weekly in 

downtownEugene. . 

In due time the bret hren of the 

Oregon Conference dec ided to go 

in wi th the new Dugger group. 

Tliat dissolved the Orego n Con 

ference a s a co rpo rate churc h 

body. Ho we ver . the y contin ued 

to atte nd at E ugene . as often as 

possi ble . -'. 

After Ihe 5 \2 mont hs of meet- . 

ings in downtow n Euge ne , add 

ing more members to . the 

Ch urch . we began holdin g services 

in my home (rent $5 per 

mo nth) in Eugene, as well as at 

Je an s schoolhouse . 

Then, it m ust ha ve bee n ab out 

March. 1935, I began holding 

si x-nights-a -week meetings at 

Alvado re schoolhouse - abo ut 

15 miles no rthwest of Eu- 

, ge ne . This wa s a two-story 

beauty and peace of the"wci n d~ rfu l 

world tomorrow . 

At the conclu sion of this hallmark 

tour, a grateful segment of the Body 

of Chr ist entered final services on the 

Last Great Day with a new sense of 

fervency, a new sense of urgency. 

Mr . Dunlap, La Mirada , Cal if., 

pastor , pictured Je ru salem as the 

hope of the future for all mank ind , as 

the world awaits Chri st' s ret urn to the 

Holy City in great power . . 

Dr . Dorothy - fo llowi ng the 

Feast ,of Tabernacles rheme esrab- , 

lished in ea rlier messages - , reminded 

us of the magnitude of the 

great God ln he av en " ,~ ho : d.: s i rc;: ,sso ,: 

grea tly that all PeoPl'e's·' sl1oUld be ~ J ~, 

.come part of His awesome Fami ly 

that He allowed the llteral'sacrifice of 

the One' responsible for the creation 

of those very people s. 

Post Feast baptisms 

Following servic es on that Last 

Gre at Day, the brethren from many 

are as aro und the world who were 

obser ving the Feast of Tabernacles in \ 

Jerusalem gathered about the same 

pool and rejoiced as Dr. Dorothy and 

' 1 imme rsed , firsi , Moll ie Martin, 

from the San Diego, Catif ., church, 

, and ' then Richard Shire, a 1978' 

graduate ' of Amba ssador College in 

Pasadena . ~ 

Mr. Frankel and ~r. Dunlap 

joined in the laying on of hands, and 

the Feast of Tabernac les , 1978, 

ended on a note ~ nr iched by the con-. 

tinua l addi ng to the Church daily by 

Jesus C~rist - as-it please s Him . 

sc ho o l ho use, with two classroom 

s downstairs and a haIl the 

size of both classrooms upstairs. 

For six weeks I held meetings 

there, with, as I remember, about 

IS new -members added.. For a 

while I held meetings Sabbath 

mornings alternately every other 

Sabbath ' at Alvadore; and every 

other at Je an s with a service 

every Sab bath afternoon at my 

home in E ugene. " 

But thi s was too scattered, and 

soon we purchased the small ' 

ChUICh building in Eugene. 

A fter a co nfe re nce with one of 

the Dugger "12" we had decid ed 

that I would cooperate with the 

Salem, W . Va. • faction . BUT NOT 

. JOIN . I would work in cooperation 

with their ministers. but 

ENTtRELY INDEPENDENT. and re- . 

ceiving NO SALARY from them. 

None of the Eugene church be- ~ 

c~me membe rs of the Dugger 

(See CHURCH, 1M,. 201 

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Monday, Nov: 6, 1978 

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CHURCH 

'ACTIVITIES 

Forty-five-members of 'the new church 

in CUMBERL AND, Md.• had their first 

Bible study Sept . 13, 'as pastor Te rry 

ManSOD led tbe group in a study of the 

book of Revel ation. On.Sept. 17 the 

brethre n held their first picnic. meeting at 

Uoo's Community Park in nearb y Frostbury. 

where the ladies so undly defeated 

the men in badm inton 21 ~4 . Game s were 

directed for the children by Pat Bluebill 

and Bruce Metz . Another first, on Sept . 

20. wasa bake salethai netted $80 at the 

bome of Joan Grapes, who was having a 

garage sale at the same time. Eudele 

Athey . 

The 10th anniversary of the church in 

MOUNT POCO NO. Pa., was cele- 

playin g horseshoes, croq uet, basketball 

and volleyball while the younger set made 

mud pies and pressed 0 i:!1 Play-Do h. 

Wendy Keller. 

Tbin y.e ighC peop le and two dogs 

gathere d for the third annu al car raUy of 

the PLYMOUTH, England, church and 

surro unding areas Sept. 17. The participants, 

in 12cars, met with organizer Angus 

Robenson on the PlYmOut~h road just 

south of TaviSlOc:k.. Ea ch driv er was 

closely que st ioned abo ut the .bighway 

code , with correct ans wers going tow ard 

his total sco re.-The n eac h car was dispatched 

with a set of que stions that had tIP 

be answered correctly and in orde r before 

the next part of the lOUIecould be discc v- -. 

ered. B~ btaki n! terrain in Devon and 

Co rnwall was covered before aU arrived 

aholl SO miles later at the Dartmoor Inn 

./ and quenched their thirst . Winners of the 

· rally were-Bill and Eileen Deakins of the 

Plymouth church . Francis Cann. 

Local elder Larry Shamus and his wife 

SILVER ANNIVERSARY - Larry and Betty Shamus of the San 

Calif., church hold the sUvar coffee and tea service they received from the 

brethren on their 25th wedding anniversary , (See "Church Activities," 

this page.) [Photo by Armin Reese] 

brated Sept. 17 with a f.mily picnic at 

Toby hanna Anny Depo t Stale Park . A 

' w meal of turk ey frank s and ·bar becued 

chicken was prepated and served by the 

NCO Club, fo llowed by games for all and 

paddleboating on Barne y' s Lake . Jane 

Walters won the handmade q uilt donate d 

by Ann Koyaleski to help raise money for 

the socje l. Margie Storm. . 

Th e PITTSBUR-GH 9 Pa . , c hur ch 

cho rale pre sented the co nce rt " From 

Dusk to Dawn" at a high school euditorium 

in Mon roeville, Pa., Sept. 16, 

inviti ng mem bers from s urro und in g 

churches and the gene rJIl publ ic. The 

theme of thc concert cODeemed act ivilies 

and emo tions invoJved in a singk: day. 

such as .. Mo rning Has Broken .. .. Sun- 

./ rise , Sunset." " C ruising ~ wn the ' 

_River" and " T wilight on the Tra il. " The 

pro gram also inc luded several sacr ed 

numbers and was sprinkled wilh duets, 

quen ets. octets and Solo performances. 

At the \conclusion of the program the 

choraJe presen ted directo r Earl Henn a 

new lape recorder and gave bouquels to 

Mrs. Henn, 'who is an alto in lhe cho ra ~ . 

Ellen Gaetke , the pianist, . nd Linda 

Szalankiewicz . the assist ant pianist -,1be 

concert was the fllst for the PiUsburgh 

cho rale since 1964 . Frank UwandowsJd. 

PRESCOTT, Ari!. , brethren held 

their end-o f-summer picnic Sep t. 16, 

campi ng on top of Mingus Mountain and 

Betty of the SAN JOSE. ceur.. ch urch 

observed their lSthwedding anni versary 

Sept. 12 . bUItheir children and members 

of the church manage d to arra nge a surprise 

party for them three days earlier, on 

Sept . 9. The Shamuses were lured to the 

clubhouse of the Ta ngfewood co n 

dominiums in San Jose and were stunned 

as about 100member softb::: San Jose and 

Cupert ino churches shouted " Happy annivers 

ary !" when the light s flashed on . 

The brethren -presented them a com plete 

silver lea and coffee service with tray in . 

appreciation for their years of service to 

the churches. Ar mi n Ru u and Jan ' 

Brown. 

CLUB 

·MEETINGS 

CINCINNATI (Ohio) East pastor and 

club di rector Reinhol d f.uesset appointed 

· officers . 1 the, Sept: 2S mee ting of the 

Spok esman Club. Les Hu bbard. 1976 

1 Spokesma n Club graduate. was named 

president .and will be assisted by Dick 

Witham , vice president; John Hoover. 

secretary . Bruce Kieviet. treas urer; and 

· Ray Voe gele. sergea nt at arms . Mr. Puessel 

plans to replace the learn of officers 

later ia the -season to give ot her club 

members the challenge of servin g in an 

executive capacity . MikL Brandenb urg. 

The Spokespe rson Club of the SAN 

WIS OBlSP0 9 Calif., church met for its 

firs!meeting Sept. 21, thereby solving the 

dilemma of a smaUchurch area wanting to 

have a Women 's Club and a Spok esman 

Club but not having enougb people to 

werrant srartm g both cftbem.Jn thls pilot 

propam directe d by pastor Les McCo lm 

. both men and women were invited to par. 

tkipate in topics and speeches. Named as 

offc ers were Terry Seymor , president; 

Del Hoste. vice president; Co lleen Gulliver, 

secret ary, Betsy SitzIer . treasurer; 

and Phyllis Hoste and Randy Borden, 

sergeants at arms. Colken .Gulliver. 

The BELLE . VE R NON. Pa: . 

. Wome n's Club mel Sept . 17, with director 

David Johnson discussing the Importance 

of the club. its meanin g and future . 

This was the final meetin g of the year 

because of the busy Fan Festiva l season 

and the coming winter weather with its 

sometimes hazardous driving condi tions . 

Peggy Henry. 

The first meeti ng of the season fOT tbe 

WICIDTA j Kan. , Women ' s Club was 

Sept. 17 with Mary Ann Aust, club director, 

opening the meeting and welco mi ng 

the wome n's husband s. who were guests. 

Janice Pabrenbom gave a book report 

on Areobics, by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, 

and Mildred We llbrock , instructor and 

coo rdinator of Basic Emergency Medi cal 

Tra ining al Wich ita Stale Unive rsit y. 

spoke on how to react responsibly to 

eme rgency situations . Faye Campbell . 

• About 70 people panicipated in the annual 

carj:!party of the WOODBRIDGE 9 

N.J•• Ladies' Club Sept. 23 . Through lhe 

admi ssion charge of 52, the club earned 

' S16 1 for the treasu ry. A.L. Legg, 

SENIOR 

ACTIVITIES 

Guests at the SePe. 17 ~~Iing of the 

BIG SANDY. Tex.• SilYer Amba ssado rs 

were Bertha Shaw of the Gilmer (Tex .) 

Rest Home; Emma Jans of the Oak Manor 

Rest Home in Otedewerer, Tex.; and Mr. 

. and Mrs. Mac Hanna and famil y, Alv.in 

Stockst ill and Cleila Roger s, an of Big 

Sandy . Mr. Stockst ill beca me a me mber ' 

of the club and was.installed as vke president 

for the com ing year . Also'inst alled as 

officers were James Jack son , president; 

NeVI Compton, secret ary; and Mrs. 

Ch arles Crain , treasurer. Officers during '. 

the past year have been Adolph Bjorak er, 

Jam e s Jackson , Lo uis e Moor e and 

Char les Crain. The .meeting concluded 

with a potluck meal and co ffee and wine 

furnished by the club. lLlD Fisk. 

Six widow s of the EVANSVILLE, 

Ind., .church gathe red at the home of pas 

·Ior Ron Reedy and his wife Sept . 24 for a 

day of fellowship and g,nne s. The ladies 

brought dishes 10 accom~y the lU ~key 

dinne r prepared by the'ReedY5. Auending 

were Nor ma Blake ter, Verona Coul tas, 

Lillian Hlse, Fra nce s McK ee. Be ssie 

Shaw and lone Sm ith: and Harmon and 

Lucy Garren and Carl and Velma frankum 

assisted the Reed ys as hosts of the 

p~ rty . Dor othy Web b and W i{ma 

Nld:amp . 

FAMILY PORTRAIT - Teens of the Roanoke , Va., YOU chapter pose 

lor a family portralt dressed in 1870 fashion on their vis" Sept 17 to Silver 

Dollar City in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. From left are Julia Lanum, Don 

Roschelli , John Crissinger, Sue Crissinger, Jeff Lance, Diane Roschelli, 

Christine Livsey, Rickey Riddle and Clyde and Benjamin Lance, 

FOUR FOR THE ROAD-JuHe Trayhome , left,of London, England, and 

. Michael Larson of Minnesota, Max D. Haymes of Southampton , England, 

and Martin Fielding of London pose with their gear on the former Bricket 

Wood Amliassador College campus at the conclusion of their six-week, 

2,OOO-rnile cycling tourof Europe, The four ,members traveled through 

France, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany and the Netherlands 

before returning Aug. 26 to Bricket Wood , . / . 

SINGLES 

SCENE 

YOUTH 

ACTIVITIES 

The CIN CINNATI (Oh io) West YOU 

chapter started ils ow n weekly newsle tter 

in March of this year,.begi nning with a 

few anno uncements and now including 

articles and a calendar of future eveers, 

reports of pas! activit ies. articles by and 

about YO U'"me mbers and news of the 

junio r. YOU chapter that began in Septembe 

r. The news letter is now's part of 

the weekly churc h bu lletin'diStributed at 

. each Sabbalh service . Gerry Trenrupohl. 

a~f'7;;I~ ~r:~~~~~t 'i~~I~~ : 

church held its first ecuvity, a-camp-out. H~t;..t~~e:.? ~o~~ :t~e~ bo:a~ ~~ 

Sept. 23 and 24 at the farm of Mr. and first ecttvhy Sept. 17, with 34 children 

~~~ J;~h ~k~;~ ,~::':;:: g~:;i:e~ . and 19 aduhs al1ending a swim part y. Mr . 

up camp on the banks of the Ten nessee .. ~::~~'e;~~a~:%s -T i na 'Gri ffi n and 

River. Sunda y morning, after breakfast her sis ter, Scho nda , 12, both 

cook ed o ver an open fire, the you ng WOODBRIDGE, N.J .• YOU members, 

adu lts engaged in such 8lCtivitk s as fish- handled the sale of items at a yard sale 

ing and archery . Beverly Bouman. coo rdinated by the YOU chapter Sept . 24: 

To promote sales the girls gave away free 

balloons 10 the neig hborhood children . 

The SIOO profit was dona ted to the Monmouth 

Counly Foster Parents Associalion, 

a charity the Woodbrid ge cc ngregatio 

n has bee n work ing with for several 

month s. A.L. ugg: 

Thirt y-one teens of the MORWELL. 

Australia. church packed themselves into 

three -minibuses for a YO U-sponsored 

week of sight-seeing in Tasmania, the 

lan d down under the land down under . 

Settled and developed during the day s of . 

I British rra nspo na rion of convicts to Van 

Dieman 's Land (its former name), Tas 

mania is-ric h in history and relics of the 

era . Months of fund rai sing and plann ing 

were well worth the effort for the teens , 

who packed the week with numer ous 

fllst-time experiences. Kerry Gubb , 

SPECIAL MUSIC - The Oetrojt (Mich.) East congregation was treated to a duet sung by Frances Gornick and 

Kirsten Priebe ,left; at services Sept. 16. The girls were accompanied by, above, violinists Laura Priebe and Julia 

Hester, Katrina Priebe on the flute and Makiko Jones on the' piano. [Photo by J.O, Smith] 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS 


19 

BIRTHS 

McOEra, Kennard and l eonl (Joh nso n). 01 

Ames , Iowa, boy, Bradey Jon, Oct 4. 12:23 p,m" 

6 pounds a ounces, ftrst chlld 

SATTERlY•.Jlmei and Bonnie (Douglasl, 01 

Lake J eckson, Tea., girl, Jenniler Lynne, Oct. 8, 

6:41 a.m.• 7 pounds 13 ounces . first chad. 

AGUNABUR. Samuel and Chinyere. of lagos, 

Niger ia. gift Nwamaka Uzoma . July 13. 4 .5 

kilo grams , now 1 boy. 1 girl. 

SC HllOTKNEC HT . Richlrd and Conn~ 

bG.:,elt".~ ) 'S:~t~~~~";2:~2 ~~m . ,g~IPoRu=c~: 

ou~• • now1 boy, 1 girl . 

ARDIS , Gana and Jaanette (Powell). of 

Columbia , S .C., girl, Olana Joy . Sept 12. 12:09 

p.m.,9 pound' 1 ounca , now 1 boy , 1 girl. 

STAU FFER. Orla and Rhonda (Osborne), of 

~~.I~~pce:; · 1g~' o~~;'Yfi~~ 'C~l~: 3, 4:043 

AVILA, MiChael and Melody (Mountlord), 01 

Perth. AuslraMl, boy, AnIon Mlchael. May zr. 2 

p.m ., 8 pounds 3 ounces. now 2 bo ys. 

SA YAN , Joe l.net Patti (llndq uisl). of Charleslon , 

Ill , boy . Oavtct MaTttleW. Aug . 28 . 8:34 a.m., 9 

pounds 1 ounce. now 2 boys . 

McGEHEE, Jerry and Gail (Puisall) , of Pinole, 

Calil " boy, Kaleb Taylor, Oct . 15. 3:55 a.m.. 8 

pounds 10 ouncea,lIrst child . ~ 

MEADOWS . Lonnie and OlIn. of Rus••IlVlIle , 

~}';;;'3sflioS:;~::-:::; :;~.. .'6. 6:"5 p.m.. 7 

ST E PHENSO N, Ski p and Glenda 

~SI1:~~r~~: ~p:~~~ ~~o':Jd:~~~.7M:~~ Yj 

ounces . first child . 

SUBIAH . Setgie and RoM , of Durban. South 

Africa , boy . Oavid Doran. Sept. 13. 2:"5 p.m.. 6 

pounds 3 ounces . nrst child . 

MR. AND MRS. ERVIN LENHART 

BUCHSTABER, Bram and Leon a (Schacht), 01 

~~~rrO~'~8s~lr~:~~ .Robert , Sept. 19, 6 

CLEM ENTSON , John and e h.rolette (Meade). 

of Clncinnall, Ohio . girl, Michelle l ••me, Aug. 

26. 8 pounds 8 ounce., now1 boy, 2 girts. 

CO RBETT, Roc and Nancy (Ha mpto n). of 

Renton, Wash. , boy, Jape Aaron. Sept. 5. 4:30 

p.m.,9 pound. 4 ounces , now 1 boy. 1 gift. 

~u~:t~II:~~rE~:~~rl~~)1r ~~~nj 

DEMIRGIAN . Jack and RoM . of N_port New• • 

V• .• girl . Anna . Sepl . U , 11:13 a.m.• 3.55 

kIo gr8ms.lr'l cM el. 

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DE SCHAINE. Timothy anel Debb ie. 01 La. 

Vegas. Nev-, boy. Jame. Conrael. sepl. 11. 8:27 

a.m., 7 pounds 13 ounces. now 1 boy, 1 girl. 

ELLET T, Brl. coe II enel Do nn . (Reeck). 01 

areenvilla.S.C.. boy. Eric Troy. sept. 2.10:35 

a.m., 8 pouneta 8 ounce •• now2 boy• . 

FEATH ERS , Harolel anel Esthar {Gable}. 01 

Klamath Falls. Ore.. boy. joshUa. Roy. Aug. 7. 

~~~~ a.m.. ~ pound. 7 ounces. now 2 boys . 2 

FISHER, Ron and Catole , 01 Auckland , New 

~~~~;~lr6';,:,~~ ~o:h~id~ ept. 8, 8:13 p.rn.. 7 

GLEN'STER .. Brensby and Hazel, 01 

CM marthen, Wales. glrl.I,h::helll, Aug. 18,.7:. 2 

a.m., 8 pouncn(5 ounce • • now 3 boys , 1 girl. 

~:~~~~~~~~~ ~ff:~ ,( ~·. ~~~I~:r.: 

7 pounds 9 OIJI\Ces. f1rsl ch~d. . 

GRAHAM. Edwa rd and Barba ra (Gaines). of 

Hebfon, Ind., boy. Aric Curtls .'Sepl. 25. 8:31 

a.m., 9 pounds ' 2 ounce s. now 3 boys . 1 girl. 

HARD Y, E!b.ft . and . Braf\da (Si mmo ns) . of ' 

Elkhart. 1rId., girl. April Colleen. sepl. 15. 2:05 

a.m.. 7 pound. 5 o~. , now 1 boy. 1 girl. 

HE YKOOP , C9r and leona (WMson), 01 St. 

Calharin• • , Ont.. girl. Alisa Marie. Oct . 16 . 6:25 

a.m., 9 ,pound~ ,6 .0UIlt~ S , 'fsl cMd . ( .. " ' 

HOL MES . G.O lge and neu. (Martin) . 01 

Victoria. T••.• boy, Gra

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20 

~i~:L~~(Jp'D A ITE 

PLACES & . ~ . 

EVENTS IN'THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD 

.:;:.;.:.:..... 

PASADENA - Ca rol Lillie, on Ambassador "College ca mpus . 

daughter of Sta nley R. Rad er , the 

Work' s treasurer and general co unsel 

•Mark McNair w~s his brother' s best 

man and Sue WeD-dt was maid of 

to Her bert W. Armstrong, was honor for her sister. . 

bapti zed at the Rader home Oct. 27 The following day , Au·g. 2J , 

according to Bob Fahey, fonner director 

of the African Work currently an~"f'1rs . Clyd e Weaver of Dayton , . 

Mack Curtis Wea ver, son of Mr. 

in Pasadena on sabbatical . ': 

Ohio ,-a nd Karen Sue McNair were 

The bapt ism was performed by . married in the Ambassador College 

Mr . Fahey and was atte nded by Mr. 

Rader and Ralp h Helge, head of the 

Work 's legal department. Mrs. Little 

coun seled for ba pI ~~m 'with Mr . 

Recital Hall . TODy Morelli an d 

Elizabeth Meredith were their at; 

tendants . Mr. McNair conducted the 

ce remon y for both his son's and 

Armstrong, to whom she feels very daughter's weddings . . 

close, accor ding to Mr. Rader. 

Mr . Rader commented to Tucson, * * * 

Ariz., Feastgoers Oct. 23 that his PASADENA _ Her'man Boeh : 

daughter had requested baptism and co -pastor of the Pasadena Auwould 

be baptized shortly after he ditotium P.M. church, traveled to 

re'turned .tc Pasadena following the Syria during the first two weeks of 

Feast. __ October to visit the Mesopotamian 

excavation site at ancient Terqa, or 

~ modern Ashara, and other archaeolog-, 

ical sites along the upper Euphrates 

from the Iraqi border to the border of 

Turkey . 

An archaeo logy enthusias t, Mr. 

Hoeh helped uncover history by digging 

the earth at Terqa. 

* * * 

PASADENA - Ray Wr ight , 

former financial director of the 

Work , left for England Oct. 26 for a 

two-to-three-week preliminary trip. 

He will then reium to Pasadena for 

his familv ·.'''1N move to England for 

six mon t r~ :.. . " ;"':':' ·a" ; year . 

In Bnglafid Mr. Wright will study 

the business aspects of tbe Work's 

foreign _offices and assist Frank 

Brown, director of the Work in Great 

Britain: He will also help coordinate 

and oversee the British Work' s printing 

need s and pre pa rat ion fo r 

foreig n-lang uage editions -of The 

Plain Truth, accord ing to Sta nley R. 

Rader, the Work.'s treasu rer. 

* * * 

CHARLOTTE. N.C. - The 

Charlotte chu rch presented Mr . and 

Mrs. Burk McNa ir .an e ngrave d 

silver tray as well as congratulations 

June I I in honor of their 25th wedding 

anniversary July I ~ . Tape recordings 

from lhe MeNairs' two older children 

in Pasadena . Ke rry and Susie, were 

played at the surprise reception . 

In Augu st the McNair s went to 

Pasadena for the marriage of those 

two children - bot h wedding s 

within 24 hours . According to the 

McNairs the weddings were another 

special milestone in their lives. 

Aug. 20 Ker ry Burk McNair was 

married to De bra J ea n W en dt, 

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald 

We nd t of Pasadena, in a do uble . 

ceremony with Debra's sister Nancy 

and Elme r E. Co lli ns Jr. T he 

ceremo ny was in the Italian Ga rdens 

T he Ambassador. Inte rnational 

Cultural Foundatio n (AICF) has been 

jointly sponsoring:the Terqa excavation 

along with the Institute of Archaeologyat 

the University of 

Califo rnia. Los Angele s (UCLA), 

Johns Hopkins University and other 

institutions for the past three years. 

The AIC F will disco ntinue its participation 

in tbe project after-this 

year . 

.Terqa was on the route by which 

traffic from Babylonia and Sumer. 

_Ieff Mesopotam ia and the Euphrates 

Valley and crossed into inner Syria to 

the Kings Highway tothe Jord an in 

the second millenium B.C., acco rding 

to Mr. Hoeh. The excavation is 

directed by Dr. Giorgio Buccellat i, 

director of the Institute .of Archaeology 

at UCLA , and his wife, both 

personal friends of the Hoehs. 

* * * 

PASADENA - Sta nley Rader 

anno unced that Jack Bicket has been 

appointed to the position of assistant 

treasurer and will be report ing directly 

to Mr. Rader as a member of 

hi s fi nan ci al staff . . Mr . Bicke t 

worked as business manager inBig 

Sandy, Te x.• until 1974, when he 

was moved to Pasadena to assume 

• responsibilities in the Account ing 

and Data Processing Department s. 

The GOOD 'NEWS 

CnuRCH 

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Mr. and Mrs. Burk McNair. right, were honored lor their 25th wedding anruversa 

ryJune 11 by the Charlott e. N.C.•chu rch, where Mr.McNair serves as pastor and area coordinator. InAugus t 

the McNairs traveled to Pasadena for the marriages of .two of the ir children, Kerry and SUSie, ~o Debra Jean 

Wendt and Mark Curtis Weaver Aug. 20 and 21. Inthe lelt photo are .trorn lelt,Mr. and Mrs. McNair. Mr, and Mrs. 

Mark Curtis Weaver, Mark McNair, and Mr. and Mrs. Kerry McNair. (See "Update." this page.) . 

\ ;.. 

Mo nday, Nov. 6, 1978 

Sabb ath 'afternoons! 

I say this to PUTAN ENDto the 

FALSE RUMOR that my son. now, 

mend ou s growth at Eugene , Ore . 

. U ntil I wen t to Holl ywood , 

1942 , to broadcast DAILY , I had 

(Continued from page 17) or other mini sters who ha ve gone co ntinued to pastor, or to copastor,the 

Sardis people near Jeffer 

gro up, but we fellow shipped out of G od ' s C hurc b 10 draw 

with them, 

away disciple s after them, are son. 

The form er Oregon Conference 

members in the Will amett e 

after Christ started , the present 

do ing what I did , 

As late as 1945 - 12 YEARS 

Valley now establis hed, under Two incidents prove 

Worldwide Churc h of God (then 

my pastorship, a regular Sabb ath Let me here cite two incide nts called the Radio Cb urch of God ), 

afternoon service . They, tho ugh to show tha t I was never a I "was still cooperating.With and 

not I. joined as member s with memher or in the em ploy of the helping tbe Sard is people. One of 

Salem , W . Va. I preached Sab· Dugg er faction at Salem , W . Va . their " 12" - John Kiesz - had 

bath mornin g at Eugene church, Shortly after the Or egon Co n moved to Canon City, Colo., because 

he said he needed to live 

th en dr ove 55 miles to th e ference brethren had gone in wi th 

schoolho use' near Jeffe~son to - the Dugger factio n, which had there due 10 its dry cli mate . He 

preach to them Sabb ath afternoons 

. . 

members into it, I agreed to at the time . He had had a small 

pulled about half of the Stanberry had no means of fina ncial support 

More radio stations open up cooperate with them but Dot as a ch urch there.. whose tithes kept 

member - . my SOLE MEMBER· him alive - but they had all 

It must have been late in 1935 SH'IPWAS ATEUGENE in the pare 

nt C hurc h of the present ' Canon Cit y to belp EIder Kiesz . I 

moved elsewhere. I we nt to 

that a Portland radio station 

ope ned up . T hen, for a lime, I Wo rldwide Churc h of God! We con ducted nightly meetings for 

preached Sabbath ' mornings at 

at Eugene handled our own finances 

for the Church . Mea ger every week to record the broad 

some weeks, going into Denver 

Eugene, afternoo ns at Jeffers on . 

then on to Portland for a 4 p.m , 

tho ug h they were , sta rti ng in cast. RESULT? God , through me , 

Sund ay broadcast. Very sho rtly 

193 3, yet they were GROWING at raised up a new churc h there for 

after that. I went on the air in 

approximately 30 .percenl per him. 

Seattle, statio n KRSC , 8:30 Su n- year. _ . 

God ' s PRESENT GREAT WORK 

day mo rning s. . 

Soon after I dec ided to cooperate 

with them , they made a politi 30 perce nt per year . By no stretch 

was getti ng off to a start . grow ing 

In those days I continued fello 

wsh ippin g an d cooperating 

ca l mov e to stop the Radio of the imag ina tion co uld anyo ne 

with the Salem-based fact ion. I Church of God broadca st. as it say that.I left the Sardis people to 

had 10 tum the Sund ay, mornin g 

the n was called. · and also The draw away their members after 

radio program ove r to my assisra 

nt e lder, Claude E llis. I 

Plain Truth.: and to TAKE OVER me .'I NEVER DREW ANYOFTHEIR 

the members God had ADDED to . MEMBERS - altho ugh the Henion 

preached Sabbath mo rnings at 

His Church at Eugen e. Please and Cole fami lies did of their 

Euge ne , Sab bath aftern oo ns at 

read thai again. an d GET IT ow n free choice, affil iate with the 

Jefferson , then on to Seattl e, ar- . 

STRAIGHTas to WHOwas trying to C hurch of God starting from 

riving usually after midnight . Up 

steal WHOSE members! Quite the Euge ne . 

at 5 a.m. , a qu ick coffee while I 

oPPOSITE of what de parte d dissident 

s are trying to clai m today! small, but now in charge of Pas 

Mr. Way ne Cole, then quite 

scan ned the Sunday newspaperat 

a co m er dru gstore-for war new s 

Otto Haehe r, one of " the 12'" tor alv Admin istratic n in th e 

to broad cast, then I had to type - was sent to my -office in Eugene . Wo rldw ide Cilui-Ch'of'God, will 

the entire broa dcast script, because 

Wor ld War II was by then was 'established in an office in Part of the"FACTS reco rded here 

(God's present Wor k alread y confirm this . 

under way . and radio anno uncers 

Eugene be ginning about were written in The Atuob iography, 

yet many of them have not 

had to hold script on me 10 see November, 1933 .) 

that I did nor deviate from it on 

the air. - . . 

" We have decided:' said Mr. been previously publi shed . I 

Haeber, " to tra nsfer you to have felt it is time-to STOP thei r 

Preci sely at 8 a.m " I was in my Tacoma , Wash." 

mouths! 

ca r , dri vin g past th e Boe in g " W hy sho ul d I ' move to As we read in Titus I: J I , there 

works, to KRSC . O n the air at 

Tacoma?" I asked . 

are deceivers WHO S~MOU"TH S 

8 :30~off at 9, drove on to Port· 

" Well , we think there is an MUST-BE-STOPPED!;"; 

land arriv ing about 3 p.m . for the 

interest there ." 

But, more important. I have 

4 p.m. broadcast , off .the air at "What do you mea n, Otto , by felt it profitable to ou r brethren 

4:30 , then the 123-mi le drive to 

'an interest'? How many peo ple for me to give you this review of \ 

Eugene , arr iving by 7:30 , wit h a 

are "interested .' as yo u say, in the BEGINNINGof the Worldwide 

church full of people awaiti ng a Tacom a?" 

' Church of God . 

fuJIeven ing eva ngelis tic "service. 

"Well, po ss ib ly three or . Looki ng bac k. it is difficult for 

Then a full week writing and 

four," was the hesita ting answer. me to understand , now, WHY I 

printing The Plain Truth. holding " Ottc .:" ! said, " I have agreed was so mixed up in tbose da ys 

a midweek Bible study , visiting 

to cooperate with the Sa le m abo ut C hurch or ga nization . I 

membe rs and prospective mem 

churc h - but my only me mbership 

is here in the Ch urch at Salem factions had God ' s o wn 

knew neither St anberry no r 

bers, anointing the sick , an 

swering mail. 

Euge ne and none of our Eugene fo rm of Church org aniza tion. 

And STILL preaching for the 

me mbe rs are member s of the .' This had us all confused - even 

- Sard is church ne ar Je ffe rson 

Salem church. Due to my broadcas 

though, when one puts the perti 

t and The Plain Truth, several nent scriptures 'together, it be 

hundred defin itely a re "in comes crys~a l clear" 

terested ' here, andthis is wher e I 

intend 10 stay .,. . . 

Organizational pattein 

He gave up and left . 

resto red 

A second incident 

A seco nd inci dent occ urred 

prior to that. Mr . Haebe r ca me to 

my office, soo n after I had agreed 

to cooperate with them . 

" We have assigne d all the ter 

. ritory l{om Salem to Eugene to 

Elder A J . Ray", be said. "and 

the Eugene territory to you ." 

··I interpret that to mean that 

all the Eug ene ter ritory, from the 

. city of Eugene north ro Salem, is 

as signed to me, and that is wha t I 

shall keep ," . 

Actuall y, the se Dugger men 

wa nted to coo perate with me for 

one reason only . 1bey saw that 

GOD WAS BLESSING EVERYTHING 

I DID WIT H SUCCESS-many new 

members bein g brou ght in - and 

- they wanted to TAKE OVERGod ' s 

peop le whom Gnd had added 'to 

HIS CHURCH, then starting a tre- 

B ut Gods Church. though 

continuous through all genera 

tions from A:D . 31 , LOST much 

or all of its original organiza 

tional pa tt e rn est abl ished BY 

CHRtST - until God finally reo 

sto red it IN THIS END TIME 

thro ugb His present-day apostle, 

T ruly , GOD HAS PREPARED A 

PEOPLE FOR HiSNAME - and His 

WIFE (God 's Chu rch of today) is 

mak ing herself ready! 

There is only the ONE, TRUE 

and ORtGINALChurch of God 

and tod ay CHRIST has organized it 

acco rd ing 10 the origi nal pattern 

HE, THE ETERNAL, INSTALLEe! 

My N EW BOOK , Se ven' Proof s 

ofthe TRUE CHURCH, is starting 

10 appear serially in bot h The 

Good News arid The Plain Trurh. 

It leaves NO DOUBTas to the identity 

of Ihe .ONE and ONLY TRUE 

CHURCH!

Good News 1978 (Prelim No 22) Nov 6 - Herbert W. Armstrong

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