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tltbe Uorlbwibe j}eW5OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD

Pianist wins YOU talent contest

Brethren serve in Rose Parade

JAN . 12, 1981

MR. RADERSPEAKS IN TORONTO

Pastor Ge ne ral Herbe rt W.Armstrong 's pe rso na l assist­an t Stanley A. Rader s poke tothe combine d Toronto , Ont .,c hurc he s Dec . 6 . His com ­mentsconcerningrecentactiv­itie s in God ' s Chu rc h beg in onpage 5.

Dec. 28. The first at 2:30"p.m, wasclosed competition before a five­member pa nel of pr ofessi onaljudges . The second was at 7 p.m.,with the 14 cont estants and a dan c­ing duo of Alici a Marin and LuisGarcia from Guadalajara, Mexico,performing for the I>1;Iblic.

Re ce iving honor ab le me nti onwere C he r i Bu rr y, performingBrahms' Rh apsody in G Minor onpiano; Kim Friesen, who played apiano version of Fantasit Impromp­tUin CShtup Minuby:Cbopin;andHeid i Schatz for her vocal renditionof ' 'S tMt irig Here , Starting Now "by' Richard Mal ty J r. and DavidShire.

The ot her regional finalists wereChery l A ndr usko, Phi l Bau er,Na dine McCormick, Teresa Pe­

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and an even larger ga thering wel­comed them at the stude nt center onthe Amhassador College camp us.

Pastor Ge neral Herbe rt W. Arm­stro ng approved the cont inuatio n ofthe projectNov. 28 [WN, Dec. 22) .A second conti ngent of eigh t st u­dents depar ted Dec . 29 for Thailandaccompanied .by evangelist HermanL. Hce h and John Halford, a minis­ter here. Both men have been closelyinvolved in the ACEPT program.

(See THAI LAND, pIIg11 3)

sion stands and many others .""We have a very good liaison with

both the To urnament of Roses andS harp & Warn er [the company thatmarkets Rose Parade services],"

(See PARADE, pa gll 3)

FIRST PLACE - While YOU director Kevin Dean (right) looks on. assis t ·a nt YOU director Mike Blackwell ( left) co ngratulates John Mabry, winne rof the 1960 YOU National Talent' co ntest Dec . 26 in the AmbassadorAudHorium. [Photo l1yScott Smith]

By J ohn CurryPAS ADENA - Si x Am hassa­

dar College students who spen t thepast five month s in C hiang Khong,Th ai land , teaching the English lan­guage and Weste rn culture to refu­gees, retu rned her e Dec . 25 . T heywere involved in the AmbassadorCoi lege Educationa l Pro ject inThai land (ACEPT) .

A group of stu den ts were on handat Los Ange les Intern at ional Air­por t to greet the ar riving st udents,

Un ited St at es and Canad a whoqualified to compe te in Pasadena,John said he had been aching andrunning a temperature during thecon test. "I had to give it my best ,though," he said , " beca use aftercom pet ing last year, ,I kn ew Iwanted to come to AC. I reallyworked on my piece thi s past year ."

Se cond place and a one-yearscholars hip to 'Ambassador werepresented to Terri Conti of Den­ville, N .J ., for her accordion rendi­tion of Concerto in E, Third Move­ment by Pietro Oeiro .

Ron Plumlee of Tope ka, Kan. ,earned 'third place and a cne-sem es­ter scholarship for his saxophonesolo of " I' ll Always Love You, " aself-composed piece for which hewrote saxo phone and piano par ts .

Two performanc es took place

Ma nag emen t De pa rtmen t, whohelped plan theprojec t . Wit h morethan 7.000 seats for the parade oncollege propert y, the college servesas a focal point during the activ ities.he said.

With th e small army of volu n­leers, the World wide C hurch ofGod is the " oil that makes theparade flow," repor ted Mr. We b­ber. He rem ar ked that C hurc hbret hre n staff most of the supportservices along the entire paraderoute.

" The Los Angel es [Calif"] Timesca lls this the ' biggest part y onearth,' .• he said. "We provide ush­ers, security perso nnel. att endan tsfor par king. lots, peop le for conces-

Six AC students returnfrom Thailand project

eese and all eithe r students or facul­ty from universit ies who understandEnglish. The y seemed very int er­ested and the sermon was in power,on approaching world crisis (GreatTr ibul at ion) and C hrist's coming,Kingdom of God, way-of life. spiri­tuallaw and peaceful world tomor­row. Will speak here again threeweeks from today and expect largercrowd . leave Sunday for HongKong and Manila.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

By JetrZbomePAS ADENA - "His mouth

dr opped to the flood" exclaimed acontestant describing the reactionof 17-year-<lld John Mabry ofTroy,N .C ., winn er of the sixth annualYout h Opportun it ie s Un ited(YOU) National Talent Contest .The event took place Dec . 28 in theAmbassador Auditorium.

john rece ived a two-year Ambas­sador College scholars hip for hispiano performance of Rhapsody inG Minor by Johannes Brahms.one of 14 regional finalists in the

PASA DEN A -' W ha t d oapp roximate ly 1.000 Pasade nabret hren have in commo n? T hey al lvolunteered from 12 to 36 hours ofth eir tim e to help in the 1981 Tour ­nament of Roses Dec . 31, 1980,thr ough Jan . 2. 1981: acco rdi ng toRobin Web ber, an assista nt pastorof the Audi torium P.M . congrega­tion here .

Hu nd reds of hours of planningand organ izing the support servicesfor the parad e climaxed Dec. 31.when more than one mill ion peoplelined the parade route .

"To my knowledge, we arc thela r ges t prope rty owne r on therout e." s tated Doug Hcrchak. anemployee in the Work 's Facilities

for the sessions are : Jun e 10 to 29,J ulyJ to 23 and Jul y 27 to Aug. 1~.

Tuition discounts

Sess ion tuition will be $ 175. Anadditional $25 is required for YO Ushir ts and jackets. Accordi ng to theYOU office. the tu ition covers food.lodging and equ ipment use dur ingthe session . Campers are covered byregular YOU insurance while atOrr.

A $50 discount will be subtractedfor each second child atte nding. Iffour children att end from one fami­ly. the second and fourth child renwould pay only $ 125, while the firstand th ird would pay S175.

Financial aid

Seve ral plans are available for tui ­tion aid. said the YO U director. Aselect nu mber of campers will be

(See SEP, page 31

English-lang uage paper s. We pre­sented him with a gift of Steubencrystal as we had to other primemini sters befor e him .

Pri me M inis ter S uzuki lef tTo kyo for Ma nila [P bilipp ines]Tb urs day for con ferences withPresident Ferdinan d Marcos . I willhave conference wit h Pr esidentMarcos week of January 11.

On Wedn esdav th e 7th, Mr .Rader and I had tea and an hour' svisit with Prince Mikasathe emper­or' s brother and his wife Prin cessMikasa. We have known: th em for12 years , and we dec ided we were allgetti ng old, for we talked over oldtim es of 1 9~8, 1970 and later thatwe have enjoyed together.

T hursday nigh t was the big ban­quet in the Impe rial Hot el's largestballroom . Fou r hundred eigbty-twowere present - the very top elite ofTok yo, including 22 ambassadorsrepresenting other nations and some20 of my " Japanese sons" who arecongressmen in Japanese Diet . I waschief spea ker and gave them astrong messa ge of Kingd om ofGod .

Sabb ath af ternoo n at 2:30, Ispoke to an audience of about 100Plain Truth subsc ribe rs-aJl Ja pe-

(Y OU ).Mr. Deansaid plans for the thr ee

summer sessions are well und er .way. The program is addi ng an addi­t ional session th is year to accco m­modate addi tional cam pers. Dates

The/ allowing is a telex / romPasto r General Herbert W.Arms trong in Tokyo, Japan,Jan. 10.

VOL. IX, NO.1

HWA meets Japanese leader,

gives address at Tokyo banquet

TOKYO - We left T ucson Fri­day noon Ja n. 2, ar riving Ho nolulu[Hawaii] Friday evenin g. I met withand preach ed to chu rch Sabb ath .Left Honolulu Sunday noon . C ross­ing Internation al Date Line in after­noon it became Mo nday, ar rivedjust befor e dark at Tokyo Monday.

Mr. [S tanl ey R.] Rade r accom ­pan ied me as usual in ear ly af ter­noon visit with Prime Minister Ze n­ko Su zuki at his official residence .He is the sixt h pr ime minister I havemet in private visit in Japan. I con ­gra tulated him warml y on his new"Su zuki Doctrine" announced th atmorning for Japan aid to, and coop­erati on with , the Associati on ofSo u t heas t A sian N ation s(ASEAN) announced in th e Jap a­nese press tha t morning.

I congratu lated him on a policy cf"gi ve" instead of " get:' His officewas filled with TV and still camerasand bright lights, and repo rters forour interview, which was reported inWed nesda y mornin g Ja panes e-lan­guag e newspapers, bu t no t in

Plans progress for 1981-SEPPASADENA - Teen agers in

God 's Ch urch may apply soon forth e 198 1 Su mmer Educat ional Pro­gra m (SEP) near O rr , Minn .,acco rdi ng to Kevin Dean . dir ectorof Yo ut h O pport unit ies United

YOUNG ARCHER - A camper takes a im with bow a nd ar row during th esecond session of the S umme r Educat ion al Progr am (SEP) near Orr ,Minn., la s t s umme r. [P hot o by Nathan Fau lkner)

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2 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Jan. 12,1981

Another EC milestone: Greece joins up

By Dexter H. Faulkner

ISSN0 164-3517

The WOt'/d'tt1de News IS tJI,tllIshed brweet<.ly.excep t dln1Qthe Owen's amuaJFal Festrval,by the Wor ldwid e Church or God CopynghlID 1981 WorktoMde Church 01 God A.R nghtsreserved

Editor In chief: Herbert W . ArmstrOflQ".neglng edUor : Dexter H. FaUlkner

Senior editor: Shetla Graham ; e..ocl et .editor: Tom Hans on : feeture. ed itor: Nor ­man Shoaf; ley out editor : Rooald Grove :ne w. editor : MIChael Snyder, .tMI writers:John Curry , RuelGoerrer o, JeffZhome:" Loc alChurc h ~w." edUor : Delores screceoecornpoaiUon: Don PatrICk., Heather Olsoo .ph otogr.phy: Nathan Faulkner. Roland Rees,SCott &r.th ; cl rcu laUon: EileenDennis: pro­duction coordinator: Syd AllenboroughNOnCE: The Worldwide News cannot beresponSIble lor the relurn 01unsolicl' ed artcresand photographs

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CIRCULATION 56,000

votes out of a total of 63. The num­ber of votes necessary to make adecisio n will be raised from 41 to45,"

There will also be an EC comm is­sioner from Greece at the Commis­sion headquarters in Brussels ­raising the number of commission­ers to 14. This will not facilitatedecision-making either. A commit­tee of " T hree W ise Men " isstudyi ng what institutional changeswill be needed to take account of theentry not only of Greece but also ofSpain and Portugal so that the Com­munity can continue to funct ionefficiently .

A two-tie red EC?

The heartland countries of theEC- West Germany, France, Ital y- are naturally concerned over theCommunity's shift to the poorersouthern Europe .

Politically, the move has advan­tages . A more stab le Greece and

T urkey helps shore up Europe'ssouthern flank. But many social andeconomic problems are expected.

. Will citizens of all the poorer mem ­bers. for exam ple, be able to circu ­late freely throughout the ent ireCommunity, having the right towork in any country they please,enjoying full work and welfare ben­efits and the complete range ofsocial and educat ional rights ?

Already , in northern and centralmember states. afflicted with slug­gish economies , there are growingnegative reac tions to the "guestworkers " 'from some or these samecoun tries .. Litt le wonder some EC policy

thinke rs are now talking about afuture two-tiered Community.composed first of all of those mern­bers having full status and right ofmovement for their citizens, andsecondly, for the poorer countries.some sort of permanent associat ionstatus. The latte r would enjoy shar ­ing EC political decis ion-makingpowe r, but migration of theirnationals would be stringently con­trolled .

Perh aps in this manner we willarrive at the final 10 nations of Rev­elat ion 11-notthe lOin the Com­man Market now, but rath er fivefull members from Western Eur opeand five from Eastern Europe ,including some re leased fr ombe hind the Ir on Curtain (see" Worldwatch," Sept. 15. 1980).

Elvira Mas troLos An geles . Cal if.

BY GENE H. HOGBERG

LettersTO THE ED ITOR

W~RLDWATCH

Worldwide News a life-su er?Thank you , Mr. Faulkner, for your

arti cle on the im port ance of communi­ea ting with our children .

J had just finished read ing and wasthinking about your article when Rick ,my Ie- year-old son. presented some badnews. ,

He sa id ." Dad. I was t ry ing to back theear out of the gar age, but I had it in first.and I drove forw ard int o your bicycle."

" Is th e bike damaged '?" I asked ."lt's totall y dest royed: ' he said. " but

I'll help you get a new one:'I looked the bike over . Bent frame.

twisted rims, loose spokes - hopeless. Itwould never get me to work again . Andina one-car family, t hisi sa problem . Butit was an accide nt. And I had done worseas aboy.

Rick knew I enjoy ed and need ed thebike. I knew he was truly sorry. So I didthe appropriate thing. I put my arm

.ac ross his shoulder and explained howDexte r Faulkn er had jus t saved his life .

Don HargravesSan DieSC', Ca::.-

Dtmon possessionMr . Armstron g's article on dem on

possession (Worldwide News , Dec . 8,1980 ) was very inte resting and informa­tive . I am sure man y peop le are inter ­ested in knowing how to avoid becomingpossessedby a demon or demons.

Keep up the good work and the lucidar t icles that upli ft and inform. Mywarm est regards to Mr . Arm strong andto the rest of The Worldwid e Newsstaff.

Noted one newspaperwoman:"Greeks have a great talent for sur­vival . .. for better or worse, Greecebecomes a part of an affluent, civil­ized, respectable famil y. For thefirst time in her long and troubledhistory . . . Why not accept thechal lenge'? What have we to lose?"

More bureaucrats

Greece's entry certainly comp li­cates the Community's linguisticand decision-making processes .Greek becomes the EC 's seventholliciallanguage (with Spanish andPort uguese looming just ahead) .Notes the Europe article quotedearlier: "One of the biggest organ i­zat ional changes involves the inter ­preters and translators who alreadyaccount fer one third of the total

staff employed at the EC Commis­sian... ..

All official docu ments will betrans lated into Greek, and Greekinterpreters will be needed at allmajor meetings. As it stands now,the Greek government has only 120official translators. Yet it will need650 just to translate EC documentsand regulations.

This linguistic . Babylon is badenough . Each new country alsocom plicates the political process ofthe Comm unity . Europe com mentson th is problem: "Th e addition ofGreece as the 10th member statewill put extra steam on the Commu­nity's decisio n-making process, Th eEC Council of Minis ters will nowhave to members - which wiltmake it that much more difficult toreach un ani mou s agreement onmajor issues, especially anything todo with T urkey . O n lesser; issues,where decisions are taken by quali •fied majority, Greece will have five

nity Las been dominated by north ­ern Eu ropean economic inte rests.especially those of cereals and dairyfanners , In the fut ure, much moreatte ntion will be paid to the interestsof Med ite rranean wine, citrus andolive oil producers." Note the spe­cific reference to wine and oil inReve lation 18:13 (a nd also theimportance of these two products inRevelatio n 6:6) ,

The German newspape r Frank­furter Rundschau, J une 14, 1980,also commented on the inclusion ofthe three wine-an d-oil producers(G reece, Spain, Port ugal): "Thewine surp'us resulti ng from thethree new members is likely toamount to between five and 10 mil­lion hectoliters [130 million to 260million gallons] a year . But th isproblem is not as grave as that posedby Spani sh olive oil, the productionof which involves two million farm­ers ."

The EC's newest member, how­ever, brings along a few liabi lities .Greece's industry is predominantlysmall scale, most of it consisti ng ofonly one to four people . For this rea­son, indus try will have a grace peri ­od of several years to grad uallyadjust to the EC tariff st ruct ure andexpec ted competi tion. On the otherhand, Greece will get an immediatewindfall from the EC's higherprices for many farm prod ucts.

Many Greeks are philosophicalabout the changes and challe nges.They are at last "joining Europe, "which they are a part of geogra phi­cally. bu t not as a state of mind .

advice is absolutely fatal ."Age is another. Many people are

sensitive, for one reason or another ,abou t their years. and are. acutely

. uncom forta ble if the age of other-. "'adults i4t'd iscusSed: ;Jk: . • 0~." ,-

. : Mopey is yet another. Tbere arecountless money matters•.from ris­ing taxes to bargai nsalc$;lhat can hefreely discussed, but direc t ques­tions about costs or income arealmost invaria bly out of line.

• I must also mentio n gossip.There is a th in line between genui neinterest in ot her people and theirprob lems and gossip for Its ownsake. About the only good way todeflate a ru mormonger is an off­hand, "Don't tell me you believethat stuff'!" Or, "How do you knowthat'?" The question, "Can you keepa secret?" is a fair warn ing of dan ­ger if the speaker is passing alongany secret but one of his own. Mypat answer is: " No. don 't tell me. Ifit's a secret I don't want to knowit."

Following are suggestions fordetermining when frankness mightor might not be appr opriate.

Before you volunteer informationor respond to a question , ask your­self: Is what I am about to say real­ly true? Is it necessar y tha t othersknow it? Will there be a more appro­priate time and place to make thisstatement?

Be as sure as you can about theother person's emotional capacity tohand le a frank answer or comment.In general , someone who is unwill­ing to level with you is unlikely towant you to respond frankly to himor her . And in certain situations aperson may be more sensitive or vul­nerable than at other times . Th e da ya spouse has had a series of disap­pointments is not the day to "befrank and hone st " ab out somebehavior or situation that annoysyou.

Be sensitive to the other person 'svalues. Talk about matters that youknow are important to him or herwith part icular gentleness and tac t.Each of us is thi n-skinned aboutsome t hings and thick-skinnedabout oth ers.

Remember, "The tongue of thewise useth knowledge aright : butthe mouth of fools.poureth 0 '.:' . fro!­isbness" (Proverbs : ) ·2 ~

offending them ."Peter's exhortation to us as Chris ­

tians is, "Finally, be ye all of onemind . having compassion one ofanother, love as brethren, be pitiful,be courteous" (I Peter 3:8) .

Tact is just another name for thekindness on which all rules of et i­quette are based , Tact is automaticwith any one not so completelyabsorbed in himself or herself as tobe unaware of the needs and feelingsof others .

Everyday Chri stian conversationis largely an exchange of expe ri­ences and reactions . James advises,"My beloved brethren, let everyman be swift to hear , slow to speak "(James 1:19) . Proverbs teaches , "Asoft answer tumetb away wrath: butgrievous words st ir up anger " (P rov­erbs 15: I) . Here are some common­sense ideas we may want to considerbefore we put our tongue into highgear .

• Th ink twice before maki ng aflippant reference to death , funer ­als, a physical handicap or subnor­mal mental ity . There is always thepossibilit y that a careless wisecrackwill add to the burden of someonetouched by a tragedy he keeps tohimsel f.

• Consider everyone within ear­shot - bystanders and companions- and if there is a shadow of doubtabout the suitability of a topic , skipit.

• Leave the hilarious tales ofothers' mistakes and mischances forthem to tell on themselves.

• Certain subjects have rightlyearned the label dangerous. becauseit takes skill as well as diplomacy todeal with them tactfully enough toavoid their inherenthazards,

Advice is one of those subjec ts.When that impulse to say, "If I wereyou," tu rns up, remembe r OscarWi ldes advice . "rl is 3 !W<l \' $ a sill',tt:::~! :"l ,gl"? advice . flU ' r; i i\' :;" good

important stepping stone to theMid dle East. It is the hub for 200Amer ican companies doing busi­ness in the region . Greece has closeties with Cyprus, which is 80 per­cent Greek.

The "southern cousins " knock­ing on the Com mon Market doorare considerably less developed thanthe current members. This is theheadache part of the equation. Theper capita gross nat ional produ ct(GNP) of Greece is less than halfthat of the Community as a whole,thoug h its growth rate has been fast­er. lis standard of living is roughlythe same as the Nine's poorest sta le,Ireland. (Incidentally, poverty-rid­den T urkey's GNP is about a thi rdthat of Greece, less than one-sev­enth that of the EC as a whole.)

Yet , Greece does have its ertrec­tive points for the Brussels-basedN ine-turned -Ten. By virtue of hermembership alone, the CommonMarket's share of world shippi ngincreases by 50 percent - from 20percent of the world 's share tc 30

'percent. Greece's vast fleet of 4,{)(X)ships totals 40 million gross tons­the largest fleet in the world. This isespecial ly significant in view of theprophecies in Ezekiel 21 and Reve­lat ion 18 concerning an end-t imeglobal political-economic power .

The southern expans ion of theCommon Market means that Medi­terranean-type agricu ltural prod­ucts become significant. " U ntilnow," reports Europe, a semioffi­cial puhlica tion of the EC (July­August, 1979, issue), "the Commu-

By Doxler H. Faun.-The captain approached the ser­

geant with some bad news. "Se r­geant ," he said , " we just got wordthat Johnson's grandmother died .You'd better go break: the news tohim."

The sergeant walked into the bar­racks , paused at the doorway andshouted , " He y, Johnson. yourgrandmother died ."

The captain was horrified. "Ser­geant , that 's no way to tell a manthat his grandmother has died . Lookhow you've shocked him, You haveto use tact in a situation like this . Ithink we'd better send you to Tactand Diplomacy School ."

So the sergeant spent six month sstudying at Tact and Diplomac ySchoo l. On the day he returned, thecaptain approached him.

" Well, Se rgean t , how did you doin school?"

"Fine ," rep lied the sergeant." I've really learned how to be tact­ful."

"That's good. because we've jus tgoUen notice that Smith's grand­mother died . Go in and tell him."

The sergean t entered the bar­racks, paused at the doorway andcalled his men to attention. Whenthey were lined up he stepped beforethem and ordered: "All those withliving grandm others step forward .Not so fast, Smith."

Th is old story, hum orous as itmay be. is a reminder that we needto USeproper tact in our speaking.The saying, "Sticks and stones maybreak my bones, but words will nev­er hurt me," is not quite true. Word scan hurt, psychologically at least. ifused in the wrong way. How manyt imes in our lives havewemadetact­less mistake s?

Th e dict ionar y definit ion of tactis, " A keen understanding of how toget along with other persons: theability to de al \LI;~ h others without

PASADENA-On New Year'sDay, Greece became the EuropeanCommunity's 10th - and poorest-member.

Greece's formal induction intothe Common Market has been along time in coming . It became anassociate member in 1962but had todelay further progress when theGreek military ove rt hr ew thenational government in 1967, anddid not relinquish control until1914.

The last step along the road torulimembership was reached May 28.1979. when official papers weresigned by Prime Min ister Constan­tine Karamanliaand rep resentativesof the nine EC countries . Mr. Kara­manlis said that it was a " historicalmoment that marks the end of a longmarch and solemnly seals the fusionof OUf destinies with those ofEurope ."

Benefils ODd ....dacbes

Greece's entry brings both bene­fitsand headaches to the Communi­ty and its newest member. Aboveall, it changes the orientation of theEC from a basically central andnorthern European group into onewith a southern. Mediterraneanpost ure . This new di rectio n will beacce nt uated with the linkup ofSpain and Portugal. expected in1983.

And if Turkey becomes a fullmember - unlikely now, but stillpossible - the EC will extend to thedoorstep of the Middle East.Greece, in her own right , is an

Deadline nears for submittingscores in YOU bowling contest

Monday , Jan. 12, 1981

PASADENA - January marksthe second month of official YouthOpportunities United (YOU) bowl­ing competit ion, acco rding to KevinDean, YOU director.

Detailed ru les gove rning thefourth annual tourname nt are foundin the YOU Coordinator's Manual.General rules are as follows: AnyYOU member may participa te inindividual and /o r team competi­tions; competition must be com-

Blrade(Contin ued from p.ge U

reported Mr . Horchak. ''The To ur­nament of Roses committee setshigh standards for thei r operation.They like the quality of the Ambas­sador Co llege facilities and its com­mitme nt to exce llence."

The college and Ch urch begantheir involvement with the parade16 years ago, with students and fac­ulty manning concession stands andparking can. stated Mr . We bber .

"This year we had tremendoussupport - ministers like Joe Tkac h,Curtis May. Selmer Hegvel d. Dr.[William] Kessler were out parkingcars with AC faculty mem bers DickAme s, Dave Albe rt and ma nyothers:' he said.

Man y ~•. dents at Ambassadorgot involved, stated Gary Shaffer,student body president. " We hadstudents working between 12and 24hours with little sleep . Many peoplegot up at 3:30 in the mornin g to sellprograms , while others worked all

. night selling concessio ns or workingon security. '

Mr . Shaffer added that a larger

pleted between Dec. I, 1980, andFeb. 28. 1981. and all entries mustbe postma rked by March 5, 198 J.Entry for ms are avai lable fromChurch pastors and the YOU officehere.

Individual competition is dividedinto four catego ries: senior boys,ages 16 to 19; senio r girls . ages 16 to19; j unior boys, ages 12 to 15; andjunior girls, ages 12 to 15. The sumof three games rolled in a series

perce ntage of stude nts volunteeredfree labor than in previous years ,whicb he feels "reflects the type ofenthusiasm Mr. Armstrong has putback into the college ."

Funds gained from the endeavorwill be used for college and Ch urchact ivities, Mr . Webber said. Theonce-a-year fund-r aising activi tyenables the Church to fund dances,help widows and sponsor specialevents , he added .

SEP(Conti nued from pap 11

sponsored from the Churc h Assist­ance Fund, with other assistancecoming from the YOU FinancialAid Program . Mr. Dean asked thatcampers not apply for financial aidunless qualified, He also noted thattravel expenses are normally notcovered in financial grants .

Tee nage rs desiring to atte nd the1981 SEP should request an appli­cation from t heir loca l pastor .Applicat ions for high school workerpositions are available (rom localpastors, be said.

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should be recorded on the YO Uentr y form and sent to Pasadena .Games must be rolled one at a time .

First, second and third places willbe awarded, with winne rs publishedin The Worldwide News.

Tea m scores are the sums of 12games . (Eac h memberofafour-per ­son team rolls th ree consecut ivegames .) Scores are to be recorded onthe YOU entry form and sent toPasadena. First , second and th irdplaces will beawarded in team com­petitio n, with subsequent winnerspubli shed in The Worldwide News.

Mr. Dean reported that a high­points game award will be given forthe highest individual score.

He stated that pastors, YOUassistants or other qualified personsshould supervise the games. TheYO U office suggested a church orYOU bowling part y be organized,in which YO U contestants bowlthei r three consecutive games. Mr.Dean said he hopes families will getinvolved.

SPRING SEMESTER BEGINS - Incoming stud ents attend an or ientationforum during registration week at Ambassador Coll ege Jan. 7. Fi ft y newstudents have been adm itted for the sp ring semester . Classes beganJan. 12. [Ph olo by John Curry)

(Conti nl*f fro m .... 11

te rson, Karen Quartullo, RichardReddi ng, Mark Salcedo and Thom ­as Seay II I.

Also featured at the evening showwere the Young Ambassadors, agroup of college students who per ­formed three numbers . To conc ludethe evening , joined by the YO Ucontestants, they sang " Harmony,'

Kevin Dean, YOU director, saidhe felt the contestants were exem­plary of the youths in the local con­grega tions. Mr . Dean added that thefive judges had an especially diffi­cult time choosi ng a winner.

"I was extremely impressed withthe quality of talent and quality ofcontestants this year ," noted MikeBlackwell , contest coordinator andassistant YOU director. "It wasgood to sec everybody pulli ng foreach other and even hugging oneanother backs tage ."

"I think those who competed inthe various YOU talent contests ­whether district. regional or nation­al - arc all winne rs," remark edDexter Faulkner, managing editorof Youth 8 1 magazine .

Th e contes tant s enjoyed severalactivities while in the Pasadena area,including a trip to Disneyland,Knott 's Berry Farm , Univer sal Stu ­dios. an after-show pizza part y andthe Rose Par ade. Th e finali stsstayed on the Am bassador campusand were accompanied on the tri psby members of the nat ional YO Ustaff and some of the contestan ts'parent s and friend s.

Mr . Blackwell announced thatnext year 's talen t show would takeplace in early Novembe r.

Con test

his service to the Church. personalexample and outstanding sermon s.

His company's top salesman forall of Alberta, Mr . Waard huizenwas well-known in his community .The funeral dir ector said his funeralwas Fort Mcl.eod 's largest ever.

Mr . Waardh uizen was on thc jobwhen the fatal acc ident occurred.

Mr . Waardhuizen is survived byhis wife Joan and a o-year-olddaug hter Jackie .

LETHBRIDGE. Alta. - PeterVan Waard huizen . a local elder ofthe Chu rch here. was killed instant­ly in an automobile accident Dec. I.He was 34. Mr . Waardhuizen wasborn in Holland and moved to FortMcLeod , Alta.. when a child . Hewas ordained in Avr il . 1979.

Ken Webster, pastor of the Leth ­bridge congregation . sa id Mr .Waa rdhuizen was "very impressive,a cut above the norm:' refer ring to

Auto accident ends life

of Canadian local elder

tContin~d from pav- UThe two ministers returned to

Pasadena Jan. 8 after evaluating theprogress 'of the project , accordi ng toDepu ty Chancello r Raymo nd F.McNai r.

Relating his experiences, grad­uate Bill Hall comme nted : " It wasobvious that God was working withthe project . Beside the refugeesbenefiting from our teachi ng. theproject has put the college andCh urch on the map in Thailand:'

Mr . McNair received several let ­ters of com me ndation, not onlyfrom Thailand officials, bu t fromthe United Nat ions,

N ina Schaefer, Northern Thai­land Field Officer for the UnitedNat ions High Co mmissioner forRefu gees. referred to "the enthu..siasm and abilities of the Ambassa­dor College teachers: ' She added:" Most of the students (refugees)

HEADED FOR THAILAND - Students and graduates chosen to part ic ipate in the Ambassador College Educa­tional Project in Thailand (ACEPn pose for a group photo. Front row, from left: Dianne Seelhoft. RosemaryThompson. Sandra Atk inson and Raymond Epperson. Second row: Tim Butl er, Terry Oozier, Tony Gallagher andLer oy Rose . [Phot o by Nathan Faulkner}

have been able to learn a consid-erable amou nt of English in theshort time that they were able toatte nd the course . The Thailandcamp officials are very satisfied withthe program and have expressed tome their hope that this projec t becontinued in Chiang Khong.'

T he U nited Na tions requestedthat Ambassador College expandACEPT to include anothe r refugeecamp in northern Thailand. Mr.Hoe h and Mr. Halford visited thecamp to assess the feasibility ofteach ing there also. accord ing toMr. McNair.

Se nior Doug Peitz said the expe­rience helped to broaden his hori­zons. "I can now understand thetypes of prohiems we will face at thebeginning of the Millenni um ­how to deal with people who havebeen through war and deprivation.Teaching the refu gees was mentallyvery stra ining. and also the hothumid clima te drains you physi­cally."

Thailand

'PROGRAMSI' - Ambassador College sophomore Rees Ell is eeus pro­grams for the Tournam ent of Roses fest ivit ies on New Year's Day. [Pho toby Scott Smith)

4 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Jan. 12,1981

The Attorney GeneralKept HisWord.

Now I Will Keep Mine.

I AM TREASURER and Gen­eral Counsel for the

Worldwide Church of God.Last September, while mychurch was locked in battlewith the Attorney General ofthe State of California overthe question of whether ornot the State had the right toinvestigate our work and "ouruse of our money, I made apublic statement.

Because it had been insinuatedthat I was leading the battle to pro ­tect our Church because, at least inpart, I was personally ambitiousand might even have visions of suc­ceeding our Church's Founder andPastor General Herbert W. Arm­strong, I found it necessary to spellout my thinking and my intentions.

This is what I said then, in a pressrelease and in an advertisement similarto this on e:

"Many members of the press haveasked me who will lead the Church whenMr. Armstrong is gone. And many times.I know, they ask, believing they knowthe answer. They th ink I will succeedMr. Armstrong or, at least, that I hopeto . They are wrong. I also know thatthere arc man y members of our Churchwho think of me as a possible successorto our Pastor General. I am touched bytheir love and by their faith in me. Butthey also are wrong. I do not consider iteven remotely possible that I will suc­ceed Mr. Armstrong. I am not worthy. Iam not qualified to serve Christ in thatway. I do not believe it is my calling . Itcertainly is not my desire. And I do notbelieve it is God's will.

"However, I know that my leadershiprole in the struggle against the AttorneyGeneral has created a public presencethat apparently leads some persons toquestion my sincerity. As a result, my

motives become suspect as I continue todefend our Church's Work . Much ofwhat I try to do is colored by that suspi­cion. There are those who believe I amself-serving or personally ambitious. Butthey are wrong. The only thing I want formyself is a return to a more private life . Icontinue the fight because I believe it is agood fight. With all my heart and soul Ibelieve in the rightness of our cause.

"Whe n the lawsuits against us are wonand our Church is free from attack. I willresign my official Church position. I willreturn to the private practice of law and .preferably, will devote I:..:rest my work ­ing life to public service."

I closed by promising never to sur­render in our fight and never to leave ourChurch.

That is what I said last September andthat is what I meant. In October. ourfight was won. Governor Jerry Brownsigned into law Senate Bill No. 1493,providing that the Attorney Generalshall have no powers that he asserted inthe litigation against the WorldwideChurch of God .

Attorney General George Deukmejianhad said he would ask dismissal of thelawsuits against us if SB 1493 becamelaw . He kept his word . The suits weredismissed. on his request . Oct ober 15.1980.

Therefore. it is time for me to keep myword .

I have resigned my position as Treas ­urer and a member of the Board of theWorldw ide Church of God . My resigna­tion is effective July I, 1981. I dated mynotice of resignation January 3, 1981, asa kind of symbol. It was on January 3,1979, exactly two years ago, that ourChurch was first assaulted by the officersof the Attorney General.

I will continue to serve as ExecutiveYice-President of the Ambassador Foun­dation, which carries on the non-sectarianwork of the Church. I also, as an attor­ney, will continue to defend the interestsof our Church worldwide, and I will con­tinue as a personal assistant to Mr. Herb­ert W. Armstrong.I hope this statement will serve twopurposes.

First . I hope it will end forever an yspeculation about the possibility of mysucceeding Mr. Armstrong as head ofour Church. That will never happen. AsI have said before, I do not expect any­one to succeed Mr. Armstrong. The Liv­ing God has entrusted Mr. Armstrongwith a Great Commission and God hasnever taken a man before his work wasdone. I do not look for or expect anotherPastor General. Under no circumstanceswill I ever be Pastor General of ourChurch . I do not know how to put thatmore clearly.

Secondly, I hope this statement finallywill clear the way for my return to a moreprivate life. a move I have desired formore than two yean. Those who knowme will remember that I resigned myofficial positions once before. I stayedon only because of the bailie that neededto be fought . Now that the fight is won, Iam looking forward to the tranquility ofa private life that my famil y and I havemissed so sorely during the past two years.

I have learned much during the lasttwo years. I have learned much about thereality of law as it is practiced in theUnited States . I know more than I on cedid about the need to remain vigilant inprotection of our basic rights .

Too, I have learned much ab out thestruggle of minority groups to achievejustice.

I will not forget what I have learned.What I ask God for now is the strengthand wisdom to use what I have learned in­ways that will serve Him well.

~R4STANLEY R. RADER

The Worldw ide Church of God

PUBUC ANNOUtlCEMENT - Church treasurer Stanley R.Rader published this advertisement Jan. 8 in the Los Angeles .Oatlt., Times and the Pasadena Star ·News .

Monday, Jan. 12, 1981 The WORLDWIDE NEWS 5

" fA Catholic priest] said, 'Other than our pope,nobody travels the world and receives therespect , , . as does Mr, Armstrong,' "

FORUMWITH STANLEY R.RADER

achieveme nts. And that is to estab­lish an inte rfaith center at the foot ofMt .SinaL

The y are going to build a syna­gogue there . They are going to builda church. They are going to build amosque. And it 's going to be aninte rfai th, World Peace Center thatMr . Armstrong feels will at leastpoint the way toward world peace .

We know what will bri ng aboutuniversal peace and prosperity, theothers do not yet. But this will be abeginning.

And Mr. Arm str ong pledg ed $ 1millio n, and delivered SI00,000,and has prom ised to return one yearfrom now to be the president's per­sonal guest aboard the pres identi alhelicopter that will fly into the footof Mt . Sin ai wher e together theywill plant , or whatever you call it,the first corn erst one . That is ratherexciting.

And other distin guished peoplearou nd the world will be involved inthis. It will be a 570 million project.

But it' s not th e money that' s soimportant, it's what it symbolizes.And the fact that Mr . Arm str ongwas the first to be invited , and theCh urch was the first to participate,is rather interest ing .

Let's not forget , the first leader

nigh t. I don' t agre e with what hesaid at all.

I th ought he was going to talkabout somet hing that would makehim differ from Mr. Arm st rong byreason of religion, or religious phi­losophy . And maybe he was resen t­ing the fact that Mr . Armstrong hadth rust upon thi s group of 300peoplea religio us message .

But no, that isn 't what he said tome. He was rather blunt. He said, Idon't agree with him because I don' tth ink conditions are so bad at all. Ilike the way it is,

So I looked at him in a nice wayand I said , I can und erstand that.And then he was waiting for what Iwas going to say, and I paused . Isaid , I see you have rose-coloredglasses on . And if I were walkingaround this world with your rose­colored glasses, everything wouldlook pretty rosy also. And thatended that debate. There was not h­ing more for him to say.

He was honest about it; he likedit. He had a comfortable position ina big company. He had worked allhis life probably to get there, and heliked what he had . This was theKingdom of God now for him, andhe j ust disagreed with Mr. Arm ­strong, that 's al l.

He didn ' t say he didn 't adm irehim . He didn't say anything aboutevents in accord with Mr . Arm -

strong's act ivities and our activitiesup unt il the time he heard Mr. A rm­strong state it as it was concerningthis world and its future.

. He wasn't belligerent. He didn'thave -'a chip on his shoulder, butobviously he was a man accustomedto speaki ng his mind, an exec utivewith a ce rtain amount of power ,responsibility and aut hority.And hejust wanted me, another American,to know he liked the way it was. Andhe didn't expect it to get to the pointthat he didn' t like it, not within hislifeti me.

And that's the way most peoplethink, by the way, when they reachthat kind of position . They are notconcerned about what is going tohappen . They just assume it's goingto be better for them and they arenot worried about anybody else.And those people are perhaps hard ­er to reach than anybody.

But I thought it was exciting thatthe other man, just slightly juni or ,did not agree with that posit ion. Soyou sec, we are making inroads andMr . Armstro ng is reach ing thosepeople .

And as I say this, it reminds meofsomething that I've never used any­where . I should have put it in mybook. By the way, how man y peoplehave read the book? Oh, well morethan (thought, because I just talkedto some people on the way in andthe y said they just received thei rbook , whereas I tho ught mostpeople got it at the Feast.

Are you enj oy ing th e book ?Th at' s good . I'm very pleased , I'dlike to hear from you. If you haveany comments about it that do notplease you, I'd like to hear those aswell.

But the re was an inciden t thatoccurred in Africa that I should haveput in there because it was anot herone of those outsta nding th ings thatoccur, and it inhances your faith inthe living God no matter how muchfaith you have or had before.

We were invited to be the firstoverseas visitors in Tran skei . Tr ans­kei was one of those little countriestha t suddenly was created. home­land territor y in South Afr ica.maybe becau se of the pressur e th atthe South Africans were havingover this issue of apartheid. At any

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people that Mr . Armstrong reache sin The Wall Street Journal are th epeople who own Ameri ca. or a partof it , who man age America. or a partof it . or one day want to own it, or apart of it, or one day want to manageit, or a part of it.

And last week 's ad , 1,000responses within the first 48 hou rsin California alone - unbelievable.unbe lievable stat ist ics. Mr . Arm­st rong is getting through.

When we were in Egypt the firsttime, a few weeks ago, he spokebefore the Egypt ian /AmericanFri endship Association, abo ut 300people, very distinguished people;ministers of the government, ex­ministe rs of the gove rnment,ambassadors, newspaper editorsand pub lishers, magazine editorsand publ ishers, entertainment per­sonal ities , visiting overseas repre­sentatives of big Ame rican compa­nies, facult y me mbers of the univer­sities, people of that sort.

Mr . Armstrong spoke , and he wasin incred ible form - meani ng thathis form, which is almost alwaysgood. was better, And that's impor­tant to reme mber . We're talkingabout Mr . Armst rong at his best.

When he' s not at his best, he' sstill bet ter than all of the m. And theaudie nce response was fantas tic ,they knew somethi ng important washappening.

But when he finished , it was late ,he had an hour's dr ive to get back tothe hotel, he shook only a few bandsand he left . I stayed behind with

~ othe r membersof our party accept­ing congratulations for M! . Arm ­strong's 'address; accepting j evite- : .tions to ret urn , as well as jus t simplethan ks for having invited them.

And then , two Americans cameup to me, two executive types. Oneof them was about 60. the othermaybe a few years less, representinga big, well-known Ame rican compa­ny located on the easte rn seaboardof the United States. And both thesegent lemen lived in Connect icut inthe most fashionab le, elite section ofConnecti cut, as I was to learn fromthem.

And they told me they had readMr. Anns trong's ads in The WallS trut Journal, and one man wasslightly senior to the other, not only inage but in position . I don't think hewas too terri bly seniorin position, butsenior enough . And the man who wasdoing most of the talking was the onewho was a bit junior.

And he was telli ng me that heapprec iated the ads and thoug htthey were quite outstanding, con­grat ulated us on winning our law­suit, which meant that he was awareof who we were, becau se naturallywhen we spoke there we didn ' t getup the re and tell them abo ut all ourt ria ls and tribu lat ions with the stateof Ca liforn ia.

He asked me, because he hadheard me someplace on television orradio in that area, if he could get acopy of my book. And I said I'd behapp y to send it to him right away.

And he more or less congratulatedMr . Armst rong on what he thoughtwas an outstanding presentat ion, andalso what he thought was a singularlyfine effort over the past several yearsin turning back govern ment bure au­cracy, which, of cour se, big businessis always vying with and contendingwith .

And then the otn er gentlemanspoke. He was noddi ng prett y wellall the way th rough there up to th atpoint. And then he said, well , I wantto tell you one thing, though. Mr .Rader . He said, I agree with ever y­thing that my associate has just said,but he hasn' t menti oned somethingelse . And that is, I don ' t agree withwhat Mr. Arms trong ju st said to-

"Don't be surprisedifone day you walk into services on aSabbath and suddenly you hear Mr, Armstrong delivering a2D-or 3D-minutesermonette live from abroad. He did that onthis recent trip. We were in London and he preached to tRePasadena services live. rr

and I would hope it's in the easternsec tio n. It ap pea red in Buffalo[N.Y.]. and that's not too far fromhere. Ask a pastor to get one everyweek and share it with you. Comesout every Monday morni ng.

Every Monday morning there is apowe rful one -page advertisementfrom Mr. Armstrong. UA VoiceCries O ut," he says. And then thereis his pictu re and then he lets themhave it.

" W hat's wrong with govern­ment ?" he says in the headline. Andthen he tell s them. " What's wrongwith labor unions?" And then hetel ls them . "What's wro ng withscience and tech nology ?" He tellsthem. " W hat's wrong with reli­gion '!" He tell s them. " W hat'swrong with man's j ustice? " And hetells them .

It 's an unbelievable door that'sbeen opened. becau se The WallSt reet Journal is reachi ng peoplethat , fra nkly. Mr . Arm st rong, in hishumble way, and he is a very humbleman at hear t, said he never thoughthe would be able to reach. He said henever thought he would reach thosepeople . Thei r hearts were so hard .

The business of Ame rica is busi­ness. Th at' s an adage, an old saw,but it happens to be true . And the

agai n, and a government of Godunder the laws of God . And he said ,tha t is mankind's hope and heri­tage.

And \hails essenii;l1ly.what Mr. •Arms trong tdls everybody be meetsfrom the most elevated ma n orwoman in society to th e per son leas televated. He tells them tha t in allkinds of ways. But he tells it to themwith clari ty and with impact, inimit­able power, inimitable sty le.

And their ears are now more openthan ever befo re. And thei r eyes areope n. And it 's beginnin g to getthrough to more and more people.

How many of you have seen Mr .Armstrong's advertise ments, full­page in The Wall Strut Journal,Ior-example? I think The .WallStrut Journal is pub lished up here

from the Chri stian world to beinvited to China in 30 years was thesa me Herbert W . Arm strong .Som ehow the word is getting outthat Mr . Arm str ong has somethingto say that's terribly important forall of mankind.

And I met some people heretoday coming in from the Phi lip­pines, and I don't know whetherthey were there when Mr . Arm­strong first had his pub lic appear­ance in the Philippines a few yearsago .So me of you may have seen it onth e film clips that became par t ofsome of ou r docu men tari es andother video presentations.

And he has said with great power,th undering tha t the only hope thatmanki nd has is that Ch rist willreturn as promised. And tbat Hewill return as promised, and He willreturn soo n because there isn 'tmuch time.

And he has said, when He is goingto retu rn He will retum as a King andasa High Priest. And Hew ill come torule . And he has said this beforethousands of people there in a basi­cally Roman Cat holic country . Andmany people in the audience hadwhat we all know as tra ditionalRoman Catholic attir e. Th at is, theywere official representatives of theRoman Catholic Church .

And he said, then there will be aKingdom of God here on earth

president of Israel would not gohome; the presi dent of Israel wasvisiting quite unexpectedl y, and wecame back .

He was in incr ed ible physicalcondition du ring the four-an d-a­half-week trip . We took two nurseswith us, just to be on the safe side .T he two nurses got sick . Mr. Arm­st rong is not an impatient man , he'snot intolerant, but even he showed alittle pique by the time we got toIsrael. And he tu rned to me and hesaid, "Stan, ifthosc nurses don't getwell I'm going to have to send themhome: ' Afte r a while you get tiredof asking how they are .

And frankly. everybody else onthe trip except Mr. Armstrong and Iwere ill du ring some part oftbe trip.It's not unexpected. You pick up alld ifferent kinds of germs in the Mid­dle East that you are not accus tomedto deal ing with . But God was watch­ing over him with special care.

I don't want to tell you too muchabout his tr ip because he has writtenan outstanding article for The PlainTruth .

He has also written an article thatwill appear in the April number ofQuest magazine . Th at's the firsttime Mr. Armst rong willbe wr itingfor Quest, and be's very excitedabout that. He 's already plann inghis next article for Quest. So he willbe writing on a rather conti nuousbasis now. .. We 're also prepar ing a televi sionprogram around his visit with Presi­dent [Anwar ) Sadat and aroun d hisvisit with Prime Minister Mena­chern Begin . We had our televisioncrew there. So I don't want to tellyou ahead of time all the detailsbecause he can do it so much betterin his own vivid, firsth and way.

But we did accom plish somet hingin Cai ro that he believes is singu lar­ly important. He has agreed toextend a hand to President Sadat ina project that Preside nt Sadat feelswill be one of his most important

Evangelist Stanley R. Rader traveled to Toronto, Ont. , Dec. 6 toapeak to the combined church•• there. Dur ing his addr•••, Mr. Rade rcovered varioul alpecta of God ', Church worldwide. He detailedrecent actlvltl• • ot Paltor General Herbert W. Armatrong.lncludlngMr . Armltrong', vilit to the Middle East. HI8 comment. are reprintedhere .

Thank you very much. It 's a greatpleasu re to be here . I had a few wor ­ries about being able to make it asthe weeks seemed to fly by with somany things to do , so many places tobe.

But I had promised Mr. [Keith]Stoner [a localelder in Samia, Ont.],who I don't think is from this churchbut livesabout four hoursaway.whenI saw him in Detroit [M ich.], that Iwould try to be here one day. Andthen 10 and behold, Mr . [Robert ]fahey got bold of me, and he is verypersuasive,and he told me that it wasimportan t that I be here .

So we sched uled it , and then Istarted to lose time. Mr. [Herbert )Armstrong and I were delayed forone week in Egypt and that meanteverything had to be pushed a bit .

And Monday I leave for Tokyoand th e Philippines. In fact, a weekfrom today I'll be speak ing in thePhilippines, all as a pre liminary togetting Mr . Armstrong's campaignfor January ready . And I can 't te llyou how happy it all worked out t hatI could be here.

' Last night I promised Mr. f aheytha t I would be mindful of the facttha t Toronto IOnL) lies betw eenLosAngeles [Cal if.) and Loodo n. Italso lies somewhere betwee n NewYork and Los Angeles. So it's notthat far off the beaten path. Andonce you learn to get here, I'm sureonce in a while it will be easy to flyfrom Londo n to To ronto and thenon into Los Angeles.

And I'm going to try to get Mr.Armstrong up here at an early da te.I've been encouraging him now tothink about traveling duri ng 1981,at least on the Sabbath, in the G-IIinto a churc h area. where I' m su repeople will come for hundreds ofmiles to seehim.

And then he can return home thatsame night and not interrupt therest of his schedule, which I'llexplain in a moment is so veryheavy. And do it again the followingSat urday . So don't be sur prised if hetu rns up here on your doorstep inthe near fut ure .

Don't be surprised if one day youwalk into services on a Sabbath andsudde nly you hear Mr. Armstrongdelive ring a 20- or 3G-minute ser­monett e live from abroad. He didthat on this recent t rip. We were inLondo n and he preached to th e Pas­adena services live - caug ht every­body by surprise. Some peopleweren 't there and were hurrying toget there.

He did it again from Paris , all theway into the New York ch urchwithout any warni ng, but it was apleasant surp rise agai n. And he didit again from Israel to the Pasadenachurch.

So he's very mindfu l of whereeverybody is. And we have the com­munications equipment now to dothat sort of thing . And no ministeranywhe re in the Worldw ide Chu rchof God would beunwilling to give up20 minutes of time to Mr . Arm­st rong, maybe even more .

He' s in very good form. I wantyou to und ersta nd that. fi e is maybein better phys ical shape today thanhe has been in the last 20 years. He'sin incredib le form .

We just completed a trul y out­stand ing visit ab road; Eng la nd .Israel,Cairo, Paris.Infact.two tripsto Cairo because the president couldnot see Mr . Arm str ong, as originallyplanned , for the length of time thatwe planned .

We 're bui ldi ng a whole telev isioner ceram around him , Because the

A Voice Cries Out:

A StaggeringTurn in

orld Eventsis due to erupt in the next few years!

I T WILL INVOLVE violent­ly the United States,

Britain, Western Europe ,and the Middle East .

It's already rather late forthe Free-World to come awaketo the real meaning behindcurrent world events!

World leaders do not see clearlywhat is coming. WHY? Why are thebest minds not seeing-lead ers inthe United States, heads of statearound the world -scientists, educators,editors, news analysts-bankers, indus­trialists, leaders in business and com­merce? WHY?

They are all the product of moderneducation. They have bee n falsely edu­cated in a system where the most impor­tant dimension in knowledge is un­known and untaught. They have beendeceived into closing their minds to thebasic CAUSES of present events andtrends.

The world has been falsely educatedto ignore CAUSES and dea l with EFFECTS!There had to be a CAUSE of present andcoming EFFECTS. T here is a CAUSE thathas produced strife, violence and war­poverty, wretchedness, human suffer­ing-crime, widespread immorality, thedecadence in the basic foundation ofany healthy and stable society, the FAM­ILY UNIT! But the leaders do not know ,and certainly do not correct theCAUSES!

Wor ld Exp losion to E r u p t!

There has bee n a fata l missing dimen­sion in the disseminat ion of knowledge.T ... ....~J .1 _ . , •

HF.RRERT \v. ARMSTRONr.

and blind acceptance of THE WAY thatproduces WARS!

This world is giving civilization'sacceptance to THE WAYS that are theCAUSES of all the world's evils!

And now we are approaching the finalgrand smash explosion. It will staggerthe mind of man beyond the bounds ofsa nity! Forces are at work today onplans, conspirac ies that soon will eruptthe world into a violence and chaos suchas never occurred befo re and never sha llagain! Men now are tampering withforces of natu re they lack the prudence,know ledge, ability and wisdo m to con­trol!

In this folly of educated ignorance ithas become fashionable and intellec­tually titillating to ignore the basicMind and Power over all-the PURPOSEbeing worked out here below, and themaster plan for its working out-theinvisible but Supreme Power now soonto inte rven e and c: 0 the impendingworld chaos. It will be done to us, beforemankind blasts itse lf out of existence!

Unreal though it may seem to th ose

wrecks the purposes of pagans, he bringsto nothing what the nations plan ; butthe Eternal's PURPOSE stands for ever,and what He plans will last from age toage.. . . The Eternal looks from heaven,beholding all ma nkind; from where Hesits, He scans all who inhabit the world;He who alone made their minds, Henotes all they do."

Through inspired prophets, this sameEternal foretold, begin ning 2,500 yearsago, the world events of the future­zeroing in particularly on our time NOW!All events prophesied to occur up to nowhave happened!-without a miss! Therest -the climactic crisis of our ENDtime-is certain-and SOON!

Yet the world's best min ds are in totalignorance of tremendous impendingevents. Neither religionists nor theolo­gians understand!

WHY? App roximately one th ird of allthe world's best seller is filled withPROPHEcIEs-mostly foretelling our im­mediate future! Yet t he key t hatunlocks prophecy to UNDERSTANDINGhad bee n lost! That vital key has beenfound! But because it is NOT the doctrinethey have been preaching, evangelicaltheologians ridicule it.

T hat vital KEY is the identity ofthe United States and Britain in biblicalprophecy.

Whe re is the United States spoken ofin biblical prophecies-especially per­taining to our immediate future? Smallnations-Ethiopia, Libya, Egypt, Tur­key -are mentioned. Russia is men­tio ned . How could such a great worldpower as the United States be ignored?IT ISN'T! What you have read on thispage is taken from the introduction ofth is revealing book, Th e United Statesand Britain in Pronhecv.

I T WILL IN VOLVE violent­ly the United States,

Britain, Western Europe,and the Middle East.

It's already rather late forthe Free-World to come awaketo the real meaning behindcurrent world events!

World leaders do not see clea rlywhat is coming. WHY? Why are thebest minds not seeing-leaders inthe United States, heads of statearound the world-scientists, educators,editors, news analysts-s-ban kers, indus­trialists, leaders in business and com ­merce? WHY?

They are all the product of moderneducation. They have been falsely edu­cated in a system where the most impor­tant dimension in knowledge is un­known and untaught. They have beendeceived into closing their minds to thebas ic CAUSES of present events andtrends.

The world has been falsely educatedto ignore CAUSES and deal with EFFECTS!There had to be a CAUSE of present andcoming EFFECTS. There is a CAUSE thathas produced strife, violence and war­poverty, wretchedness, human suffer­ing-crime, widespread immorality, thedecadence in the basic foundation ofany healthy and stable society, the FAM­ILY UNIT! But the leaders do not know,and certainly d o not correct theCAUSES!

World Explosion to Eru pt!

There has been a fatal missing dimen­sion in the dissemination of knowledge.Leaders do not know what man is , or thepurpose and meaning of life! T hey werenot taught to distinguish th e true valuesfrom the false . They did not learn therea l CAUSES of troubles, nor THE WAY topeace, happiness, abundant well-be ingfor all.

They know nothing of the overallPURPOSE being worked out here below!Consequently they guide hu manity in acourse in conflict with that purpose!Lacking knowledge of THE WAY to peace , 'we have no peace. Leaders talk of peace,they profess to work for peace, theyfight for peace, while they give approval

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and blind acce ptance of THE WAY thatproduces WARS! '.

This world is giving civilization'sacceptance to THE WAYS that are theCAUSES of all the world 's evils!

And now we are approaching t he fina lgrand smash explo sion. It will staggerthe mind of man beyond the bounds ofsanity! Forces are at work today onplans, conspiracies that soon will eruptthe world into a violence and chaos suchas never occurred before and never shallagain! Men now are tampering withforces of nature they lack the prudence,knowledge, ability and wisdom to con­trol!

In this folly of educated ignorance ithas become fashionable and intellec­tually titillating to ignore the basicMind and Power over all-the PURPOSEbeing worked out here below, and themaster plan for its working out-theinvisible but Supreme Power now soonto intervene and END the impendingworld chaos. It will be done to us , beforema nkind blasts itself out of existence!

Unreal though it may seem to thosesteeped in today's educational decep­tions, some 2,500 years ago the SupremePower of the universe inspired a mannamed Isaiah to quote Him , sayi ng, " Iam God, and the re is none like me,dec laring the end from the begin­ning . .. saying , ' My counsel shallstand.' "

The great world powers are formulat­ing their plans and policies . But the nextfew years will see astounding eventsexplode in a manner very different thanthey plan.

WHY? Because .there does exist thegreat God who says: " T he Eternal

wrecks the purposes of pagan s, he br ingsto noth ing what the nations plan ; bu tth e Et ernal 's PURPOSE stands for ever,and what He plan s will last from age toage . . . . The Eternal looks from heaven ,beh olding all mankind; from where Hesits , He scans all who inhabit t he world;He who alone made their mind s, Henotes all they do."

Through insp ired prophets , this sameEternal foret old, beginning 2,500 yearsago, the world events of the future­zeroing in particularly on our tim e NOW!All events prophesied to occur up to nowhave happened!-without a miss! Therest-the climactic crisis of our ENDt ime - is ce rtain-an d S O O N !

Yet the world's best minds are in totalignorance of tremendous impendingevents. Neither religionists nor theolo­gian s understand!

WHY? Approximately one third of allt he world's best seller is filled withPROPHECIEs-mostly foretelling our im­mediate future! Yet the k ey t hatunlocks prophecy to UNDERSTANDINGhad been lost! That vital key has beenfound! But because it is NOT the doctrinethey have been preaching, evangelicaltheologians ridicule it.

That vital KEY is the identity ofthe United States and Britain in bibli calprophecy.

Where is the Un ited States sp oken ofin biblical prophecies-especially per­taining to our immediate future? Smallnations-Ethiopia, Libya, Egypt, Tur­key-are mentioned. Russia is men­tioned. How could such a great worldpower as the United States be ignored ?IT ISN'T! What you have read on thispage is ta ken from the introduction ofthis revealing book, The United Statesand Britain in Prophecy.

We will present it gratis to thosewhose unprejudiced eyes are willing tosee . It is an eye-opening, intriguingbook -230 pages. You may have anattractive paperbound copy , illustratedin color, gratis on request-with nofollow-up. Or, if you prefe r, you may buya distinctive hardcover copy at book-

'OO~'~'jHERBERT W. ARMSTRONGPastor GeneralWorldwide Church of God

We have nothing to sell. But to th ose who might care for it , we will send, grat is, withno follow-up, the int riguing book by Mr . Armstrong, Th e Unite d States andBritain in Proph ecy . Address Worldwide Church of God, Pasadena, Calif., 91123,or call to ll free (800) 423-4444. In Californ ia call collect (213) 577-5225 .

PREACHING THE GOSPEL - Responses from PastorGeneralHerbert W. Armstrong 's Nov . 17 advert isement , above. in theeastern and western edit ions of The Wall Street Journal

swam ped the Work 's Wide Area Telephone Service (W ATS)lines , according to Church treasurer Stanley R. Rader. Mr.Rader said the ads were "a new door opened forGod 's Work."

8 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Jan . 12, 1981

CAMP-OUT - Boy Scout Troop 2 20 of Montg omery, Ala ., pause at acamp-out at Camp Tukabatchee Nov. 29. (See " Youth Activit ies ," page9 .)

LOCAL CHURCH NEWS rock albums were given away as prizes .On e hundred th irty singles from 14ch urch areas danced to the music of theC hris Michae l Band . JeffSmith .

Deacon Keith Robert s invited the s in­gles of the TORONTO, Oru., church tohis home for a potluc k suppe r Nov. 29 .Cassero les, salad s, cakes and beverageswere served to the group of 30 people.Af ter the meal they enjoyed games andfellowship . Carole Finch.

Th e UNION, N .J ., singles sponsoreda regional dance at a nearby Holiday InnDec. 7. Beef burgund y was served fordinner , and music was provided by theWorldwide Band . Singles from as faraway as New Hampshire and Massechu­seus came for the social , Tony Alfieri,Union sing les' club president . and MarkRi sink o, Bordentcwn -H ammon tcn ,N .J .• singles ' club presiden t, announcedplans for a ski t rip to Mount Pocono, Pa.,in January.'Dennis R. Pisapia.

SPORTS

YOUTHACTIVITIES

The COLUMBIA, Mo.• YOU andpare nts enjoyed an evening offun Dec. 6.After services the gro up went to the Sun­rise Optimist C lub for a potl uck meal . Inth e Bible study that followed , LloydG arrett spoke on " Friendshi p andFr iends ," and M.L. Allison spoke on"A utho rity and Obedience." Afterwardthe YOU had a meeti ng . The officersare : Paul Blithe, preside nt; Daniel Klein- •die nst . vice president ; Christene Os­wald, secreta ry-treasurer; and Jo ni Mel­lerup, repo rter . The rest of the eveningth e group enjoyed music and danc ing .Jon;M~II~rup.

(See CHURCH NEWS, p..- 91

The CALGARY. Alta ., SO UTHchurch played host to the an nual Invite­tion al volleyball tourn ament Nov. 30.Seventee n teams part icipa ted in theevent that saw the Cal gary No rth Jun iorteam win the A division title and theEvansburg, Alta ., team win the B divi­sion. Mrs. A ndrew D. Luk acik .

CHAMPAIGN, III .,played host to theYO U dist rict 34 volleyball tourn amentNov. 22 and 23_Aft er Sab bath services apotluck and dance took place . On Su n­day the Peoria, lll., A team was victo­rious, with Champaign second and thePeoria B team th ird . The C hampai gntea m earn ed the best sportsmansh ipaward. The all- tourn ey team includedMary Cunningham, Beverl y Davison,Michelle Sel ander. Kim Ad ams, KimHolt , Sar ah Baillie and Barbara Haines.The most valuable player was BeverlyDavison. Gary Smith.

The EVERETT and SEDRO­WOOLLEY, Wash ., churches playedhost to the Washington district volley­ball tourn ament Nov. 14 to 16. Eigbtareas were represe nted . Fr iday evening aBible st udy W35 cond uct ed by Gle nWh ite. a minister in the Seattle, w asb.,ch urch. Af te r Sabbath services a potluckwas served and the .Harvest Ball tookplace that night . Sunday Sedro- Woolleywon the gir ls' volleyball tou rname nt.Marci~ Cham~rlQin .

The YO U dist rict 112 volleyball tour­namen t took place in S ANTA ANA,Calif., Nov. 23. The Gard en Grov e,Long Beach, San Diego A, San Diego Band Resed a. CaHr.. teams competed .Firs t place medal s went to Long Beachand second place to Garden Grove . Rese ­da received medal s for outs tan ding teamsports manship. Terry Matt son.

GROVE. Cali f.. were given a tou r of theAmcassadc r Audit oriu m Dec. 14 byhouse manage r Rom an Borek . Th egro up saw ma ny be hi nd- the-sc enesmemo rabilia in other buildings on cam­pus. Brunch was served in the stude ntcenter. and many or the senior touristssta yed for d inner. Jane Stanwood.

The senior citizens of the GENEVA.Ala., church were honored at the month ­Iy potluck supper Dec. 6. Th e senio rsrec eived co rsag es and bo uto nnie resmade by Jo hnnie S tevens. Mrs. Ste vensmade the flower arrangements for theseniors ' ta ble. After the meal Rex Med ­ley emceed a country and western pro­gram presented by Esther Everett, CecilClark , Ken Hicks , Royce Phillips and

" Cleveland Rocks" was the the me ofthe third annualdance of the Un ited Sin­gles' Cl ub of CLEVELAND. O hio. atSidoti's Part y Ce nter in Berea. Oh io,No v_ 29. In keeping with the theme.pap ier-mache boulder s decorated thehall. Eac h single rece ived a pet rock , and

SINGLESSCENE

Andr ew Stoyek. with solos sung by Ger ­trude Phillips, Mr . Clark and Mr . Hicks .Joan E.S toy ak .

Th e Fort y-nin e and Holding Club ofthe MIAMI. Fla., ch urch was t reat ed tofun, food and fellowship after Sabbathservices NO\'.29a t the home or Budd andMarilyn Koch .The food was provided byRaymond and Matti e Johnson . Shir/~y

Segall.ReedandGeri N ielsen oft be ROSE­

BURG. Ore ., church had Thanksgivingdinner for 10 senior membe rs of theC hurch NO\'. 27. Some rood was broughtby the guests. After the meal parlorgames were played . Grn' N ielsen.

SENIORACTIVITIES

Twenty-nine BRISBANE, Au stralia.senio rs and friends enjoyed a barbec ueluncheon at Eric Noads' seas ide resi ­dence Dec. 7. The grou p traveled by carsand two minib uses, driven by len Smithand Stephen Flannery. Ministers ColinSut cliffe and Bill Dixon . and Mr. Dix ­on 's wife Patricia. jo ined in the activit ies .O/win Wat",man.

Th e Silver Amba.'isadors of GARDEN

and Female Different." Nan cy S ytor.Members of the MERIDEN. Conn..

Wome n's Cl ub met twice in Nove mbe r.Th ey met first to initia te a new spea kingprogram and then on the 24th 10 assem­ble Th anksgiving basket s for needymembe rs and familie s in the area . Mar­lene Spea rman organized the project.Mary White.

Th e ROSEB URG. Or e., Ladies' Cl ubhad its first meeting oft he season at Mr .and Mrs.Greg Johnson's home Dec . 3. A

CLASSICAL ARTS - Former Ambassador College music mejcr TerriFinch performs selections by Scarlatti , Chopin and other composers Dec .14 in the Ambassador College Fine Arts Recital Hall . Mrs. Finch waspresented by Lucy Martin. former deen of women and Music Departmenthead. [Photo by Robert Taylor)

questionnaire on a woman's role in mar ­riage was passed out to each member.The members were given multiplechoice answers ranging from " stronglyag ree" to " s t rong ly di sa gree" inresponse to statements such as: 1) moneythat a wife earns is her money ; 2) a cou­ple should spend their recre ational acuv­ities together; and 3) women are moreemot ional than men . Refreshments wereserved du ring a short intermission, andthen Mr. Johnson discussed Psalm 31.Gemtdine Nie lsen.

The Ladies' and Men 's clubs of TO.RONTO, Ont. , gathered NO\'. 30 to dis­cuss " T he New Testament Attitude."Spea kers included Mik e Whyt e, whoreviewed the book of Acts. and JohnMartin a nd Karl Rupprecht , who'defined the New Testament attitude.Gus Thomas led the topics session , andEugene Tymchuk was the toastmaster.Tea. coffee and snacks were provided .Carola Finch .

T he Spo kesma n Club of WHEEl,lN G, W.Va., met Dec. I. Pastor LyallJohn ston spoke on how to practice God'sgovernment in club . Th e evening fea­tured an en thusiastic table-topics sessionand five " My Life" speec hes. Officersfor the year are Bob Williams, president ;Ron Kenned y, vice president ; Jim Koch­er. secreta ry; Don Picken paugh. treasur ­er: and Dave Fish. serg eant at arms .

Th e clu b had its fourt h meetin g of theyear Dec . 8. Eli Rebich was the dir ecto rfor the evening. Dave Cross cond uctedthe topics session. and toastmas te r J imAsh intr oduc ed the five speakers. JimKocher ,

Th e CALGARY. Alta, NORTHSpok esm an clubs played host to a sym·posiu m on " Canada: The Roots of Dis­unity" Nov. 20. C hairman Frank Raci­cot int rod uced the speakers: Gar y Bras­co, on Ca nada' s found er, Sir John A.MacDonald ; Ca rl Havward. on French ­Englis h r\valry; George Wade, on thecoun try's cons tit utio n; and Roy Oln eyand Dave Robi nson, on th e influe nce andimpact of Prime M inist ers MacKenzieKing and Pierr e Trudeau . A quest ion­and-a ns we r-s essi on fo llowed . Ne ilEar/~.

Th e Spokesman Club of CHICO.Ca lif.. had its third meeting Dec. I ] .Th e26 members in the club ran ge in agefrom 19 to 63. and they are looking for ­ward to some lively topics and speechesin the coming year. Mildr ed Kuttner,

T he CINCINNAT I. Ohio. NORTHLad ies' C lub met Dec. 7. Agne s Rothserved as hostess . Icebreakers were givenby Linda Rowlands and Diana Harry.Kelly Ambr ose spoke on " How to AvoidBeing a Vict im." Leslie Pakozdi gave ata lk on " Possibility and ImpossibilityThinkers: ' Jud y Rose led table topics.vonda Part in.

The Women's Club of CORNING,N .Y.. met for a bru nch meet ing at theLodge -on-the-Green Dec . 7. Intro­duced by coordinato r Hau l Lambert.Coieen Close reminded the membersthat Women's Club is not just a socialgathering but also an avenue for personalgrowt h in becoming a virt uous woman .Pastor Britt on Ta ylor, direct or of theclub, spoke on " How God Made Male

CLUBMEETINGS

Nov. 2] . Af te r sampli ng the vario usdishes during the luncheon. the womenshared thei r tec hniq ues for prepa ringfavorite dishes by exchang ing 'recipecards. Norma Manu el.

A Sca nd inavian social wars enjoyed bythe S IO UX FALLS and WAT ER.TOWN, S .D., breth ren Dec. 6. The eve·ning includ ed a potl uck with Scan di na­vian food and a Scan dinavian varie tyshow. Later there was a SQuaredance forthe adult s and films for the children. Thesocial was especially enjoyable for theman y brethren of No rwegian, Swed ishor Danish descen t. DianM Skorselh andTerry Knuts on.

T he YO U and YAH (Young atHeart) seni ors of t he SPOKANE,Wesh ., church had a get -together in theS heridan School gym Dec. 6. The YO Ubrought gam es, and the YA H brou ghtfood. The evening included fellowship­ping. music, basketball and -games. AllenWalker and Dan Deininger coordinatedthe event. Margaret Lay.

The SPRINCFlELD, Mass., churchhad a YO U Family dan ce following Sab­bath services Nov. 29 . Brethren fromAlbany , N.Y.• Meriden, Conn., andProv idence , R.I ., attended. After soupand sandwich es, a basketball game wasplayed between a combined Alban y­Springfield YO U team and a Merid enYO U team , with Meriden winn ing. T heSpringfield YOU cheerleaders deco­rated the cafeteria for the dance . Discjockey DeanFrentzos played music fromthe '305 through the '70s, bringing atten­tion to the decorations foreach ti me peri­ad . Lou Mari11O.

Stanley R. Rader visited the TORON.TO , Ont. , areaand spoke at two Sabbathservices Dec . 6 . Mr . Rader's visitincluded television and radio interviews.autogra phing his book. a news confer­ence at the Hotel Toronto and ministeri­al meeting s. Bill Moore.

The brethren of the UNION. N .J .,church presented pastor and Mr s. Rich ­ard Frankel with a silver tea set as afarewellpresent Dec . 6. Mr _Frankel wast rans ferred to Washington, D.C. DennisR.Pisapia .

A square dance for the YOUNGS­TOWN, Ohio , brethren took place at theBrand y Springs Parkcommunity build ­ing in Mercer, Pa., Nov. 9. A potluckdinner was served to the 200 membe rswh o atte nd ed . T he entertain men tincluded a duet by Roseann Ca nnon andher sister Fran Schneider , and vocalsolos by Tom Montg omer y, jim G uy andOran Tel ford . Nex t on the prog ram weretwo cakewalks, with prizes going to Jud yYoung and Helen Brown . Danc ing fol­lowed, with minister Eugene Noel ascaller. The band consisted of Mr. andMrs. Len Greater. Roger Andrusky,Roger Lam bert, Paul4Coleman and JimG uy. H~/~n Filimon.

CHURCHACTIVITIES

BATON ROUGE, La., choir mem­bers and spouses. along with directorIsaiah Morrison, watched the musicalCarousel at the Aub in Lane DinnerT heater Dec. 2. Ministers Karl Beyers­dorfer and John l ee and their wivesaccompan ied the group. Robert D. Vu­non.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Rader , Mr . andMrs. Joe Kotar a and John Kinest on werewelcome d in the CHARLESTON.W. Va.• area Nov. 22. A potluc k mealwas served . Mr. Rader commented onhis recent trip with Herbert W. Arm­st rong. Mr. Rader was given a Tvshirtdepic t ing the masco tof thc:West Virgin­ia University Mountaineers and made anhonorar y West Virgin ian . Barbara Ali ceB/ack .

The: DETROIT, M ich.• EAST andWINDSOR and SARNIA. On t. ,churches met in Detroit for afternoonservices followed by a dinner and dance:Nov. 22. After a turke y dinn er , themembers danced to the tun es of a Detr oitchurch band, The Philadel phian s. S teveGotden.

Th e DETROIT WEST and ANNARBOR , Mich ., brethren got togetherfor an outing at the Real Life Farm inYpsilant i, Mi ch ., Nov. 16. Eventsincluded a hayride , horseback ridi ng, ahot dog roast. touc h football and a sing­along led by pasto r Je rold W. Aust.S teve Holsey .

A farewell part y for minister JohnMaskel and his family w~ given by theMINNEAPOUS. Minn., brethren Dec.I]. A potlu ck was sermt, followed by aprogram emceed by past or LeonardSchreiber, in which gifts were given tothe Moskels.A dance and singing sessionfollowed . Aft er 7YJ years in the area, theMaskels are moving to Jacksonville.N .C. Se ym our Peterson.

The MONTGOMERY, Ala., breth ­ren had a square dance NO\'. 22. DeweyGlass , president of the local square danceassociati on called the dance . Adul ts andchildrenenjcyed learning new steps. Hotdogs . chili and sof t d rinks were sold by

. the YO U. Conni~ Williams.The OTTUMWA, Iowa, c hurc h

played host toils first social Nov. 22. Thetheme "Western/Hillbilly" was carriedout in the decora tions, food and music .Memben from the Des Moines, Iowa,andCo lumbia, Mo., churches atte nded .Th e YOU provided refreshments in the" YO U All Come Saloon ." Lat er in theevening pizza was served . Music for thesquare da ncing was provided by theKl eindiens t Fam i ly Band , whi c hincluded David, Doroth y, Dan iel, Rand yand Eric. The ca ller was local elderGeo rge Boothe . Tammy Greerfi etd .

Twenty-eight members o f t h ePALMER, Alaska, church met at th eFransson home Nov . 2] to play hear ts .Dick Eckman was the most "givi ng" per­sonwith a score of only 54. He recei ved adeck of cards. Ann v enie was the most"gett ing" person with a score of 250. andshe received a Hoyle Book of GameR ules. linda Orchard .

The PIKEVILLE. Ky., church hadtwo activities the weekend of Nov. I and2. The first event took place at the farmof Max and Fran Kelly. wher e C hurchmember s and their famili es enjoyed aneve ning of roasted tube steak. T he nextda y the Pikeville and Bluefield. W. Va..YO U participated in a Ian-filled day ofbasketball and volleyball. Th e PikevilleYOU sold refreshments to raise moneyfor futur e act ivities . Christi ne S tewart.

T wenty-one members from the PLY·MO UTH . England . chur ch took a six­mile hike in a woodland valley on theeaste rn side of Darun oor , England. Nov.2] . Th e paths were muddy and stee p inplaces. and the group crossed the RiverBovey on large stepping stones. AngusRobertson.

The first family camp-out of the PRE­TORIA and SOW ETO . So uth Afri ca.chu rches took place at the Haar tebe es­poort Dam Aug. 30 to Sept. I. Thir ty­four ad ults and 16 c hild ren att ended.Pet ros Manzingana gave a sermon onCh ristian growth , and Phillip M ach abagave the sermonette. Acti vitie s include da visit to the snake and animal park , acab le ride. a boat cr uise for the childrenand a tug-ol-war. Evening, were spentaround the camp fire fellowshipping andparticipating in si ng-alongs . PhillipMa chaba.

Wom en of the RAL EIGH , N.C. .church partic ipate d in a recipe exchange

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The Junior YOU of CORN ING.N.Y.•hada sleep-ever at the Carls' homethe weekend of .Nov. 29 . Acti vitie sincluded a Bible study. movies. choirpractice.designingcovers for notebooks.practice:for an upcoming Biblebowlandtalent show and an Italian suppe r. JanetTroutt .

The DFS MO INES. lowe, YOU hada day of activities Nov. 8. Fotlowing ser­vices members traveled to Bill Hinds'home for a sack lunch and a Bible studyconducted by minister Dennis Pelley .Later that evening the group went on ahayride and roasted hot dogs around abonfire . A sing-along was accompaniedby Rand y Foshee and Ken Schoon onguitars. Mark Day.

The GAINESVILLE. Ga .• YOUplayed host to a YOU district familyweeken d Nov . 29. YOU membersatt ended from Athen s. Atlanta andRome. Ga.. and Chattanooga. Tenn.After Sabbath services the teens played

Bible baseba ll. Later that evening a fam­ily dance took place with music and dressfrom the ·50s. Sunday the Chattanoogagirls ' volleyball team won the districttourn ament . with the combined Athens­Gainesville team coming in second andwinni ng t he spo rtsmansh ip award .Atlanta placed th ird . Jouph M . Hagu~

and Rutll Bail~y .

After months of planning. the LON­DON, Eng land. NORTH YOU pro­duced copies of its first magazine, Hot­line. Among the articles submitted were:"Music" and "Art" by So phi Vietor andIngrid Stansfield respectively; "TheDuke of Edinburgh Award Sc heme" byRolfe Jones ; and "P eer Pr~ure" byDenise Browne . Scie nce fiction storieswere contri buted by two of the younge rYOU members. as well as an article deal­ing with " Career Choice:' DeniseBrowne.

After services each Sabbath fiveLONDON. England. NO RTH YOUmembers go to St . Pancr as Hospital as

part of the service in the Duke of Edin­burgh 's Award Scheme. John Browne .Laurena: Antoine . Rolfe Jon es. Den ise:Browne and Ingrid Stansfield. plu sYOL coordi nator Phil G ra y. invitepat ient s downstairs for tea and biscui ts.The group then conducts a sing-a long,which the patie nts seem 10 enjoy themost. The y are tak en back to the ir wards .and the youths sign a book showing howlong the y stayed . Marti n Ryan organl zestransportati on for the group. RolfeJones .

The MASON aTY, Iowa. YO U.along wit h thei r parents. were involvedin a fund-raising project Nov . 2. Mem ­bers spent the afternoon picking up corntha t had been left by the combi ne. T heythen gathered at Art Myers' home for apotl uck supper. Afte r the corn wasshelled and sold. the youths were given$ 193.80 . The first corn pickup was sucha success that the gro up decided 10 do itagai n. this time ear ning $183.61. TiMMyus.

Boy Scou t T roop 22Q of MONT­GO ME RY. Ala.• had a camp-out atCamp Tukabatcbee Nov. 29. The scoutsstudied the proper use of knives, hatch­ets and compasses. hiked and cookedtheir own meals. Scoutmaster is Dave

Hi lton , and his ass istan t is Carl Ponder .Carl Pander.

BeaMartin . with the help of SherrillW ills. is teaching the senior YO U girl sof the MO Uf'lT POCONO, Pa.• churchthe fine art of conversation and how toprepare and serve meals for every occa­sion. Mrs. Wills is a 4-H agent of Mon­roe Count y. Pa.. and is teaching the gir lsto be gracious hostesses. Th e YOU girlsprep ared and served a luncheon .Margi~

St orm.C heerlead ers for the NASHVILLE.

Tenn .• YOU basketball team were cho­sen Nov . 23. They include Virginia Mil ­liner. Tan ya Wilson . Debbie Wright.Kim Burnette, Lisa Williams. DianeStripling and Lind y S mith . Members ofthe basketball team are T im Duncan,Ken Ge ntry , Mark W right . Dale Har di­man, John Duncan. T im Brooks. ClayGentry. Mark vemich, Phillip Du ncan .Lamon t Tucker, Jer ry We bb, Ph illipFridd le. Todd Bishop . Marty Wood ,David Covingto n. Jeff H utcheson.Ricky Davis and Jo hn Webb. Ma ryHutcheson.

The first meeti ng of the Candles andLace Homemaking Club for the girls ofthe PALM ER . Alaska . ch urch tookplace at the Orc hards ' home Nov. 30 .

The girl s made a color whee l and dis­cussed bedroom color schemes. Each girlwas asked to make one imp rovement inher own bedr oom before the next meet­ing. Th e girls rece ived club noteboo ksfor keep ing notes and tips . such as theone given on how to make your owndeodorant. Refreshments made by twogi rls were served and the recipe was giv­en out. Jess ica Em ery and Lind aOrchard.

Seventy tee ns and adult s from PEO­RIA and MACOMB, IU.•combined for aYOU ou ting Nov. 15 and 16. Saturdayevening began with a Bible study by pas­tor Jess Ernest. Afterward the YO Ucha pter meet ing was conducted by Pres ­ident Ross Masonhol der . A dance fol­lowed. featuring a variety of mus ic. AIintermission a slide show was presentedof the summer Colorado trip the grouphad taken . The following day the youthsenjoyed an afte rnoon of roller skating.Gary Smith.

The YOU ofSEAITLE. Wash ., per­formed their seco nd annual fund-rais ingvariety show Nov. I . Assistant coordlne­tor G len White emceed the program.T he Everett. Wash .• YOU contributedseveral acts . Terri Black and GlenWhi tt'.

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Obituaries

ANNIVERSARIES

Jean SehIAI. dellOht..- of Mr . • 1IdMr • . V. SehuMzof Gold Coest . AIlMfalle. aIId Edward B. l igllttlocty.Jr.• _ of Mr. _ .... EdwItd LigMtlody Sf . of

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MR. AND MRS . J. SCOGIN '

SAN ANTONIO. Tex . - EnriqueV. Posadas , 84. a Church member for 23year s. died Nov. 18. Mr. Posadas and hiswire Juani ta had recenlly celebratedtheir 50th wedding anniversary .

Mr . Posadas first heard Herbert W.Armsl rong in 1951on Monterr ey, Me,, ·ico, stat ion XEQ, He later C2Il1e to (heUnited States and was baptized in 1957.

Greg Sa rge nt, San Antonio pastor ,conducted funeraJ services . Mr . Posadasis survived by his wife Juan ita and a sonHen ry.

MR. AND MRS. E. LIGHTBODY

De•• F.ed: Our ...Ilve ,.er. Iogalhar ha",. twt.fI11....lIfldou._ VOU It•• -onderl",1 .nd \o.-ing"".b.nd.nd. I.nl..lic d.ddy 10 our two tNI.uhl ullilli. girl• . 1 ,..;n love you .I .. a" .nd lor.~lr .

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Con9'"Ilulllionllo .....nd Mr• . JoHph Scogin 01P,kln . III .. . no .r. c.t,brlliftg their 80th."....,...--, JUl . 2 A. T"'- $cogIIIs .r. 20-,._rn_~. 01 Ihe P.o,la. III .• c h.,ch . "'y."•D.~.

M,c ha . 1 S I....rt .nd Ch...Ii". T. Ckl" _ I.unit.dlflm.rr1.g.Ju.... 28 . Thloutdoor c lfll.fllony.... perf o"".d by RoM" Hunl. ""ni,,•• in 'MP",.vill4l. Ky.. churc h . M. 1d 01"- ..... Donn.......M Itof Ih.e Mobile . AI• .• ChlWeh • • nd bill m.n.. .. R. ndy WnQhl 01 Ih. L,.on'Ollon. Ky.. chu.ch .The coupl • •••ide in VirgIe . Ky

MR. AND MRS. ROBERT COOKChwyI Ann Will"m• . dsught_ 01 ...... end ........Ibatt Winlam. of l--.IIo11. EngI. nd . and ROOIIo1JohtICooI.. _of Ur . • 1Id Mr • . E. Cook oIlnQham,Engl.nd._.""triedSep!.'411I". Bl\lfta-.iekHot ... Of••t y.nnoutIl. EllQIafld. Pel ... ShanIOfl .p.llor 01 I'" Norwich ctKM"eh, petfOllfted III.cer.lftOllY. Dani•• J.rvi. w• • thao m.1d of honor .ee.1 man .... Tony s.nd.n . Th. eovple r...IM IIFair'.ld. Ir.I••d Ad .. N••t l.h••d . Norwi ch .NoI1oIlI . EngI.nd.

MR. AND MRS. DAVID BARTONIta,..,.. Joy WrtgM. dsughtw 01 Mr. and ...... Reg

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MR. AND MRS. RONALD FERTIG

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MR. AND MRS . STEVE CARLSON... r.. . nd ...... . E.rlG. M.,CIIIIIM ... tMhonotol.nllOUneillg th. ",."i'8' ollh..., d.ughler HollyLynn 10 51."' . R. C. rl. on Sept 14 ill S. ndy . U1.hWHI..m Sw.n.on. p..lor 01 Ih. Sa il La k. Cily.Utah . ChutC/'!. p.rlo'....d the c.remony . The

MR. AND MRS. RALPH MILLER

Lori Jaan P......n. dsuotlilf of Mr • . AOM .... . ....p_ of Jsck_. Cali! .. ..-d A~1d OaorgeFarlig. _ 01 nd Mre R.y S. Farl l8 Sf . 01Wh••Ii.fOCI. Wyo If. united ill msm.ge s.pt.21 . The clfll/ftOnY petformed by o..n FlII1ig.uncIeofll'le grOOl'll.ndalftilOilllfln lI'Ie Casper.Wyo .• Cflurch 1rofI 01 honof _. Calhy FertlQ •• nd beM ",.n John Slnnw. cou.... 01 lI'IegrOOl'll. The~'. addteN la eo.. I . Fllr1ig Or..Wh.e. IIaftd .

MR. AND MRS. MICHAEL PERR Y

ENGAGEM.ENTS

Mr"1Id Mr • . OIlieJ. BookIf Jir. of Rjyartoud. N.Y..•• • h.ppy 10 .nnoune. th. ",.rria", 01 III""d.ugM.r P. i. e1U. "'nn 10 ",lch••1 Pe.,., 01W"h.in1llon. D.C. Ectwlfd F.uIk. a u.oaal. p,"orof lhe long I.I.1'd alld ....Man.n. N.V.• chur eM• .~ormed th. Clf_ y .llhe AiYem••d Holida yInn. Ju ne 28 . Th. coupl . ...id.In Dl.tnctHeiglll' .U,

STEVENS. D.n 'lid Ann.a (Crispl . of CoIwnbu• .Ohio . girt. Sh_ Man.. Hoot. 2&, 9:29 p .Ift.• 1pounda 12 _ . _ I boy. I OWl,

S...h . d. ugl'll... of Mr . • nd Mr. "' Icfl. e! e-ro,. 01Hay • . England• • nd Robart T. ...ncreraon . lOll 01Ro.a "'al .ndlh.I••• a. ••l.r T. "'nd.,a.onolRichmorld. Jnd :. _re lIIIiled IIIm.,ri.", ",.,ch 13.

THlBODE"'UX. Rerd l . 1Id Amy ("'Ilan l. 01 EIlgSandy. re".. girl . AmIIlda Mle<H. Nov . 11. 3:36' .Ill..3powod. 13~."1~.

PENNEY. P.ul .nd ....1'1• • of "'uc kl.nd. N_Z..I. nd. boy. Kirll Semual.Nov. 23 . 11:65"m.• 10pou.rICIa I ounc• . now 2 boy• • I girl

SI_ .... Smelak and Cynlhl. (Cln4yll. HoP<itI.of "'w. tin. T••.. a •• h.ppy 10 an_c.l".ir..ga~ .1Id st)ring waddinog , 51_ I. 1MlOll 01Hank SIneI.k . nd Betty Hay••••1IdCIndy I.Ih.d.ught... ol ... . rsh.N .nd8attyHop!lIfl.

MR. AND MRS . R. ANDERSON

WEDDINGS

TAOHE, o.nlon . nd RI... (ZIl", Bfllnn,"). 01Secrenoento. Ca lli.• girl. Ann. Ellzabelh. Nov , 11,8 ;H"I!!.•8~1A" ltatcfWlc:l.

RANEW. M.rk . nd P.,,*- (St ook . l . of MovI1r~.

01 .. boy. Jallr ay Wmilm . Oet . 30 . 1:1A p.Ill .• 8pound. 12 ounce•. nOW2 boys . I girl .

SHE AROD . Ric k .nd RO...nnl (K••I. y). 01lansing. Mich .• girl . Laura AIwI, Nov . 24. 7:40 p .m.•8polO11d• • _2girl• .

REIM"'NN . Ha.old .nd L.w,. I Wrig ht ) . 0 1Pu a detla . boy. Jon . the n Ectw.n:I. Oct. 28 . 8 :30p.m., 8 pounda 12 0IrIlCft. now 2 boy• • I girl .

RENDALL, David . nd l lftds (Kant) . 01 WheUland.• Wyo ,. gwt.P~ AM . o.e. 2 . A a .Ift.•e pound. 8

_ • . lr'stehild.

OVCK. Pet nd He,.., COm.en). 0 ' Winnipeg ."'.....g"". c. J.n;e........ Oc l . 3 . 7:40 .--"' .. 1ClOvIld. II owoc:ee. now I boy . 3gi1ta

KlO STER. Vinc.nt.1Id 0--. (Mey.>, of o-If.Colo ,. boy. NichoIe • ..JohfI.. HoY , I I . "ci5,2 pm.• IIpound. 14 0I0ftC_. ... 1 ctMld

JOHNSON, Johnny an d Sunl (Tabo,) . 01eoo-....... Tenn _. boy. 0.. Eugettl. Sept . I A.8 :S3 ' .m.. 8 povnd. g ounc ......1 chiold

INEICHEN. Gaty end W."dy IFi.c h . , I . 01~10l'I. Wi• .• bor. Daftt. I....... Now. 12. • :30' .m.. 9 pounda 13 ounce•. __ 1 boy. I Il"1

JEJIIHINOS. ".,. Id alld Ahooowyn (F ... guaonl . ofA_.GI .. lJir1. l irtdN y Oriel". Hoot. 9. e :l ll p ,III.• 9 _pound. 2 ounce • . now I boy. 2 girts

ENGlAND. John and Lenrt . (90-.."""11. 01 Jolhu•.T.".• glr1. J.nonil........... Hoot. II . 1:12 ...... 8P<M*l.11 ounua. __ I boy. 3 girl • .

LANE. Mich.e! .nd Ksran (Melutnl , 01 W.u ..u.Wi. .. gorl. Li.. Eon . N~ IS . 2:03 • ."' .• 7 pound a .12 0UftC • • • now I boy. I Q;rI

LUCAS . e.rdel .nd Muclll (Wnghll . 01P...d.n• .bo y. Con.n G.briel . Nov , 11. 1 43p ,m.•8 pou nd.2OUoIICII• ••tllehotd

FORE ......N. WiIli.m .nd Juli . (John.on). 01Humboldl . low. , girl , Josnn....."in •• Dee. 8 . 1, :01S• .m.• 8 pounds 2 '4 0UI'ICft. __ .. boys. 2 girts

GRIZZLE. Kevin aIId a-I (Or .....ol . of eov s-ty.T..... glrl. "'\ldfa ROM . Dee . 8. 8:28p.m.• 1 pounds3 ounce • . lint child

MO RO...N. Oa "'e . nd H.i tt; tSc h mid l ). 0 1Mil.. . uke e . Wi• . girl. S•• • h Ann. Nov. ' . 10:30p.m .8 poond . l OUnC• . Ir ,l ch il;i

HO LMES . W.yn••IId Rh ond. (S....g.l. 01Hatri_. ...I1l,.g;rt, ""'and. K.y . 0ac: . · 2. 2 :52'.m.. 1 po und. 7 ~ ou_• . _ 1 boy. I girl.

HU88El l • .uro....1Id SMiIe, oIVoetorie. T''' .. 9il1.Sal ly Beth. Del. 20. 8:03 • .m.•8 pounds 8 ounc ••.rtOW I boy. A girl • .

"'URPIoIY. R_ John .nd Mi"'" ISle", enaon) , 01BaIl• • I. NOI1h.rn 1•• I.nd . bo y. Sam~l JO••ph .Nov 2" . 12:18 . m , g pound. 13 ounc,• . nOW Ibo y. I got!

BURlESON . Doug al'ICIo.br'~). otHill City .

~':."ht"'=~•.~.." 9:28 ' .Ift_. e

C.....el ...AO. eenoll ,"d M.ri,jo (Dorl). 01FOI1-de-f"IICe. "'rtifooque. bar . leciNdo. Nov .13. 8 :3& p ."' .• 1 PQUfI6I. ... dlIId.

MILES. MlCh.el . nd am.ton. o! P...den • • girl.Moira lynn Colleen . Dec_2A. 5:03 . ,m.• 8 POUnda1 OCIIIC,. . ....t child

B"'RNES , Alan end L"", (P.rII_l . 01 "'ub utll .w.aIl., girl . ..._EJizabeth. Sept. 22. 10-.28• ,," .• 1 .~ l5 ouncl• . "'tctlild'.

L"'WSON . "'I. .."de, and "'e.y (Go.donl . 01QI.."olh.e• . S<:0l1. 1Id. girl . Sh IlO'l' U . .... . Oae . 8 .3 :29 " "' .. 3 .23 kilogr. m• . no. 3 gwt.

MURR"' V. K"th and K' lhy (PlI tm.n l . or BigS.ndy. T... " boy . Kenneth Roy . Dec . 2.3 am.• 7pOUflda 4 ounc " . _2 bo y.

ABRAHAM. Bri.l1l aM o.oor. h cs.diol. 01 L..C""C... N.M.. boy. BriIlIl Niehol u . No¥. 2a. 11:3&' .m" 9 pound. IAI? ounc , • • "OW 1 boy . I girl.

Al EXA.NOEA. Tinl .nd S"-'ry (Hope). 01 S' llA.nIOfllo. T..... gorI. E"" Ehubeth. No¥. 2 A. 10;11p ,m.. 1 pound. 2 ounce •. now3girla

DRIVER. Ol,"don . nd S.nd" (P ••non), 01Co h.mbu • • Mi n ,. girl. J•••Ie. She<riI. HoY. 18.5 :53 ...... 1~ 8 _'. _ I boy~ 2...,.

BIRTHS

C S TOOIO. RicIl• •d .nd Yol.nd. (Sal'ldtezl . ofTul Ca~f.. girl. LiM Autio. Deo . 12 . 8 :10'.m., 1pouo>d. 11~_"_ l boy.lG*I

P ...TTlSON . L•• ,"d "'ngillc. (e.c kl . l. 01Sh. bo yga n F.lla. Wi. .. boy . Z.chary L.., Nov. e .1206 p.m.• 7 POUftd.4 0III'I(;" . now 1 boy .

ANNOUNCEMENTS

"We have not destroyed the enemy. We don't have that kind ofpower.God has that kind of power. He will wreak the vengeance on them, andthere will be utter destruction at the right time and the right place. "

"At any rate, 1981 is going to be an exciting year. I talked with Mr.Armstrong at length this week . . . He is excited because he now is goingto throw himself, with all of his energies, back into television. "

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rate, we were delighted to be there.And when wearrived it wasexcit­

ing . Here we are in this brand-newlittle country. And when we arrivedat the buildin g housing the federaloffices, and t he sena te, and th e pres ­ident and the ministers' offices. wehad Church members there withsigns welcoming Mr. Armstro ng.That wasenough to turn us on.

And first we had a meeting withthe ent irety of the cabinet and thenewly elected president . And thatwent very well . Mr . Arm str ongspoke to them. I spoke for a fewmoments. We had pictu res take n.And then we met for a while pri vat e.Iy with the president.

And then the occasion for whichwe really had come, and that wasMr. Armstrong's opportunity tospeak to the ent ire assembl y of thegovernment, the ir parliament, theirmini sters, the pr esident again ,maybe a few invited guests.

And Mr . Arm strong spoke. Andhe was truly inspired . And as hespoke, he got stronger and stronger.And he got more blu nt and moreblun t. And he left no stone uncov­ered, no truth par tial ly hid .

And finally, he was finished . Andthen,o neo f tbe ministe rs of the gov­ernment who had the responsibilit yunder their protocol , which is verycommon in many countries on thoseoccasions, to give a return toast.More or less like Mr. Armstrong'sspeec h was such that it warr anted animmed iate respon se, as th oughsomeone had just given a toast andthen you toast back.

And he stood up, the minister ofthe government , and he said th is wastruly an eventful occasion. This wastruly a memorable day. Mr. Arm­stro ng' s remarks arc well appre­ciated and much needed. in words ofthat effect. And he said, it once moreshows that God indeed works in mys­terious ways. Because he said. if wehad known that Mr . Armstrong hadintended to give a sermon, nobodywould have been here.

And it was real ly quue a toast .And we were inv it ed back, ofcourse, and we will return . I don 'tknow whether Mr. Fahey ever gotback there himself or Mr . [David]Hulme, did you? Not back yet.

At any rate , 1981 is going to be anexciting year . I talked with Mr.A rmstrong at length this weekbefore I left for Tor onto. I also spokewith him last night and the nightbefore . And he is excite d because henow is going to throw himself, withall of his energ ies, back into televi­sion with a new format . He is goingto use The Wall S treet Journaladve rtisements as a spr ingboard for3D-minute program s in a continuingseries. And the y will be powerfulprograms.

For several years he has beenmaking a lot of progr ams. But the yhad been programs made more oftenthan not, maybe 90 percent of thetime, only incide ntally as televisionprograming. In other words, whenMr . Arm strong has been in servicesto speak to our own people some­where, we have the te levision cam­eras going, and he will speak for anhour , hou r and a half. two hours andthat will very nicely produce, one,two, th ree or four programs. Whenhe spoke to you by microwave twiceduring the Feast of Tabernacles,they break into very nice televisionprograms .

But Mr. Armstrong was not bornyesterday. He knows that everymedium must be used with a specialcare. He knows it's not enough towrite an ad for The Wall S treetJournal and expect that it will havethe same impact in Reader's Digest__ : .. 'T : ... " .... .,,,., .. :., .. " r: .. .,..' · ,,.I-. ...

Canadian magazine for that matt erthat 's special to this market.

He 's an old pro , he knows betterthan that. He knows bas ical ly hemust begin to tailor his televisionprograming. And that is what he'sgoing to do.

He knows now by insti nct thateveryone of his powerful messagesthat he's been writi ng for The WallS treet Journa l will by themse lvesbe tu rned easily into an overwhelm ­ingly powerful television message,delivered speci fically for a T Vaud ience .

And he has instructed me to goout and reest ablish in the marke t­place the World wide Church ofGod 's preem inence th at it onceenjoyed in both radio and television.At one time we were preem inent inradio to the point that nobody else

even came close.And we were not only the leaders

in the use of radio and the effectiveuse of radio, but we were the onespeople came to for advice. And ......ewere the ones that people copied.And the best form of flatter y is imi­tation . They followed us from mar­ket to market, from time slot to timeslot. And then somebody had a bet ­ter idea after 43 years. And theysaid, we don't need a 30-minute pro­gram, a five-minute program is goodenough for radio.

And we relinqu ished all of ourvaluable radio time , which othe rsgobbled up. And a letter fell into ourhands from one of the people whoget out a false doctrine , althou ghthey may not believe it's false, it isfalse . And th ey sai d , God hasopened the doors, and we have nowbeen able to get all these valuableradio times because the WorldwideChurch of God had dropped a half­hour format. Th at wasn't God doingtha t, not by a long shot.

So we're going back and gett ingthose 30-minute times. And televi­sion is going to be preaching theGospe l of the living God with Mr .Arms trong powerfully directing allof its efforts.

In 1972 I personally revolution­ized the television industry for reli­gious programing. Th is fact is well­known. How many of you know thisPTL Club and 700 Club? Okay, itdidn't exist.

I went out and sold the biggesttelevi sion outlets in the UnitedStates on the proposition that adailytelevision progr~ in the earlymorning hour s would sell. You 'vegot to tell them what would sell,they don't care wheth er it's Godinvolved.They want to know wheth­er they can build audiences outthere rather than turn them away. Ithad never been done.

And I said. Iet me prove it to you.Don't knock people off the air togive us the time, why don't you justturn on one half hour earlier. Let usturn on at 6 in the morning if you arepreviously starting at 6:30. you willbuild an aud ience , and they believedme.

But back in Pasadena peoplethough t I was crazy and stupid. Andso after a littl e effort they droppedit. What did the others do? The ymoved right in. And it wasn't Godwho opened that door for them . Butit was Satan who helped close thatdoor for us.

And Mr. Ar mstr ong has justwritt en an IS·page lette r, 18 pages.I was late the other night for dinnerwith Mr . Fahey and other minister sbecause he was readin g me all 18pages. And you don't get by withj ust an 18-page readi ng. Eigh teenpages develops into somethi ng a lotmore than that when Mr. Arm'strong is reading his material. And itis a blockbuster.

It 's alread y in print in The PastorGeneral's Report and I hope : ourpastor share s it with you next Satur­ti !l \ .\ nrl i l \,..i ll I1c in Th e Wnrf d -

Th e WORLDWIDE NEWS

wide News within another week orso. It' s a powerful one.

It tells you about Satan , and ittells you how Satan has grabbedsome of our people. And it tells youhow Satan will continue to grabsome of our people. Sa tan knowsthere isn't much time left . If weknow there isn't much time left , hecertain ly knows it. He's a lot brigh t­er than we are . He's a lot more cun­ning and a lot more subtle, as Mr.Armst rong wrote recen tly, than weare. He knows there isn't much tim eleft.

And we have to work hard to getour work done if this commission isto be fulfilled . And we have to workeven harder to stop him from gettingat us. Revelati on 20 is around thecorner, but it 's not here yet. Theserpent is still out there . He has not

been bound in chains , not by a longshot.

Mr. Arm strong mentioned this ina slightly different context a coupleof weeks ago. He was talking abou tthe lawsuit in Cal ifornia . He wantedto remind us the battle is not over .We have not destroyed the enemy.We don't have that kind of power.God has that kind of power. He willwreak the vengeance on them, andthere will be utter destruction at theright time and right place, but wecan't doit.

He gave us the power that ampli­fied our strength beyond anybody' sexpectations outside of G od'sChurch, and we beat the largeststate in the union. We beat 3,000lawyers. We beat public sent iment ,hostile newspapers, hosti le radiostations, hostile television stati ons.We turned them all around, and wecame out victorious .

It was a David vs. Goliath battle ,but Goliath is not dead. He is notprostrate and dead . We jus t routedthe enemy from the field. The y areout there nursing their wounds nowdreaming up new rum ors, new scan­dals, new allegations, new ways toget hack at us.

Mr . Armstrong wrote about whathe witnesses , too much emphasis onthe agony of defeat and the ecstasyof winning . You know what thosebureaucrats and enemies are doing ;those in government, those out ofgovernment, those who hate us andthose who ju st fear us, those whojust don 't like us and those who ju stth ink we are a stumblingblock fortheir- efforts to grab more power. Bythat I mean the bur eaucr ats, thegovernment in gener al.

They have in the att orne y gener ­al's office in California. and I don 't

know if the y have the counterparthere,l meant to talk to Mr . St oner ,he's a lawyer . But the y have paidprofe ssional bu reau cr at s, whichmeans paid by Califo rnia taxpayer'sdollars, a lobbying section. The sepeople go in there to lobb y for legis­lation of the type that's done usharm , in opposition to the legisl a­tion that did us good. And the y aregoing to try to go in there and get itchanged .

Se n. [N icholas] Pet ris , whosename should be familiar to some ofyou now, told mejust thr ee days agowhat he had said Oct. I, the dayafter Gov. (Edmund G.l Brown[J r. ] signed the Petri s bill. that itwould be a mini mum of a five-yearbattle in Ca lifornia before we sett lethe issue enough to turn our atten­tion maybe to ot her battles of a simi­lar nature. By ot her battles hemeans legislative battles dealin gwith other issues that may affectus.

So Mr . Ar mstr ong was talkingabou t Sa tan in that context. Yes, itwas a time of j ubilatio n; yes, it was atime to rejoice; yes, it was a ti me togive thanksgivi ng.

At the Feast of Tabern acles Isaid, let us pray that the atto rneygeneral will have the wisdom andstrength to do what he said he woulddo and that is, to dr op the suit if thePettis bill passed. We were alreadythankf ul for Gov. Brown for signingthe bm. but our than k-you' s reallywent to the living God for givinghim the wisdom and the str ength tosign the bill. There was alot of oppo­sition.

He could have washed his hand slike Pont ius Pilate did . Pontiusknew Christ was not gu ilty of any­thing . What did Pont ius Pilate do?He washed his hands of it . Gov.Brown could have done the same .

So we have reason to give thanks.not to the politicians , not to thebureaucrats; but thanks to the livingGod for giving us the strength andthe will to resist ; and also thanks forgiving for that moment the state leg­islature comprised of men, the gov­ernor a man, the attorney generalanother man, the wisdom to do whatwe know would be in the best interestof tbe Church of the living God.

I don't want to dwell on the law­suit here , I just want to hit some ofthe important principles so theybecome fully entrenched in yourmind in spiritual terms. Mr . Arm­strong never was mixed-up for amoment . As soon as this at tack camehe defined the issue.

Th is is an importan t th ing - toknow what the problem is. There arcpeople whosometimes spend a lot oftime and effort trying to solve thewrong problem . They come up withbrilli ant solut ions to the wrongproblem s.

As a law professor I often wouldgive questions, which I designed,and most law students would giveme fine dissertations that wouldhave nothing to do with the prob­lem . They were mak ing up ananswer to a quest ion the y had madeup. This is very common .

It' s very comm on in government,not seeking out the right issue andthen putting your resources to work .Right answers to the wrong prob­lems are of no use.

Mr. Arm strong never missed abeat. He didn 't have to be told. Hedidn't need legal coun sel. He said,what's at stak e here is simply who isgoing to rule God's Church, Chri stor Caesar ? Cou ld anything be moresimple than that and plainer thanthat ?

Anything else that was said, any­thing else that was done simpl yturned around that simple state­men t, who is going to rule God 'sChurch? The only place in theworld today where we have the gov-

ernment of God is in God's Church.And some men didn 't like it, andthe y were going to change it. That'swhat we fough t.

And when my book was pub­lished. the Los Angel es [Calif.]Times , not one of our real friends byany st retch of the imagination , butone that did a pretty responsible joball the time of reporting thi s matter,so much so, I never even wrote thema letter of complaint. Th ey did apretty responsible job this time.

But they reviewed my book and totease the reader of the newspaper sothat he would read the book review,which was on the inside of the sec­tion . the) had a little squib and itsta te d th e iss ue. Read Stanl eyRade r ' s book, t he sq uib sa id,Agains t the Gates of Hell, and findout how Her bert W. Ar mstrongwoke up one:day and found out hehad a new master : the state of Ca li­forn ia.

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one-man trut h squad, and as a PaulRevere. I don' t know whet her PaulRevere means anything up here inCanada. B!Jt he's the one who said,"t he British are coming, the Britishare coming," when he wasn't knock­ing out his work as a silversmith.And I went from major denomina­tion to minor denomination, fromcivil liber tarian gro up to civilliber­tarian group , from constitutionallawye r to const itutional lawyer .And when I was finished, they knewthe truth. The y knew what the issuewas. and from the Roman Catho licChurch to the Moonies, they cameaboard .

And the Roman Ca tholic Ch urchlanded on the state of Califo rnia leg­islature squar ely, j ust land ed onthem so hard their heads are stillspinning. Th ey never expect ed theRoman Catholic Church to lift a fin­ge r for us, and probably theyweren' t . It was just a cause.

But the last communication theygave to Gov. Brown on the eve thathe signed that bill was (t his wasfrom the Californi a Conference ofCatholic Bishops) : Don't tell us th iscase only affects the WorldwideChurch of God. Don 't tell us it onlyaffects moral, hierarchical struc­tures . We kn ow be tt er . T heyweren 't born yesterday , eith er . Sowe had some str ange bedfellowsduring this case. And some funnythings occured. which I find inter ­esting .

I was on KOA, leadin g sta tion inDenver [Colo.] on a radio programcall-in show, a good one with focus.Most of them don' t have sufficientfocus so people who call in are oftending-a-lings. But th is one was heavi­Iyplugged and focused. It said. "Re­ligious freed om an d t he statetoday."

And so they got a lot of calls in.And a man called in, identified him­self as a Cat holic priest, and he said ,I want the listeners to know that theRoman Catholic Church has taken avcry important posit ion consistentwith the Worldwid e Chu rch of Godin 'this case. And then it almos tknocked me right off my chai r.

Wh at' s more, he said, other thanour pope, nobody trave ls the worldand receives the respect from natio nto nation as does Mr . Ar mstro ng.Inte rest ing statement. And thenthat brought a call from a Seve nth­day Advent ist who wanted someshare in the glory. And that brough tsome calls from a Mormon whowanted some, and maybe someot he r ca lls t hat could n't getthr ough . So we've had an inter est­ing experie nce.

People have learned more aboutus. And that 's good. People in gen­eral have learned more about us.Sur e there's a lot of poison st ill outther e. And M r. Armst rong isa real­ist , and he knows that. And heknows that his reput ation has been..

in a sense, injured. But he says that' sthe price he paid when he became aservant of the living God .

And I know my rep utation hasbeen injured out the re . But whocares'? That 's the price you paywhen you become a servant of theliving God. But by the same token ,he knows that the reput ation of theChurch has been enhanced and on arecognit ion ba sis it has be enenh anced .

ADd now when someone: chal­lenges us and says to me, what kindof members do you have? Wh atkind of people do you have whoembrace the te nets of your Ch urch '?And I look them straight in the eyeand I tell them. I don 't know wherevou live. but our Church members~e your neighbors .

Your neighbor may be a memberof the Worldwide Chu rch of Goo.Because ou r people live out ther ewith you, ric h and poor, young and

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"And they'll ask me crazy questions. 'Well, how do you know therewon 't be a Guyana?' 'Because, ' I said, 'they wouldn' t follow Mr. Armstrongifhe were not consistent with the Word of the Living God. ' "

"He [Mr. Armstrong]always seems to have his eye on the ball, alwaysseems to have everything worked out in the right manner, sets the rightexample for us to follow, if we'll only heed wha"the 's doing. "

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old, black: and white . professionaland nonprofessionals. skilled andunskilled. They're your neighbors.And ,you'll find they are your bestneighbors.

They are employer and employeealike . And when they're employers,they're the best. And when they're

. employees. they ' re the best. No oneargues anymore. They're not livingin some comm une . They're not fol­lowing some man . They' re follow­ing the Word of the living God .ThatWord is the Bible. and it's Hisinspired written Word .

And tbey'll ask me crazy ques­tions . Well, how do you know therewon't be a Guyana'] Because I saidthey wouldn 't follow Mr . Arm­strong or anybody else around thecomer ifhe were not consist ent withthe Word of the living God. Andthey would know it before he knewit. if he deviated. And they look andthey begin to comprehend. Theybeg in to understand. The lawsuithas brought some good .

Mr. Fa hey referred to Acts28:22 . And I've mentioned it alloverthis world. Paul was unde r housearrest. People thro nged to see him.Because, they said, we know thatconcerning this sect . everywhere itis spoken against.

- -And we're talking about the lead ­ingcitizensofRomeand the leadingcitizens of the Roman Empire whowere passing through Rome. Sothere's precedence for being a cen­ter of cont roversy . There's prece­dence for bei ng talked agai nsteverywhere. And it works in orderto effect God's will.

I want all of you to understand yetanother thing about Mr . A rm­strong. And I mentioned it last nightto ministers and their wives. It cameto my mind and I thoug ht I'd bettermention it then in case I forgot tome ntion it today . But I think it 'simportant enough to mention today,although I've seldom referred to itelsewhere. Mr . ArmSlrong is not aman who is attached to physicalthings. And be has preached thatconsistently for more than 50 years.Never. never . never be att ached tophysical things.

And despite the consisten cy of histeaching, in listening to people . andI mean our best members some-

times , and our most ded icated ser­vants, I pick up little bits of under­tone. When these people a reexpr essing sympathy and concernfor Mr . Armstrong, I pick up vibra­tions, which tell me that with all ofthe ir best intentions, they have mis­construed his character and what hereprese nts and what he stands for .Because, they say, we hope that Mr .Arm str ong will be able now toreturn to Pasad ena.

Now , what that mean s is theythink of Mr. Arm strong as beingattached to a place, a place of greatbeauty, a place that is beyond corn ­pare . It is literally a foretaste of theworld tomo rrow . And Mr. Arm­stro ng loves it . And he built it bit bybit. But he is not attached to it.

He has not been living in exile . Heestablished residence in Tucson,Ari z., in the spring of 1977. a monthand a half before his marri age .Because his wife said, I will marr yyou on the conditi on that we live inTu cson . That's where I'm living ,tha t's where my mother lives, that 'swhere my son goes to school, th at 'swhere I want to live.

Goo prov ided him with that placeof safety when this lawsuit broke outtwo years later . He hasn 't been inexile . And he hasn ' t been piningover the fact th at he has not seenPasadena. Because he can close hiseye- and see Pasadena any time he

wants to. And those of you who havevisited Pasadena can do the sameright now. God has given us thatpower.

He knows that Pasadena is there.He knows how beautiful it is. Heknows that others are enjoy ing it.That gives him pleasu re and saris­fact ion and the right kind of pride .

But during the darkest days ofthis lawsuit , he never wanted me toget mixed up. And he said, Stan,do n't forge t, we' re not tied down toany bu ildings in Pasadena. He wasletti ng me know we could get r id ofthose buildings, sell them or leavethem. And it wouldn't mean theWork of the living God would beimpeded one bit. Because th eCh urch of the living God has nothingtodowith buildings . It has nothing todo with matters material . It is a mat­ter of a spiritual organism.

Anda couple of weeks ago in thatsa me a rt ic le I referred to . herem inded the pastors that Sa tan is .act ive out there and he's busy . Andhe might yet attack and attackagain , and he might even win a bat­tle. if he won and they took ourbuild ings away and our prope rtyaway .

And let's not forge t what hap-­pened to th e Mormons in 1870. Thefederal government, with all of thepower it had taken , came down andconfiscated the proper ty of th eMormon Ch urch . And that isn 'teven God 's Ch urch, and it did n'twipe them out, did it'? They camehack .

The y now own the whole state ofUtah. And they' re not even Goo 'sChurch. How intimidating is it tolose physical property'? It does n'tmean anything. I don't believe thatit will happen.

But Mr. Armstrong stresses indiffe rent ways the same facets of theproblem. Don't be attached to phys­ical things. It's all thro ughout theBible. He didn't make it up . That'sthe Wo rd of the living God. It 's inthere one way or another. And Mr.Armstron g has been consi s tent

, abou t that.The Church is today and tomor­

row. You can't rest on your laurelsin this C hurch either. It isn't goodenough to tell anybody abou t howgood you were before and howfaithful you were before and thing sof that nature. You have to look for­ward .

And Mr . Arm strong can ' t rest on

his laurels, and he's in his 89th year .He's st ill fighting Satan. He has tofight hard er than anybody beca useSatan wants to get him mor e th an hewant s to get anybod y.

He has to do more work and do itbett er than he did it last year or 10years ago or 20 year s ago. He has topush himself harder . And he'shuman . And he' s told me that it' sharder to do everything when youget to be his age. It' s harder to getout of bed in th e morning.

How man y of you here in theaudience are at least 60,? Did hedescribe it right? It's a little harde r.isn't it '? But it 's got to be done. Hegets up and he gets out and then hegets it done and we have to beg himto go to sleep .

And then the next day it star tsagain . And it 's a litt le hard er .tbenext day. And ever ybod y that 'slived long enough to get to that posi­tion to reali ze what he's talk ingabout , knows how truth ful he iswhen he says that .

But go back and compare . He 'sdoing more work toda y than he did20 years ago, and then what he didwas impossible . Where does thepower come from ? Where does thestr ength come from ? If it doesn 'tcome from the living God , you tellme wher e it comes from. We don' thave people out there who for 1

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they 're not in the Church.I go on telev ision shows and

peop le hold up his ads. Come on,Mr . Rader, they say, tell us, who'swriting those ads '? You must have ahigh -powered advertising agencywriti ng those ads. That's a compli­ment , isn't it?

Because you know th at AT&Thas a high -powered adv er tisi ngagency , maybe 50 people writi ngthe ads . Ge neral Motors, Fo rd ,Ge neral E lectric, most of th osepeople couldn 't write a lette r, Iguess, if they had to. They'd have tohave a high- powered advertisi ng

. age ncy do it.Herbert W. Armstrong does it.

He doesn ' t even have a secretary.He has never used a secretary in his54 years . He does his own typing .He does his own correcting, his ownstri keovers and his own inte rlinearcorrections.

He sends it to composing, and hedares somebody to change a word ,even the position of the word . Wehave some brigh t young men whoknow better, sometimes, they think.He writes an ad, he puts the word"the" all by itse lf on the top line of

. the ad . Somebody thought it shouldbe " the" with the next word there.That head almost rolled all the way.

He said , I put the word "the" on

the first line by itself beca use that'sthe way I wanted it to be. So theylearned .

Eighty-eig ht and a half years old,writes it all , leaves instructions as tohow th e ad should beprepared, whatform it should take, even the way the "size of the lett ering should bechanged as you go th rough the ad .

Take a look at the ad and study it.T hose of you who never really stu d­ied an ad, not only about the Work,but the physical makeup of the ad.He has d irect ed every bit of it to thenth degree.

I am given a little liberty in anemergency to fight a batt le with theeditors of a newspaper if, in myopinion, the onl y way I can get thead in is to make a coup le of changeson substance becau se the adwouldn 't run otherwise . And I

haven't had todo it very much .Yesterday he decided he was

going togo into Los Angel es, hadn'tbeen the re in a couple of years . Hecalled me the night befo re. And inthe middle of the 18 pages he toldme to make a reservat ion for him atPerino 's, where he was accused ofsiphoning and pilfer ing millions byeating steaks .

So he went to Perin o's , and I toldhim not to get arr ested . And I~

night when I ca lled at 10 (8 in Tuc­son), he wasn 't back yet. I said, ohmy, maybe he did get arrested. Butin about an hour and a hal f or twohours later , he was back . And he hada wonde rful time .

He saw his tailor because he hasto get a whole new wardrobe, whichis now practically completed .Because, as he said, he doesn 't havewhat's up front that counts any­more.

But people who saw him for thefirst time in a few years on this lasttrip were amazed. The y said he nev­er looked so good in his whole life .And I think it's tru e. I think tak ingoff all that weight has made himlook even more dynam ic. But God' sgiving him that st rengt h.

8 1:t let 's oat fOl ~ .: t th is differe ncebetween the materiaJ and the spiri­tu al. Keep our eyes on those thingstha t are im portant , not the materialth ings. Th ey won't takc ou: proper-

ty away. I'm confident of it. I wasnever doubting it.

BuI, you know , God could decidethat He wanted us to endure eventhat, if He felt for some reason orother we weren't doing what weshould as well as we should.

Mr . Armstro ng was just back in .England . In 1974 I sat with himwhile he typed, in his own way, atelex to Pasadena, te lling them th atwe were closing the Bricker Woodoperation, academ ic operation, andhe direc ted them to sell BricketWood . He said it was like losing anar m, but only for a moment.

He visited Bricke t Wood for thefirst time in four years just a fewweeks ago. He was shown through­out the premises by the public utili ­tyofGreat Britai n, who are the newowners. He was n' t cr ying. Hewasn't ma udlin . He walked alloverthe campus beaming.

- It's still a bea utiful place. Andhe' s happy tha t the place has been

. taken over by people who appreciateit and are taki ng care of it , may benot quite as well as we would.

Now doesn't that tell you som e­thi ng abou t the man'? Very fewpeople are as comp lete as he is. Healways seems to have his eye on theball, always seems to have every ­thing worked out in the right man-

nerosets the right exam ple for us tofollow, if we'll only heed what he'sdoing. Because what he is doing isfollowi ng, as closely as be can. fbcseinspired words that I referred to.He's not attached to the physical.

That's why when these newspa­per art icles appear and they try toconde mn us for what appears to be,to th em, some kind of evidence oflux urious living and th ings of thatnature, it's appallingly wro ng. He'slived as I have lived, exce pt for thelas' coup le of years. for all pract icalpurposes, out of a su itcase.

For years I went home in betweenmy trips and never un packed . I justsimply would take out a few piecesof yet unlaundered laundry. and if Iwere the re long eno ugh , I would getthat back just as tho ugh it were ahote l. Otherwise I would put insome fresh linens and away I'd go.That's not luxurious living.

In and out of taxicabs, in and outof cars , in and out of airplanes, inand out of airports, in and out ofairport waiti ng rooms , in and out ofhotels; that's not luxurious living .They could take along one of thosesnotty reporters, and I guaran teeyou, I would break his back if hewould try to keep my schedule for

. 48 hour s. We 've put some of ourbest minister s in local areas in bedfor a week or two after we left.

I won't tell you what my scheduleis because it would be hard for you tounderstand, and tha t's why I've evengiven inst ructions in the Pas/orGenera!"! Report and elsewhere:Don't go into th at much detail . Ithas been impossible.

It' s so impossible that I tell thepeople who travel with me. don 'teven tell me what you're try ing toget me to do . Because then I willthink it's impossible and I might tellyou I can't do it. So we jus t keepdoing it.

And one of the men that's here isnamed Joe Kotara. And he has acouple of artificial valves and he wasgiven up for dead a coupl e of tim es.S omehow o r other he pulledthr ough . And he's indefatigable.

And then there's Mr . (John)Kineston , a good year younger, anda lot of stam ina and strength, and hekeeps us going. And my wife hasmade most of my trips. and Mrs .[Mae Larue ] Kotara most of thetr ips. And all I can say about Mr .Kotara is wha t all of us would like tosay, or have said about any one of us,"Servant of God, well done." Tha t'sthe oesr )' 0 U can sa) .

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But Satan is at work , I guaranteeyou that. Because I never heard any­body talk about Mr . Kotora, untilabout six' months ago, in any kind ofnegative way. And the moment hebegan to do the Work of the livingGod ,alI of asudden, I get all kinds ofcomments about Mr . Kotara . Isn't itphenomenal '?

Wasn't there a cartoon ser iesyears ago called, "They'll Do IIEvery Time ?" I guarantee you sixmonths ago there weren 't 10 peoplewho knew how to spell Kota ra, andsomeofthose people now make littleeffigies of Mr. Kctcra, and theythrow darts at it. I'm speaki ng figu­ratively, of course.

It's an amazing phenomenon,justfor being a faithful and loyal ser­vant . just an incredible thing . Mr .Armstrong has said it. He said itagai n, that's the price you pay,apparently for doing a job well. Noway to get around it. It's going tohappen every time .

You have a man here now tha tyou're lucky to have. As I told theminis ters last night , Mr . Fahey isoneof the few people on this earth whoknows Mr . Armstrong. He was oneof the lucky ones.

Mr. Armstro ng travel ed threet imes, and I traveled four times toSouth Af rica , all with in the last five

years . -Mr. Fahe y was there. Wefound out that Durban, South Afri­ca. was farther away from LosAngeles than any other inhabitedplace on the face of this earth. That'swhy M r. A rmst rong and I havemanag ed successfully to avoid going10 Sou th Africa all those years thatwe t raveled un til 1976. .

Ot hers went toSout h Af rica whoneed n't have gone . But it was allur­ing to th em. We finallywent,and we

- did a lot of work and we stayed the rea long ti me. And we lived with Mr .fahey on back-breaking schedulesfrom hotel to hote l, from city to city ,across the cont inent, up and down ,and that's a big country.

And we learned who Mr . Fahe ywas. And Mr . Fahe y observed andlearned who Mr . Armstrong was,one of the few people who wasexposed to Mr . Armstrong thatway.

Oh, others have known him andhave said hello and good-bye andhear him speak as part of ot hers , buthe's one of the few that were blessed .He 's now in Canada. Canada hasnever had anybody in that positionbefore.

No one paid much attention toMr . Fahey when he was down inSouth Africa. So uth Africa. thatwas a long way away. The momen tthat Doh fahey hccam e exposed '0Herbert W . Arm str ong in SouthAfrica, all of a sudden everybod ystarted to talk about Bob Fahey. Allof a sudden, the y knew how to spellhis name . And all of a sudden he wasa target of cr iticism.. And 10 and behold a coupl e ofyears later, for no reason at all, hewasn't in South Afr ica anymore.They got rid of Bob Fahey fromSouth Af rica while Mr . Armstrongwas fighting his batt le againstdeath. No one had the guts to takehim out of South Afri ca beforeAugust of '77 .

Mark my words, you will see thefantastic job that Bob Fahey does inthis area. becau se he is one of God'sbest servants. And I'm not putt ingdown anybod y else that has beenhere . But the y just haven 't had theunique experi ence he has had. Andit was only accidental .

Mark my words , with all the goodthat you will see with your own eyesand experien ce with your ownsenses becau se you have God 's HolyS pirit, you will begin to get somevibes within a reasonabl e per iod oftime of a negative nat ure about Bob

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all about.And because I have been so

blessed, I know how much harder Ihave to work in orde r to give back inequal measure what I have received .And that' s a tall order, and it' s onethat l try my hardes t to fulfill. And Ijust hope and I pray that I will beable to fulfill that order as well ascont inue to be a faithf ul and loyalserva nt of Mr . Arms t rong andhence of the living God .

And please, if you find tha t I' mnot fulfilling that order in any way,let me know. Becau se you neverknow when you're fooling yourselfeither . You might think you are ful­filling that order and actually befalling far short.

And let Mr . Armstrong hearfrom you. He loves to get those let ­ters . Somewhere along the linesomebody gave you the idea that hedoesn't get his mail , or he doesn 'tread the lett ers. He does .

And just as he need s yourprayers , and those prayers give bima litt le more strength to go forwardevery day. Believe me those lettersdo the same .

He takes treme ndous pleasure inreading those lett ers. Let him hearfrom you. The y get to him , believeme, that the y do. And believe methe y arc very importan t.

I want to thank everyone for theopport unity of being here today, andas I said, I would hope to get back in1981. I would hope Mr. Ar mstrongcan come up here. He hasn' t been toToronto in man)' years . And I th inkhe will be overwhe lmingly im­pressed by the beauty of this city aswell as by the brethren . Th ank you.

ies or bachelor of arts degrees atcommencement exercises on theAmbassador College campus Jan . 5,according to Deputy ChancellorRaymond F. McNair.

JomesV.ShoafandlanR, Williswere conferred degrees by Mr. Me­Nair , while Dirjt ChUds, Mary LetJobnston and Anthony Wojnar re­ceived certificates for the BiblicalStudies program .

In a short address in the Rec italHall . Deputy Chancellor McNaircommented on the shortcomings ofmodem education, stating that "t heproblem is that people want human ­ist icvalues instead of divine values."He also stated that "if you seek firstthe spiritual . . . you're going to bemore successful , even financially."

Graduating students who were notpresent were: J. Taylor Gamblin.Margaret LoUR Lassan and LutzGrelmeister, bach el or de gre es;David P , Schroeder and RosemaryThompson, di plomas in Bib licalStudies.

public Bible lectures for readers ofDe Echte Waarheid [Dutch PlainTrut h) in Leewarden and Groning­en in November.

Rod M atthews of the Interna­tional Office of Ministerial Servicesreport ed that Mr. de Bree coveredthe topics of "Coping with Life inthe 19805" and " Europe in Proph­ecy." Th e Dutch office reportedthat attendance was excellent.

A ropy of the DUlCh languagetranslat ion of Pastor General Her­hert W. Armstrong'. book , TheIncredible Human Potential, wasdistributed free of charge to eachattending .

Mr . de Bree stated that incomeand Ch urc h atte ndanccare up in theDutch-speaking area of God 'sWork. Income showed a 25 perce ntincrease over 1979 and attendance ·figures were up 21 perce nt over thesame period last year .

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will continue to give me str engthregardless of our adversities, what­ever they may be. "We are troubledon every side, yet not distressed; weare perp lexed, but not in despai r;Persecuted, but not forsaken; castdown but not destroyed." It says itall. This is still a time for cour age. Itis a time of challenge. Let's not for­get that.

Wh atever the difficulties may be,the y will be overcome. Whateverth e hazard s are, the y must beguarded agai nst. We must standtogether with renewed confidencein our cause : And with renewedfaith in our heritage, and our hopefor the future that we will be ab le tolead manki nd into the world tomo r­row where they'll finally find worldpeace and prosperity and abundancethat man has futilely and fruitlesslybeen chasing for 6,000 years, a6,OOo-year period during whichthey 've been cut off, literall y cut offfrom the living God .

A hund red times a day, maybefiguratively , but it seems to me ahundred times a day, I remindmyself how much my life depen dsnot only on God , because if we'velearned anything, we know that , buthow much it also depends on thelabors of all other men and womenand children who have come beforeand are here now. And I meanpeople in the Church as well as outof the Church.

And because I remember that,and I remind myself of that every­day, I've learned that life is sharingyourself with others. And you' repart of everybody that you 've sharedyourself with . and that' s what life is

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(Continu_d fro m page 11 )Fahey. II happens eve ry time.That 's the way it works when you 'redoing God's Work .

We will be prosecuted. We willbe persecuted. We don't have mar ­tyr complexes. Jt's in this Word . It' sin there, it tells us over and overagain. We will be persecuted. Itdoesn 't even leave any room fordoubt. It tells us the way it will be.And we have to endure.

But you're very lucky , in myopinion, up here in Can ada to haveMr . Fahey . Because wherever hegoes, he builds . He's a doer . Hedoesn 't know how not to do it.

When we first came to SouthAfrica, six weeks before I came, Ijust sent him a telex and told himwhat I wanted done for Mr . Arm­strong. He didn't know when he gotthe telex that I'd told him somethingthat was pretty much impossible foralmos t everybody . He didn't knowthat he couldn 't do it, so he did it.And it was impossible.

And it' s amazing . It 'll happenevery time . If you don't know theimpossible , you 'll do it. And even ifit is impossible, if you have faith ,you know itca.n be done anyway, andit will be done .

I want to close earl y so that I canspend some time meet ing you. And Iunderstand we have a potluck orsomething immediately following,is that right ? I just want to say just afew more th ings.

11Corinthians 4:8-9 gave me a lotof strength durin g the lawsuit and

UTRECHT. NetherlandsRegional director Abra bam"Dram" de Bree cond ucted four

ordained to the same rank:April 26.Michael Feazell oftbe Ministeri­

al Services office here was ordaineda local cider Sept . 9.

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More than 11,000 responses werereceived here from a Plain Truthadvertising campai gn in October,acco rd ing to Peter G. Natban,regional director of God's Work inNew Zealan d.

Mr . Nathan reported that mailresponse is up 8 percent over 1979,and income has increased 27 per­cent over the same period .

Rod Ma rtbew. of MinisterialServices' Int ern ati on a l Officestated that the New Zeal and month­ly report showed average Churchatte ndance above the I,OOO-personmark. .

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IPOMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE ' - 'Five Ambassador Colleg e studen ts received bache lor of arts degrees ordiplomas in Biblical Studies Jan. 5 1nthe campus Recital Hall ." From le ft: Depu ty Cha nce llor Raymond F. Mc Na ir,Ian R. Willis, Registrar William Steng er, Mary Lee J ohnston , Anthony Wojna r, Dirlle Childs , Dean of St udents GregAlbrecht , James V.Shoaf and Rich a rd Ames , direc to r of ad missions . (Se e " Update," this page.) [Photo by ScottSm ith] -

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one ordinat ion to the rank of preach­ing elder were released by Ministe­rial Serv ices here .

Ordained as local elders on theFeast of Trumpets, 1980 , were:Edwin A. Ca n J r., Knoxville, Ten n.;Gera ld C. Cook . Huntsville. Ala.;Lawrence R. Dickey, Ath ens, Ga.;Richard E. Emery, Las Cruces,N.M.; Da,id W. Gray. Dallas. Tex.;Robert D. Griffith . Parkers burg,

. W.Va.; Gerry L Htldt. Bismarck,N.D.; RoaaJd W. Kiag ; Monroe.La; Rumie P. Nusz. Yankton. S .D.;Nick J. Rogers . Monroe. La.; F1yJmI. Stug.II, T ucson ; James F.Stokes. Trenton and Ham monton,N .J .; Georg t E. T reat. BluefieldW.Va.; and Sre-e P . WaIdta,Austinand Waco, Te x.

Ordai ned on Pentecost to therank of preaching elder was Leou.nIHolla day of the Port land, Maine.church . Ordained the same day aslocal elders were Collis A. Hill, Tu l­sa.Okla .; Johnnit N. Umbert J r.,Corning, N .Y .; and Ro.ald A.WbttItr. Santa Rosa. Calif.

Or dained as local elders Apri l S.1980. were Charles HaUiu of theChicago, III.• Southeast church andDoIpb ... Willia....".ofthe ChicagoSouthside church. Ilaady _ ofthe Ken t, wash ., churc h was

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PASADENA - Pastor GeneralHerbert W. Armstrong announcedJan . 2 that Guy Ames will replaceeolia Adair as regional director ofGod's Work in the Philippines,according to evangelist JosephTkach of Minis terial Services.

Mr . Ames, who works in theMinis terial Counseling office here,will move to the Philippi nes withinthe next few weeks , Mr . Tkac h said.Currently assigned to the Pasade naAuditorium A.M. congregatio n,Mr. Ames previously served as thePhilippine O ffice manager in I%3 to1965 and 1968 10 1970.

Mr . Tkach reported that theC hurch ih the Philippines hadgrown "considerably" under theguidance of Mr . Adair.whois beingtransferred to the Vancouver, B.C. .area. He stated that the Phi lippinechurch now has more than 2.100members, the fifth largest concen­tration of God's peop le in theworld.

Mr . Adair and his wife Margaretcompleted more than 10 years ofdedicated service in the Philippines,Mr . Tkach related .

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VICTORY DANCE - Church member s Marty Yale. le ft, and Mike Haleplay " Dueling Banjos " at the So uthern Califo rnia Victo ry Dance Jan. 3 atthe Hollywood Pallad ium. Be low, two of the ne arly 2 ,000 people whoattende d the dance from ch urches through out Sou thern California on thesecond an niversary of the attack by the sta te of California agains t God 'sCh urch. [Photos by Sheila Graham and Tom Ha ns on]

PASADENA - Seve ral ordi na­tions to the rank of local elder and

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By Dexter H. FaulknerManaging Editor

Pastor General Herbert W . Ar m­stro ng predi cted in the first WorldwideNews of 1980 that God's Work would"l eap ahead at an accel erat ing pace ."

And leap ahead it did !We, the WN sta ff, were privileged

wit h you brethren to have a ringside seatas God's apost le car ried the Gospel toworld leaders in the Middle East ; to seethe Wo rk's income double in some par tsof the world; watch bapt isms rise as Godcalled new peop le into His revitalizedChurch; hear of more than a 1.000 per­cent increase in Canadian mediarespo nses ; and much more .

We were the re when Church treasurerStanley R. Rader arrived at the LosAngeles In ternat ional Airpo rt with newsthat the Cal ifornia attorney general hadwithdrawn the lawsuit against God'sCh urch.

And that' s wha t this special year -end.supplement to The Worldwide News isall abou t .

Doyou recall that Mr. Armstrong pre ­dicted II months before the U.S. elec­lions that voters would be disenc hantedwith Presiden t J imm y Ca rter beca use ofthe hostage crisis? It was on the frontpage of the Jan . 14 issue.

Yes, 1980 was a thrillin g year.We were on the receiving end when

repor t after repo rt ca me in telling of anew harm ony and joyous spirit grippingthe 1980 Feast of T aberna cles. Evange-

list Joe Tkach asked mini sters and breth­ren to send us summaries of their Thanks­giving Sabbath act ivities and our officeswere flooded .

When the first anniversa ry of the Cali­fornia attorney general's attack came,more than 5,000 brethren packed ser­vices on the Ambassador Co llege cam­pus.

As Mr . Armst rong wrote in earl y Jan­uar y. "Everywhere the Work is surgi ngahead!"

Special thanks

As you thumb thr ough this supple­ment you' ll find many acco unts that wecou ld not have covered without the helpof the ded icated Body of C hrist. Mr.Armst rong set the pace . keepi ng usinformed through 22 full-length articlesin our 23-iss ue year.

Seve ral evang elists gave of their busytime to help our edi tors and reporterscover impo rtan t events . Pastors, elders,deacons and lay members contributednews feat ures and reported stories . Ourthan ks to them .

T hroug h these efforts. you saw howGod protected His people d uri ng torna­dos. hurricanes and raging fires; guidedHis apos tle in plann ing His festivals; pro­vided for His C hurc h in times of need;and man y other blessings.

I mportant trend s

Th e one sta tement tha t typi fies 1980 inmy opinion, is that God 's C hurc h is uni­fied behind its leader and is moving to

support him .How else can you account for the thou­

sand s of selfless brethren distributingmillions of newsstand Plain Truths ? Orwhat else makes people take time fromtheir jobs to peacefully show their sup­port at courthouses? We saw these thingsin God's Church last year.

Beginn ing a new decade, 1980 defi­nitely was a milest one year.

Mr . Armstrong is lookin g ahead to

greater events in th is new year. We hopeas you reminisce in these pages you' ll findthat you were a part of the reason itgrew .

Mr . Armstrong says God is build ingHis Church again because " Christ hasbeen putting H is C hurch and collegeback on the trac k. We are praying more,and with more fervenc y and dedic at ion .We are dr awing closer to Ch rist , and Heis blessing the Work acco rdi ngly!"

JANUARY

STATE VS. CHURCH - Addressing a prime -time audience on a Los Angeles, Calif .. telev isionstation, Herbert W. Armstrong explains the Church's legal and spiritual position on a Church·produced documentary Jan . 16, above. The documentary chronicled the Church's legal strug­gle and also featured Church treasurer Stanley R. Rader. Below. Ambassador College studentsexcavate ancient ruins in Jerusalem as part of a 1976 expedition. Ambassador College DeputyChancellor Raymond F. McNair announced plans to resume the program in 1980.

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invitation from Church officials in thatarea.

Comedian Bob Hope was greetedenthusiastically when he starred in amusical extravaganza sponsored by theAmbassador International CulturalFoundation (AICF) as a benefit for theBing Crosby Youth Fund. Performingwith him in the Ambassador Auditoriumwere Debby Boone, Shirley Jones, Diah­ann Carroll and Beatrice Arthur.

Also in Pasadena, brethren andAmbassador College students donatedtheir time and efforts to a number offund-raising projects at the 915t annualTournament of Roses Parade.

In our Jan. 28 issue Ambassador Col­lege Deputy Chancellor Raymond F.McNair announced that students wouldagain participate in archaeological exca­vationsin Jerusalemduringthe summer.Ambassador students had not taken partin "the Dig" there since 1976.

I nother news, thousandof miles away.the largest ministerial conference in thehistory of the Philippines was under wayin Manila. Attended by 27 ministers andtheir wives. the conference featuredupdates on procedure, counseling andministerial techniques and minister /church relations...... ,

Further, regarding the Church'sstruggle for religious freedom, televisionstation KCOP in LosAngeles, Calif., fea­tured Mr. Armstrong in a taped docu­mentary Jan. 16 entitled The FirstAmendment: Church vs. State.

The WN reported that the Californiaattorney general, after given months toamend his charges, wasdealt a significantsetback when the Los Angeles SuperiorCourt dismissed the lawsuit against theChurch's auditing firm of Rader, Corn­wall, Kessler & Palazzo.

Meanwhile, Church treasurer StanleyR. Rader returned to Pasadena aftervisits to Radlett, England, and NewYork. In England, he was honored at aprivate dinner in the London TravellersClub, played host to by the HonorableTerence Prittie, an author, journalist andexpert on European affairs. Quest/SOmagazine was introduced to the group,whichreceivedit withenthusiasm.

Mr. Rader also played host to severalluncheons with the ministry in Britainand spoke to 700 brethren from sixchurch areas at Sabbath services in ."Hemel Hempstead. ~ .

In New York he met with area minis­ters and spoke to 967 brethren on theSabbath, 'responding to a long-standing

On the first Sabbath of the new year,Mr. Armstrong addressed a recordaudience of 5,244 brethren in Pasadenaby microwave hookup from Tucson. Anadditional 18,000 others in more than 40

. churches throughout the western UnitedStates and Canada listened to his sermonby an audio linkup.

In addition to the address , the weekendof Jan. 5 included a special Bible study inthe Ambassador Auditorium, which2, I00 attended, and a semiformal danceat the Hollywood Palladium, attended by2,500.

T he Jan. 14 issue kicked off the eighthyear of The Worldwide News, begin­

ning a new decade of keeping members .up to date with events in the Work aroundthe world. That issue marked the firstanniversary of the attack by the State ofCalifornia against God's Church, whichPastor General Herbert W. Armstrongcalled "a move engineered by Satan todestroy God's Work."

Nonetheless. 1979 was a positive yearfor the Church . "This has been a year ofsetting God's Church and college back onthe track," Mr. Armstrong noted.

FEBRUARY

Favorable results were received froman audiovisual Bible study presentation inPasadena. The presentations are to helpmake biblical messages come alive. Theslide shows were then tested Feb. 2 to 10in churches in British Columbia andSeattle, Wash.

Canadian activit ies included a lectureseries "Canada in Prophecy" in Calgary,Alta ., that culminated month s of fund­raising, advertising and preparation. Pas­tors Dennis Wheat croft and Ne il Earleexplained Canada's modern-d ay ident ityto 405 persons who attended the lecture sFeb. 8 and 9.

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strong's visits with world leaders.Ambassador College faculty mem ­

bers , stude nts and Ch urch membersaided flood victims when more than 20inches of rain del uged Pasadena Feb. 10to 21. The Ambassador InternationalCultural Foundation (AICF) was in themidst of "a spectac ular fifth anniversary"season, which performing arts gene ralmanage r Way ne Shi lkret termed " thebest we've had." Gui tarist Chet Atkins'performances in the Ambassador Aud i­torium Feb. 16 and 17 brought sell-outcrowds, despite stormy weather andflooding.

began in the southern United St ates.

The n there was the story of two NewZeal ander s, Neville and Elaine Morgan ,"inveter ate globe-trotters." who didsome visiting of their own. We readabouttheir latest trip to North and CentralAmerica, from April, 1978, to March,1979, that resulted in thei r contacts withabout half of the Church members in theUnited St ates . The Morgans' year-lo ngtour covered 37,000 miles and took themto 40 states and several Central Americancountries.

The Bismarck, N .D., congregation andpastor Dan Creed fou nd themselvesshowcased on television stat ion KXMBbefore an estimated audience of a quarterof a million people. Noticing the similari­ties betwee n events in the Midd le Eastand prop hecies out lined in Ch urch litera­tu re, a KXMB commentator asked Mr .Creed for an interview . T he statio n tapedan entire service and presented a five­minute segm ent on a Su nday eveningbroadcast.

Paul Kraut rnann , minister of theGeorge town, Guyana. church, was inter­viewed early in the year. On the govern­ment-owned Guyana Broadcasting Ser­vice, Mr. Krautmann discussed theChu rch's legal batt le and Mr. Arm-

In the meantime, record-breakingincreases were being reported by BobMortonand Dean Wilson, then directorsof God's Work in tbe South Pacific andAustralia respec tively . We heard that byJu ly, 1979, more mail had been receivedin South Pacific offices than du ring thewhole of 1978. Income increased by 30percent every month since January,1979, in New Zealand. And in Australia,The Plain Truth mailing list for 1979more than doubled that of the previousyear.

Favorable results, about 30,000 newsubscribers. were expected for domesticPlain Truths when three million news­paper inserts advertising the magazinewere carried in the Chicago, Ill., Tribune,the Washington, D.C., Post and Detroit,Mich ..News Feb. 3.

This month Pasadena-based evange­lists, pastors and dep artment heads begantrips inthe Work 's G-II jet to variouschurch areas, keeping brethren abreast ofcurrent events in the Church. Visits

U sing an analog y of how Christ dealswithSatan.PastorGeneralHerbert

W. Arm strong clarified the subject ofdisfellowshippin g in the Feb. 25 WN,commanding that we "avoid certainones."

PREPARING LEADERS - Above. Ambassador College Speech Departmentfaculty. fromleft :ChrisBeam. Wayne Antion, George Geia. Richard Ames, DavidAlbert and Greg Albrecht. meet to discuss plans. Upper right, Ministeria l Ser­vices aide Mike Feazell boards the Work's G-II before takeoff to bring Pasa­dena-based evangelists and ministers to congregations in the southern UnitedStates .

ST ORMY WEA THERMore than 20 inches of rainproduced an artificial lakethat covered the freeway

-adlacent to the Ambassa ­dor College campus. left.Right, a co -worke r editionofHerbert W . Armstrong'sbook, The Wonderful WorldTomorrow. was distributedto 130,000 people inFeb ru­ary. Below right , Churchmember Glenda Harris de­tails her view of the Califor­nia attorney general's law­suit again st the Church .Below, left: Three millionPlain Truth inserts were dis­tributed in the Feb . 3 edi·tlo ns of newspapers in theeast ern United State s.

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CHURCHN O T FIGHTING STATE

I n one of the top stories in March, Pas­tor General Herbert W. Armstrong

explained that the Church is not fightingthe state of California. " We are defend­ing Church progress," he stated.

Elsewhere, Church treasurer Stanle yR. Rader was on his way to Warsaw,Poland, and Moscow. Russia, to makepreliminary arrangements for Mr. Arm­strong's trip there in May. Because ofworsening relations between the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union, Mr . Arm­strong's tr ip was postponed. Following

NEW TV AND lUDlO PROGRAMS

the Moscow visit , Mr. Rader traveled toChina where he spoke at the University ofPeking and checked into opening anofficein Peking [Beijing] for distributingThe Plain Truth .

Before his overseas trips, the Church .treasurer stopped for Sabbath services inPittsburgh, Pa., where, according toPittsburgh pastor Don Lawson, he gave a" shot -in-the-arm" address to 1,700brethren gathered from eight areachurches.

A~other evangelist detailed his travel

experiences. From March, 1979, toMarch, 1980, Gerald Waterhouse visited287 churches. Part of his hectic scheduleappeared in the March 10 WN. .

Also this month carne plans for a revi­talized BibleCorrespondence Course andnewtelevisionandradioprograms. Plansset forth by Mr . Armstrong called foraddit ional lessons that would expandupon many ofthe topics introduced in theChurch's 12-lesson course .

Many items about the forthcoming1980 Feast of Tabernacles were pub­lished in March . Twenty -one Feast coor­dinatorsandtheir businessmanagersmetMarch 10 to hear Ministerial ServicesDirector Joe Tkach discuss Festival plansand policies designated by Mr. Arm­strong .

Then came the announcement that forthe first time since 1974, the entire mem­bership in Britain and Ireland wouldmeet together at one site, Brighton, onEngland's southern coast.

Early in the month Mr . Armstrongappointed a U.S. Festival Coordin atingteam consisting of Ellis Lakavia, JackBicket, Joe Tkach and William Kessler.

On the Ambassador College scene,some 25 students and eight alternateswere accepted to go to the Jerusalem

MARCH

archaeological dig for six weeks begin­ning June 11.

In other college activities , about 500students, faculty , administration andguests attended the 1980 Speech Ban­quet and Sophomore Ball in the studentcenter . Awards were presented to thefour student speakers, Janne Barrett ,Ron Guizado , Stephanie Finlay and PhilRice.

Basketball fans witnessed the seniorsbest the underclassmen all-star tearn 78­72 in intramural championships . Twowomen's all-star tearns clashed, with thepurple team coming out on top in over­time.

Nineteen athletes from Taiwan lived atAmbassador College for 51'. weeks oftraining for the 1980 summer Olympics .

On the international scene was thereport that the Work in the PacificIslands "was dealt a severe blow" whenthe Fiji post office increased its postagerates nearly 100 percent . The rate hikegreat ly affected the budget there .

German roll kuchen, pooris and scou­riccheese bannockswerejust threeof themany unleavened bread recipes submit ­ted by WN readers for the March 10issue.

MOSCOW MEMOIRS - Clockwise from center , above:Ambassador International Cuhural Foundation (AICF) VicePresident Stanley A. Rader pauses with Polish officialJanusz Wieczorek duringhis Warsaw visit;Mr. Rader inMos·cow's Red Square. The Church treasurer was there toarrange for an official visit by Pastor General Herbert W.Armstrong, which was later postponed; 19 athletes fromTaiwan trained for 5 Y.z weeks at Ambassador College;Ambassador College Food Services director Carlton Greenexhorted members to partic ipate in Spokesman Club, in ourMarch 10 issue; evangelist Gerald Waterhouse takes timeout from his busy schedule for this photo.

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I n April we were already looking aheadto the Feast of Tab ernacles ju st around

the corner. (Five months. that is!) Forthefirst time in many years each Churchmemberwasasked to make his own hous­ing arrangements. To help membersselect housing the United St ates FestivalCoordinating team , the Festiv al Officeand The Worldwide News got together toprod uce a 16-page supp leme nt detailingavailable housing at 21 U.S. Feast sites .

Pastor Gene ral Herbert W . Arm­strong wrote that this year would markhis 54th observance of the Feast.

In this issue we reported on Churchtreasurer Stanley R. Rade r's trip onbehalfofMr. Armstrong in late Ma rch tothe Philippines. Mr . Rader was a specia lguest of Pres ident Ferdi nand E. Marcosat the annual Army Day celebration,wherehe wasintroducedbythe presidentto the Minister of Defense, the DeputyForeign Minister and the Commanderofthe Army .

At a luncheon following, Mr . Raderdiscussed with President Marcos plansfor an Ambassado r International Cul­tu ral Foundation (AICF) cooperativeeffort with the Philippine Mi nistry ofLabor and the Manpower Institute.

On March 21 Mr . Rader was inter­viewed on a Philippine television station,and was presented a key to the city ofManil a by the mayo r.

Pasadena mini ster John Halford gaveour readers an inside view of his experi­ences as a "paratrooper" aboard the

Work's G-II jet en route to church areasin Texas and Louisiana.

The Spanish Department announcedplans to resume The World Tomorrowbroadcast in the Spanish lang uage . Th ebroadcast was discontinued in 1975 . Th efirst station in Puerto Rico was to beginbroadcasting within the month, withplans to expand into Mexico and Centraland South America in the near future.

Application s for the Summer Educa­t ional Program (SEP) in Orr, Minn .,were included in this issue. Each sessionwas expanded from three weeks to fourweeks with no increase in tuition.

Mr. Rader continued his overseas tripson behalf of Mr . Armstr ong, thi s time toIsrael and Egyp t, as reported in the Apri l21 issue . Mr. Rader attended a dinnerpart y played hostto by Jerusalem May orTed dy Kollek in honor of Mr . Arm­strong. The following day Mr. Rader andMayor Kollek visited the Patri arch of theGreek Orthodox C hurch in Jerusalem ,and explained the work of the C hurch andAICF's role in Israel.

In Egypt, Mr . Rader was intervi ewedby the Egy pt ian press , and addressed theInstitute of Diplomatic Affairs and wasreceived by the Mini ster of Informationand Culture .

In the United States, the Chicagochurch's celebration of its 25th anniver­sary the weekend of April S, was attendedby 3,000 people including thr ee evange­lists and 91 ministers.

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Roger Lippr oss of Publi shing Servicesreported Mr. Armstrong's books werereceiving positive reviews. The Feb. 18issue of Publi shers Weekly selectedTomorrow . . . What It Will Be Like as arecommended book, and the March 15,1979, Literary Journal included TheIncredible Human Potential as a recom­mended listing for library purc hase .

Evangelist Dibar Apa rt ian returnedtoPasade na Ap ril 8 from a 33-day tou r ofBelgium. Switzerland and France. Dur­ing his trip , Mr. Apa rtian gave 24 Biblelectures. 10 sermons and four ChurchBible studies . In Switzerland , he wasinvited to makea t5-minutc broadcast forSwiss television and was interviewedby aSwiss newspaper. Mr. Apartian said thebrethren in French-speaking Europeshowed much support for M r. Armstrong

and the Church. He noted a grow ing hos­tility among Europeans to America and agravedisappointment in American lead­ership.

Early in the month , 22 religious andgovernment dignitaries from Thailandvisited Ambassador College in Pasade naas guests of AICF. The 18th SupremePatriarch , the chief religious leader ofThailand, expressed his country's appre­ciatio n to the college and A IC F for theongoing projects in Th ailand .

On a somber note, the WN reportedthe death of Leon Ett inger at age 87 . Mr.Ettinger joined the facult y of Ambassa­dor College in 1950 and was responsiblefor the establ ishme nt of the chorale . Heretired after 15 years of service to thecollege. and was Professor Emeritus ofMusic until 1974.

INTERNATION AL TRAVELS - Clockwise from left: Church trea ­surer Stanley R. Rader is greeted by Philippines President Ferdi­nand E. Mar cos . First lady Imelda Ma rcos and the Minister of laborMar ch 22; Mr . Rader pauses during discussions with Mrs . Ma rcoson his return trip March 25 ; the Church treasurer receives a key tothe city of Ma nila from the mayor; he poses with Philippine govern­ment officials March 22 . Below, le tt : Rel igious and governme ntleaders fromThailan d asse mble for a photo with evangelist HermanL. Hoeh during thei r April 4 visit to Ambassador College.

I n a May 6 forum ' Church treasurerStanley R. Rader announced that full­

page advertisements would be placed inmajor U.S. newspapers. One of those adsappeared in our May 19 issue. The adcampaignwasdestinedto becomeamajorthrust of the Work in 1980.

Pastor General Herbert W. Arm­strong directed that the ministerial con­ference scheduled to take place in June,be delayed because he felt the new Minis­terial Refreshing Program would make afull-scale conferenceunnecessary.

Mr. Rader was interviewed on Philip­pine television, as reportedin our May 5issue. Mr. Raderexplained the Church's

commission, its doctrines and the rela­tionship between the Ambassador Inter­national Cultural Foundation (AICF)and Ambassador College .

Twelve ' Ambassador College grad­uateswerehiredas ministerialtrainees.itwas announced by Joseph Tkach of Min­isterial Services in an April 24 forum .Mr. Tkach said the hirings were a mile­stone for the Church.

Spanish Department director LeonWalker 's four-nation tour of SouthAmericawas covered in the s.rn e issue. InLima, Peru, Mr . Walker ordained PabloGonzalez, the voice of The WorldTomorrow in Spanish,'to the rank of

preaching elder . Mr. Walker continuedon to Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

Ambassador College honored its 30thgraduatingclass at commencement exer­cises May 12. Halfof the 35 students whoreceived diplomas began their Arnbassa­dar College careers at the former sistercampus in Big Sandy, Tex. In his com­mencement address evangelist HermanL. Hoeh explained that an Ambassadoreducation is for life.

The Petris bill, which would removefrom the attorney general civil powerswith respect to religious corporations.was making its way through the legisla­tive maze. The California senate passedthe first draft of the measure by a sub­stantial margin.

Leslie L. McCullough,then director ofthe Work in Canada, announcedincreases in Plain Truth subscriptions.advertising response,attendance at HolyDay services and in offerings. Brethrenexpresseda fresh waveof enthusiasm forthe Work, according to pastors there.

Good news for teenagers going to theSummer Educational Program in Orr,Minn. Tuition was dropped from $300 to$175 for each of the two four-week ses­sions to allow as many youths as possible .to attend. Emphasis was to be placed onskill and character building, according toMr. Armstrong.

Brethren in Nova Scotia told about the

COMMENCEMENT - Ambassa·dor College Deputy ChancellorRaymond F. McNair presents abachelor of arts diploma to LoriRichardson during commence­ment exercises May 12. upperright. Right. evangelist Herman L.Hoeh delivers the commencementaddress . Above. pastor WilliamRapp succumbed to pneumoniaApril 2 after a four-year battle withleukemia .

MAY

coming Kingdom of God at a six-dayhearing before that province 's SupremeCourt. Members testifying in a casebrought against the Church by two ex­ministers were asked to explain to thecourt the Church's beliefs. The majorcomplaint was thrownout of court and atokensettlement wasawardedon a minortechnicality.

On the Ambassador College scene, wereported that the freshman class won thefield day competition, which includedmost major track-and-field events . TheYoung Ambassadors performed for the75th anniversary of the Pasadena RotaryClub and the Ambassador Chorale gaveits annual Spring Concert in the Audito­rium April 29. That sarne day DeputyChancellor Raymond McNair named 12students to go to Thailand to teach refu­gees the English language and Westernculture.

Nineteen Taiwanese track-and -fieldathletes returned home April 21 after amonth of training at the college .

Our May issues reported that twolongtime members of God 's Church diedthe previous month. Phoenix pastor BillRapp, a minister since 1964, lost a four­year bout with leukemia. Mary Mauckdied at the age of 88, a quarter centuryafter her baptism in 1955. She devotedmuchof her life to encouraging ministersand members worldwide.

·JUNE

H erbert w. Armstrong contributedsix full-length articles in June . He

discussed the possible early completion ofGod 's Work ; the 1980 Presidental cam­paign; the spiritual threat from Satan;and how ex-member dissidents thinkabout God 's Church.

Church treasurer Stanley R. Radercontrihuted to the WNinaJune 3 Forum.He spoke about the Petris bill andactionsby the U.S. Supreme Court concerningthe Church. He announced publication ofhis book, Against the Gates of Hell ,which would be distributed to Churchmembers free of charge.

George Putnam interviewed Mr.Rader on the radio show Talkback June12. Heard throughout the Los Angeles,Calif., area, the evangelist articulated theissues surrounding the attack on theChurch by the California attorney gener­al.

~ ore than a dozen photos fromwinners in the YOU photo contestappeared in our June 30 issue. Photo ser­vices chief Warren Watson commentedthat the photos submitted were an "out­standing" improvement over previousy;ars.

The Worldwide News chronicled howChurch members faced disasters acrossthe United States. In the wake of volcaniceruption . to~nados, -earthquakes and

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Evangelists, Ambassador College fac­ulty members and ministers from Pasa­dena remarked on the unity they found onPentecost in God's Church: After speak­ing in various sites across the nation,many were impressed at the feelings ofsupport and family atmosphere exhibitedby brethren.

Initial videotaping of the AmbassadorCollege Feast show was completed inJune, culminating many long hours of

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German regional director FrankSchnee detailed efforts by brethren inkeeping the Czechoslovakian Feast siteopen . He stated that the Worldw ideChurch of God is the only group with offi­cial government permission to holda reli­giousfestivalinan IronCurtaincountry.

Leon Walker outlined conditions facedby members in EI Salvador, a countrywracked by political violence. " Thewhole country is hovering on the brink ofcivil war," he reported. Mr. Walker wasfinally able to meet with EI Salvador pas­tor HerbertCisnerosJune 2. Mail corre­spondence was virtually impossible , he

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Toledo, Oh io, pastor George Kackosexperienced the unusual April 5 whenhe "spoke" to 16 deaf brethren. Conduct­ing a Bible study on prophecy, Mr . Ka­ckos' commentswere translated intosignlanguage by interpreters Cindy Neumanand Mary Stetler.

When Pope John Paul II visited Afri­ca, Ghana pastor Melvin Rhodes coveredthe event for readers of the WN. Hestated: "The pope must have left Africawith the realization that its traditions aretoo strong ... to be the Catholic strong­hold ofthe future. Only Europe can fulfill

. that role, as we shall soon see."

TORNADO AFTERMATH - Kalamazoo , Mich., residents clean up following May 13storms and tornado. Two persons died in or just outside the devastat ed department storeas winds ripped through the building. Many members reported instances of divine protec­tion while nearby buildings and structures suffered extensive damage. [Photo by RickCampbell , courtesy of the Kalamazoo Gazette.}

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I n two dynamic articles in the Jul y 14iss ue. Pastor General Herbert W.

Armstrong counteredcritics charging hehadmisappropriated funds and wasoper­ating a cult. Meanwhile, Church treasu r­er, St anley R. Rader was completing atour of appearances on radio and televi­sion talk shows in San Francisco andGlendale , Calif. In Sac ramento he wasinterviewed on the lawnof the CaliforniaState Ca pitol by KOVR-TV.

"Our good name has been publicl ysmeare d," said Mr . Arm strong , in a full-

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page newspaper advertisement. In anadvertisement published in the Jul y 28issue, he offered a Sloo,Ooo reward forinformation leading to vindicationof theChurch. The ad was placed in Californianewspapers as well as in New York andTyler, Tex., publications.

Favorable news came when the Cali­forni a Assembly's Way s and MeansCommitt ee passed Sen ate Bill 1493limiting the powers of the attorney gener­al over churches. Later. a "majorbreak.­th rough" in the Church's legal struggle

occurred when the 9th Circuit Courtreversed a federal judge's deci sion that"refused to let us amend OU f pleadings: 'said Mr . Rader.

Ot her activities of Mr . Rader includedanswering quest ions from editors andreporters of the California AssociatedPress Television and Radio Assoc iation'squarterly seminar on the AmbassadorCollege campus July 20.

Mr. Armstrong answered questionsand spoke at the Summer EducationalProgram (SEP) in Orr, Minn :, wheremore than 400 teenagers, SEP facult ymembers and Church brethren gave hima standing ovation as he entered thegrounds .

Th e Youth Opportunities Unit ed(YOU ) National Tr ack Meet was post­poned because of grueling heat in BigSandy, Tex., but unusually smog-freeskies pre vailed for more than 5,000brethren at the second annual July 4weekend picnic on the Ambassado r cam­pus in Pasadena.

The event was organized for areaChurch members. who continued toactively support Mr . Arm strong dur ingthe Church 's legal cri sis . Brethrendunked ministerial trainees in a dunk

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tan k, cheer ed evang eli st s in soft ballgames and ate fried chicken. Mr . Raderautogra phed copies of his book, Againstthe Gates ofHell.

For the . first time since 1976, 29Amb assador College stude nts, led by fac­ulty mem ber Richard Paige , part icipate ain the Jerusalem dig, where for fourweeks the y excavated the ancien t city ofJerusalem . They toured the area for anadditional two weeks.

Also in Jul y, we report ed on visits byFijian pastor Ratu Epel i Kanaim awi to

.Ambas sador College while on a trip asPermanent Secretary for Fijian Affair sand Rural Developmen t.

Overseas news included the announce­mentthat Cullera, Spain , would be a newsite for the 1980 Feast of Tabernacles.And the regional director for the Work inDutch-speaking areas , Abraham "Bram"de Bree, told the WNthat God's Work inthe Netherlands was exper iencing ' an" upward trend ."

Finally, we told of members of theSalzburg, Austr ia, church who bravedcold and snow high in the Aust rian Alpson a mountain-climbing tou r, while YO Umembers in Denver , Colo ., took a raft tripalong the Arkansas River .

AUGUST

A ugust was such a jam-packed monthwe almost don't know where to

begin . Pastor General Herbert W. Arm­strong published an advertisementexplaining to the attorney general of Cali­fornia his overseas trips to visit foreignleaders . Stanley R. Rader, Church trea­surer, spoke at combined Sabbath ser­vices in Big Sandy, Tex .

Earlier. in a Pasadena news confer­ence, Mr . Rader released privatedocu­ments belonging to him and his wife Nikito the Los Angeles, Calif. , Superior 'Court and the Slate attorney general.

An eight-page financial report wasinserted into the Aug. 25 issue of theWN.

" You kids are all at an age when youarc going to live in two worlds," statedMr. Armstrong, visiting'the second ses­sion of campers and staffers at the Sum­mer Educational Program (SEP) in Orr, ·Minn. He further instructed them toavoid an attitude of competition and" get."

Mr . Rader also traveled north - thistime to Portland, Ore ., where, on KXL­radio, he stated: "The Church has a pri­mary duty .. . to fulfill the great com­mission . .." On July 26, he addressed1.650 persons combinedfrommanypartsof Oregon at Sabbath services .

The Petris bill passed the Californiaassembly by a wide margin Aug. 21.Although sent back to the senate for ratiofication of four amendments, Senate Bill

1493 had taken another step toward com­plete endorsement.

The first group of ministers and theirwives arrived in Pasadena for the newMinisterial Refreshing Program, whichfeatures three weeks of review, lecturesand updates.

Weekend G-I1 trips continued toplaces such as Micbigan, Ohio and Indi ­ana, where evangelists Mr . Rader, DeanBlackwell , Dibar Apartian and LeroyNeff, andothersspoke to variouscongre­gations in the three-state area . Early onemorning, Mr. Rader was interviewedabout the State vs. Church crisis on50,ooO-wan WLS-radio in Chicago, Ill.

Meanwhile, Plain Truth news editorGene Hogberg returned to Pasadena fol­lowing a three-week, five-nationtour ofLatinAmerica. Duringhis trip,Mr. Hog­berg interviewedseveralgovernmentandindustry officials. He was accompaniedby La Pura Verdad [Spanish PlainTruth] publicity director Keith Speaks.

Plain Truth writer John Halford con­tributedan article in the Aug. II issue ofthe WN, recounting his futile efforts toreach members in Belle-Anse, Haiti, aremote area that defied accessibility.

AmbassadorCollege registration wasunderwayin Pasadenaas more than 400students pouredonto campus Aug. 18 to22 as the college opened its doors for its34th year. In another of the Church'seducational programs, the reopening ofImperial Schools, closed since 1974, took

place Aug . 19with an enrollment near the300 mark .

Before Ambassador College registra­tion, 63 Japanesestudents from a juniorcollege in Tokyo received certificatesupon completion of an English coursetaught at Ambassador College .

Twelve Ambassador College studentsand graduates left for Thailand, to teachthe English language and Western cul­ture to Laotianrefugees.

While Southern states reeled frompossibly the worst drought of the century- in Missouri , 1,000 heat-related deathsin a 45·day period - devastating hurri­cane Allen was CUllinga swath of destruc­tion through the Ca ribbean, collapsingjust shortof CorpusChristi, a new TexasFeastsite.

Twenty-six young men and womenfrom Martinique escaped the severedrought and scorching heat, however ,when they treated Pasadena brethren toan evening of Caribbean-style dancin gand folk singing. Their two-week trip tocities in Canada and the United St atesculminated two years of planning andfund-raising .

In addition, we heard encouragingreports from Mohan Jayasekera aboutthe growth of God's work in Sri Lankaand from Spaulding Kulasingam aboutdevelopments in the Work in India .

A full page in the Aug . 11 issue wasdevotedto a question-and-answer sessionabout the Israeli dig with Richard Paige.historyprofessorandacademicadviseratAmbassador College .

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I n front-page news, Pastor GeneralHerbert W. Armstrong clarified what

our involvement in sports and competi­tion should be, which some youths at theSummer Educational Program (SEP) inOrr, Minn ., had misunderstood. Otheryouth-oriented developments this monthincluded announcements that local pas­tors would serve as YOU coordinatorsand that YOU athletic competition

would take place only at the district level,beginning in the 1980-81 season.

After a four-month struggle the Petrisbill was ratified by the California senateby a vote of 25 to I and sent to Gov.Edmund G. Brown Jr . The measure wastermed "a great moral victory" for theChurch by treasurer Stanley R. 'tader.

Nearly two years of work were broughtto fruitionwhen four translations of Mr.Armstrong's book , The IncredibleHuman Potential , were published . Inaddition to his book being available inDutch, .French , Spanish, German andEnglish, September marked the monththat tapes of that book and The Wonder­ful World Tomorrow- What It Will BeLike were made available for the blind.

Mr . Rader, "a one-man truth squad,"continued his bustling schedule makingradio and television appearances inColorado, Oklahoma, North and SouthCarolina, Georgia and California. InCharlotte, N .c., he spoke to 2,000 breth­ren gathered from the Carolinas andWest Virginia.

Gene H. Hogberg , Plain Truth newseditor, and Keith Speaks, promotionaldirector for the Spanish version of ThePlain Truth. detailedtheirexperiencesinSouth America, and Plain Truth writerJohn Halford reported that the 12Ambassador students and graduates inThailand were adapting well to their newenvironment.

Many areas fared exceptionally well inmail responses and Plain Truth subscrip­tions.said Rod Matthews, manager of theInternational Office of Ministerial Ser­vices in Pasadena. In the United King­dom, PTsubscriptions rose 69 percent; inScandinavia, 97 percent ; and in Europeand the Middle East, 28 percent. Month­Iymail in the French and English Work inCanada increased 168 percent while reg­ular mail increased 55 percent. Incomewas up 24 percent.

We reported on the fourth annual SEPin France, which took place at Mailler­aye-Sur-Seine, where 60 adults andyouths outlasted inclement weather toenjoy camping, boating, sailing and hik­ing.

Good news for youths in New Jersey ." Any absence of a religious holiday mustbe .. . anexcused absence," according toChapter 322 of that state 's public law1951. Good news for federal employeestoo. Congress passed a law allowing fed­eral employees to make up lost time fromHoly Days by working overtime .

Jazz flutist Hubert Laws,singer HelenReddy and pianist-vocalist Ray Charleswere among featured guests of "Super,stars - Summer '80," sponsored by theAmbassador International CulturalFoundation (AICF). Performances bythe entertainers in the Ambassador Audi­torium preceded the 1980-81 season,which was to open Oct. 7 with the TokyoString Quartet.

A sad note was the death of Robert F.Steep, who had pastored churches inIndiana, Missouri,Tennessee. Kentuckyand Ohio before returning to Pasadena in1974.

Finally George Dorn, a member of theKalamazoo, Mich ., church, and his wifeJennie celebrated 70 years of marriageSept. II.

GOSPEL SURGES FORWARD - Clockwise from upper right: Foreign­language translations of Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong's book,The Incredible Human Potential, were completed and distributed atnon-U.S. Festival sites; the Casa Rosada (Pink House) in the Plaza deMayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The area was visited by Plain Truthnews editor Gene Hogberg and La PUTS Verdad [Spanish Plain Truth)publicity director Keith Speaks during a three-week fact·finding tour;Colombian minister Eduardo Hernandez points out Bogota. the capitalcity. during Mr. Hogberg's visit; Ambassador College graduate DianeKinder makes friends with Laotian refugee children. Miss Kinder partici­pated in the Ambassador College Educational Project in Thailand(ACEPT) to teach refugees the English language and Western culture.Above, jazz and classical nutist Hubert Laws , left , and singer HelenReddy, perform in the Ambassador Auditorium as part of the Ambassa ­dor International Cultural Foundation's series. "Superstars - Summer'80."

OCTOBER

A special October issue reviewed thefirst Feast of Tabernacles of the

1980s with 66 of 86 Festival reports andphotographs covering eight pages. Morethan 100,000 brethren gathered at pointsencircling the globe for eight days of cele­brating the coming Kingdom of God .

Pastor General Herbert W. Arm­stror g spoke to an audience of more than80,(\()() brethren on the Last Great DayOct. z: On the first day of the Feast,linked by microwave and satellite trans­mission to 29 Feast sites in North Ameri­ca and Britain, the pastor generalexpounded the meaning of God's festi­vals.

Brethren were alerted to the power ofSatan . "There is a devil . . . there is amighty invisible, spiritual power forevil," admonished Mr . Armstrong.

Although a few Feast sites on the EastCoast experienced a few difficulties withthe microwave transmission from Tuc­son, the massive operation "was 98 per­cent trouble free," according to MediaServices manager Larry Omasta.

, More than 50 percent of the brethrenin the United States transferred fromtheir home sites, according to evangelistEllis LaRavia, facilities manager for the

Work. Every pastor in the United Stateswas worked into the Festival speakingschedule, he noted.

Many of the brethren worldwideviewed 16-mm . films of Mr. Armstrong'svisit to China and the Young Ambassa­dors Feast film.

Many Ambassador College studentstraveled to various sites distributing the1980 Envoy, out of print since 1974. Thebooks were well received. with several ofthe larger sites selling out.

Then we reported that the Californiaattorney general dropped the lawsuitagainst the Church, ending more than 21months of litigation. Church treasurerStanley R. Rader was greeted by morethan 500 cheering brethren at the LosAngeles, Calif., International AirportOct. 14 as he flew in from Sacramento,Calif., bringing the good news.

However, speaking at a forum the nextday in the Ambassador Auditorium, Mr .Rader cautioned: "If you don't thinkthere will be other attacks, then I don 'tthink you're in the right place . . . I justwant to warn you that we can 't drop ourguard for a moment."

During this month Mr. Armstrong

announced that a new full-color youthmagazine was in the making. He said thatthe Church had been neglecting youthsfrom age 18 and under. Our young peopleare the future leaders in the world tornor­row, he stated . January, 1981, would bethe publication date of the new magazine,Youth8/.

In an article published eight daysbefore the U.S. Presidential elections,Mr. Armstrong noted that those engagedin "born-again politics " lack understand­ing of what the term means .

Immediately following the Feast , theAmbassador International CulturalFoundation (AICF) opened its sixth sea­son with the Tokyo String Quartet, whichdrew a sell-out crowd and excellentreviews. The Festival of Big Band series,featuring Count Basie and Lionel Hamp­ton, was the most-subscribed-to AICFseries.

Another facet of AICF, Quest/80 ,received an award for excellence in maga­zine production . Roger Lippross, Quest/80 production director, and ChuckJohnson, an R.R. Donnelley accountexecutive, were photographed with theaward for our Oct. 27 issue. Official pres-

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As a result of interest on the part ofOlympic competitors and professionalathletes, Harry Sneider, director of theAmbassador executive fitness center onthe Pasadena campus. announced hewould take part in a seminar sponsored inpart by the National Athletic HealthInstitute.

"Events like this bring people fromprofessional walks of life into contactwith God 's Work," Mr . Sneider said.

MtCROWAVE SERMON - Pas ­tor General Herbert W. Arm­st rong speaks to more than80,000 brethren on two conti­nents Sept. 25 by microwave andsatellite transmission, above .Center, the Tuc son CommunityCenter, where the transmissionoriginated. Right , Mr . Armstrongacknowledges a standing ova ­tion before his address.

CHURCH VICTORY - Clockwise from above: Church treasurer Stanley R. Rader meets with Lo s Angeles areapress inthe Grand Lobby oflhe Auditorium Oct. 15 to discuss the California attorney genera l's withdrawal fromthe 21 -month lawsuit. The Oct. 15 press conference in the Ambassador Auditorium followed an employee andstudent forum ; Roger Lippross, production director for Quest /BO, pauses with Chuck Johnson, R.R. Donnell eyaccount executive, after the magazine received an award for excellence in magazine production. (R.R. DonneHeyprints Ouest/BO, The Plain Truth and The Good News) ; the Ambassador College EnvoywBs made available toChurch members for the first time since 1974 ; Mr . Rader greets a Church member whit e 5'l)n i11g copies 01 his

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H erbert w. Armstrong met withIsraeli Prime Minister Menachem

Begin and Egyptian President AnwarSadat this month . Mr. Armstrongdetailed the trip in an article entitled" Another Successful Trip." The articlewas written aboard the Work's G-II jet enroute to Paris.

The trip included meetings with KingLeopold III of Belgium and formerIsraeli consul in Los Angeles, Calif.,Michael Ravid .

A surprise for brethren gathered forSabbath services at the Auditorium inPasadena. Mr. Armstrong spoke fromJerusalem by telephone Nov . I, afterreturning from a dinner played host to byJerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek . Mr.

Armstrong called the week before fromLondon where he addressed more than1,000 brethren, the first time in threeyears he had spoken there.

Mr. Armstrong reported that the G-IItripfromthe Cairoairportto the Jerusa­lem airport was the first fligh t betweenthe two cities since the Six-Day War in1967 .

In another article, Mr. Armstrong paid"a long overdue tribute" to Church trea­surer Stanley R. Rader for his loyalty andtireless support. The pastor general alsoannouncedthat KevinDean woulddirectYouth Opportunities United (YOU) andYouth Educational Services (YES).

Mr. Rader's forum Oct. 15 in theAuditorium,justafterthe lawsuitagainst

the Church was dropped, continued inthe Nov . 10 WN. "Every time the attor­ney general turned around he foundsomebody else saying, 'You've got thewrong people in mind,' " said the Churchtreasurer.

Several updates about Mr . Arm­strong's books were announced thismonth. His new casebound book, TheUnited States and Britain in Prophecy,available in bookstoresin November, wasthe first of his books to feature full-colormaps and photos . A Voice Cries OutAmid Religious Confusion would bepublished in hardback soon; productionof The Missing Dimension in Sex wasunder way; and The Bible Story was soonto be published by the Church.

Meanwhile, the Nov. 10 issue carried14 more reports from the Feast of Taber­nacles , bringing to 80 the number of sitesreviewed in the WN this year .

An article from Pasadena recountedmore than 20 years of the French broad­cast, Le Monde A Venir, Springing fromsix auditiontapesfor Radio Luxembourgin Europe, evangelist Dibar Apartian'svoice now thunders over the 1.5 millionwatt Radio Europe No.1 and severalsta­tions in Canadaandthe Caribbean.

The international spotlight focused onministerial reorganization in Australiaand Canada. Mr . Armstrong appointedRobert Morton as regional director ofGod's Work in Australia; Bob Fahey as

regional director in Canada;and LeslieMcCullough, former regional director inCanada. as senior pastor of the Cincin­nati. Ohio. churches. Fourteen transferswere madewithin Australia.

The Ambassador College landscapecrew again won the award for the best­maintainedcollege campusin the UnitedStates. A two-page pictorial spread ofsome of the employees involved in earn­ing the honor appeared in the Nov . 24issue.

A reprinted article from the Windsor ,Ont., Star reminded of the sadness felt atAmbassador College at the death ofsophomore Darlene Parks, who died ofleukemia early in the school year.

Offering an exciting educationalopportunity foryoungmenandwomeninGod's Church, the. YOU internationalexchange program began.its fourthyear.Twenty-four young people so far haveparticipated in the program.

One hundred five births wereannouncedinthe Nov. 10issuealone,andwe reported on 154 accounts of local hap­peningsin churchesaroundthe world.

On a moresomber note. the risingtideof anti-Jewish sentiment threatened tostrike the Geneva, Switzerland, church,when the manager of the hall where ser­vices take place received a bomb threat.Rod Matthews of the InternationalOffice of Ministerial Services asked all topray for the brethren. in Europe.

'GO YE THEREFORE' - Clockwise from upper left: Pastor General Her­bert W. Armstrong meets with Israeli officials. From left, Prime MinisterMenachem Begin, Church treasurer Stanley R. Rader, former Los Angeles,Calif. , consul Michael Ravid. Mr. Armstrong and Jerusalem Mayor TeddyKollek; Ambassador College sophomore Darlene Parks , who died of leu­kemia Sept . 2; Landscape Department manager Sam Dunlap displaysplaque awarded the college as the best-maintained campus in the UnitedStates; Myrtle Horn, who was honored for 25 years of service at Ambassa­dor College Oct . 31; Le Monde A Venir [French-language World Tomorrowbroadcast] celetrated its 20th year of continuous broadcasting underevangelist Dibar Aparttan: and Mr. Armstrong's book, The United States

. and Britain in Prophecy, published by Everest House and available incommercial bookstores . Above. center , Mr. Armstrong meets with Egyp­tian President Anwar Sadat .

DECEMBER

H ow the Beatles influence d Westernculture and the subtleties of satanic

deceptio n were the major topics PastorGene ra l Herbert W . Ar mstrong ad­dressed in Decembe r.

Mr. Armstrong auth orize d the reopen ­ingoftheMount Pocono, Pa., Feast site. aChurch-owne d bui ldin g that partiallycollapsed after a Janu ary, 1978, bliz­zard.

Israeli archaeolog ist Yigal Shilohvisited the Ambassador College campusDec. 3, providing details of the City ofDavid Arch aeological Project in a collegeforum.

Depu ty C ha ncellor Raymond F .McNair announced to college studentsthat Mr . Armstrong had approved anextension of both the Jerusalem dig andthe project to teach refugees in Th ailandthe English langu age and Western cul­ture.

Breth ren worldw ide were headlined inThe Worldwide News Dec. 8, as they cel­ebrated the Sa bbat h of Th anksgivingproclaimed by Mr. Arm str ong Nov. 15.Reports of feast ing, fell owsh ip andfriendship flooded the offices of the WNin response to a request by evangelist JoeTk ach .

Eva ngeli st Fra nk Brown upd ate dbrethren on events in God 's Work in Brit ­ain. The Dec. 8 issue carried the reportthat income increased 31 percent in Brit­ain with a corre sponding att enda nceincrease of 9 perce nt.

A " phenomenal" response to Mr .Ar mstrong's Wall S treet Journal adswas received in December, accordin g toChurch treasurer S tanley R. Rader . Hereported that several persons in businessand government requested Mr . Arm­strong 's booklet, The United S tates andBritain in Prophecy.

Th e Church treasur er completed afour-s tate tour of sermons, Bible studiesand media interviews Nov. 25.

The past or gen er al revie wed andapproved Janu ary copy for the new publi­cation Youth 8 / . He believes Yo uth 8 / tobe " the greatest youth magazine in theworld ."

Leon Walker , director of the Work 'sSpa nish Depar tment, returned to Pasa­dena after 18 days visit ing ministers inMeXICO, Colomb ia and Puert o Rico.

Rod Matthews, manager of the Inte r­national Office of Mini sterial Se rvices,kept us abreast of God 's ministers and

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bre thren outside the United St ates. Wereported on pastor Ray Clore's adven­tures with four-wheel-drive trucks on theback roadsof Cameroon in Africa, and theserious problems of living with violencein Gu ade loupe .

Plain Trut h news editor Gene H. Hog­berg updated members on politicaltrendsin Europe, reporting on British PrimeMinister Mar garet T hatcher's economi cdifficult ies and West German Cha ncellorHelmut Schmidt's polit ical woes.

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December was the month we heard ofthe 2 J-member Zoellick fa mi ly inDodgeville , Wis. Church mem bers Her­man and Helen Zoelli ck divide their timebetween raising their children and oper­ating a 29J-acre farm .

TREASURER TRAVELS - Clockwise from above: Church treasurer Stanley R. Rader and his wife Nikiaccept a cake in Belle Vernon , Pa., Nov . 23, after ....r. Rader addressed the combined churchesassembled there. The visit was part of a tour -atate tourthataaw Mr. Rader speak at several churches inOhio , New VOr1(, West Virginia and Pennsylvania Nov. 16 to 25; the rear of the Church·owned Festivalbuilding in Mount Pocono, Pa. , after it collapsed Jan. 28. 1978 ; the Festival building as it stands today.Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong authorized the repsir and reinforcing of the building fer use dur ingthe 1981 Feast of Tabernacles; archaeologist Vigal Shiloh addresses students in an AmbassadorCollege forum Dec . 2. Dr. Shiloh is director of the City of Dav id Archaeological Project in Jerusalem,where 29 Ambassador College students took part last summer ; Youth 81 staff members go over pageproofs lor the January inaugural issue. From left : Managing edi tor Dexter H. Faulkner; graphic artistsMike Hale and Minette Collins; administrative assistant Ben Faulkner; and copy editor Mike Bennett.

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Cheryl Andrusko came to the tal-:'ent finals in Pasadena eagC?r to winan Am bassador scholarship. AI~

though the 18-yearooOld represen ta­tive from Regi na, Sask ., was unsuc- .cessful with her piano performance

,; of Jean Sibelius' Romanze, shehopes to be accepted to AmbassadorCollege next fall.

Currently Cheryl is working on amusic degree with a private teacherfrom the University of Toronto . ByJune or July, she hopes to have herbachelor's degree . She hopes to cam .a master 's degree in piano.

At her high school in Stenen,Sask. , Cheryl has beencommun ica­tions director, newspaper editor anda chorale member. She has beenYOU president and has part icipatedinicycnllYOU trDck meeu,

This lover of music, photography,biology and houseplants has won 13certificates of merit from provincialmusic "festivals in the past fouryears. She is the daughter of Wil­liam and Sonia Andrusko, and

national contests . With her parentsWalt and Lois Friese n. Kim attendsthe Tacoma. Wash ., church. whereshe sometimcs sings and plays self­composed songs for special music.

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S ixteen-year -old Heidi Schatzfinished the national talent finals asone of three honorable mentionswith her.version of "Starti ng Here ,Starting Now" by David Sh ire.

A member of the All-West-Ten­nesseeChoir for two years and theAll-State Tennessee Choir for oneyear, Heidi was recently proclaimedthe third-best second-soprano in thestate .

Heidi hopes to enter the field ofmusic therapy . But for now sheworks backstage and decora tes setsin high school because plays andmusicals, in which she would love topart icipate, take place on the Sab­bath.

However, her stagecraft abilityhas allowed her to be inducted intoInternational Thes pians, an act ingassociation.

Heidi plays YOU volleyball, is acheer leader for the YOU basketballteam and Performs occasionally invariety shows. She attends theMemphis, Tenn., church with herparents Hal and Ella Marie Schatz.

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It all began wbcn Nadine McCor­mick's father bought her an acousticguitar two years ago.• •• went fromthe beginner's book right to the

. advanced," said Nadine, who sangand played guitar to Donna Fargo 's

third time tocompete in the nationalcontest . ••After a background at .AC,1 would like to study music at amajor univers ity:' she said. Cur­rently a highschool junior in How.ell, Mich:, Cheri is sett ing her ey~

on becoming a concert pianist. Shelists cheerleading, writing and read­ing as three interests in addition topiano playing.

In 1979, while atte nding a cheer­leading cam p sponsored hy theUnited Slates Chee rleading Asso­ciation, Cheri won thi rd place in thegrand national talent division. Thefour-year YOU basketball cheer­leader was also awarded a $150 tal­ent sponsorship by her local KiwanisClub .

One of four children of Francesand Gerald Burry, Cheri atte nds theAnn Arbor , Mich., church .

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Under her -fath er 's dir ectio n,Kim Friesen first placed her handson piano keys when she was 4 yearsold. Now 18 and .representing theNorthwest region, Kim played herway to honorable mention in thenational talent finals. .

Performing Chopin's FantasieImpromptu in C Sharp Mino ,., Kim .displayed only one of her many tal­ents . Her interests include playingthe flute. singing, cheerleading anddrawing. She was a member of herhigh school honor band for threeyClln, I membGr gf the 1l11-llileband for one year and a member ofone of the top five high school bandsin the United States. "

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RON PLUMLE E

"I was on my way to practice onemorning when this tune popped intomy head," said Ron Plumlee, relat­ing the origins of " I' Il Always LoveYou," the song that won him thirdplace and a one-semester scholar­sbiptoAmbassador." [ sat down andwrote out the saxophone and pianoparts;' he noted .

The 21-year-old sax player fromTopeka, Kan., who was 20 years oldwhen he won the Mid-A mericaregional competition, sets the King­dom of God as his first priority . "I'dlike to be a professional sax player,"Mr . Plumlee remarked, " but I'lllook to God to open the doors .

"My jazz band [for which heplays lead alto] in Washburn [Uni ­versity in Topeka} is start ing to con­ftiet with the Sabbath," he cont in­ued. vso I'll probably have to drnp itnext semester:' .

Awarded a rating of "I " in theKansas state music festival last year,John also enjoys playing chess. Oneof two sons of Ronald and PeggyPlum lee. he attends the Topekachurch .

salem and played an accord ion soloduring an International CulturalCenter for Youth (ICCY) concertthere .

JOHN MABRY

After competing in the 1979YOU NationalTalent Contest JohnMabry went back to Troy, N.C.,andresolv ed to diligently pract iceBrahms"Rhap sody in G Minor for

.an entire year beforethe 1980 con­test. John's aspirations were ful­filled Dec. 28 when, representingthe Mid-Atlant ic region, he .wonfirst place in Pasadena for his pianosolo.

His 'mother Goldia Mabry com­mented: "John picked a Brahmspiece because it's difficult. Wehoped if he played it well the judgeswould like it."

John planned to attend an engi­neering school in North Carolinabefore-winning the two-year schol ­arship to Ambassador . .. . still planto go there after Ambassador for anengineering degree," John noted.He willstart hisAmbassador educa­tion in the fall.

At West Montgomery HighSchool, John has lettered in cress­country and is listed in the 1980W1to's Who AmongAmerican HighSchool Students. He enj<?ys swim­ming and horseback riding.

John , who attends the Greens­boro, N.C., church, has four broth­en and two sisters and is the son ofMr. and Mrs . Scott Mabry . Com­menting about the opportunitics inYOU, John said, "Th e best part isgetting to meet so many differentpeople."

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TERRI CONTI

Terri Conti, from Denville, NJ.,sewed up second place and a one­year Ambassador scholarship with alivelyaccordion rendition of Deiro'sConcerto in E, Third Movement .

Currently a secretary for a lifeinsurance company, the 18-yearooOldcontestant has won 65 awards ,including first place in the Junior(15- to 17-year-olds) United StatesAccordion Cup Finalsr'Ihen, repre­senting the United States, Terri lost

• only to Russian and Czechcompeti·tors in 1979andsecured aranking asthe world's third best junior accord­ion player.

Although she's been playingsince age 9, Terri stated , " I want toprivately study more accordion and,piano before going to Ambassadornext fall." Further plans for theJune , 1980, graduate of Morr is

. Knolls High School could be back­packing in Europe before college. " Ithink a trip to Europe would help,"Terri said, " because I want a careerrelated to international culturalexchange - maybe an interpret .er ."

The only daughter of James andRose Conti, Terri attends theUnion, N.J., church . She spent the1980 Feast of Tabernacles in Jeru-

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THOMASSEAYIII

" Butt e rfly" by Kohl er . Arterwinning the regionals last summer,Teresa enrolfed at Ambassad or Col­lege.

Despite not being able to march, in her high school band on Friday

nights . Ter esa made up for it byearn ing most valuable player in highschool volleybal l. She also wonawards for solo ensemble andmusi- .cianship. In YOU . she clenchedsome 20 medals for shot put. discus,long jump and running events. Shewasa YO U national conference rep­resentativ e, on the volleyball team. acheerlead er and chap ter vice presi­dent.

Working part- time in the Am­bassador College library, Ter esahopes to teach elementary school,possibly at Impcrial Schools. Sheatte.~d~ :..tbe _,A9d i torium _ ~,,"M . _

church and her parents are Mr. andMrs . R.G. Peterson .

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One of two dancers from Guada­lajara, Mexico, 17'ycar-old AliciaMar in auditioned for a chance toperform the Mexican folk dances £ 1Gusto and ' Jarabetapat, in theAmbassador .Auditcr ium. Al­though Mexican YOU membe rs arcnot eligible to co mpete in thenational contest , each year a meet isheld in Guadalajara to determin ethe best dancing couple who Willtravel to Pasadena: .

Having dancedsince age 11. Ali·cia Said through an interpreter thatdance classes and contests in herschool take place on the Sabbath. Soshe plays YOU baseball and helpssell cheese and honey to raise moneyfor her church's youth group , com­prised of about 20 members .

After two more years of study,Alicia plans ti) get married andteach elementary school. " I'm very .grateful to be able to visit Pasadenaand see such a beauti ful and well­kept camp us," said Alicia.

"* "* "*LUISGARClA

Three hours by plane ·fromGuadalajara, Mexico, brough t LuisGarcia, ' ·17, to the AmbassadorAuditorium to perform .El Gustoand Jarabetapct with his partnerAlicia Marin.

Luis, who bas been dancing forseven years, explained that it ismuch easier to learn dancing when achild . Then, he notes, you can docertain exercises until you haveagile foot movement .

This was the second year- thatLuis displayed hisdancingdexterity ,in Pasadena. A high school graduateinterested in decora ting. Luis worksin a clothing store now. Ultimately,he hopes to go to a trade school tolearn electronics .

LUIS GARCIA

TERESA PETE RSON

Representing the Southeast re­gion at the nat ional talen t competi­tion in Pasadena, 18·year-.old Tere­sa Peterso n played a flute solo of

a marathon. -Richard, who attends the Michi~

gan City, Ind ., church, has sixbrothers and sisters and is the son ofRobert and Julie Redd ing.

"* "* "*PHIL BAUER

Phil Bauer bas set himself to putout a record album by the Feast ofTabernacles this year . "All thesongs would be self-composed,"slated the national talent contestrepresentative from the North Cen­tral regjo n. In Pasadena. he sang"American Trilogy" by MickeyNewberry.

Voted the most-talented studentat Roosevelt High School in Mione.apolis, M inn.,'Phil won fifth place inthe 1978 YOU Na tional TalentContest . Presently Phil attends ahairst yling school and works part.time as• commercial painter.

Phil stuck. to his guns when acountry rcck .band in which heplayed started perform ing on theSabbath . Although he quit theband , he feels he did the right thing ." I diverted all my energ y to YOUand since this was my last year, [gave it alii had ," remarked the four­year tale nt contest participant.

His hobbies include cartooningand guitar playing. The son of Fredand Ru by, Bauer , Phil atte nds theMinneapolis South church.

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iALIC IA MARIN '

HEIDI SCHATZ

T ER ESA PETERSON

doors . In 'h igh school she received 'recognition for singing , sculpturing,woodworking and advertising.

The former YOU group adviseralways loved to sing as a child andhopes to increase her musical abili­ty . Currently atten ding the RapidCity , S .D., church, Karen is one ofseven children of Mrs . DominicQuartullo.

RICHARD REDDI NG

It was a close race for contestantsin the Great Lakes region. ButRichard Redding emerged victo­rious because. he says, " I wrote myown song," That winning melody," Dedication:' was performed onpiano and sung by the 19-ycil.r-oldcomposer at the nat ionals in Pasa-dena. .

" I hcpe tc become a singer /song­write r," noted Richard. who's beenplaying piano and singing for eightyears . In pursu it of that goal, helearned bow to play the guitar andtrombone. as well as the piano .Richard played in a jazz band inhigh school.

Now a music major at LakeMichigan College, in Benton Her-

. bor, Mich ., he hopes to go on to amajor universit y to study song com­position and choral directing. Hewas awarded first place in a 4-8 tal ­ent contest .and a self-composedsong also won first in his. city 'sbicentennial contest.

Another interest of Richard's iscross-country. " I wasundefeated inmy high school. but couldn 't lett er :becauseof the meets I missed on theSabbath," he stated. But he runsYOU..track and recently completed

KIM FRIESEN

PHIL BAUER

KAREN QUARTULL O

" I feel my biggest achievement ist hat I'm able to sing for theChurch ," said 19-ycar-<Jld KarcoQuartullo, YOU representativefrom th e Mountain region. AI~

though she hasn't had much voicetraining. Karen 's performance ofCalderon and Hawker's "Eres T u!Touch the Wind " brought a goodaudience response at the Pasadenanational talent finals.

"People in high school rcallywatched out for me," remarkedKaren . "Ira concert wason theSab­bath , they 'd say, 'Karen can't come,'and fort unately the concerts wereoften rescheduled ."

The music 'enthusiast says sheenjoys art as ~ell as the out-of-

Richland Community College inDallas, Tex ., after which he hopes toattend the University of Texas at .

. Dallas, if not accepted to Ambassa­dor : He works part-time at the Chil­dren 's Medical Center in Dallas.

Inclu ded in a myriad of inter ­scholastic awards won duri ng hishigh school years are " I " ratings forfirst. second and third class solos;"1" ratings for men's quart et, all­state quartet and all-state solo; andplacings in the all-region first. see.end and third round choirs. Thesehonors qualified him 10 becomeamember of the 1980 Texas MusicEducators Associatio n.

Thomas performed in the 1979and 1980 Feast or Tabernacles tal­ent shows and freq uently performsspecial music in the Dallas Southchu rch : where he attends along withhis mother Linda R. Mitch ell.

CHERI BURRY

KAREN QUARTULLO RICHARD REDDING

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attends Church services in Yorkton,Sask.

MARK SALCEDO

, Mark Salcedo's personal goal is"to knowas much about God as pes­sible,' Th e 19-ycar-.old Anaheim,Calif., youth performed Rachmani­noff's Prelude in G Minor at thetalent finals .

Mark began taking piano lessonsfrom his father at age 6. "At region.als the judges all gave me perfect

. 100 scores," said 19-ycar-oldMark." I don' t think the y heard my mis-takes!"

Present ly a part-time data entryoperator for TRW corporat ion,Mark is majoring in mathematics at ~

Fullert on Community College . He .hopesto become a systems analyst . .

Mark has played YOU basketballfor the past five years, is YO U chap­ter president, accompanies the Gar ­den Gr ove. Calif.• church choir andaccompaniedt the Fresno , Cal if.,Festival choir during the 1980 FeastofTabernacles. .

Listed in Who's Who Am ongAmerican High Sch ool Students,Mark is the son or Daniel and EstherSalcedo, who att end the GardenGrove church.

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THOMAS SEAY III

In the Ambassador Audito rium , .Thomas Scay III, 18, sang Bern­stein and Adams ' " Th is Moment inTim e," recorded by EngelbertHumperdinck. He represented theSouth Central region .

After graduating from highschool last year, Thomas enrolled in

une with herJune McCor·Sar nia., Ont.,

t the national .

:working on arivate teacherf Toronto, Byesto have her.bopes to camano.II in Ste nen,l comm unica­pereditor and•he bas been5 parti cipat edmeets.photograph y,Its has won 13om provincialhe past fourghter or WiI·idrusko, and

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lII1.C to the tal. :: eager to winolarsbi p. AI·d rcpresenta­s., was unsuc­, perfo rmanceomanze, she) Ambassador

vocal ist fro m, ,represented'asadena,er of her highleered for theU basketb allng, entertain­gcartoonsand

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