OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
YOLo IX , NO . 19 PASA DENA, C ALI FO R N IA NOY. 16, 1981
How subtly Satan usedMAKEUP
to start the Church off the track
"Bu t by this maneuver of Satan, the people of God 's Church started offthe track. . . For watering down of God 's truth on healing, the Sabbath ,many more vital doctrines followed in its wake. "
How Satan began injecting liberalisminto God's Church
By Herbert W. Armstrong
FOR THREE YEARS theliving C hrist has been
worki ng to put H is C hurchback on th e t rack! But howdid the people of th e livingGod get off the t rack?How did th e whole worldfirst ge t off t he track?
Was mother Eve, the veryfirst woman - a direct creation of God - insincerelyevil ? Did she have evi lmotives and intentions?
No. Eve was DE CE IVED!
Undoubted ly she thought shewas doing right. T he forbiddentree , afte r all , "was GOOD forfood," and it was " pleasan t to theeyes ," and, Satan had assuredher, she would really not die .God knew bett er than that she was an "immortal soul."
And besides, Satan had said ,it would make her a god intellectuall y - it appealed to her intellectual VANITY. S he couldn't seeanyt hing wrong with it. So "shetook of the fruit thereof, and d ideat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. "
T hu s the WHOL E W ORLD wasstarted off the track . An d Satanis st ill at it! " T he Devil, andSatan ... deceiveth the wholeworld " (Revelation 12:9) . Theapostle Pau l f eared " lest by anymeans, as the serpent beg uiledEve by his sub ti lty , so yourminds shou ld be corr upted " (IICorinthians 11:3).
Do you think that same wilySa ta n could not deceive peoplein God's Church today ? Of allthe people on earth, WE are thevery ones he want s most todeceive . He has the rest of theworld deceiv ed alrea d y. Andremember a deceive d per sondoes not know he is deceived else he would not BE decei ved!
Yet Sat an did get to our wivestoday! The y certainly had no evilmotives. even as moth er Eve hadnone . Had they not repented andaccepted C hrist, and come intothe C hurc h? Th ere were no evilmot ives or intentions. The y, too,saw " no har m in it :' They,them sel ve s , wo u ld ·· LOOKGOO D" to the world . Makeup onthe face would be "pl easant tothe eyes."
And it was intellec tual to follow intellect ua l libe rals in themin istr y (NO LONGER) who reasoned that thi s little detail andthat litt le point could be int er preted to see " no harm in it" and after a ll, iJ we don 't see anyharm in it. isn' t it all right to dowhat the world does?
It was all done so SUBTLY!Th at is how Sat an works. Nowlet's under stand what DIDHAPPEN!
How far does God comp romise wit h SIN? God had thePOWER to wink His eye at SIN
and forgive sin out rig ht, withouthaving to sac rifice H is onlybegotten So n. But God did notcompro mise one millionth of aninch with sin. Rather than thatHe "gave His only begotten So nthat whosoe ver be lieveth in Himshould not PERISH:'
God 's Church, the now imminen t Bride of C brist. is not goingto rise to meet the ret urn ingChrist in the air with paintedfaces and plucked and repaintedeyebrows!
How cleverly, without oursuspecting it, did Satan influence leading ministers to derail the C hurch in many ways!
I want , now, to take youbrethren through a histor y ofth is seemingly mino r question offemale makeup as it progressedd uring the '50s, '60s and '70s inthe Church. Bret hren , CAN W E
remove prejudice, vanity andself-wi ll from our minds andOPEN OUR EYES TO GOD' STRUTH? Weare not going to faceGod in "THE JUDGMENT" likethe wor ld . WE ARE FACI NG IT
NOW! Judgment has begun atthe House of GOD! You and I arebein g jud ged NO W!
Some of us have weakened .Some of us have been caught offguard. I am hum an like all ofyou , and I was caught off guardand without at the time reali zingit, ALLOWED this liberalism tocreep st ealthil y into God's flock!I now repent of that and the living C hris t leads me to do whatHe inspires me to do to correct itand get th is holy Body of C hristBACK COMPLETELY ON TilETRACK. For we have not bee nfully back on the track even yet!
Thi s may be somewhat of aminor quest ion , yet it was usedby Sat an to help der ail theC hurc h! It is only one of a number of points that led us offtr ack .
Thi s quest ion was raised in
the Chu rch in the mid '50s. Inthe July , 195 5, Good New s. thefo llo wi ng u nde r my by- linebegan on page I und er the head line , "What the Ch urc h Ruledon Ma keup."
"T he quest ion of lipst ick andot her forms of makeup had to besettled . Some in the Churchheld very definitely that 'makeup is wro ng; it's worldly.' Therewas in some cases an att it ude ofprej udice and accusation againstthose who wore it. "
So act ually the qu estion wasfirst raised by wome n who feltface-changing was wr ong, not byministers . The n-« t parag raphconti nued, " But ot hers insisted,., can't see any harm in wearingmakeup.' ..
Many articles followed on thequestion . These articles coveredmany specific points and specific script ures . The re was an effortto get to every detailed point orquest ion even in "the grayareas ."
But we need to learn thatGod 's law is a PRINCIPLE to beapplied . It has to do first of allwit h an ATTITUDE OFMIND.
T he Ch urch RULED AGAINSTTHE USE OF MAKEUP based primari ly on specific " do" and"don't " scriptu res, rather thanthe application of the PRINCIPLE
of God's Law.We did make the mist ake of
applying God 's spiritua l Law asthe world applies man 's laws.The average policem an todayhas to enforce six times as man yspecific laws as he is capable ofremembering. I am reminded ofa comic strip "T here Ought toBe a Law." Every day someo nethought up a reason for making anew specific law to cover somenew minor infract ion. It depicted the ridicul ous system ofman's laws.
Actually, God 's spiritual Lawis expressed in ju st one simplefour -letter word - LO VE. Weapply that law to given ci rcumstances.
Je sus, for examp le, "m agnified the Law and made it honorable. " A t M t. ..... mai He, asYHWrJ., exp anded it into 10
points - the first fou r definingthe PRINCIPLE of love towardGod, the last six love towa rdneig hbor. From the re it expandsin principle to cover any andevery quest ion that may arise.
But when and how did thisthi ng of SIN beg in? It all beganwith the super archange l, thecherub Lucifer. He was "perfectin his ways" from the day Godcreated him. Then iniquity (lawlessness) was found in him. Hisheart was "lifted up" in VANITYbecause of his beauty (Ezekiel28:15- 17). The wisdom of hismind was lifted up in VANITY.T his violated l.OVEin th e form ofobed ience and su bmission toGod .
A spirit of compe titio nen tered his mind . He said: "Iwill asce nd into heaven [God 'sthroneJ. I will exalt my thro neabove the stars [angelsJof God."SELF-exa ltation. vanity, jealousy , envy , rebe llion agai nstauthority, competition, desi re to"GET" and ··TAKE" seized hisperverted mind.
Si n, spiritual ly, is self-ce nteredness, self -exalta tion, desireto be beauti ful , vanity , coveting,desire to GETand TAKE, to exaltthe sel f, jealousy and envy, competi tion, oft-res ulting violenceand war, resent ment and rebel -
lion against aut hori ty.These are the PRINCIPLES of
spiri tua l SIN. There is also thematt er of physical sin - transgress ion of physical laws. Oftenphysical sickness and disea seresult from this transgression.Wh ile Jesus paid the death penalty for our spirit ual sins by Hisshed blood, He also paid the penalty of physical transgress ion oflaws that opera te in our bodie sand mind s " by His st ripes."Man y do not seem to underst andthat healin g is " forgiveness ofsin" - thi s ph ysical sin because Jesus paid that penalt yin our stead " by His st ripes: '
But the C hurch in the 1950s.st ill GROWING in knowledge aswell as in numbers, ruled onmakeup based on specific scriptu ral " do's and don 't s" - as wethen interp reted them . Actually
we came to the same right ruling. A very few women argued abit , but I remember specificallyof none who rebelled and left theChurch. As near as I co uldobserve our women were happyto leave the ir faces as the Mas terDesigner made them .
The C hurc h was bei ngblessed and growing - up toabout 1968. For 35 years Godhad caused it to grow at the phenome nal and unmatc hed rate of30 perce nt average increase peryea r. Then, beginn ing 1968 ,C hrist the living Head of theC hurc h, began to send me tocapitals of nations all over theworld . I was unable to give day to-day management at headquarters. Si n entered Pasadenaleadership. The Ch urch stop pedits pheno menal gro wth . I had todeal with sins near the top in1971 and 1972. In the spring of1974 a ministerial rebellion, ledto a considerable extent by twotop- ranki ng ministers at Pasa dena, resulted in some 30 ormore mi nisters leavi ng tbeCh urch .
In early fall of 1974, my sonca ught me on the run as I wasleaving for Tokyo and Manil a,where I held a big cam paign. Itwas a time when certain "scholars" amo ng our leaders wereengaged in "doctrinal research."I had not rea lized until later thatmos t of them were actua llyresear ch ing to try to proveChu rch teac hings were in erro r,rather than to discover truth. Iadmit now and repent of the factth at , no t re a lizi ng the rea lmotive, I approved this doct rinalresearch team .
My son said thi s team hadfound we had the wrong meaning on four suc h de tailed specificscr iptures, and the use of makeupwasOK .
Th ose who know me bestknow I have a single track mind .Th at is, I can concentrate deepl yon one subject at a time , butwhen my mind is on one subject,I often do not really " get" someth ing said to me. I was handed ashort statement regarding thosefour specific script ures. I hadespecially based much of thedecision on Isaiah 3:16 and contextu al verses, and on the AdamClarke commentary of it. 1 tookthe note with me. On the plane. Ityped the br ief sta tement thatappea red on page 522 of the Oc t.23, 1974, Bull e/in. I did notreturn to Pasadena for severalweeks .
In my absence my brief statement appea red with my signa
lSee MAKEU P, page 41
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Spirit ofneutralism, pacifism grips Europe
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Go it a lone
Acco rd ing to the Erdman tale.the Ge rman object ive was to achievea sta te of armed neut rality, with th est ress on the adjective armed. Th efutu re Germ an chancellor, accord ing to the book, "o nly hint ed at allthis, sometimes in private meet ings,somet imes very ob liquely in televi sion inte rviews in the 1984 campaign ...
" And even in his first two years inoffice, he had to be carefu l. For he
to indepe ndence from the Uni tedStates lay in Ge rmany 's milita rystrength, and that th e corollary to adeclaration of independence fromthe United States was a declarationof willingness to coexist with th eSoviet Union."
sti ll needed th e mil itary um brella ofthe United Stat es stan di ng protec tively over his Ge rmany . He st illneed ed th e 300 ,000 Amer icantroops sta t ioned in Ger many tostand between his people and theSoviet tanks.
" He st ill needed th e threa t, eventhough the whole world knew it wasas empty as any threat would ever be- namely, the "co mm itme nt" that Am erica wou ld fight a nucle arwar, even if it involved the Ame rican homeland, to protect its German allies and fr iends .
" But in J une of 1987, he knewthat soon - very, very soon - hewou ld no longer need Ihe Americans. So he sent Grafvon Amsburgto Moscow to test the water there,just as Hitler had sent von Rib bentrop."
Th e resul t of the Moscow trip,acco rdi ng to Mr. Erdman's see nario : a new nonaggression pact.carvi ng ou t spheres of influence forGermany and the Soviet Union, notonly in Europe, but righ t down intoth e Middle East. Th e Soviets agreeto pull their troops out of East Germany within 60 days, allowing forGerman reunification . Th e Am ericans are given an ultimatum to alsopull their troops out of WesternEurope in the same 6O-day period .
Things may not happen exactlythis way, of cou rse.Th en again, evena greater geopoli tical shift th an Mr .Erdman postulates might occur ,with not ju st East Germany, butmuch of Eastern Europe coming outfrom beh ind th e Iron C urtain producing at last the final br ief resurrecti on of th e Rom an Empire.
BY GENE H. HOGBERG
weRLDWATCH
LettersTO THE EDITOR
Feast I. G_lttnaa.I have just returned from keeping the
Feast of Tabernacles along with thebretbren from Central America at LakeAtitlan, Guatemala. I want to tell youthat I have never beenamong a groupofpeoplewhere I felt such love. Mr. [He rber t] Armstro ng's opening nightinstructionsconcerning the need for lovebetween members were certainly putinto practice at LakeAtitlan.
SteveTurnerMenbau en. Kan.
* * *G~tting off for Feasl
Before the Feast I performed the nor mal ritualsof goingaroundto all threeofour girls' teachers. explaining to themabout our girls missing school and theFeast. Our fourth grader's teacher wasvery understanding. but said: " I am veryconcerned about Brandi missing somuch school right now. We are just getting ready to start a block of study inmath that is very difficult for the children and Brandi willcompletelymissallteacher instruction . "
The first day back. from Feast. all thechildren took their post-test to see whopassed the study block. The teachergraded Brandi's paper and blurted out." Brandi. how did you do so well?" Allthe class looked at Brandi. who reflectfullypointed to her head andsimplysaid." Kidneys.kidneys."
All the classroom started laughingand her teacher replied. " Well I guessyou're right. Brandi!" Lana King
Nacogdoches. Tex.
* * *Brtthren in prisonAnd greetings from one more Feast
site.The reason I called It greetings Irom
another Feastsite is because our Eternalhas allowed us all to be with you all during these most glorious Holy Days. Wewere provided with the best of food, andthe fellowship wasvery inspiring.
Charlesmason EwingJackson. Mich.
Ger ma ny and other Eu ropea n interes ts to acqui re, from a pri vateAmerican comp any. crui se-mi ssiletec hnology with which to neut ralizethe Ru ssian thr eat.
(By the mid·1980s the Americans, tu rned off by neutralism inEurope and plagued by mount ingsocial chaos at home. are no longerperceived as being willing or able tocontinue as Euro pe's protector. )
N uc lear- tipped cruise missilesfinally in German hands, ready to bedeploy ed. the scene shifts to mid1987. Mr. Erdman then reflectsupon the political cance r of Germa-
ny's then chan cellor:" . .. when Strauss lost th e elec
tion for the chancellors hip in 1980.everyone though t the new Ge rm anme ssi ah was throu gh . N o onewanted to know that 45 percent ofall Germa ns who went to the pollsvoted for him . giving him his country's largest bloc of votes.
UNo one wan ted to rea lize th atGe rmany was ent er ing an era ofrevived nat ional ism and xenophobia, whose primary externa l tar getwas the U nited St ates. No onewanted to think that a Franz JosefS tra uss would convince the Germanpeople four years later that he, andonly he, could save the world, or atleast Europe , or at the very leastGer many, from a third catas t rophein this century . . .
"Co nvince them that salvati onlay in the political, econom ic andmilitary independence-of Germany.Convince th em that the prerequisite
Crisis in the mid-'80s
What is to become of WesternEurope's slide into th e dangerouspolit ical vacuum of left ist-d ominated neu tr alism - a vacuum thatcould only be filled by Soviet polit ical dominance, the so-ca lled effectof "Finlandization"?
One poss ible scenar io is portrayed in the book The LAst Days ojAmerica, th e latest best-se lling novel by Pau l Erdman (whose earl ierbook. The Crash oJ 79 foretold th efall of the Shah of Iran).
Mr . Erdma n creates a spellbinding scenar io centered in the mid19805, a tim e af ter the next WestGerman electio ns (198 4) . In hisreal -life novel, Mr. Erdman castsFranz Josef S tra uss as th e nextchancellor, with a myth ical Gr afvon Amsburg (von Hapsburg?) ashis foreign mini ster. Th e story lineof the bookrevolves around a plot by
ducrion and acqursu ron of suc hweapon s and have not sta t ionedthem on their territor y."
No t long after Mr . Brezhnev'ssolemn pledge, a prying Soviet submarine, ca rrying nucle ar-tippedtor pedoes, ran aground in the water sof neutralis t. nonnuclear Swede n.But th is cru de incide nt failed to coolth e neutralists' ardor.
they can show love to each ot her .Tr y it, it reall y doesn ' t hurt. Makingcookies or sewing up a pair of pants(two act ivities at which many menare inately inept ) can rea lty brin gjoy to a brother.
Have you guys ever given yoursisters flowers? After she revivesfrom the shock, you'll find you andyour sister much closer friends.
There are countless opportunitiesto shQ.w love among members of ourspiritual famil y - ~~'s C hurch.
Siagles
S ingle people living away fromtheir families ofte n feel left out ofthe day-to-day giving and sharingthat families enjoy. But, manyopportunities exist for singles toshare with the brethren in God 'sC hurch.
Few if any girls don't like gett ingcards in the mail. It " makes theirday" if som eone takes a litt le effortto brighten their day. Th ink of creative ways to say, "I care ."
Thank-you notes have many uses .If a guy has gone to ext ra effor ts togive you a special da te, why not sendhim a thank -you uote. He's liable toask you out again if you do .
Shut-ins
All of us can help elderly peopleor those not able to get out much.Th e best way is to pay them a visitand keep our cars open and ourmouths shut. Some elderly andhandicapped people spend much oftheir time alone and what th ey needmost is to have someon e to listen tothem. You might learn somethingtoo, from someone who has sto redup man y more years of wisdom thanyou.
Ano th er group of people deservesa lot more ofou r thanks than we givethem. Th ey are the men who arethere at any hour to listen to ourproblems, share our joys and woes,to anoint us when we are sick and togive us serm ons each week , showingus th c way to live.
A minister in on the Refr eshingProgram noted th at his congregation seldom com plimented him onhis sermons. S how your ministerand his wife th at you care. Compliment him on a sermon or drop him anot e during the week.
The list of ways to help others isendless.
Remem ber what Paul said to theGala t ians, " T herefore as we haveopportunity, let us do good to allpeople , especiall y those who belongto th e famil y of believers (Galatians6:10) .
Thank your "ifeHave you husbands ever thanked
your wives for doing the laundry,having your clothes neatly pressedwhen you go off to work or compl imented her on how nice the houselooks and how importan t that is toyou?
If you haven 't, take note of anitem from an enlightened husbandthat was published in the Oct oberReade's Digest .
" My work ing wife had no morevacation left, but I st ill had sometime off. It was boring to be homealone, so one day I decided to surprise my wife by doing the dishes,dusting and straightening up thehouse. I was sure I would get all sortsof praise from her when she camehome , but she didn ' t say a word .Finall y, I could stand it no longer.' You didn 't even notice how nicely Ist raightened up tod ay,' I co mplained .
" Her reply opened my eyes.'Y eah ,' she said. 'It's a th ankl ess job.isn' t it. ' ..
Have you wives ever thanked yourhusband s for staving away at work togive you and the children the bestthey can possibly afford ? Housework is not the only thankless job .Often the greatest joy a map finds inhis work is knowing tha t it gives himth e opportunity to provide for hisfamily.
Children can be ta ught to showlove for the ir parents too. Can any ofyou parents think of anything moreprecious than when you r son ordaughter thr ows his arms aro undyou and says, " I love you?"
Parents should teach the ir childr en how to express love and apprecia tion. Even a z-year-o ld child cansay, " You' re a good cook. Mom ."Or "Thanks. Dad , for my allowance."
Though the thought might seemdistastefu l to broth ers and sister s,
naive, seems genuine, based largelyon a gr owin g fear of Euro pe 'sfuture. It has 'suddenly dawned onmany Europeans, waking to rea lityafter being dru gged on prosper ity.tha t a nuclear exchange betw een theUnited States and the Soviet Unionj ust might not convenie ntly passEurope overhead, but th at Europeitself could become a nuclear battlefield, perh aps even th e ma in battl efield .
Regardl ess of th e act ual genesi sof the widespread movement , theSoviets, with th eir organs of propagand a and dis information, are making the most of it. Th e Kremlin iscare fully cultivating fear by launching "peace offensives" aimed at preventing the .U .S.-N ATO counterforce from being deployed .
Th is "peace offensive" reach edan almost embarrassing plateau (toall but comm itted neutr alists) Oct.31 when Soviet President Leonid I.Brezhnev promised Wes t Germansthat their country would be sparedfrom nuclear attack if the y refuse tode ploy U.S . medium-range missileson their soil.
" I declare with full respons ibil ity: ' said Mr . Brezhnev, " that th eSovi et Union und er no circum sta nces. will use nucl ear weaponsagai nst states that renounce the pro-
A friend of mine recounted anexperience that happened to himafter the Feast . Returning homeafter a less-than-exciting cr osscount ry fligh t, he dragged into hisbedroom to find it gaily decoratedwith crepe paper , balloon s and a signthat said , "Welcome home Tom.'
Two friend s had gone out of theirway to show appreciation . Th is simple act mad e his day. (His bed wasalsoshortsheeted, but th at 's anotherstory .)
How many times has a friend orfamil y member performed a littl eact of kindness that made you feelgood inside ? Maybe he (or she)didn't even realize how good hemade you feel.
The apostle Pau l tells us, " 00 notforget to do good and shar e withot he rs " ( H ebrews 13:16, NewInternational Vers ion ). Plenty ofopport unities are availabl e for us toserve oth er s in God 's Church, butoften we overlook them.
In th is column I'd like to showyou exam ples of ways to serveothers. They are not pro found.Th ey've been done thousands oftimes before. Most won 't cost youanything.
The best place to star t doing goodto others is right in your own home .(For those with out physi cal families, I'll get to you later .)
A fellow worker said he appreciates it when his wife makes himlunch and wr ites " Have a happyda y" on his napkin . He sends hiswife a yellow rose (she 's Texan)when she's ill.
Becareful. If you only give yourwife present s when she's sick, youmight find her sick a lot.
One woman enjoys having herhusband hold her hand at the end ofa rough day . Knowing that he isthere for her and her alone is quitecomfo rt ing . The "si mp le touch: 'she says.
PAS A DEN A - A neutralis tpacifist movement surged fromalmost nowhere as littl e as one yearago to become a pote nt polit icalforce in Wester n Europe . Lastmonth. during two weekends ofdemo nst rations, leade rs of th emovemen t called out more than850,000 protesters into the streetsof five capit al cities.
Europe's new neut ralists aredetermined to scutt le a NATOagreement. reached in December.1979, to deploy a new generation ofnuclear missiles on European soil tooffset the Soviet Union's nuclearbuildup againsl Western Europe.
Youths arc in the forefront of theneutralist movement. A new generati on of Euro pea ns is maturingpolitically, with no personal exper ience of World War II. the Berlinblockade or the Cold War. Nurtured on detente, thi s generation hasa different view of the Un ited St atesthan do Europe's elde rs. To theformer, Am ericans arc not viewedas th e liber ators of Euro pe, but rath cr as the oppressors of the poor andpolitically helpless in Viet nam . ormore currently, in EI Salvador andot her Third World locati ons.
So,.iets capita lize on fear
Much of the movement, though
Remembering little thingsdeepens dimension oflife
THE 1981 FEAST OF TABERNACLESMonday, Nov. 16, 1981 The WORLDWIDE NEWS 3
Evangelist ordained after Feasttored the Me lbourne ch urch andstar ted a number of others .
In 1969 Mr . Fahe y was tr ansferred to Sou th Afr ica to becomeregional director of that area . Heworked in Sou th Africa nine years ,the last two of which he served asregional director of Africa . Hearranged meetings with a number ofSouth African leaders and groupsfor Mr . Armstrong, who visitedSouth Africa three times during1976and 1977.
M r. Fahey retu rned to Pasadenain 1978 and then held executiveposit ions in the Work in Canada andAust ral ia befo re being named byMr. Armstrong to head the Work inCanada in 1980 . Mr. Armstrongmade M r. Fahey his executiveassistant in early 1981 .
M r. Fahey said his job keeps himquite busy and tha t it is "t he mostfascinating, challenging assignmentI've ever had in the Work ."
Me. Fahey and his wife Evelynhave two sons, Jon athan . 13, andRo bert, 9; and one daughter , Joan na. 15. He count s squas h. swimming, brid ge. sailing and ga rde ningamong his interests. but says. " T heNo . I inte rest is doing the Work!"
Following are individual reports asof press time from 70 of the 84 Feastsites around the world.
These reports were written frominformation supplied to The World wide News by Festival coord inatorswhose' names appea r at the end ofeach report (except in a sm all number of cases when a non- Englishspeaking coordinator had som eoneelse file an account.
don ' t know why they were born ," hesaid . Brethren need to realize thatthey live in "a world of appallingtroubles and evils ."
He said that God intended reli gion and government to be com bined - that now Satan cont rolledman 's rel igion and government onearth - save the government ofGod now est ab lished in God'sC hurch .
Q uoting Hebrews 9:2 7, Me.Ar mstrong pointed out th at Godappointed most men and women tolive their life without God 's HolySpirit. He warned that those whodid have God's Spi rit were nowacco untable for their actions - theyare now in a period of ju dgment.
The book of Revelation showsthat the Church will be in th e Kingdom , he added, but doesn 't guarantee that every person on the membership rolls will make it. They mu stcontinue to grow in the Christianfaith , becoming more like C hristdai ly.
Concluding his sermon, the pastor general quoted Romans II :33," 0 the depth of the riches both ofthe wisdom and know ledge of God!how unsearchable are his judgmen ts, and his ways past findin gout !"
BIG SANDY - In spit e of occasional rain, campers in the " PineyWoOOs" along with oth er brethrenher e enjoyed a fishing tournament ,singles ' dance , family dance and asingles ' outing at Lake Lorna .
Pasto r General Herbert W . Armstro ng visited Big Sandy for fourdays and spoke on the Sabbath. Theday before, Mr. Armst rong add ressed a ministerial lu ncheon ,attended by 50 ministers. Mr . Arm strong and his wife Ramon a wereac co m pa nied by his executiveassistant Bob Fahey , his wife Evelynand ch ildren .
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UNITED STATES
ROBERT FA HEY
thing. I' ll te ll you , I was trembling. Icoul dn 't seem to calm down . Towhom much is given , much isrequired ."
Me. Fahey graduated from th eformer Bricket Wood campus ofAmb assador Co llege in 1965. Hepastored the G lasgow, Sco tland .and Newcast le-on-Tyn e. England,churches before being assigned. in1966. to Au str al ia. whe re he pas-
max that is prophe sied . Som e of uswho unde rstand the prophecies ofthe Bible know what is coming, andwe expec ted it tocomesoonerthan ithas - it hasn 't come yet.
" But ," Me. Arm strong continued, "the event that has happened aweek ago today , I believe, has triggered and is a signal that the t imehas come .
"This assassination of Pres identAnwar Sadat ... on the very heelsof the attem pted assassinations ofPreside nt Ro nald Reagan of theUnited Sta tes and Pope John Paul IIshould be a warn ing to the world,and I believe it is, t hat perha ps theholding up of events in the world isabout over and God is going to letthi ngs speed up very quickly fromhereon.
"If not now," said Mr. Armstro ng, conclud ing his tho ught , "itwill ha ppen suddenly - so quicklyit will take you r breath, and thewhole world will gasp in awe andwonder .whe n they see the thingsthat are prophesied ."
Last Great Day
T he pasto r general returned toPasadena and delivered a messageOct. 20 that was beamed to sites inCanada and the United States.
M r. Armst rong t raced the plan ofGod from the prehi story of thewor ld to the Last Great Day, whenall humans who lived in the first6,000 years will be judged.
"People don 't understand that apurpose is being worked out - they
Opening night
The previo us night , the pastorgeneral addressed most of the 84Feas t sites worldwide through arecorded messag e on 16-mm. film.Mr. Ar mstrong traced some of thehisto ry of the Wo rldwide Chu rch ofGod, and commented on its presentconditions.
"B ret hre n," he stat ed, "never hasthe re been so much love in theC hurch of God as there is righ tnow . .. It seems that We are justloc ked together in a bond of love onewith another in a way that we neverwere before."
The presence of this love and thefruits of the Ch urch indicated thatmembers were d rawing close r toGod and " get t ing back oln thetrack," he said .
During the Festival, Mr . Arm strong traveled to Big Sandy and St.Pete rsbu rg, Fla., whe re he spoke tobre thren assembled there.
per.ce unti l we change our way oflife '"
Sp iritua l igno rance
Mankind has littl e knowl edg eabout God and who He is. the pastorgeneral stated . The average "gospel" one hea rs is about the person ofChrist - ignorin g the message thatJesus Christ brought from God the
and was transferred to Big Sandyfollowing the dea th of Dr . Rea ,C ha rles V. Dorothy was placed incharge following Dr . Rea's death ,and Pab lo Gonzalez replaced Dr .Rea later as the voice of El Mundode Manana (Spani sh WorldTomorrow prog ram), begu n by Dr.Rea in 1958 .
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PASADENA - Robert Fahey.executive assistant to Pastor General Herber t W . Armstrong, wasraised to the rank of evangelist inGod', Chu rch Oct. 24.
Mr . Armstro ng performed theord inat ion d uri ng Sa bbat h servicesin the Ambassador Au d itorium. Hewas assis ted by evangel ists JosephTkach, Ellis La Ravia, Leroy Neffand Diba r Apa rt ian.
" I remem ber the time when hewas a student here in Ambassado rCo llege , and we were having anasse mbly of st ude nts, " M r. Armstro ng men tioned , refer rin g to Mr .Fahey . " He was in the audie nce andI aske d him to stand up. I sa id, ' Bob.we' re sending you to Eng land.' Hesat down immediately! He d idn 'thave eno ug h strength to stay up .Now I've had to call him up again :'
Co mmenting on Me. Fahey'sextens ive experience in seve ra linternational areas of the Work. Mr .Armstrong said the ord ination was" long overd ue." M r. Fahey and Me.Armst rong hugged eac h other aft erthe ceremony.
Although he knew about the ord ination beforehand, Me. Fahey saidthe ceremony was "quite a moving
Father.The world is fast rushing towa rd
violence, he sa id. "It would seemthat for the last several years , thelast 15 years . that God had beenholding up the sequ ence of worldevents in this world leading to a eli -
Mr . Arm strong said, "The enti reco urse o f modern hist ory waschanged in mom ents with the assas sination of Egyptian President [Anwar} Sadat .
" Instead of declaring war ," Mr .Armstrong rem arked, "he declaredpeace ... and now started to dedicate his life to peace, and indeed, hegave his life for peace .
FE AST S ERMON - Pa st or Ge ne ra l Herb ert W. Armstrong ad dressesbr ethre n a t the Big Sandy Fest iva l si te Oct. 17. Mr. Armst ro ng a lso s pokein Pasadena a nd St . Pe te rsb urg , Fla . {Photo by Michael Y-{i1hite]
"However," the pasto r ge neralillustrated , " he was not ab le to bringus peace - no man or leader in theworld can. T hey 'v e striven forpeace , they've foug ht for peace,they 've worked for peace - but wehave no peace . And we cannot have
tained by Church members performing nati ve songs and da nces .
Mr. Turk gave a silver replica ofan anc ien t piece of pottery to Mr .and Mrs . Armstrong after lunch .The presentation was on behalfof allSpanish-speaking churches in Mex ico and the office staff .
25t h anniversary
Aft er the presentat ion Mr . Armst rong reviewed the development ofGod 's Work in Spa nish-speakingcountries. The Wo rk, rece ntlymarki ng its 25th anniversa ry, beganin September, 1956 , under the lateBenjamin Rea. Me. Walker re viewed for Me. Armstrong how thefirst Spanish-language literaturewas pub lished in 1958, wit h the firstnon-U .S . Spanish-speaking pe rsonbapt ized in 1959 .
The Spanish Office moved toBricket Wood. England. in 1960.
MEXICO TRIP - Evan ge lis t Leon Wa lker (right) , regio na l director to rGod's Work in S pan ish -speaking areas , re vie ws the history of the Worktor Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong a nd office ma na ger Tom Turk(left) in Mexico City , Mex ico. Nov. 3. [Photo by Warren Watson)
PASADENA - "Jesus C hristwill soon come and will reign ove r allthe nations of this ear th and willbring us finally peace ." Pastor Gen era l Herbert W . Armstrong relayedthis message to an internationalaudience of 80,000. connected bysatelli tes and telephone networksOct. 13, the first day of the Feast ofTabernacles.
Speaking from th e stage of theAmbassador Auditorium on theAmbassador Co llege campus here,Mr . Armstrong 's voice was hea rdand image was viewed live by brethren at Feast sites in the UnitedStates, Canada and Great Britain.
According to Media Serviceshere, Festival sites in the Netherlands, West Germany. Czechos lovakia . New Zealand and Fijireceived videocassette recordings ofMr . Armstrong's first day sermondu ring the Feast.
Sites in Jerusalem, the Philippines , Tonga, Austral ia, the Carri bea n, S ri Lanka, Mexico and othersreceived Mr. Armst rong's messagethe next day by phone lines connected to the various aud itor ium publicadd ress systems.
Appreciation of God's blessings
" What a marvelous thing," thepastor general co nt inued in hisopening remarks, "that we can all betogether. And that we have thiswonde rf ul setting he re at the headquarters of God 's Wo rk - that is,the temporary headquarters now because these head quarters [in Pas ade na} are going to be moved verysoon whe n the real Feast of Tabernacles begins with the Seco nd Coming of Christ over at Je rusa lem. "
Commenting on world events ,
MEXICO CITY, Mexico Continuing thei r trips to the Work'soffices, Pas tor General Herbert W.Armstrong and his wife Ramonaflew here Nov . 3.
" While the main offices of theSpanish-speaking Wo rk are in Pasadena, M r. Armstrong wan ted to seethe prog rams in action in a Spanishspeaking count ry," said evangelistLeon Walke r, reg ional di rector inSpanish-speaking areas.
After the Work ' s G-II jettouched down at the Mexico Cit yairport, the Armstrongs. evangel istRobert Fahey and Me. Walk er andhis wife Reba drove to th e officehere .
" M r. Armstrong has been toMe xico before a nd has alwaysenjoyed it ," M r. Walker said . Afterbeing met by Tom Turk, the officemanager he re, and his wife Jo An na,the group had lunch and was enter-
P astor general travels to Mexico.,reviews Work in Spanish areas
"We are not going to face God in 'the judgment' like the world. We arefacing it now. Judgment has begun at the House ofGod! You andI are beingjudged now. "
"But Goddidnot compromise one millionth ofan inch with sin. Rather thanthat He 'gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shouldnot perish. '"
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MakeupIContinuod from _ 11
ture under it. WHAT I NEVE R
KNEW UNTIL NOW was that,after my signature. Wayne Co le,then direc tor of Pastoral Administration. added fa few pagesgivin g the new liberal watereddown reasoning, c hanging thetruth of God.
Sa tan masterminded this insuc h manner that it allAP PEARED under my signature.as if I full y approved all that followed my signature - when infact I never saw it until the daybefore yesterday. It was subtlyhandled and KEPTFROM ME.
I did not, and never wouldhave approved of what Mr. Co lewithout my knowledge published under my signature.
Even now. at this late date. Ilearn that this "about-face"aJtering ofadecisionTHE LIVINGCHRIST put into His Churchcaused gre at consternationamongloyalministersandmem-
bers in Britain . But by thismaneuver of Satan, the people ofGod 's Church star ted off thetrack.
I sa y "started off." Forwatering down of God 's truth onhealing, the Sabbath, manymore vital doctrines followed initsw akc.
But, as Satan maneuvered tostart ALL HUMANITY off thetrack in the garden of Eden , sointhese latter days, he maneuveredto use the women of God 'sChurch to start the END-TIMEChurch off the track. And thewhole Church was deceived!
At the time my son came tome with the report that theAdam Clarke commentary wasin error on Isaiah 3:16, my mindwas primarily on other things,and I made a hasty decisionwithout fully weighing the matter . I have come to realize this. IHAVE DEEPLY REPENTED OF IT . Inow correct it before the entireChurch .
Brethren, let' s get one thingstrai ght at thi s point. JesusChrist chose and has been usinga HUMANinstrument to lead you.Will you blame Je sus Christ forth at ? HE is inf allible. HE makesno mistakes. But WHO amongyou could He choose as Hisinstr ument to lead you who isalready superna turally divineand unable to make mistakes?He took me with my single- trackmind , and used me in STARTINGthis Philadelphia era of God'sC hurch. He hasusedme, in spiteof a few mistakes, in BRINGINGALL YOU INTO HIS BODY, THEC HU RCH. H e revealed HI STRUTH to me and thr ough me toyou!And now H e is using me asHis instrument in CORRECTINGa mistake, and LEADING YOUBACK ON THE TRACK! T housands of you have written me youare behind me 100 percent. AREYOU?
Jesus Ch rist through me hasbeen GETTING US ALL BACK ONH IE TRACK, ready for His returnto earth as the KI NG OF KINGS,and Lord of Lord s. Th e C hurch,as HI S BRIDE to be spiri tuallyMARRIED to H im , is to rise tomeet Him in the air as Hed esce nds . W om en of t he
C hu rch, do you think Je su sChrist will say to me, "SEND A
PROCLAMATION TO ALL WOMEN
IN TH~ CHURCH TO PREPA REFOR My CO MING . TELL THEM TO
GO TO THEI R DRESSING TA BLES,
PLUCK OUT THEIR EYEBROWS,PAINT IN NEW ONESHIGHER ONTHEIR FOREUEADS, AND USECOSMETICS TO MAKE UP THEIRFACES TO MEET ME IN THEAIR"'!
No, dear people, I don't t hinkH e will have me make such aproclamati on. But rather : W ashthedirtoffyour faces!CLEAN UPyour faces!"
Now JESUSCHRIST, throughHis chosen apostle, is going toRULE on this question once andfor all!
It was through me He ruledon smoking. At the tim e onlyMEN smoked . N o spec i f icdetailed scriplure says : Thoushalt not smoke. But I know, int he spring of 1927, when I wasconverted, that GOD'S LAW is tobe applied to .given cir cumstances according to its basic
PRINCIPLE. I as ked my self,"WHY do I smoke?" To pleaseGod ? No! Becauseother men inSatan's world do! Yes . To pleas ethe five senses? Yes, the sense ofSMELL! Doesit express LOVE TOGOO? No! Love to neighbor?No! To" some it was offensive.For my health? No . I knew itwas harmful to whatever extent.It was a worldly habit. I quit.Througb me Christ caused HisC hurch to turn from smoking .
Now apply Goo's LAW tomakeup. WHY do women usemakeup? To please and glorifyGoo ? No . God is MasterDESIGNER as well as Creator.The world seems to think Goddid not design women's facesproperly, and they try to do abetter job of making up the irfaces than Goo did . Doesmakeup PLEASE Goo? HIS Spirit saysto me, IT ISDispleasing to Him!(And, like the apostle Paul , Ithink I have the " m ind ofChrist.") To EXALT God? No ,rather to exalt SELF, whichdebases God .
IT IS PURE AND SIMPLE VANITY, and God knows it is, even ifsome women are self-deceivedand protest it isn't. It is done toglorify the SELF, not to glorifyG oo! It cer taintly does not humble the self. One woman saysit isan ornament of dress, and shedoesn 't feel dres sed up with ou tit. G OD says, " whose adorning . . . let it be . .. the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit"(I Peter 3:3-4). Let it be IIUMILITY, exalting Goo.
Do women do it because otherwomen i n the world do ?Emphatically, YES, even as Ionce smoked becauseother mendid . It is done to BE LIKE TilEWORLD. But of the world even its religi on, specifically theC hristian religion - God says,"COME OUT OF HER, my people,that ye be not partakers of hersins, and that ye receive not ofHER PLAGUES" ( now soon tocome) ( Revelation 18:4) . Onewoman says,"But since it isconsidered an essential part of goodgrooming by people in theworld. it doe s help me feel betterdressed."
An other woman thinks make-
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up sets " AN EXAMPLE TO THEWORLDIN THEIR APPEARANCE."Jesus said. "Ye are th e ligh t ofthe world . . . Let your light soshine befor e me n, that they maySEE your GOODWORKS," not thepai nt onyo urf ace!
A woman says. " I don't wearmakeup to chan ge my appea rance," but another woman whowrite s the same thing wears somuch that when I mentionedhaving received aletter from awoman saying that. a leadingheadquarter s minister replied," If I were a betting man I'd bet Icould tell you who wrot e the letter ." "Who do you think?" Iasked. He named her . How didhe know'! Because she wears somuch makeup ,it stands out andseveral noticed and mentionedit!
Some women will say it isadornment, and they mentionhow God adorned Israel. LET'SLOOK AT THAT SCRIPTURE AMINUTE!
It 's the 16th chapter of Ezekiel . It begins , "Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know herabominations.' The ABOMINATIONSof Judah are th e subjec t.Then God speaks symbolicallyof Israel and Judah as a newbornfemale child who grew up . Shegrew up polluted by the world ,and at the time of love, Godadorned her . How? God usedapparel as a symbol of righteousness.
Here He used the symbol ofcovering her with the FINESTapparel and adornment - HISLAW - WHICH IS flNEST INSPIRITUAL CHARACTER. THEAPPAREL AND JEWELRY MENTIONEDARENOTMENTIONEDTOAPPROVE WORLDLY ADORNMENT, BUTINDICATETHE R NESTQUALITY IN CHARACTER, asmeasured by God's spiritualLAW. God mentioned only thefinest in material adornment totypify the finest in spiritualadornment. BUT HE AVOIDEDINCLUDING FACE-PAINTING!
The BEAUTV God lavished onI srael was SPIRITUAL beauty of HIs WAYOFLIFE- the way of
His L AW. This spiritual beautywent forth over the world (verse14) . Then what? "B UT TII0UDIOST TRUST IN THI NE OWNBEAUTYAND PLAYED THE HARLOT" (verse 15 and on) .
WilYdid I smoke? I had to behonest about it and I qu it , andtaught the C hurch to quit. WHVDC WQ MEN USE MAK EUP ?SIIAL L THEY BE HONEST ABOUTIT - OR SELF-DECEI VED INTOARG UING THEIR WAYTOB ELIKETHE WORLD?
THER E ARETWO reasons, andvariations of those two reasons,and G OD, who knows humanhearts better than we know ourown, KNOWS rur s. Th ey are:VANITY, and desire to be like theworld God ca lls usout of. or so toappear to the world .
One woman candidly said shewould rather have a good looking face than a knowledgeable
and understanding mind. Shewould rather have facial makeupthan God's righteousness. T hatwas many years ago. She madeher c hoice . She no lo ngerbelieves there is a C reator God .No w she is coming into old age,and all the facial makeup can'thelp her look beautiful. Sh e hasNO hope for the future!
On e of th e hard est tests I hadto win to be converted , in thespring of 1927, was the thought,If I acce pt God's TRUTH, whatwill all my form er businessacquaintances i n th e worl dthink? I knew I had to GIVE UPcaring about what they think,and be concerned about whatGoo thinks! I had to be weanedfrom former ways, th oughts,beliefs and people of th e wor ld.T he woman who dreads givingup makeup must give up formerways.
Now finally , let' s again LOOKat these specific scriptures thatsome use to JUSTIFY vanity andworldliness - though the y maydeny any vanity or worldliness.
Isaiah 3: /6: In 1955 I used anerror in the Adam C lar ke com mentary, which implied paint ing the eyes. It waswhen my soncame to me with evidence thatthe commentary was in errorabout eye paint that I wrote theshort note th at appeared over mysignature in the October, 1974,Bulletin. which was used toch ange th e entire C hurch teaching on mak eup. I did not thenexamine the other three passages used following my signature, nor did I KNOW even thatthose things were printed, orthat orders went out to all ministers compelling them to readevery word before their congregations ASIF it had my approval .Actually it DID NOT have myapproval ,or even my knowledge.It was an allemptto put this liberal approach over on theC hurch BEHIND MY BACK andwith out my knowledge.
But look now at the entirecontext in wh ich Isaiah 3:16appears .
C hapter 3 is talking aboutthese LAST DAYSof thi s age. TheDAY OF TIl E LORD is approaching (verse 12 of chapter 2).Then, beginning verse 12 ofchapter 3, " As for my people ,children shall be their oppressors, and women shall rule overthem" - certainly true TODAY.
Ve rse 16 , " Because thedaughters of Z ion [meaning ourpeople Isr ael or the C hurchtoday] are haughty, and walkwith stretched for th neck s, andwanton eye s [glancing wantonlywith their eyes- Revised Standard Versi on) . . . ,. in otherwords flirting and enticing men- which things do ACCOMPANYface paint.
This general theme conti nuesinto chapter 4, where we read inverse 4, "When the Lord shallhave washed away th e filth of th edaughters of Z ion . . . " So evenif verse 16 of chapter 3 does notspeak specifically of makeup, itDOES spea k of the things associated with it and that accompany it . It does show gr aph icall ythe attitude and spirit Satan willhave injected into our women ofTODAY . Primaril y , I N THEWORLD of Israel as it is today.
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but also as it has infiltra ted intotoo many of our dear women inGod's Chu rch!
God commands, "COME OUTFROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YESEPARATE, saith the Lord" ( IICorinthia ns 6:17) For "ye arethe temple of the living God "(verse 16).
Ezekiel 23:40: I quote fromwhat Mr . Co le (now disfellowshi pped fro m t he Chu rch )appended aft er my signature toAPPEAR to give it my approval:
.. 'A nd also you sent for mento come from abroad; a messenger wassent to them, and indeedthe y cam e. For them you bath edyourself, made up yo ur eyes.and adorned yourself with jew el ry . You sat on a sta tely couchwith a prepared tab le befo reit . . . ' Th is is in the context ofthe ad ult eries of Israel an dJudah as the spiri tual br ide ofC hr ist. Th eir sche mes fo rattracting lovers are bein gdescribed."
Now that certainl y DOES NOTset a GOOD EXAMPLE for thewomen of God's C hurc h today!Ye t thi s effort to introduce LIBERALISM and COMPROMISEWITHSATAN in G od's Church, wenton to ARGUE: " No tice the thin gsment ioned . The woman bathes.She decorates herself with jewelry ." (This statement OMITTEDDELIBERATELY the EYE MAKEup!) uSII E SITS ON A COUCHBEFORE A SPREAD TABLE,WAITING FOR HER LOVER," T HENCOMES THE SUBTLE QUESTION:"Are these things wrong inthemselves? N o. N ot in theproper placeand context -suchasmarri age."
Oh , women of God's Church?Did you let that sub t le TWISTmisleadyou, asSATAN wanted tomislead you?
This passage is delibe ratelyshowing something wrong in80TH ATIlTUDE,INTENTION andMEANS OFDOINGJT. And here, inthe Bulletin of Go o 's CnU RCH,without m y k n owl ed g e o rapproval, was print ed a subtleand MI SLEADI NG TW IST onG OD'S SACRED AND HOLYW ORD! I did not know thi s wasbeing printed - BUT I APOLOGIZ EBEFOREG OD FORIT!
Th is passage DEFINIT El.YDO ES SHO W EYEMAKEUP, whichisone part of mod ern makeup, isWRONG IN GOD 'S SIGHT! Itshowsan attitude unacceptable to
God!Jeremiah 4:30: Get the con
text: Jeremi ah sees a vision ofDESTRUCTION coming in our dayasa result of our peoples' worldly SINS! It' s talk ing abo ut thi ngsDESPISED by Goo! Speaking toOUR PEOPLE (nations) today.God says: "And when thou ar tspoi led , wha t wil t t hou do ?Though thou clothest th yselfwith crim son . . . .. Crimson is abright, purplish-r ed color , thesame as sca rle t. T he RSV . theMoffatt and T he New International Version all translate thisword as "scarlet" - preciselythe color of the great whore ofRevelat ion 17:4, decked out inpurple and scarlet. Pur ple is thecolor of royalt y. Sca rle t that ofprostitution (see Web ster's dictionary).
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WORKING SERVANTS - Ministers, ministerial trainees and wives pauseduring God 's Festival at Charlottetown, P .E.I. [Photo by Dennis Bernasconi]
Monday, Nov. 16, 1981
1981 FEASTOF TABERNACLES
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T he 1,946 brethren atte nd ing theFeast here heard sermons on themarr iage covenant. given by evangelist Harold Jac kson; obedienceand repentance, Bill Bradford ; hon oting parent s, Gre g Sargent ; preparing for th e world tom orrow . HalBaird ; a community of peace, Mr .Fahey; leade rship quali ties, DonWard ; God 's leadershi p, JohnOgwyn; and Solomon' s temple,evangelist Dean Blackwell. TwoBible stud ies were also given . DonWard .
CAPE CO D, Mass. - An idealInd ian summ er set the stage for afamily theme and genuine love anduni ty amo ng 3.000 brethren atte nding the Feast at the Ca pe Cod Coliseum.
Not only did Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong's two satellitetransmissions inspire the attendingbrethren, but the gene ral managerof the coliseum, after viewing thetransmission,said he had never beenso captivated by a speaker as he waswith Mr . Armstrong.
Evangel ist Raymond McNairspoke on the meanin g of the LastG reat Day. Other speakers wereevangelists Dean Wilson and BurlcMc Nair and min isters Dan Rogers,Dave Pack , Les Schmed es. JimFranks and Britt Taylor.
Activities included boat cruisesand deep-sea fishing on the AtlanticOcean . Beaut iful Heritage Plantation, 76 acres of gardens, was thesetting for family activities, with"Noah's Family Day" being thetheme. Senior citizens were invitedto a luncheon with entertainmentprovided by the brethren fromthroughout the Northeast.
Two hundred fifty attended anoutdoor YOU barbecue. Youngsters and young people from 6 to 18roller-skated on two afternoons.Church members donated morethan $4,000 to a family fromRochester. N .Y., whose apartmentburned during the Feast destroyingall their possessions. Jim Franks .
DA YTON. Ohi o - Centeringaround a theme of having God 'smind in the world tomorrow , theeight-day Festival here overflowedwith an atti tude of service and cooperation on the part of more than4,600 brethren.
Sermons at Hara Aren a weredelivered by evangelist RaymondMcNair, who spoke about the Mil-
Mexico(Continu~ from ~~ 3)
La Pura Verda d (S panish PlainTruth ) began in February, 1968,with more than 80,000 subscriberscoming in throu gh a Spani sh Reader 's Digest advertisi ng campai gnthat lasted unt il 1970.
Th e 1969 Feast of Tabernacleswas observed in Chile - markingthe first in a Span ish-speaking coun try.
In 1972, the Span ish Departmentwas moved back to Pasadena, andWalte r Dickin son became the direc tor in 1973 . £ 1 Com unicado (th eSpani sh-language equ ivalent of TheGood News and The WorldwideNews) was begun in 1976. EIComunicado will be re placed in Januaryby the internati onal Good News[WN.Oct .5) .
The 1.APura Verdad cardholderpr ogr am . later uti lized by theUnited States Plain Truth Ci rculation Depar tment. was begun in1978. and Leon Walker became theSpan ish Department director in1979.
Ministerial dinner
Following the presentation Mr .and Mrs . Arm str ong played host toa ministerial dinner that evening .Attending were Mr . and Mrs . Arm -
lennium; Bob Dick spoke on youthsin the Bible; evangelist Roderick C.Meredith, on overcoming trial s; andevangelist Ronald Kelly, on the spirit world. Vernon Hargrove, RayWooten , Ear l Williams, Ray Meyerand Dick Thompson also gave sermons.
Warm da ys and cool nigh tsallowed Feastgoe rs to parti cipate ina senior citi zens' boat crui se on theOhio River and a fami ly fun day at apark . Some 1.500 brethren were onhand for a family dance . For the second year a " fun run" took place andice-skating was available on twoafternoons.
Twelve teams competed in aYOU Biblebowlwith Toledo, Ohio,taking first. Other activ itiesincluded a ministerial luncheon,roller-skating, bowling and horseback riding . Dick Thomps on.
J EKYLL ISLAND, Go. - Aspirit of inspiration and excitementpermeated th is oceanfront site inkeep ing with the theme of our greatneed for God's Kingdom to ro me tothis sick and dying world.
A comparison of worldly govern men ts and the Kingdom of God . thepeace of God . education. reasons forwanting the Kingdom of God. God' sgovernment and how God deal s withyouths were topics discussed by JimFriddle , Marc Masterson, Bob Bertuzzi. John Ritenbaugh, Doug Horchak and Allen Bullock . Evangel istsGerald Waterhouse and Harold
strong, Mr. Fahey . Mr. and Mrs.Walker, Mr . and Mrs. Turk, Mr .and Mrs . Alfredo Mercad o of theMexico City Office, Mr . and Mrs.Pablo DiMakis from Gu adalajara.Mexico. and Herbert Cisneros, thepastor in EISalvad or.
"Overall, Mr. Arm str ong wasvery pleased with the resul ts," Mr.Walker noted . " He gave us tacitapproval to double our 1.APura Verdad mailing list , depend ing on availabilit y of funds, which would brin gus up to 200.{x)() subscribers int 982: ' The evangelist reported thatMr . Armstrong was pleased withthe growth of God's Work in theS panis h-speaking areas o f theworld . The pastor gene ral and hisgroup remained overnight, returning to Pasadena Nov . 4.
Mr . Walker stayed a few extradays. conducting a miniconferencefor the ministers the re. " As dir ector. I need frequent contact with theSp ani sh-speak ing ministry: ' hesaid. "By combining Mr . Armstrong's visit with the meet ings ofthe ministry there.J was ab le to savea later trip ." Mr. Walker also commented that some of the minister shad never met Mr . Armstrong personally, and the experi ence " wasstrengthening and inspiring."
Mr . Walker also serves underMr . Armstrong as the deputy chan cellor of the Ambassador Collegecampus in Big Sandy.
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Jackson spoke on the government ofGod and the three resurrections.
Enthu siastic support was shownfor all social act ivities including akite-flying contest. Afternoon activities for youths included a miniature golf t ourney , vo ll e yba llmatches and beacbfront activiti es.
Sunn y d ay s added to t hepeaceful, loving att itude developedamong 3,800 brethren gatheredhere for the eight days. Robert F.Bertur zi.
LAKEOFTHEOZARKS,Mo.- Five days of rain didn 't quen ch
Makeup(Continued from P8It 4.
Jeremiah 4;30 , " t hough thoudeckest thee with Orn am ents ofgold , though thou rentest thyface with painting, in vain shaltthou mak e th yself fair; th y lovers will despise thee, the y willsee k thy life ,"
This pas sage shows modernIsr ael, before Christ's coming,in the prophesied imminent captivity of our very people, usingthe methods of a harlot, figuratively seeking to att rac t allies .The United S tate s is doing that.The recent congressional battleove r the sale of military weaponsto Saudi Arabi a , in order to" buy" tha t country' s supportaga ins t Russia , is an example.Ameri can wooin g of Iran in t herecen t days of th e sh ah wasanothe r exam ple. A nd the resultwas pr ecisely as thi s prophecysays - they SEEK OUR LIFE!
It is usin g th e illu stration ofthe methods of a prostitute tomake ourselves att rac t ive for ou rown purpos es. IT DOES NOTSHOW G oo's APPROVAL BUTTHE VERYOPPOSITE!
Yet this I.IBERAL misteach ingsaid of thi s verse : "Is scarletwrong?" And also, " But is it th ething whi ch is wrong - o r onl ythe wr ong use ?" This sc ri pturewas illustrat ing THE WRONGUSE, and as women use it IN AWRONG USE! If you have a clothdecor at ion in your home ofgr een , or blu e. o r sca rle t or pin k,THAT IS NOTA WRONG USE!
BUT THE ILLUSTRATION OFJER EMIAH 4:30 IS SHOWING AWRONG USE, and this "scholarly" TWIST on G od's W ordUSING HUMAN REASON to ge taround a very plain "T HUSSAITHTHE LORD!" It was an effort touse " scho la rs hip" to ask the su btle que st ion , "I s it re ally
the spirit of 8,528 bret hren whoattended the Feast at the Churchowned site here . Church mem berstook advantage of the weather formore fellowship and helped se t upwaterlogged tents that collapsed .Brethr en asked those comp letelyrained out to move in with them.
Key ser mons included evangelistRon Kelly speaking on a world without Sa tan; Ken Swisher, on the family; Bryan Hoyt , on Ca leb andAchan , our birthright ; Don Mason.on recognizing C hrist when Hecomes; Ca rn Ca therwood. on lovingthe brethren by fellowship; Geo rgeMeeke r, on God loves olde r people;and Robert Spen ce. on teaching andpreac hing in the world tomorro w.
Evangelist Roderick C. Meredithgave a sermon on overcoming Sa tanand enduring fait hfully, and JamesFriddle spoke on faith. Messagesst ressed the theme of the family andprep arin g for God 's Fami ly andKingdom.
Pastor Gen eral Herbert W. Armst rong's two microwave sermonswere excepti onal.
The senior citizens (700 breth ren ) enjoyed two banquets in theirhonor, and 58 minist ers and theirwives fellowsh ipped at a ministerialbanquet. Ambassador Co ll egealumni got a chance to renew oldfriendships at a cocktai l party .
More than 4.000 brethrenattended a family dance . and families took advantage of family dayact ivit ies, served by the YO U.Oth er events included a singles ' picnic and volleyball tournaments. JimKissee.
LIHUE. Hawaii - Gentle trade
wr ong?" and to see how muchyou can get away with!
2 Kings 9:30: Queen Jezebelis pictured in the Bible as per haps the most evil of women.especially in the worldly andev il-att itude sense. This passagesays that " Jezebe l heard of it;and she painted her face , andtired her head, and looked out ata window." She is portrayed inG od 's Word as an evil -intent ioned" woman. " S he PAINTEDHERFACE." Yet thi s " schol arl y"att em pt at watering dow n God'steachings stated, " In any case,th e qu estion is ag ain whetherher use of makeup is an y morewrong - of and by itself- t hanher adorning her head." IS thatthe question? IT rs NOT! Godhere shows you an evil-m ind edwom an sett ing a wr ong example.
A ga in I say to yo u, it is not amatter o f HOW MUCH CAN WEGET AWAY WITH?" or "can weuse human reason to do as th eworld does - rather th an what"GODSA ysT'
This effort to br ing makeupback into God's C hurc h endedby saying: " Ma keup has de fini tely been gr ossly abused ,But .. . it is th e vanity whi ch iswr ong, and not necessarily th egr ooming:' The argu m ent hereis th at grooming is not vanity,but it is the EXTENT and CHARACTER of the grooming th at ca nbe wrong - and the motivati onof it.
M y mother and gr andmother s did not wear mak eup - nordid you r great -grandmothers ofthe sa m e era. H ow did it ge t intoour mid-and-laU er -20th ce ntury society? F ROM PROSTITUTES!
They argue it w a s d oneanc ie ntly in th e wor.d . Bu t thatw as not G oo's world . Ou rwomen have COPIED THE PROSTITUTES!
When I was a young man , NODECENT WOMAN, EVEN IN THE
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winds and sunny skies prevailedhere as 1, 108 bret hren focused onfamily re lationsh ips now and in theKingdom of God.
Se rmons at the Kauai War Memorial Co nvention Hall were givenby evangelis t Ellis LaR avia. whodetailed mankind' s potential in theworld lomorrow; Keith Th omas,who spoke about the fatherhood ofGod; Jim Reyer, who expound edlife in the world tomorrow ; Denn isVan Deven ter , who explained thefirst family; and Marc Segall . whotold how to fulfill life' s purpose .
Feas tgoers in the Aloha Stateviewed Her bert W. Armstrong'stwo sa tellite message s. S pec ialattractions were an oceans ide Polynesian luau and dance attended by940 pe r son s . YO U membe rsenjoyed a beach part y, hike and catamaran cr uise. Many of the breth ren relaxed on sunny beac hes andsnorkele d in t he warm PacificOCean. David Fraser.
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. - Thesmell of fresh paint , blazing fallcolors and newly cut roadwaysgreeted more than 4,500 brethrengathered here for the first time since1977. Th e Church-owned MountPocono site was damaged in a snowand ice storm Jan . 28,1978,and wasnot repaired until this past summer .(See article, page 11.)
Temperatu res reached the 70sFahrenheit, as evangelists HermanHoeh. Dean Wi lson and LeslieMcCullough set the theme of pre paring for a role in the Family ofGod through the human familytoday . Ministers J im Jenkins, DonLawson, Frank McCrady Jr., and
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WORLD. SMOK. ED. But pr ostitutes did . Then cigarette manufacturers used subtle advertisingto ind uce women to follow th eprostitute example - for manufacturers' profits!
Look , finall y, at StN.It all sta r ted with SATAN,
when he was the cherub Lucifer .
Again look a t HOW SIN BEGAN- with LUCIFER. God hadcr eated him per fect, and he wasin all h is ways , TILL he StNNED.How ? Hi s heart was lifted up tNVANITY. because of his BEAUTY( Eze k ie l 28; 15 -17 ) . Be in gBEAUTIFULo r desire for it led toVANITY. Sm.r-glorifica tion! H ismind went to his BEAUTY, inVANITY. Of co urs e he wouldhave denied having vanity just asmortals tod ay.
Sata n introduced SIN in tohumanity th rough a wo man ,mother Ev e. She was MISLED,dece ived. She didn 't de libe rately w tLL to do wron g - to leadher husband into the first SIN!S he was deceived . as our womenhave bee n today. Go back andrea d th e beginn ing par ag raphsof t his art icle. It is preci se ly theway Sat an has been gelling toour women today.
Women do not use makeup toPLEASE GOD today - for 1 ca ntell you ON HIS AUTHORITY it isNOT ple asing to HIM!
S at an used human re ason andmakeup and WOMEN to STARTth e ball of LIBERALISM AWAYFROM G OD and TOWARD SIN torolling in the C hurc h beginningOc tober, 1974.
Finally, I repeat , sin, spirit ual ly, is self-ce nte red ness , sel fexaltat ion . desi re to be beautiful, van ity , cov eting, des ire toGET and TAKE, to exalt the self,j eal ou sy and envy. competit ion,oft- res ulting violence an d war,res entment a n d rebell io naga ins t autho ri ty. These are th ePRINCIPLES of sp iritual SIN.C h ris t is GETTING US BACK ONTHE TRACK!
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FEAST IN SPAIN - Brethre n attending God 's Festival in Cullera , Spain, assemble at the Hote l Sicania for thisgrou p pho to. More tha n 60 brethren a ttended the site, now in its secondyear.
Teamwork produces $20~OOOSt uden ts help on Big Sandy concessions
theme of growth and prep aration forthe Kingdom of God , inspiring sermons were given by Ca rn Cat herwood, on brotherly love, evangelistGerald Waterhouse, onconversionrequ ired for protecti on and evangelist Leroy Neff , on the meaning ofthe Last Gr eat Day, as well as messages by Dr. C lint Zimmerm an . BillSwanson , Ron Miller . Walter Dickin son , Larry Neff and M arkCa rdona.
High points of the Feas t werePastor General Herbert W. Arm strong ' s mes sag es rece ived bymicrowave on the first day of theFeast and the Last Great Day.
A cooperative spir it prevailed atFeast act ivities, which includ ed apreteen par ty, a YO U dance and alunch eon att ended by 600 enth usiastic senior citizens. Larry Neff.
W ISCONS IN DELLS. Wi, . Preparing for the Kingdom of Godwas the theme of the Feast at theC hurc h-o wned site here. where4,566 brethren attended. Onl y twoovercast days clouded otherwiseexce llent weather .
S peakers included evangel ist sRode rick C. Me redith, who toldhow to be prepared for the Kingdomof God , Leslie McCullough, whospoke on thc millennial reign ofChrist and Den nis Luker, on thedevices of Sa tan . Other speakerswere ministers Leonard Schreiber,Roy Hollada y, Allan Barr, JohnBald, Carl McNair and Bill Miller .Two satellite tran smiss ions by Pastor General Herbert W. Arm strongon the first day of the Feast and theLast Great Day were well-rece ivedby the brethren.
A family dance cent ering aro undthe Kingdom of God theme wasatt ended by 75 percent of the breth ren . Senior citizens became acquainted over a chicke n dinner withall the trimmings. A luncheon forministers and their wives and a hospitality room allowed for more fellowship . A skat ing party and sockhop were planned for the youths ofthe Ch urc h, along with youth day ,in which YOU members served invarious capac ities at services . CarlMcNair.
C ALG ARY. Alta . - Beaut ifu l.sunny weather prevailed at theFeast site here . An atmosphere ofurgency in preparing to rule inGod 's Kingdom was felt by the1,393 members observing the Festi val at the Ca lgary Co nvention Ce ntre .
The microwave t ransmission ofPastor General Herbert W. Armst rong's Holy Day sermons hadgreat impact. Unity and a sense ofpu rpose characterized Festival services, and bre thren exhibited thei rconcern thr ough record offering s.C harles Bryce spoke on God 's government; Bob Berendt sketched thesteps in preparing for spirit life;George Patrickson exho rted breth ren to prepare to rule; visitin g evan-
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CANADAANCHORAGE. Alask a - Four
hu ndr ed twe nty-fou r breth rengathered at the Capt ain Coo k Hotelfor eight days of learning abo utGod 's government and developingatt itudes of obedi ence and cooperation. This site is administered by th eCanadian Office. Though it rainedmost days, the seventh day provideda glimpse of Mt. McK inley , 20,320feet high , and the Aleutian chai n ofmountains and volcanoes .
Pastor General Herbert W. Arm strong's live satellite transmissionset the stage for sermons on God'sgovernment, given by Earl Roemer,and having balance in life. by DavidRoenspies. Other speakers includ edWilbu r Berg and AITunseth. Fourteen attended a ministerial luncheon ; more than 200 enjo yed aformal din ner-dance; and 430 wereserved a fam ily barbecue.
Holy Day offerings on th e LastGreat Day of $43 .58 a per soncapped off the Festival in the "GreatLand" state . Earl L. Roemer.
TUCSON - Arizona fall weather with cool nights and pleasant daysg reeted 7.600 brethren wh oobserved the Feast at th e Tu csonCommu nity Center. Stressing the
for return to Pasadena and participated in a parent-teen roller-skatin gparty , Western dance , Bible studyand beach party . YOU membersmade new fr iends in theirown hospitality area called Yak ' N Sn ak.Bob Jones.
Bill Quillen, David Mills and lambert G reer pointed members towardGod 's Kingdom . A sense of urgen cyto prepa re to rul e developed as theFeast prog ressed, with membersencouraged to capt ure thc vision ofthe restor ation of God' s govern men t.
Pasto r Ge neral He rbert W. Armst rong's satellite t ransm ission wasinspi ra tiona l wi th his strong.powerful message ham mering homethe need to be doers of God 's law.
A high point of the Festival cameOc t. 14 witb nearly all member senjoying a Churc h barbecue at River fro nt Park here . Thousandsmilled around fellowsh ipping .
The Young Ambassadors Feastfilm provided a glimpse of Ambassador College . and members appre cia ted two family dances and a Biblestudy. YOU members had a for maldin ner-d ance and a roller-skat ingparty. Roger Foster .
SPOKANE. Wash . - Fellowship and a spirit of un ity markedGod's Feast of Tabernacles here formore than 4.200 bret hren .
Evange lists Denni s Luker. Ger ald W aterhouse a nd Raym ondMcN air. and mini sters Roger Foster , Fred Davis, Richard Duncan ,
SQUAW VALLEY. Calif. - Apanorama of snowcapped moun ta ins and fall colors surroundedBlyth Arena here whe re 5,891brethren celeb rated the Feast. Sermons were on being a righteousjudge [Les McCo lm). being a ch ildof God (Jim Chapman) . how Goduses youths (Joe l Lilleng reen) , thepurpose of the Mille nnium (CarltonSm ith) , the purpose of suffering(G reg Albrecht) , forgiveness(Steve Martin). the judgment process (evangeli st Ellis LaRavia) and50 years into the Mille nnium (evangelist Ro nald Kelly).
Evangelis t Leslie McCullo ughspoke on thc hum an perspective atthe beginning of the Millennium.Brethren responded to Herbert W.Armstrong's microwave messagesby exemplifying love, warmt h andcoope ra tio n. Peopl e were eventurned away from work par ties .
YO U members and AmbassadorCollege students joined for a dinn erdance atop Gr anite Ch ief Moun tai n, accessib le by tram . Feastgoersalso enjoyed a fami ly dance , seniorcitizen s' luncheon. min isterial lunche on . th e Youn g Ambassador sfilm and two Bible stud ies for thedeaf.
YOU members also hiked toShi rley Lake . part icipated in a poemand pict ure con test, took a boat tripon Lake T ahoe and operated concession stands. Jim Chapman.
week ."Mrs. Jon es said her husband, who
is not a Church member. volunteered over four weeks of full -timework to set up the grocery stor e.Descr ibing the store. Mrs. Jo nessaid , " We t ried to set it up so if aperson didn 't want to leave campushe didn't have to."
The Jone ses. longtime groce rysto re ope rator s, have run the Feastgrocery store for the past threeyears.
Mr s. Jones was particularl y happy with the workers who served thisyear . She said... It is a joint effortwhere everybody works together ."
Student Body President MarkMount s. assistant to Mr. Shaffer inthe operation, spoke favorabl y aboutthe efficienc y of everyone involved .For lunch on the first Holy Days,Mount s said , "We put anywherefrom \ ,000 to 1,300 people throughth e lines in an hour and 15 minutes,"and added. " It took a lot of team work ."
using Satan to best advantage.W hen a woman attendi ng anoth
er convention lost a diamo nd valuedat SIO,ooo , one of the brethrenfound and returned it , much to thewoman 's surprise.SUV~ Buchanan.
ST . PETERSBURG. Fla . Go rgeous su nny days adde d to thespirit of cooperation and friendsh ipamong bret hren who attended theFeast here. The highest attendencewas 9, 718 on Oct. 15 when Past orGeneral Herbert W . Armstrongspoke in person at tile Bayfront Ce nter.
Ser mons on the the me of ed ucation and preparation for the worldtomorrow were given by evangeli stsGerald Wa terh ouse , Leon Walkerand Harold J ackson and ministersKen Ma rti n, Ha rold Lest er. BillWin ner and Bob Jo nes. Mic rowavemessages were well-received on thefirst day of the Feast as well as theLast Great Day.
Activities included the famil yFeast dance and the You ng Ambassadors film. Ot her event s were a singles' dance , senior citizens' luncheon, family day and a softballtournament for men and women .
The YOU marked new hymn als
at A mb assad or College in BigSa ndy .
'- ..ruc: ing around God's plan forthe Church in the world tomorrow,sermons were given by evange listDean Blackwell on fulfillment ofproph ecy, Robert C. Smith, oncoming out of the world . HaroldRhode s, on youths in the worldtomorrow, Doug Horch ak, on God 'sgovernment. St eve Buchanan, onthe Sabbat h. evangelis t DennisLuker .on Satan's devices, BillFree land . on hu sb ands a nd wives ,Geo rge Affeldt , on developing lovefor God and Clint Zimmerman, on
Acco rding to Mr. Shaffer , Mr.Wellmaker anticipated nearl yS20 ,OOO would be raised . to bedivided between the local congregation and the college .
Mr . Shaffer sa id, "Withoutknowing the final figures, he {Mr.Well maker} was confide nt th at weatta ined that goal ."
In add ition to Mr . Wellm aker ,Bob and Donna Jones, residents ofthe area, were responsible for setting up and running a complete grocery store on campus. Accor ding toMrs. Jon es, " It is really pretty com plicated to set up a store for only a
entire operation, which included afast -food lunch and dinner, a completely stocked grocery store, an icevending service and conce ssion ssold during sports events , was BigSandy C hurch member Bob We llmaker. Mr. Well make r was responsible to see that all sales oper ation sprovided the maximum amount ofservice possible tothevisiting breth ren.
for th em. Ken Giese.
PASADENA - Sunny Califor nia skies accompanied by unusuallysmog- free air pleasantl y surprised3,000 brethren who kept the Feasthere .
Th e brethren were blessed notonly with the opportu nity to att endservices every day on the Ambassador College campus, but also to seePastor General Herbe rt W. Armstrong in person on the first day andLast Great Day of the Feast. Evangelist s Ellis LaRavi a, Josep h Tk achand Leroy Neff were on hand to
spe ak . Ot her speakers incl udedRobert Fahey (ordained an evange list Oct. 24) Judd Kir k. Terry Matt son. Ron Howe and Larry Salye r.
Daily tours of the college campuswere given an d members tookadvantage of the grounds for variou sactiv ities . T he track, indoor pooland racq uetball courts were ope n tobret hren in the af te rnoon . T hegrassy area behind the college gymnasium and the amphitheater wereused for a YOU chili picnic and asingles' steak cooko ut.
Be hind t he Wo rk . Mideast:Quest for Peace and the YoungAmbassadors Feast Cilm wereshown on two separate evening s inthe Ambassador Auditorium.
Senio r citizcns were honored at adinner in the studen t center. LarrySalyer.
RAPID CITY. S.D. - Morethan 2,700 brethren here enjoyedact ivit ies th at included a picnic ,square dance and two barbecues andWestern shows. Four bus loads ofseni or citizens toured Mt. Rushmore, C razy Horse Mountain andCu ste r S tate Park in the Black Hills:the YOU had a roller -ska ting party ,and a drug awareness semin ar , givenby Lee S tolley , director of security
The following article isrep rinted from the Nov. 10Ambassador Portfolio, the student-run newspaper of Ambassador College in Big Sa ndy . Th eaut hor is a sophomo re there .
ByGeorge HagueBIG SANDY - Over 70 stu
dents helped provide conce ssion service to visitors for the 1981 Feast ofTabernacles on the Big Sa ndy cam pus, acco rding to Gary Shaffer,administ rative assistant at Amb assador College (here].
Mr . Shaffer , who was respon siblefor sched uling work hou rs for thest udents and local bre thren whoworked on th e conce ssion s, waspleased with th e dedica tion that allworkers exhibited. Of the students,Mr. Shaffe r said , " Ma ny of themworked more hours than they weresched u led ." He added, "T heChurch brethren knocked themselves out also."
The ma n who was in charge of th e
(Con tinued fr om page 5)others expounded famil y roles fromadults to children and their relationto the coming government of Godworldwide.
Attitudes of service and coope ration were foremo st. as bret hren out d id themselves voluntee ring formoving chairs. clean ing upafterservices and serv ing ot hers. The teen agers helped by serving a senior cit izens ' lu nc heon . The famil yoriented theme carried over intoother act ivities. includ ing a Sabbathpicnic , a family dance and a speci alfamily day at a nearby amusementpark .
Despite initial transmissio n problems, Pastor General Her bert W.Arms trong's voice and image projected strongly on both Ho ly Days.and brethren were inspired to hearof his travel s to other United St atesFeast sites . Man y commented thatMr . Armstrong had " hit the nai l onthe head" with his open ing comments abo ut the Church beingunited through love.
Area merchants also commentedpositively on the C hurc h, with onejewelry store owner remarking thathe had not seen such well- ma nneredand well-behaved ch ild ren . Virtu ally all merchants were pleased thatth e Church was agai n utiliz ing thearea for the Feast of Tabernacles,and welcome signs were visible inmany windows . Frank Mc CradyJr .
NORFOLK. Va. - Seasonallywarm temperatures contributed tothe joy of 6,791 brethren who methere at the Norfolk Scope arena .The cooperation and respo nsivenessof brethren as well as of the localcomm unity were exceptional.
Many members commented onthe quality and content of PastorGeneral Herbert W. Arm st rong 'stwo live transmissions from Pasadena , sayi ng th ey made it the mostspiri tua l Feast ever .
Other speakers included evange lists Dean Wilson , Burk McNairand Herman Hoeh and min istersBill Cowa n, Ken Gie se, ArnoldHampton , Roy De ma rest , BobLeague and Charles Crai n.
A sellout crowd of 800 attendedthe adult dance, while more th an2,()(X)attended the family dance andmore tha n 3,000 saw the YoungAmbassadors Feast film, Behindthe Work and Mideast: Quest fo rPeace.
Senior citizens were honored at aluncheon and fellowshipped eachday in a hospitality room set aside
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YOUNG VOICES - Two Feastgoers add their voices to a song service althe Rabat. Malta, Feaat site . (Photo by Phil Stevens)
Pasadena students fuse
Feast fellowship, service
party with sing-along. The onlycomplaint was " too much food!"Winfried Frir_z_. __
CULLERA, Spain - Assembling under clear blue skies atSicania Hotel , 44 adults and 21 children were instructed about preparing to reign with Christ in His Kingdom.
Fernando Barriga exhortedFeastgoers about where we will rule ,being satisfied with sp iritualgrowth, the Work from the beginning of the world, tithing, learningto receive correction, witnessingand the meaning of the Feast. RegKillingley spoke about the worldtomorrow , the tree offife and beingjudged.
Many "expressed their appreciation for viewing Herbert W. Arm strong's opening message on filmand the Young Ambassadors film.Recreation included a family talentnight with a family film. a familydance, a three-mile hike to Culleracastle, a beach party and a lecture onnutrition by Guillermina Moren a, amember from Mexico.
A children's choir performedspecial music and Josefa Fernandezof Malaga was baptized. FernandoBarriga.
EASTBOURNE, England An international flavor characterized the Festival here, with morethan 10percentofthe685attendingcoming from Australia, Switzerland, Malaysia, the United Statesand others.
Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong's satellite transmission wasthe higb point of the Feast, creatinga feeling of togetherness with theCanadian and United States brethren viewing the same transmission.Other Feast messages included whyman cannot govern himself, andhow to respond to God'. calling, byregional director Frank Brown;Fred Kellers explained the meaningof the Last Greal Day and howdemocracy inhibits God's calling;John Meakin spoke on the sure hopeof God's Kingdom and God's Work ;Edward Smith traced the restoration of God's 'governmen t and theresurrection; David House spoke onthe Christian's total commitmentand rejoicing in trials; and DavidHulme exhorted brethren to walkthrough doors that God opens.
The mayor of Eastbourne welcomed the brethren in a shortaddress. and the Town Councilplayed host to a civic dance, wheremembers met the deputy mayor andhis wife.
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for men and women at Squaw Valley's Olympic Village Hotel. A~ut200 other Church members occu
' pied the lower floors of the hotel. Allgathered each morning for breakfast prepared and served bystudentsand hotel staff.
Mr . Chapman said he found thestudents to be "very cooperative,very willing to serve ." Studentssang in the chorale, worked in theEnvoy sales booth and ushered. Thestudents also served refreshmentsfor family night and some joinedChurch teens for a Youth Opportunities United (YOU) dinner partyand dance atop a mountain onSquaw Valley's aerial tram ride.After the Feast they helped takedown chairs at Blyth Arena.
Marvin Plakut, housing officer atthe Pasadena campus and coordinator of the trip here , said "being visible " was the greatest way theAmbassador students were able toserve . By their example and by theirwillingness to serve the brethrenthey contributed to the Feast's success.
By Sybia OweaSQUAW VALLEY, Calif.
Renewing a tradition, the PasadenaAmbassador College student bodytraveled and lodged together for theFeast of Tabernacles here. For the140 students. spending the Feasttogether meant not only fun and fellowship, but service to 6,CMlO brethren.
Festival coordinator Jim Chapman was glad to have the Ambassador College students. "They add adimension of youthfulness andenthusiasm:' he said. "People cansee the product of AC ."
Their trip began on charteredbuses with a 21h·day visit to Yosemite National Park Oct. 9. They thencontinued on to Squaw Valley ,arriving Oct. 12.
Students were accommodatedtwo to a room in separate building s
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and -wine tasting in the huntinglodge Zidlochovice, Spilberk castle,and other various wine cellars andmedieval restaurants.
On Thursday, Oct. 15, mostFeastgoers traveled to Vienna, Austria, for morning services and a tourof the city, acclaimed as one of themost beautiful in the world.
Principal speakers during theFeast included German regionaldirector Frank Schnee, John Karlson, Winfried Fritz. Tom Lapackaand Rod Matthews, director of theWork's International Division inPasadena Pastor General HerbertW. Armstrong's opening messagewas shown on film, and his firstHoly Day satellite transmission wasviewed later in tbe Feast.
Overall weather conditions allowed Feastgoers to travel to underground caverns where they heard aFrench horn concert. Other activities included a formal dance withlocals performing Moravian dances,a folklore evening and a farewell
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EUROPEBRNO, Czechoslovakia - As
sembling from around the world inthis lone Feast site behind the IronCurtain. about 250 brethren tookpart in activities that included achampagne get-together and dinner
It snowed on the Last Great Day,but fair weather prevailed duringthe middle of the Feast. Activitiesincluded aseniorcitizens'lunchcon,singles' activities and children'ssocial. Other activities included afamily dinner-dance. a ministerialluncheon , bowling and a roller-skating party. _
Roy Page delivered a sermon onthe physical body as a temporarydwelling place; Owen Murphytalked about bearing fruit; DougJohnson contrasted today's andtomorrow's worlds; George Patrickson explained how to be humbleand build character; Colin Adair,regional director of God's Work inCanada, listed man's problems andGod's solutions. Other sermonswere delivered by Dennis Lawrence. Maurice Yurkiw and Richard Wilding. An atmosphere ofsober awareness with rejoicing pervaded the Feast. S. Doug/as Johnson.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. Qualifying now for the Kingdom ofGod was the theme here where3 000 brethren attended services atthe Niaga.. Fall' Convention Center . The site is administered by theCanadian Office.
Evangelist Burk McNair spokeon the Millennium and the meaningof the Last Great Day; RichardWilding spoke on building theworld tomorrow ;George Patricle.sonspoke on David's example of rulership; and regional director ColinAdair showed that God will solveproblems in the world tomorrow.Cecil Maranville instructed brethren on how to be faithful in the littlethings; Terry Johnson spoke on thebattle for restoration of the Kingdom ; Tony Wasille.off told how togive children a great Feast; andRichard Pinelli explained that Godappreciates our efforts .
The Feast was characterized bythe togetherness and love of thebrethren toward each other. Thecombination of fine sermons. goodorganization and exciting activitiescontributed to the great success ofthe entire Festival here. RichardPinelli .
PENTICTON, B.C. - Briskautumn air welcomed more than2,000 brethren to the OkanaganValley, a major fruit-growingregion amid the Rocky Mountainshere in southwestern Canada.
The impact of sermons picturingthe peace and happiness that flowfrom obeying God 's law and government was clearly evidenced by thecooperation and serving attitudeamong the brethren throughout theFeast.
Activities included a squaredance and barbecue for YOU members and their parents, and a children 's movie and swim party. During the senior citizens' banquet. anaward was presented to Mr . andMrs. Gilbert Murphy. who have 42grandchildren.
The Last Great Day was a highpoint of the Feast with Herbert W.Armstrong's inspiring sermon bymicrowave and an exhortation byColin Adair. regional director of theWork in Canada" to hold fast to ourcrown during the trying daysahead.
Other speakers were George Patrtckson. Richard Pinelli, RainerSalomaa, Bill Rabey. Chuck Ranchie and Glen Weber . Charles E.Bryce.
REGINA,Sask. - The power ofHerbert W. Armstrong's satellitemessages brought favorable cornments from more than 1,700 brethren assembled at the SaskatchewanCentre of the Arts here . The leader-Post , a Regina newspaper. ran anews release about the Festival , butleft out the name of the Festival andthe fact that Jesus Christ observed itin the New Testament.
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gelist Dean Blackwell showed thatGod's Holy Days are ordained forever and spoke on Middle Eastprophecies; Will Wooster explainedhow God is building a spiritualTemple; Neil Earle talked about theend-time signs; regional directorColin Adair detailed man's problems and God's solutions; and DougSmith asked if brethren were prepared to be in the first resurrection.
Members watched a ministerialhroombaJl game, while other family-oriented activities included aformal dance, a barbecue. horseback riding, a sing-along and a talentshow . Mr . Adair was host to a ministerial luncheon. Neil Earle .
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E .1.- Six hundred fifty-two brethrenlistened to sermons about the worldtomorrow and preparing for God'sKingdom . Sermons in the Confederation Centre were delivered byregional director Colin Adair, whoexplained how seven threats to manwill be handled by Christ;evangelistHerman Hoeh , who talked aboutEgypt in prophecy; Jack Kost, onhow the Millennium will grow as agrain of mustard seed and how theChurch is being made ready; DaveSheridan, on agriculture in theworld tomorrow; and Phil Shields,on being a sojourner.
With activities focusing on thefamily, entertainment ranged froma family dance, family bowling andfamily night to ministerial luncheons, a senior citizens' social and aprofessional ballet by Les GrandsCanadiens.
Temperatures in the 50s withplenty of sunshine encouragedbrethren to show exceptional love,warmth and friendliness . JackKost.
HULL, Que. - About gOOFeastgoers, basking in sunny weather , observed a Feast centering on thefamily, with sermons by evangelistDibar Apartian, on repentance andfaithfulness, Bob Soott, on peaceand Donat Picard, on fatherhood inthe human and divine families.Brethren enjoyed excellent reception of Herbert W. Armstrong'smicrowave messages on the HolyDays.
Most Feastgoers ate one meal aday together, promoting an atmosphere of togetherness and concord.A professional violinist entertainedat a senior citizens' social , and YOUmembers spent a special afternoonwith their parents, taking them to arestaurant and viewing slides of pastYOU events . Brethren enjoyed aconcert and dance .
The management of the hall wasimpressed with the good behavior ofthe children. Donat Picard .
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the Festival. with a beach barbe cue.scenic hikes , two dances and sever alYO U acti vitie s. Mr . Brown had aministerial luncheon du ring his visitto the site, and the ministers alsoenjoyed after-se rvices luncheonsnearl y every day . David House.
G A LWAY . Ireland - Fivehundred brethren attended the198 J Feast at Leisurela nd SalthillHall here . A balanced list of socialactivities included a medieval banq uet , a barn danc e, Ir ish cabaretgroups, wate r-skiing and tours.
Center ing around a theme ofconcern Carothers and personal growth.Paul Suc kling spoke on th e salt ofthe earth; Mark Ellis , on fathers inthe home ; David Hu lme , on involvement in the Work; and Francis Berg in, on mode ration and balance.
He rbert W . Armstrong 's HolyDay messages and a wide variety ofsermons given by visiti ng min istersbrought warm comments from allthe brethren who kept the Feast onIreland's west coast. Mark Ellis.
K RO K KLE IVA. Norway Aft er att ending morn ing services inSundvolden Hotel , many of th e 173brethren keeping the 1981 Feasthere enjoyed spectacular Scandinavian scenery on bus trips to mountai n villages and Oslo , the capital ofNorway.
Norwegian folk dancing, familydances, a singles ' lunch, a womens'social hour, films, achildren's party,tennis and chess tournamentsrounded out activities. Some member s volunteered to be lifeguards inthe hotel's indoor swimming pool,and others provided a car pool forthose without cars . A blind memberfrom the United States was mas terof ceremonies for the entertainmentsegments of two dances.
Learning Ch ristian characterist ics necessary to reach the King dom, Feastgoers heard sermons byPeter Shenton on this evil age, theSabbath and God 's plan of salvation;Francis Bergin, on the Christianrac e; Christian .Z er m c how, onGod 's view of this present evil age;David Rose, on the seven churchesof God and godl y faith ; and TonySadler, on traits of a Christian.Peter Shenton.
PRAZ-SUR-ARLY, France T he 1981 Feast of Tabernaclesma rked the 11th time Fre nc hspeak ing brethren in Europe gath ered here to observe God 's Fest ival.
T he majesti c French Alps wasthe sett ing for 800 brethren, including members from Africa. the WestIndies, Ca nada and the UnitedStates. Evangelist Dibar Apartian,regional director for God's Work inFrench-speaking areas, conductedservices for the first three days ofthe Feast before leaving for th e Festival site in Hull, Que . Festival sermons covered family relat ions , theprinciples of " give" and " get", andthe Millenium.
Festival activities included a talent show, a reception honoringsenior citizens, youth outings andorganized hikes .
Exceptional unity in the brethrenwas exp resesed through generousofferings up 54 percent. Sam Kneller.
PRESTATYN, Wales -Developing a sense of urgency in preparing for God 's Kingdom was thetheme for 1,659 brethren meetinghere at Pontin'sTower Beacon Holiday Village .
Both stormy and bright autumnweather were experienced by members . Herbert W . Armst rong's satellite transmission was counted theapex of the Feast , as members feltthey were part of the AmbassadorAuditorium services. Other Festivalsermons were given by regionaldirector Frank Brown, fred Kel M
lers , David Hulme, Paul Suckling,Colin Wilkins, Alan Brooks, Ber-
nard Dowson. David Sil cox andRobert Har rison .
T he Young Ambassadors Festival film was well received , as a norm all y re served Briti sh c row dclapped and cheered throughout.The oth er headquarter s-prod ucedfilms: Mideast: Quest fo r Peace (aWorld Tom orro w tele cast) andBehind the Work were enthusiastically acclaimed.
A talent show showcased thebrethren 's mu sical abilities , andseveral danc es helped members fellowship. A medie val-style banquetat a castl e and a visit to Anfield ,Liverpool's soccer stadium , wereenjoyed by breth ren . Several otheryouth acti vities helped God's youngpeop le profit from and enjoy theFestival.
Mr . Brown said that love and concern exhibited by members for eachother were greater than he couldrecall in earlier years . Robert J.Harris on .
RABAT, Malt a - One hundrednine ty-seven E ng l is h, Greek ,Am erican, Sici lian and Maltesebrethren assembled on thi s Medi terranean island , about the size ofth e state of New Mexico, for eightdays of preparing for the world
tomorrow. With temperatures inth e 80s (Fahrenheit) Feastgoersenjoyed beach games on Golden BayBeach, a day trip to Gozo Island anda guided tour of Malta.
Sermons about patriotism weregiven by John Shotcliff; what theFest ival means , by David Stirk;Church eras , Robin Jones; government in the family, Richard Whiting; and prayer, Robert Devine.
Brethren watched a videotape ofHe rbert W. Armstrong's first satellite message and the Young Ambassadors film. The first Feast in Maltain this era of the Church allowedMaltese and Sicilian members tomeet with a larger group, some forthe first time. David M . Stirk.
TORQUAY. England - A videot ape of Herbert W . Armstrong'ssatellite address set the pace for sermons about the meaning of theFeast , by John A. Jewell; responsi bilities in the fami ly, by David Bedford ; democracy and the worldtomorrow, by Fred Kellers : nohuman solutions to world troubles,by regional director Frank Brown;and experiences in the Wo rk, byDavid Hulme. Barry Bourne spokeon God 's mercy and the physicallyand spiri tually disabled.
Even auditorium personnel atthis southwest England site wereimpressed with Behind the Workand the Young Ambassadors film.Some asked for sound tracks. During the first four days of the Feastmore than 1,000 newsstand PlainTruths were taken by passersby outside the T own Hall Auditorium.
Six hundred brethren enjoyedsquare, formal and barn dancing,Bible lectu res , ice-skating andbowlin g. A civic reception was given
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by the depu ty mayor and mayoressof Torqu ay for some of the ministers. A singles' lunch, senior citi zens' teas and a children's partyrounded out a fun-fill ed Feas t. JohnA. Jewel/.
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tiu s - Si xty-three br e threnatt end ed Festival services at th eBlack River Bay Hot el C lub on thesouthwest side of this Indian Oceanisland . Feas tgoers were blessed withfine weather d uring th e entireFeast , cont ributing to its success.
Mini ster Sydney Hull 's sermonsincluded the meaning of the Feast ,our calli ng being the gre atest mir acle in life and the world tomo rrow .Taped services included the importance of pray er , by Terry Browning,spiritual survival. by southern Africa regional di rector Roy McCarthyand a taped Bible study by PeterHawkins .
Membe rs vie wed the 1980Young Ambassadors Feast film andPastor General Herbert W . Armstrong's telecast , Mideast: Questfor Peace.
The senior ci tizens and singlemembers got better acqu ainte d at
lunc heons for each group. Otherevents were deep-sea fishing, a slideshow about the island and a soccermatch between members and thehote l staff, which ended 7MO, in favorof the hotel staff . Yyes Nayna.
CAPE MACLEAR. Mal awi Some 84 brethren basked in 80 M
degree (Fahrenheit) heat in th issouthern Af rican country for eightdays of refr eshing sermons by OwenWillis and Anthony Goudie and sermonettes byGilton C hakhaza. Theyspoke on such subjec ts as the placeof safe ty , Satan as a roaring lion,ma rriage, meaning of the Feast,prayer. God 's temple, life as a spiritbeing and loyalty .
Films of Herbert W . Armstrongrounded out act ivities that includeda talent show, boat trips , Bible qu iz,beach parties and slide shows aboutIsrae l and the Auditorium.
T hree Tanzanian members endured a three-day lake voyage, busjourney and 19Mmi le walk to attendthe Feast. After keeping the Feastfor only four days the past fiveyears,1981 marked the first Feast in Malawi that lasted for the entire eightdays. Owen Willis .
GEORGE, South Africa - TheCity Hall in George was the sitewhere 410 brethren attended services du ring the Feast . Two days oftorrential rain interrupted otherwise sunny weather. Unity of'theC hurch and how we must qualify forGod's Kingdom were the themes.
Visiting evangelist NormanSmit h spoke on family and marriagerelationsh ips and God 's governmentnow and in the Kingd om . A dinnerwith Mr . Smith and his wife C har-
len e and regio na l d irector RoyMcCarthy and his wife T ine tookplace at th e Swiss C halet restau rantfor all ministers and wives.
Se rmon speakers included Dr .McCarthy, director of the Work inSou th Afr ica, Mr . Sm ith , JohnWhite and Piet er Van Der Byl.
Ac t ivities included a familysocial . the You ng Ambassadors filmand a banquet in honor of senior citizens. Ra in canceled a YO U pleasurecruise. but 100 teens braved theweather to participate in an afternoon of games on the beach .
God intervened and saved a mem ber's thatched-roof house from fireas the house next door burned to th eground. Firemen were concernedabout wind conditions, but not eventhe scent ofsmoke was evident in themember's home afterward. JohnWhite .
KANO, N igeria - Two hundredfort y brethren overcam e environment al and economic problems tomee t together in peace and safe tyfor God's Feast of Tabernacles atth e Bagaud a Lake Hote l here .
Despite elect rical power failureduring nearly every serv ice and thedang er of being bitten by poisonoussnakes. brethren maintained acheerful a nd posit ive attitudethr ough God's Holy Spirit. Candlelit serv ices became the norm , asJohn Halford, Lateef Edalere andElijah C huk wudi delivered serm onson God's government, developin g aservice attitude and the basic doctrines of God 's Church.
The group also enjoyed a talentshow featuring native Afr ican songsand dance, athletic games and afam ily dance .
Nigerian members face manyhardships unknown to Westernbrethren, and the opportunity tomeet together in peace as God 'speople was considered a specialblessing from God . LateefA . Bdaiere.
KUMASI. Ghana - Sunnyweather with temperatures nearingtOOdegrees Fahrenheit and 97t099percent humidity didn 't d issuade220 brethren here from having ahappy and inspiring Feast of Tabernacles .
Pastor Melvin Rhodes and min isterial trainee Steve LaBlanc shapeda theme of encouragement and looking forwar d to God 's Kingdom.Bre thren here face innumerableproblems from economic sourcesa nd ar ea customs . The Feastmarked th e first time a native ofGhana gave a sermcn, with SolomonAyitey delivering the first half of asplit sermon.
Brethren enjoyed the YoungAmbassadors Fest ival film , andespec ially appreciated the messagefor the Ghanains in the Fante language during the film.
Part of the roof of the hall cameoffduring astcrm, leaving the facil ity without any electricity for theremainder of the Festival .
A children's sports afternoon, afamily barbecue and friendly socce rmatches helped provide a happy ,festive atmosphere for the Festival.Melv in Rhodes .
NARO MORU, Kenya - Set ting a new att endence record here,92 brethren dwelt together in a spirit of cooperation to learn how toqualify for God 's Family. Pleasantlycool days for this country so close tothe equator allowed Feastgoers toplay sports, attend an ar ts-and-craftexhibition and take part in child ren 's games . Other activities werea talent show, Bible quiz, marriagesem inar and slide shows .
George Henderson spoke aboutthe meaning of the Feas t, the royalwedd ing to C hrist, redeeming thetime and the Millennium . OwenWilli's exho rted brethren aboutmarriage, the family, the place ofsafety, Satan as a roaring lion ,studying the Bible and the LastGreat Day. The film of Herbert W .Armstrong's message on the LastGre at Day last year was shown toFeastgoers as was th e 1980 YoungAmbassadors film.
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Two Ugandan members, EtdadOpic and William Othieno, werewelcom e visitors . Owen Will is.
SO N ESTA. South Af rica Two hundred thirty-six brethrenconvened at So nesta Holiday Resortto hear re gi onal director RoyMcCarth y's sermons on appreciation vs. ingratitude, longsufferi ngand qualifying for the Kingdom.Visiting evangelis t Norma n Sm ithspoke about family relat ionshi psand renew ing th e mind . Oth er sermons were given by Rober t W hitaker and O .A. Visagie .
Ligh t rain at night with pleasantdays in Afri ca's southern tip allowedFeastgoers to enjoy can oeing, ayouth act ivities afternoo n and barbecue . Mideast : Quest f or Peaceand th e Young Ambassadors filmaccented activit ies th at included afancy dress ball , a senio r cit izen 'seven ing, a talent con tes t and twominist erial dinners. Some visitingmembers were served a mou nta instew luncheon.
Feastg oers seemed to sense theurgency to get th e Wor k done . Onthe Last Great Day emotions ranhigh as brethren said goodbye. Robert W. Whitaker.
U MG ABA BA. Sou th Afri ca A trul y festive spirit char acter izedthe Feast here at th e Um gaba baTheat re in the Umgababa HolidayRe sor t, where 33 5 bret hr enattended .
Sermons pointi ng to the Mille nnium and how to qu alify for it weregiven by ministers Daniel Botha ,region al director Roy McC arth y,Andre van Belkum , Bryan Math ieand John Bartholomew. Brethrentr aveled to Durban, South Afri ca,on the first day to hear visiting evangelist Norman Smith speak on living the way of love daily in order toqualify as future rulers. Pastor Ge neral Herbert W . Armstrong's opening -night message admonishedFeastgoers to show love . An dindeed , throughout the Feast brethren expressed coope ration, warm thand outgoing concern.
Youths and singles went out ofthei r way to put into practice thearticle written for sing les in theFeast edition of The Good Ne ws. A
.social welcomed those first atte nding the Feast , while other acti vitiesincluded a YO U and a sing les'social , a senior citizens' evening, afun show for children and a talentshow . On fami ly day brethre nenjoyed a barbecued st eer .
Petros Manz ingan a. an Ambassador College graduate, became thefirst black man in South Af rica to beordained a local elder . An elderl ywoman suffered a heart attac k, wasanointed, and recovered sufficientlyto attend services th e next day .Bryan Mathie and John F. Bartholomew
VICTORIA FALLS, Zimhabwe- Personal growth and love to fellow bre thren in preparation for rulershipwas the theme of the Feast formembers attending services at theVictori a Falls Club here .
Minister Adriaan Botha spoke onfaithfulness, the fear of God and theways of God vs. the ways of man.Being a profitable servant. light,truth and diligence were the topicsof minister Ron Stoddart's sermon s.Visiting evangeli st Norman Sm ithinstructed brethren on how to servewith love, and renewing th e mind.
Members viewed Mideast: Questfor Peace (a World Tomorrow tel ecast ) , the Young Ambassad or sFeast film and Behind the Work.
Activities included a tale nt showand visits to a crocodile farm and acraft village .
The Salisbury , Z im babwe,church presented a play, " At Midnight a Cry ."
Two people were bapt ized duringthe 1981 Feas t, which mar ked thefirst contact between Zimbabweanand Zambi an brethren. R on S toddart .
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Brethren dedicate time, energyto reconstruct Festival building
BEFORE AND AFTER - Members e xit the repaired Churc h building inMount Pocono, Pa .. a fte r 1981 Feast service s , top photo. Abov e , thebuilding following the J anu ary, 1978 , storm. [Top ph oto by Michael Snyder]
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Building improvements
In addit ion to new paim and roofreinfor cement s, Mr. A rm str on gdirected th at heaters be insta lled .Also added were inside women'srest rooms, replac ing th e outsidefacilities, which were conver ted intomen' s restr ooms.
Th e IOO·foot rear space wherethe dam aged sect ion of the bu ildingstood was converted into handi capped parking, Mr. LaR aviaadded.
Part icipating ch urches were :Bet hlehem , Phi ladel phia, Pittsbu rgh East a nd W est , MountPocono. Belle Vernon and Harri sburg, Pa.. C larksbu rg and W heeling, W.Va., Binghamton, BrooklynQ ueens . Man hatten , Long Islandand Corning, N .Y.• Hammonton.N .J . , Wi lming ton, De l. , a ndYoung stown, Oh io.
allow for bette r water dr ainage. Anew stage was built with a whitebackdrop for use in Mr . Armstro ng's microwave tr ansmissions.
Dale Bailey. assistant to Mr.LaR avia for the Poconos project.commented, " It was fant astic to beable to work with people whosehearts were in the Work , who traveled so far, worked hard. with suchgood attit udes ."
TR IN ITE , Martin ique - Thi swindward island site was host to 294brethren who were instructed aboutGod 's plan of salvation in sermonsgiven by G ilbert Car bonnel, AllainFontain e, Alex Mart ial and Cha rlesVoyer .
With tem peratures ofte n in the80s Fahr enh eit . brethren par ticipated in a party for senior cit izens.had a game afternoon for childrenand saw a youth show. For the firsttim e ever , Feastgoers here viewedone of Herbe rt W . Armstrong'ste lec ast s : Mlde ast: Quest fo rPeace.
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The two ministers. Erick Duboisand Jacques Brunet. delivered messages on the Millennium, heali ng,prophecy and tithing. Mr . Arm strong's filmed sermon and a WorldTomorrow telecast about one of hisMideast trips were high points .
A Feast show included traditionalda nce s of G ua deloupe , comedyskits , clowns and folk music . Youn gpeople also saw a puppet show .
An excu rsion took us to an activevolcano - Sou friere - the highestpeak in Guade loupe.
Har mony and fellowship keynoted t he br e t h re n's attitudethro ugho ut the Feas t. ErickDubois .
Susa n Ca rto n graduatedf rom Ambassador College inPasadena in 1977 .
SA INT-FRANCOIS. Guadeloupe - Warmth and hospitalitydrew 125 brethren togeth er on thissunny tropical isle in the FrenchWest Ind ies. First -time Americana nd Canad ian t ran sfe rs werede lighted by the warmt h of thebrethren and the beauty of the country.
RUNAWAY BAY. Jamaica St ressing a sense of urgency to prepare for Ch rist's return. sermons byStan McNeil, Kingsley O . Mather,Joh n Eg bert, De l H ol ste a ndCharles Fleming out lined God'splan. exp lained God's love, detailedC hurc h govern me nt, expo unde drules for ove rcom ing , d iscussedmeditation and encouraged bret hren to appreciate God 's power .
Assembling in the plantationroom of Runaway Bay Hotel , manyof the 267 brethren enjoyed a familyfun show and a singles' mingl e.YOU members took part in a picnic .Feastgoers displayed broth erl y lovean d fell owship throu gh out theeight -day Feast. Kingsley O. Mather.
Mor el, 7 1. was a sad note but astrong and positive example for all.Brethren were comfo rted that shewill not have to suffer the comingtr ials and tribulations of this life .Larry Hinkl e.
to rebuild the structure appeared inthe Dec . 22 , 1980 , WorldwideNews. hundreds of brethren volunteered to help restore the building.
Following thesnow.coldweatherand spring rains , members workedvir tually every Sunday on the building beginning in May, camping onthe grou nds . Th e ai r was filled withthe sounds of ham mering . grindingand sawing while as ma ny as 120brethren cleared deb ris, set concrete forms, tied stee l rods for thenew concrete rea r foundation andwide ned the access roads . Othermembers painted rust spots, preparing the building for repainting .
The ground s were regraded to
noon activi ties ended with the build ing of an evening campfi re . Thegroup ate d inner to the sound ofcr ackli ng timber from the blaze ,and later discussed the day's activi -
By Susa n Carion ties in the glow of the em bers.S IVR Y, Belgium - Learning to T his nightly d iscussion allowed
serve. tra mping in th e woods and reflec tion on the day's accomplish-learning more abo ut God th rough me nts, camper att itudes and prog-
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book of Prove rbs were afl part of a among staff and other campers.two-week S ummer Ed ucational Awards were presented to campersProgram sponsored by the Chu rch for nea tness, best service attitude,here July 16 to 30. sportsmanship and politeness.
F ifteen children from the After the awards , the camperschurches in Brussel s. Belgium. and sang "Sivry 81," a song written forNancy , France, pitc hed their tents the group by a couple in the Brussel shere in southern Belgium . The day's church.act ivities began with morning exer- T he boys spent one night in thecises, followed by a breakfast and forest. All were awakened at mid-cam p cho res. Afte rnoons the group night, gathered thei r sleeping bagsenjoyed games in the adjacen t sta te- and flashl igh ts, and followed a staffowned forest , where cha riot and member deep into the forest. T heobstacle race s took place. Each child rem ainder of the night was spenthad to const ruct his or her chariot attem pting to fall asleep midst thefrom availab le branches and stri ng. buzzing, chir ping and groaning of
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before) rang with 4,500 voices si nging the opening hymn at the Feastthe evening of Oct . 12.
A story of serv ice made thatopening possible , said Mr. Lakavia,
Massive service opport unity
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RI N CON. Puer to Rico - Nestled in a tropical sett ing, 150 breth ren gat hered at the Hotel VillaCo fres i for uplift ing sermons byevangelist Loon Walker . d irector oft he Wo rk in Spanish-speakingareas . Pablo Gonz alez and LarryHinkle, an informal social, singles'dance . formal dance, tale nt show,beac h party and children's part y.Brethren came Ircm New York ,Geo rgia, Ca lifornia. Colomb ia andVenezuel a.
Sermon topics incl uded theimportance of the family , God 's lawand governm ent , the example ofDavid . the Mill ennium a nd themea ning of the Festivals. Puer toRica n membe rs were tha nkful thatfor the first time the Feas t was con ducted in the Spa nish langu age.He rbert W . Ar mst rong's first HolyDay message was also t ranslatedinto Spani sh .
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The 504 br thren her r. bad a picnic __on B31mor 'sland:a1ormaldin nerdance , a fun show featuring Caribbean culture. th ree luncheons, aYOU beach party, a ch ildren's luncheon and a " must go" final meal.
Sermons included the meaning ofGod's Feasts, how to have a goodFeast, being part of God 's elect .goi ng first class , God 's power, fasting, the Millennium, an address toYOU me mbers and discourageme nt. Speakers included Jo hnElliott. Kingsley O. Math er , MikeG reide r, C ha rl es Flem ing an dRoland Sa mpso n.
Feastgoers watc hed Mid east:Quest fo r Peace. a World Tomorrow tel ecast abo ut one of Herber tW . Armst rong' s Mideast t rips. andslide prese nta tions on the Bahamas.Breth ren in the Nassau chu rchworked hard to provide an enjoyableand well-run Feast for all. Whentwo members were robbed of moneyand valuab les, a Bahamian woman(nonmembe r) aided the pair by providing them transportation aroundth e island and also inviti ng them toher home for din ner . Kingsley O.Ma ther.
sented to Pasto r Ge nera l HerbertW. Armstro ng for his decisio n inDecember, 1980.
Af ter reviewing the report thepastor gene ral dir ec ted that thebuilding be repai red for the 198 1Feast, with ce rta in st ruct ure modifications. Less th an a year later, thehall (now one -t hird smaller than
MOR N E, St. Lucia - Atop amounta in overlooki ng downtownCast r ies , 160 brethren from I Inat ions asse mbled at West Ind iesUniversi ty Center for th e 1981Feast. Sermons concer ning the pu rpose of the Feast , Goo 's government , what the Millennium will belike and the family were given byregional director Stan Bass, Ger aldWitte and Edward St raughan.
When th ree women from Trinidad had thei r mone y and valuablesstolen from their room, the hotelmanager gave them free lodging .Brethren donated almost enoughmoney to replace the stolen money.Stan Bass .
NASSAU, Bah am as - Sk indiving. a stee l band and limbo da ncecontest were th e orde r for a boatcruise to Robinson Cru soe Island.
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Whi le television stations filmedportions of the 198 1 Festival here,approximately 450 brethren listened to sermons by Roland Sampson, Geral d Weston. David Met zel,Randi Bloom. George Hatch, Gerald Backhusand David Mo lnar .
A specia l Bermuda night featured the Ca ribbea n island' s cultureand customs with local brethren act ing out skits . Feastgoe rs went on aboat cruise to St . Geo rge 's , the firstcap ita l of Bermuda. A semi forma ld inner and danc e took place atSo uthampt on Prin cess Hotel, thefinest on the island.
To mot ivate br ethren to ge tacq uainted , Feastgoc rs were givenname tags at rando m and each had tofind his or her own tag before th eend of the Feast.
Local breth ren invited many ofthe visi ting bre thren into theirhomes for fellows hip and food .YOU members enjoyed a barbec ueon W hites Island. and childrenund er 12 took a bus tou r of Bermuda . Special even ts were a piano andsinging recital by Dr. and Mrs . Donald Patterson and a violin solo bydeaco n John Stovell. Ro land D.Sampson.
CA YES . Haiti - Thirty-sevenbret hren here heard messages byCyr ille Richard, who spoke abo utGod bei ng no respec ter of perso ns;Haitian elder Lionel Est invil. onbu i ld in g c ha rac t e r a nd Go d 'sfor mul a for a good Feast; Joh nPierr e, on always being happ y; andtapes by evange list Diba r Apartia n,on Goo's Kingdom and never beingalone . A lett er by Pasto r GeneralHe rber t W . Armst rong concern inganswered prayer was read to Feastgoers .
High lights of the Feast on thistro pical island were films fromAm bassado r College, slide shows byMr . Richa rd and Lucienne Charlesand plays in which mem bers actedout biblical characters. Ot her eventsincluded a Macaya Beach outi ng, aFestiva l ball and a question-andanswe r session .
Mr. Richard contracted ccnjunctivit is, an eye virus prevalent in theCaribbean area. Usually last ing fiveto 10 days, the virus d isappea red inonly two days af ter Mr . Richard wasanointed. Lionel Estinvil.
CHR IST CHURCH. Barbados- Meas uri ng only 20 miles (33kilometers) from tip to tip , this popula r Caribbean isle was host to 500brethren from England, Canada.the United St ates, Tr inidad , Antigua . Dom inica and Barbad os foreight days of generally good weath er and dynamic sermons. GeraldWitte, Dave Havir and regionaldirecto r Stan Bass exho rted Feast goers abo ut God 's government . thefamily, Laodiceans, Church histo ry,recapturing true values and themeaning of the Feas t.
Th e Dover Con vent ion Ce nter,beside the blue Ca ribbean. cont ributed muc h to uplift ing spirits . S tanBas.c.
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By Michae l Snyderand Tom Han son
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. - Inthe predawn hours of Jan. 28, 1978.snow bega n to fall quietly again onthe rolling hills surrou nding theboro ugh here . This was no ordinarysnowfall. however . A record blizzard gripped much of the Easternand Midwestern United States thatday, dumping several inches of newsnow on previously accumulatedsnow and ice.
As wave after wave of snow fell ,support ing beam s in the Ch urch owned Festival bui lding here bega nto groan and creak unde r the weigh t .Suddenly. the rea r thi rd of th ebuilding collapsed. Ch urch memberJack Patterson, a Fest ival assis tantto Ellis Lag .avla, the Work 's facilities ma nage r, thoug ht it was anexplosion.
Afte r the sto rm, C hurc h officialsins pected the da mage. Twistedmeta l and sca rred beams lay in confusion at the bui lding 's rear. Theydecided it was unfeasible at the timeto repair the extensive damage andmoved the Festival site to a rentedhall in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., andlater to Glens Falls, N .Y.
For three years the lar ge buildingrusted and generally dete riorated.said Mr. LaRavia . The wreckagewas cl eared away, leav in g t heremain ing two-t hirds exposed to th eelem ents .
The dam aged buildi ng was neithe r sa lable nor of use to th eC hurch, continued Mr . LaR avia. Areport outl ining the possible avenues ope n to the C hu rch was pre-
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CAMP FIRE - Kalamazoo and Coldwater, Mich .• youngsters (from left :Jenny Shelby, Stacy Jones, Shawn Bontragger and David Williams) roastlood over an open fire at a church camp-out in Mesick, Mich ., Sept. 4to 7 .(See " C h urc h Activities," this page.) [Photo by George E. Buchanan}
Monday, Nov. 16 , 1981
The Over 50 Club of the KANSASCIT Y, Mo., EAST chur ch had a special
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Harrison and secretary Bob Garn ett wei·corned me mbers and guests . T he ladiesrece ived pink-carn ation corsages . Special guests were regional dir ector PeterNath an and his wife. Minister Karl Karlov asked Mr . Nath an to be the director.S upper was served afte r a topics sessionled by Mr .Garn ett .Speeches were givenby Art v erscb oor , who won the MostEffective Speec h award; Bill Dulf y; Mr .Harri son ; and Eric Best, who won theMost Impr oved S peaker award . Gr aemeWh ite won the Most Helpful Evaluat ionaward . Mr . Nathan spoke on the importan ce of club to help leaders acquirevision and knowledge and to learn tomotivat e people. He encourag ed themembers to use their skills for th e honorand glory of God . President LindsayCodd closed the meeting. Bob Garnett.
The last mee ting of th e summer forth e C LARKS BU RG. W.Va., LadyAmbassa dors Cl ub took place Sep t. 13.The dinner was a men 's night with atheme on wines. Speec hes were given byEmm a Lou Marsh, Edith T rout andLynn Lewis . Win e tasting followed thespeeches. Edith McCloud gave an icebreaker , and then a drawing for doorprizes took place . Kawanna Catn.
CAMP-oUT - Youths of the Maidstone and C roydon . England. c h urc hespause du ring tne annual church camp-out Aug . 28 to 31 on a farm insoutheastern England. (See " C h urc h Activities."this peae.} [Photo by A.Palay)
lowing the dinner at linden Hall Res- Th e first meetin g of the ncw scason oftaurant , President Linda Benzie con- th e FLORENCE, S .C.• Spo kes mandu cted the business meet ing. Sh e im ro- Club was Sep t . 12. S peeches were givenduced lois Bercosky, cohostess for the by Paul C hristmas, Mich ael W. Hewellevening, who conducted the tab letopics and Gerald M. Shephard. Th e toestrnas -session. " Preparat ion for the Feast" was ter was Ronn ie A. Mooney . Director andthe subject int rod uced by hostess pastor Paul Kieffer pre viousl y an-Dolores Petty . The speakers were Betty nouncedtheofficers: John Z. King, pres-Estle, Debbie Lamm and Laura St airs. iden t; Michael W. Hewell, secretary;For the nest few months club members and Wi nston B. Davis, sergean t at arms .will be preparing a cookbook on natural ChQ.rI~s B. Edwards .foods to be publi shed next spring. C hair- The HO USTON. Tex ., F..ASf Ladies 'man for the project is Jeanne Patt 9n._ Club had its first mee ting of the yearHaz~l Worch. - SCpCT5l11iheoome o( Nelda Pierce . A
The rnRISTrnURCH. New Zea- potluck luncheon was served , and Ma rgeland , Spok esman Club had a lad ies' Se tser gave a book review of My Darlingnight Sept . 2 at the Regal Room of the Ctemen ttne, th e story of Win sto nC larendon Hotel. Sergeant at arms Alec C hurchill's wife. Barbara Morris.
Membe rs o f the LENOIR andBOONE. N .C .• Ladies' C lub enjoyed abuffet break fast Sep t. 20 at the HolidayInn in lenoir . C lub officers are SarahKirkpatric, president; Marilyn Britt ian,secretary; Mary Canwell, lr easurer; andMarth a Fox, hostess . Pastor Ken Smyl ieope ned the meeting by going over thegoa ls of the club. Vocal exercises wereled by Nancy Deal. Topi cs were given byLinda Smith . Mr . Smylie gave a lectur eon " How to Make People Like You ."Ula Cani~.
Th e ladies of the Manasota Women 'sClub of ST . PETERSBURG. Fla.• metat the home of J anet Bell Sep t . 15. Theed ucation committee prepared the progra m for the evening. After a brief history of England, Janet Bell took the dubon an arm-chair tour thr ough England,showing slides of the count ry. Englishtea and scones with butter and ja m wereserved . Helen Walworth ,
The first ladies ' nigh t of the WI N·CHFSTER. Va., Spo kesman Club wasSe pt. 13 in a private dini ng room of theEdin burg Mills Res taurant in Edinburg.Va. James Lipscomb was topicsmaster.Toas tmast er Dan Dawson introducedthe speake rs: Willi am Dixon. DennisS tick ley. St ewar t Dawson, Fred Weidman and William Sa wyer, and their evaluator s. Most Helpful Evaluat ion awardwent to Ea rl Willi ams, while S tewar tDawson received the trophy for MostImproved Spea ker . Ove ral l evaluat ionwas given by aguest di rector, pastor W illiam Pack. Officers for the comi ng yearwere annou nced: Dan iel Dawson, president ; Denn is St ickley, vice president;James Dawson, secr etary; and JamesLipscomb , treas ure r and sergea nt atarms. Outgoing President Ger ald Dulaney presented a C ross pen to d ub director Gr ant Spon g on behalf of the club.Marg;~ Dulan~y .
A men's night culminated the currentyear of the Lady Ambassadors Club ofBELLE VERNON, Pa.,S ept . 20 . Beforethe dinner meeting some of the ladiesand their husband s tour ed Linden Hall,an esta te built before World War I. Fol-
CLUBMEETINGS
After services Se pt. 12 the WICHI·T A. Kan., church had a socia l hou r wit hcoffee. finger foods and friends hip. Thepurpose was to mee t new people. JohnWilli am s.
Th c WISCONSI N DELLS. Wi s.,church had its sixth annual Harve st Fairat the Feast of Taber nacles site LaborDay weekend, Se pt . 4 to 7. Certainevents like e~h ibit displays. a fashionshow, a log-sawing contes t , a midwa yand ente rtainme nt have become a tr adition at the Harvest Fair . New events thisyear included a Sabbath Bible bowl and aSa turday night squ are dance. John Torgerson.
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Sabbath Sep t. 5. The weekend sta rtedwith a hamburger suppe r S atu rdaynight. with a Name T hat T une contestfollowing , which Mr . and Mrs. JackNeatherland won. Sunday morning the 'men served a panca keand sausage breakfast and in the afte rnoon a barbecue. Bobl ooper and David Brown did the cooking, with help fr -nseveral others . Manyparticipated in indoo r and outdoorgam es. Shirley Fulford .
Thirty-seven members and rela tivesand 31 children of the ROCKIIAMPTO N. Aust ralia, ch urc h enjoyed achampagne brunch and fash ion parade Se pt.13. Th e functi on was sponsored by theLad ies' C lub, and Dawn Benne tt washostess. Th e hall was decor ated withspring flowers arra nged by Kathy Price.A thr ee-cou rse meal was served . MarieDe Mey was master of cere monies forth e fas hion pa ra de . C hild re n wer eincluded as mode ls of a variety of bornemade clot hes. Some humorous outfitswere modeled by the men . D. B~M~II.
Th e ST. PETERSBURG, Fl a..church had its annual beach party andpotluck picnic Sept. 20 at Fort DesotoPark . Activiti es began with breakfast forthe ear ly arrivers. Afterward, volleyball ,hor sesh oe s, cards, tug-o f-wa r, eg gtosses . games with prizes for the child renand a potluck lunch filled theday's activities . Guests for the event were youngadults from neighboring churches incentral Flor ida. l.Ay~n~ L Vor~/.
Phil and Jan C hadwick, longtimemembers of the SAN DIEGO . Calif.,chur ch , were given farewell gift s by localelder Gerald Shoquist at the chu rch 'sfinal picnic of the season Sept. 13 at FeUcit e Pa rk in Escond ido, Cal if. Th e C hadwicks left in earl y October for Hawaii.S usan Karoska.
SAN DIEGO. csur., breth renenjoyed a pool party Sept . 20 at a community recreation pool in Mira Mesa.Ca li f. Ron and Bonnie McE achernserved as host and hostess . Following theafternoon of swimming, a catered mealwas served. Susan Karoska .
Volunteers from the WHEEUNG.W.Va., church helped staff a PloinTruth exh ibit ar the Belmont Cou ntyFair in St. Clai rsville, Ob jo. Sep t. 9throu gh 13. Accord ing to boeth supcrvi·sor Audre y Ruscak , 156 subscript ions toTh e Plain Truth were added . Fairgocrsalso picked up 390 magaz ines and 500booklet s. Don Piclunpaugh.
McComm ack , the oldest, grandm otherof th e most grandchildren; Gen evaKitchen, for driving the greatest distance 10 church; Lucille Obe nchain. thenewest membe r; Mar garit c Hud son , theone atten ding th e Indianapolis churchthe longest ; and Harold Kelly , the on lywidower presen t. A lvina Dellin ger.
A picnic for the J ASPER and OIRMI NGIIAM. Ala., brethren took placeSept. 13 at Oak Mountain Stal e Park .The 300 brethren feasted on a bu ll calfsla ughtered and prepa red especia lly forthe occas ion. The out ing featur ed archery and slingshot exh ibitions, as well asfun for all ages . Helen F. Garrison.
l abor Day weekend marked the sixthannu al camp-out and canoe trip for theKALAMAZOO and COLDWATER .Mich ., churches. Ca mpers began erriving befo re sunset Friday evening at thesecluded site in Mesick , Mich . After thewomen prepared a heart y breakfast Sa turd ay morning. the brethren and familymembe rs traveled lo Cadi llac, Mich ., forSa bbat h services. Kalamazoo and Coldwater pastor Ken Williamsdelivercd thesermon. Upon returning to camp theyoung adults and women prepared lunchand dinner. After sundown adult s andYOU played a variet y of card games .Su nda y morn ing, the men pre paredbreakfast. The highlight of the weekendwas a 2G-mile canoe tr ip dow n the rapidManistee River in 29 canoes . Monda ymorning the YO U pre pared a sausageand French toast breakfast, and thenever yone prepared for the trip home.Mr . and Mrs . lewis Olsen Sr . obtainedand set up the cam psite and purch asedthe food . Their efforts afforded thebrethren the campsite and eight hotmeals for a cost of S I.75 eac h. AI Smi kle ,
Th e Wichita Mountain s W ildlifeRefug e was the sett ing for the annu alpicnic of the LAWTON. Ok la., churchAug. 30. Some of the brethren whocamped the previous night were ent ertained by a herd of SObuffalo that bedded down in the camp area . Nut morn ing the buffalo vacated the area, and thepicnic went on as sched uled. A potluckwas followed by the annual boesesboethro wing cont Cllt. The winners were BillMcNeel1 aQd Perry Bond in the men' sdivision and Mary Bond and Julie Baileyin the women's division. They receiveddesk sets mounted with thermometerand pen. The third annual domin o tour nament was won by Mr . McNeely andRuth DeCle rck , who received desk se tsmounted with barometer and pen. Otheracuvites included volleyball. a waterslide and card gam es. EII~n Jackson.
More th an 60 brethren from theMAIDSTONE and CROYDON. En·gland, churc hes enjoye d the annua lcampo-out Aug . 28 to 31. Organi zed byAndr ew Patey and Mike And erson, th ecamp took place on a farm in the countryside near Tunbridge Wells in southeaste rn England . Ca mpers enjoyed airrifles, a rope swing with a 15·foot drop,slng-alo ngs and a lamb roasted on theca mp fire , as well as par aglid ing .Arranged by minister John Meak in,parag lid ing allowed campers to soar to100 feet suspended by a parac hute towedby a car across an adjace nt field . Mr .Meakin gave a serm on on Christian warfare Sabbath afternoon . David Rowing .
The annual ca mp-out of the ME~FORD and KLAMATH FALlS. Or e.,churches Aug . 28 to 30 took place atlake of the Woods in sou thern Oregon .Sabb ath services were in a nat u ralamphitheate r of evergreens on the lakeside . Alys M . Henderson.
MOJAVE. Ca lif. , breth ren spe ntSept. 13 relaxin g with good food andfellowship at the Devils Punch Bowl inthe An geles Nati onal Forest. Th e moreener get ic took a one-mile hike thr oughthe punch bowl, where the t rail loopedaround groves of manzani ta, junipe r,pinyon and chapa rral . Nearby was avisitors' hut offe ring exhibits of thekinds of plant and animal life in the areaand explaining how the punch bowl wascreated by fault ing on the San Andr easRift . Joy Fraley ,
The ORLANDO. Fla., church had apotluck and social afte r serv ices Se pt. 5.After the meal the brethren honoredpastor Bob Bertu zzi and his wife Coes tawith songs written espec ially for theoccasion and with gifts of a calculato r,stereo headphones, a potted plant and$100 . T he next day the church spo nsored a rummage sale to raise money forsocial s and public Bible lectures to takeplace in central Florida. More than$1.000 was raised . Ed Strickland.
MONROE:. La., brethren enjoyed alabor Day barbecue that began after the
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A potlu ck picni c for the:BRAINERDand GRAND RAPIDS. M ich .• brethrentook place Se pt. 13 at Jess MCAliisters.Two tur keys were barbecued, and anauction took place . Linda Mc:Allist~,.
Mem ber s of th e: BRISTOL a ndSWINOON. England. churches melA ug . 28 for th e seco nd weekend camp orthe year. The gro up set up ca mp atBerkeley Deer Park Esta te by spec ialpermi ssion gran ted to one of the mem obers. Sa bbat h mornin g local elder AlanBates gave the sermon in the open-airservices . in which a piano accom paniedthe song service. The day was roundedoff wit h a barbecue: and sing-alongaround the camp fire. Games wereplayed S unday . Carol B~dford.
The CAPE GIRARDEAU , Mo.•church enjo yed a famil y social Sept. 12.The YOU had youth day at servicesthat Sa bbat h. Youth s who served asgreeters were John Fox, Bryan Starr andGeo ff C hoate. Ushe rs were Chris Burrow, Sean Bergmann , David Arch er andMitchel Sh aw. Att endance was tak en byBryan S tarr, Geoff Choat e and Alle nNull. ~ng lead er was Greg Choa te.Pianist was Roxann e Ca fcurek. Openingand closing pra yers were by BrooksMoore and John Pox, respectively. Th esermonette was given by Steve Starr,chief YOU assistant. After serv ices,refreshments were served by CathyS tarr , Rosie Backfisch . Sharon Busche ,Ca thy Grant, Vera Braswell , C herylMcCormick and Ter esa Null .
A covered-dish meal served at thesocia l included a variet y of meats. vegetables, salads anddesserts . After sunsetact ivit ies began with a mu sic group composed of pastor John Cafourek and several members, who entertained a fewminut es before Neal Kinsey led a singalong . Three door prizes were award ed,and then everyone played Bunco lorabout an hour , with two winners andtwoboobyprizes awarded . FOUO....in&3 cake walk, the social endedwith the Virgin iareel , with Mr . Cafoere k's group furnish ing the mus k and local elder Car l Holf·man calling. Haydn A . Fox .
CHATIANOOGA and COPPERHILL, Tenn., brethren set up a PlainTruth booth at the annual Jay cees ' TriStat e Fair in C hatta nooga Se pt. 4 to 12.Bill Norm an arran ged for a free boothlocat ion . local eld er Charles Dickey wasthe organ izer , and several members velunt!ered their tim e so that the booth wasmon itored at all t imes. Th e boot hreceived a blue ribbon and a first- placepublic service t rophy. Barb Keepes.
Th e first fall squ are dance formAT.TANOOGA. Ten n., brethr en took placeSe pt. 12 afte r sund own . Ray Co llins wasthe ca lle r. A ca kewa lk too k placebetween square dance tips to raise fundsfor YOU activities. Barb Keepes .
Th e DETROIT. M ich ., c hurc hesteamed up to sponsor a Plain Tru thbooth at the Mich igan S tate Fair Aug.28 thr ough Se pt. 7. Th e fair is th e larg estand oldes t sta te fair in th e nation. Durin gth e II days, 6,500 Plain Truths and3,500 booklets were picked up by fair goers . Earl H. Willia ms.
T hirty-five ERI E:. Pa., grand parentsenjoyed a boat ride on lake Erie Aug. 23and a meal afte rward .
The Er ie cong regatio n had a surprisefarewell potluck for Nelso n and DonnaT rickett and son Kirk Se pt. 12. Th eT n ckett s were given a plaque in appre ciatio n of their service to the church,plus other gifts. They are moving toOhioand will atte nd the Youngstown church.Mary Graves .
T he G LOUC ES T E R. En gl and ,church had its an nual camp-out Aug. 28to Sept. I at Pep well Farm by invit at ionof Gordon and Elizabe th Bullas. Aft erSabbath services the membe rs enjoyed acamp fire and a sing-a long in the evening. S unday afte rnoo n, visitors fromthe Birmin gham and London, England,churche s jo ined in a treasure hunt andcricke t match, which were followed by abarbec ue and barn dance in the evening .Most of the campers visited HarvingtonHall Monda y afernoon , and in the evening they viewed films put on by AndrewBullas. Olive Will is.
W idows of th e INDIANAPOUS.Ind ., church met at the home of pastorVernon Ha rgrove for a pitc h-in mea lSept. 12. The meal was followed by atopics session led by Mr . Hargrove .Gift swere awarded to Ca rm ilita Hampton,t he lo nge s t ba p t i zed ; Mrs . Oral
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80 PLUS - Springfield, Mo ., members eo years old and older pose for a group pic ture at a meeting of the 60 Plu sClub Sept. 13 . (See "Senior Activities: ' this page.)
shakers climbed the trees and shook thelimbs to make the prunes fall, and thepickers picked up the prunes . Aboutthree: tons of prunes were picked. JanYoung.
The J unior YOU of UNION. N.J .,had its annual camp-out the weekend ofAug. 29. About 48 pre-YOU child renand adults enjoyed a weekend of outdooractivit ies at Cheesequa ke State Park .Activities included Bible games, movies,a nature hike and swimming . HenrySt urcke gave an outdoor sermon outlining each of the Te n Commandme nts.Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Robinson provided food, shelter and moral support forthose in need. Anthony Caputo .
Preteens of the WASHI NGTON.D.C., chu rch enjoyed a camp-out at thefarm of Mr. and Mrs. Carl White Sept . 510 7. The event began Sabbat h eveningwith a por'uck dinner atte nded by thechildren and their parents . After themeal the campe rs took part in a singalong, and the day ended with a movie.The next day's activities included pancake and cookie making. touch football.rope swinging, arts and crafts, knottying, swimming, a cookout and anothe rmovie. The camp-out ended with a hayride in Maryland's rolling countr yside.John Kinlaw.
About 50 RALEIGH. N .C. , chi ld ren.ages 4 throu gh I 2,al1ended a party Sept.6. Indoor games, a puppet showand ag iftexchange were the main events . Gamesincluded fruit -basket upset, musicalchairs. a crab race, running an obstaclecourse, a balloon race. a bean-bag raceand pass the ball. A puppet show byMiguel and Terri Marquez portrayedpar ent -chil d rel at ionships . HarlanBrown.
The YOU of SALEM, Ore., had amoney -m ak ing eve nt at the pru neorchard of Lance and Joan C hrist iansonSe pt. 20. The youths split into twogroups, the shakers and the pickers. The
dren's choir director . Ali ce Pellow.
The HATTIESBURG. Miss .. YOUhad a Bible study Sept. I 2. Pastor RonWallen discussed finances. Afte r thestudy the members enjoyed a camp-outat Pep's Point. Aftersundown the youthsroller-skated and played video games .Sund ay morning's activities were padd leboating, volleyball, goofie golf, watersliding and other water activities. Odessa Ladner and Lynn Cloud.
YOU district 21 opened the seasonwith a working tournament Sept. 6 inKINGSPORT. Te nn. Th e basketballand volleyball competition was designedas a practice experience. Teams represented included Roanoke, va .; Lenoirand Boone. N.C .; Pikeville, Ky.; Kingsport: Summ ersville, Ga.: and Beckleyand Bluefield, W.Va. Pastor GeorgeElkins was the tournament coordinator.
T hirty MI NN EAPOLIS, Minn. ,NORTH boys and girls ages 4 to 14 performed for parents and friends Sept. 20in a progra m called "Sin-ole as ABC: 'which featured vocal and instrumentalsolos and skits. Bruce Boettcher wasmaster of ceremonies. The YOU girlsserved fruit juice and goodies afterward .Pam Workman planned and preparedthe program. Sh e was assisted by Jo AnnHeills. Ann Emmaus. Judy Garland,Barbara Kust and Philip Freeman , chit-
UP. UP AND AWAY I - A member enjoys paragliding at the a nnualMaidstone a nd Croydon, England , camp-out Aug . 28 to 31 . (See " Churc hActivities," th is page.) [Photo by A. Patey]
Se pt. 13. Gam es included tug-of-war,runnin g races, wheelbarrow races, three legged races, ball throwin g and pin thetail on the:donkey. There were ribbonsand prizes for all. After a heart y snack,(he children cooled off by frolickingunder the sprinkler. The afternoon offun was sponsored by Roberta Leonzal ,Ge ri Chapman, Sue Bruno and SandiPalkki. Jani ce Ostrom .
The first YES camp-cut for youngsters from GRAND PRAIRIE. Alta .,and DAWSO N CREEK. B.C ., tookplace Aug. 23 to 25 at Moonshine LakeProvincial Park . Activit ies includedcanoeing, swimming, a nature hike,games, campfire sing-alongs and a goatbarbecue. Gerhard Richter.
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ALBANY . BEND. and SAL EM .Ore ., YOU members and brethren had awildern essoutingSe pt . 4 to 7. The grouphiked eight miles into the rugged ThreeSisters Wilderness area southwest ofBend, guided by Terr y Dundon and hismalamute pack dog Nakku n. The ycamped three nights at Questionmark,Copepodand Vera Lakes. Assistan t pastor Randy Sl iver conducted services andled a Bible bowl Sabbath afternoon. Saturday night the campers enjoyed a storyand joke session around the camp fire.Sunday 's activities included swimming,fishing and more hiking. S wan Wh"l<T.
TheCOWMBIA., Mo., YOU earned1'00" I>*) J t Sept.bto 'ti . ~·
by helping clean the fairgrounds atMokane, Mo. Sunday morning thecleanup lasted for about an hour and ahalf. after which the boys' and girls' softball teams went to Kansas Cit y. Mo., toplay in a softball tournament. Mondaymorning the group again cleaned thefairgrounds . The final cleanup was onTuesday after school. Joni M~Il~rup.
A party for 2- to 8-year-olds of DULUTH. Minn .• was enjoyed by 22youngsters at the home orSandi Palkki
the 8 division. The host Toledo A teamwon the second-day consolat ion bracket.RoIwrt Horsani e.
PUPPET SHOW - Youths enjoy 8 puppet show at a children 's party inRaleigh , N.C. , Sept. 6 . (See " Yo uth Activ ities ," this paae.) {Photo byHarlan Brown)
The ninth annual TOLEOO. Ohio,invitational softball tournament tookplace Labor Day weekend. County officials generously offered gratis a modernfour-diamo nd complex at the LucasCounty Recreat ion Center. Th is year 3
record of 16 teams from the MtdwestemUnited St ates and southern Canadacompeted . John Vine was the tournamentdirector. The Columbus. Ohio , A teamdominated the Adivision by again takingfirst place. The Columbus B team won
tional championship soft ball tou rnament Sept . 12 and 13. A record field of20 teams from across the state participated. Dallas defeated Big Sandy to winthe men's division I championship. Itwas the first state championship for Dallas after three straight second-p lace finishes. Fort Worth captured the men'sdivision II tit le against anor her Dallasteam. Big Sa ndy edged Austin 8-7 tobecome the women's d ivision champions. John Jarr ett .
Th e COLUMBIA, S .C ., c hurc hplayed host to a softball tourn amentSep t. 13 at Dillon Park in Sumter, S.c.Compe ting in the event were teams fromAugusta, Ge., Charleston, Columbiaand Fl or en ce , S .C . C harles B .Edwards.
Six Florida chur ches were repre sented in the first softball tournamentspo nsored by the FORT LAUDERDALE church Aug. 30. Orl ando outscored Miami 11-6in the finals. Next inorder of finish were:Melbourne and FortMyers . Fifth and sixth places were yet tobe determined between Fort Pierce andFort Lauderdale. Minister RandallKobernat coordi nated the YOU conces sions. along with other members . to pr0
vide food andbeverages. Dick Howard .The second annual t rack-and-field
day for the GREENSBORO, N.C .•church took place Sept. 13. with eventsfor all age groups. The day began withthe two-mile run and field events. First .second and th ird place ribbons wereawarded for each event . and troph ies forthe most valuable part icipan ts went toAlice Richardson and Larry Penkava,Vicki Hart .
A day of fun and fellowship wasshared by several churches Sept . 6 whenthe OKLAHOMA CTIY. Okla. churchplayed host to a round-robin baseballtournament at Woodson Park , Partici pating church es were Fayetteville andFort Smith , Ark .; Dallas. Tex .: andOklahoma City andTu lsa, Okla. In themen's games Dallas was first. Tulsa second and Oklahoma City third . In thewomen's games Dallas was first and Tul sa and Oklahoma City tied for second .UhUb MUilDiiO.
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Houston , Tex ., West Pastor BurkMcNair gave a Bible study on Proverbstot he l-lOUSTON young adult sSe pt. IIat Steve Corley's home. The youngadults' monthly Bible study Sept . 18wasconducted by director John Ogwyn inthe Keegan's Ridge Apartments clubbouse. The group learned that stabilityof purpose:is requir ed for growth. Q uestions and answers completed the study,and refreshments were served. Ed Nelson.
The SPO KANE:,Wash., young adultsand singles dub enjoyed two actio npacked days of waterskiing and swimmingat Kettle Falls, Wash.,Sc:p1.6and7. The group camped OUI at Mr . andMrs. Ivan Robinson's home and had ahome-cooke d country dinner. DarlaHendrickson .
rorsage lH boa.o .... lc.c. ph "cd 611 b jYOU member s. T he dinner was followed by recognit ion of those coupleswho have achieved the ir golden weddinganniversary : Floyd and Gertrud Renner,Willie and Zelma Foster, Walter andViolet Potratz and Vaiden and StellaWhite. Alan Walker . maste r of ceremonies for the remainder of the program, announced each of the 28 seniors70 years and older, with brief commentsabout each one. The oldest member wasInez Rober ts, at 95 years old. Entertai nment followed, with singing, skits andspecial numbe rs by the child ren, YO U,young adults and Young at Heart members, ending with a sing-along. A dancefollowed, with music by the church'sCou ntry Western group. Vune Enos.
The SPRINGFIE LD, Mo., 60 PlusClub met Sept. 13 for a potluck and anafternoon of fellowship. Following abusiness meeting conducted by directorJess McClain, group pictures for theclub album were taken. Two of thegroup, H.J . Rogers and Emma Gibson,are in their four-score-and ten-plus year.PolfyRos~.
(Continued from pav- 121meeting Sept . 13. Arter a potluck atnoon. President John Benich called themeeti ng to order. Pastor Russell Dukeestablished the basic mee ting form at andappo inted officers and commi ttees. T heme mbe rs plan to have a smorgasbo rd anda trip to the Lee Mace 's Oza rk Opry atthe l ake of the Ozarks Feast site . Lastyear's activities included trips to the IceCapades. a ci rcus and Silver Dollar C ityin Branson . Mo. Jury Pro.
Th irty-five NEW OR LEANS, La.•bret hren 50 years of age and olde renjoyed a five-hour cr uise down the Mississippi River and through bayous andcanals on board the river boat ColtonBlossom Se pt. I J . Depart ing from theFrenc h Quarter. the three-deck stern wheele r c ruised past the C halmette Battlegrou nds into the Algiers locks. T heintrigu e and char m of yesteryear came tomind as the cruise led to the historicalhaunt of Jean laffit e and his notoriou sbucca neers. Bayou Baratari a. Mauriuud~t .
RICHMOND, Va., senior cit izensgathered for their th ird annual cookou tat the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbe rtPres ton Sept. 12. The group of 40enjoyed hamburgers with all the trimmings, salad and homemade cakes. ChipBrock.m~iu.
Senior citi zens from the SAN DIEGO. Calif, north county area wereguests of the P.M. Women's Club at aspaghetti luncheon Sept. 17 at the homeof Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stei n in Vista.Ca lif. Mrs. St ein is chairma n of seniorcit izens' act ivit ies for the north countyclub. S usan Karosk a.
A special day for the senior member sof the SPOKANE. Wash.• and COEURd'ALE NE. Idaho. churches took placeSept. 12.lt was a day of recognition andhonor to those married for 50 years ormore and members 70 years and older.Minister Roger Foster and visit ing minister Vaiden White from Sedro-woolley. Wash.• gave split sermons. A potluck followed serv ices. Specially -settables were set aside for those being honored. Eac::h senior member received a
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T he AUSTI N, Tex.. church playedhost to the fourth annual Texas invita-
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In th e 'O ct . 5 Worldwide Newsobit uary colum n, E.A. Laney. 93,was listed as having died in C hinoValley, Ariz., with fu ner al serv icesin Rockport, Ariz. Actually, Mr.La ney d ied in Co rp us C hristi. Tex.,and serv ices were cond ucted inRockpor t, Tex. O ur apo logies to thefam ily.
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ter living in New York, N.Y.
R icha rd Am es, admissions directo r at Am bassador Co llege in Pasaden a, gave a sermon about beingkings and pr iests ; Pau l Mel.can.spo ke about putting God first ; Col inS utcl iffe, on hum an responsibi lities, havin g a good Feast and seekingGod's cou nsel th rough the ministry;Terry Villiers, on hea ling and thefami ly. Regiona l di rector RobertMort on and John H . La rkin alsospo ke. Colin S utcliffe.
HOBART, Australia: - Consiste nt, positive messages were heardby 344 br e th ren assembled atHobar t Town H al l. Centeringaround believing in God's callingand rejoicing in God's way, se rmonswere given by Jack C roucher, whoexplained Feast-keeping; regionaldi rec to r Rober t M orton. who outlined our ca lling to a royal fam ily;Alan Dean . who spoke abo ut growthand decay and acco untability; andKen Le wis, who listed areas whereSatan att acks the fam ily and provedthat G od is not now trying to savet he world .
Ac t ivities in t he af te rnoonsincluded achildren's party, a senio rcitizens ' visit to botan ical ga rdens, aDevo nshi re tea, ladi es' lunch eon,ice-skat ing , horseback ridi ng and abus ride to histori c Richmond, Tasmania.
A buffet ball, family night andteen nig ht took place in the evenings . YOU members displayed aserving attitude to their g roup andchurch by helping out in variou sactiv ities. Alan Dean.
LAKES ENTRANCE. Austra lia - W it h mild weather conditions
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STACY. Va. - Mabel MadelineDavis. 49, died Sept. 3 after a long boutwith cancer. She attended services inBluefield. W.Va., for three years. Funeral services were conducted by CharlesCrain. pastor of the Bluefieldchurch.
Mrs. Davis is survived by her motherBeatriceTurner, one daughter and threebrothers.
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GOL D COAST. Austr alia S ix hundred eighty bre thre n met atA lbe r t W ate rways Co mmu ni tyCentre fo r perhaps one of thefrien dliest Feasts ever. So me overseas visito rs said they had never seenteenagers as courteous and helpfulas those helping in the park ing lotand assisting fami lies into the auditorium,
A fami ly dance involved all agesas did the family sports afternoon .Senior citizens enjoyed an interesting bus trip to the high countrybehind the coast. and the ministryhad a luncheon.
SEATT LE. Wash. - Sonya Bcckey,79.a longtime member ofGod's Church.died Sept. 15 after an extended illness.Dennis Luker. pastor of the Seatt le
brethren mee ting at the Ca lound raC ivic C entre.
The excell ent wea ther match edmem be r att it udes, as br ethrenheard messages fr om RichardA mes. visit ing from Pasadena, ont he responsibili ty of the variousC hu rc h eras in t he coming Kin gdam; region al dir ect or Ro bert Merton, o n o u r excl usive rew ar d ;Graemme Ma rs ha ll, on t he mean ingof the Las t G reat Day and how toenco urag e one ano the r into theKingdo m; David Noller spo ke onwh y God's govern me nt will last1,000 year s. child ren's inhe rit anc ein the Kingdo m and t he need tobu ild and protec t marri ages; RobertRagazzoli explai ned how to turn th ehear ts of fath er s to their chi ld renand the causes of war and peace ; andWilliam Di xon showed that bre th ren will inherit God's holin ess.
Th e Youn g Am bassado rs filmwas well received . O ther fa milyFeast ac tiv ities included a senior citizens' banq uet , a beac h party. adance and a skat ing af te rnoon.David No ller.
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SEATTL E. Wash. - Harriet Margaret Jones, 74. died Sept. 4 after a shortillness. Funeral services were conductedby Dennis Luker. pastor of the Seattlechurch.
Mrs. Jones is survived by a daughter•lleana Davison of Seatt le; five grand: 'children; and three great-grandchildren.
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SALEM.O re. -lvan J. Kuipers, 55.a member of the Church for 25 years,died Aug. 26ofchronic leukemia. DavidMills. pastor of the Salem church. conducted funeral services.
Mr. Kuipers is survived bysevenchildren and nine grandchildren.
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Lois. two stepsons. one stepdaughter.nine grandchildren. five great-grandchildren. four sisters and one brother.
Our coup on babies this issue li reTamara Lynn (Iell) and Tracy ReneeCrow . IWln daughters 01 F.ed andSusanCrowolSanJose,Cahl
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CALOUNDRA, Aus tralia Dwelling in un ity and love was themain Festi val theme here for 1,01 J
EAST BAN K, G uyana - Moret han 100 brethren braved a to rrential do wnpou r on the first day of theFeast and t he n enj oyed su n nyweathe r t he re mainder of th e eig htday ga t he ring at Camp Kayu kaher e.
An exceptional att itude of serviceperm eated t he s ite, as br ethrenassi ste d in meal preparati on , security. cle anup and hall du ti es . H all personnel co mme nted on the harmon yand love expressed by brethren.
M iniste rs Pau l Krautmann andAbn er Washington deli vered sermons on t he wor ld to mo rrow, ove rco ming, God's Holy S pirit, prope rme dit ation and new life afte r baptism,
Bre thren enjoyed excu rsions tonearb y att ractions and a river tr ip.Ot he r act ivities incl uded a dance,ta lent show, at hle t ic ga mes and thefest ival films. Paul Krau tman n
KINGS PORT, Tenn. - Garland H.Campbell Sr., 74. died unexpectedlyAug. 12. Heand his wife Ruth. whodiedJan. I, 1980. were pioneer members ofthe Kingsport church and attended theGreensboro, Tenn.•church previously.
George Elkins. pastor of the Kingsport church, conducted funeral servicesin Rural Retreat. Va.
Mr. Campbell is survived by a son.Garland J r.: two daughters, CarolynBlevins and Barbara Smith: a brother .Warren; a sister, Emily Aker; and 10grandchildren.
(Continued from page 111tio n to seve ral healin gs. T hreatening clo uds loomed overhea d t henight of the youth show, but af te rprayer the clo uds d isap pea red. Gilbert Carbonnet.
DALLAS. Tex. - Kimberly Jeaneue Correa. 16. died July 12 from injuries she received in an autombile accident. Funeral services were conductedby KennethSwisher, pastorof the DallasNorth church. and Randal Dick. pastorof the DallasSouth church.
Kimberly is survived by her parents,Javier and Alpha Correa: a brother. Javier; and a sister. Valerie Ann. Four otherDallas teenagers were also injured in theaccide nt: Valerie Correa. Eddie Self.Lorrie Self and Steve Wilson. All arerecuperating. according to Mr. Dick.
PADUCAH. Ky. - Herman Bremer. 80. died July 28 at his home in Metropolis, II I. JetTBarness, pastor of the:Paducah church. officiated at gravesideservices.
Mr. Bremer is ,;;urvivecJ by hi~ w iff"
Hanna: daughters. Gladys Haase, Geneva Bamess. Georgia Ann Bremer andGeorgia Etta Bremer; sons. Glen. Geneand Gerald;and 12 grandchildren.
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funeralservices.Mr. Kelty is survived by his wire Syl
ba: three sons. Charles. John and Harvey; two daughters. Donna Golden andManna Roc: two brothers. John andJack: four sisters. IreneStone, MargaretRichardson. Dorothy Tillman and Wanda Auten; 14 grandchildren: and eightgreat-grandchiIdren.
HUDSONVILLE. Mich. - Guy E.Pum igfia, 40. died Oct. 21. He had beena member of God's Church for sixyears.Funeral services were conducted inEnfield, Conn. Mr. Pumiglia is survivedby his wife Linda and four stepchildren.Paula. Darrell. Lori and Travis.
SAC RAMENTO, Calif. - CurryCassara. 65. a longtime Church membe, died Aug. 27. Joel Lillengreen. pastor of the Sacramentochureb.conducted
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Beverl y Jo Dayison and Ronald E , Whi le wereun' ted in marriage Sapt. 6 in Peoria, III. Theceremony was performed by Jess Ernest, paslor01 Ihe Peo na and MIICOmb, III.. Church es , Thecouple res ide al J2 1 ~. Mc K inley , Oltawa, III
Ro se mary Bec k and Je U Kidd we re un.led inmatrlege Aug. 3\ at Ihe Har dwick Hall HotelSedge,iald, Counly D urh am . England DayidMagow an, paslor 01 the northaasl Englandchurches ollicia led. The cou ple reside al BishopMi d dl eh a m, Coun ly Durham and alland theM'ddles brough,England,church
Judi e Ann Bears 01 Dayton, Pa .• and Brad ley JOhnDullum 01 Bloom,ng lo n, Minn., we re united inma rriag e Se pt . 6. Ar l Dye r, p ali lor 01 IheJohnstown a nd H unlinglon, Pa. , churches,pe rformed Ihe ce remony, Jo Summerfie ld wa$mll id 01 hono. , and Sheldon Oien wllS besl manThe cocpte rearoe in Brooklyn Park, M,nn
rh e w e d d i ng 01 J a nel h neete and Ja keMeendering look pl ace on Sept . 5. Tena Deeta,da ughler·in·lawol toe bnde.wee matron 01 honor,and Ralp h Holl ander Jr., brother·,n·law 01 thegroom. w as besl man . James Turner, pas tor 01 IhePhoenIX, "riz , Wesl church, performed lheceromony. Mr. and Mrs. Meende"n g eee.ee al4 10 7 W. Virginia Ave., Pho eni x, Ari •. , 85003
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MR. AND MRS. B. DULLUM
Ro th , paSIOr 01 lhe Pnnce Alberl. B,g R,ver RnrlT,sda le , Sesk., churches. Melame Erlerwaa maid01 honor, and Grant Abbon was best man . Thecouple now res,de.n Hudson Bey
Olga Olaseyic, daughler 01 Mr. end l.4.s , DusanOlasev.c, and Paul Jendrek, son of D. , and l.4rsValenl,nJend rek , we/e uniledin marriageAug.2inliy,ngslon, N.J . The ceremony wasparlormed byJim Jenkins. paslorol Ihe Union, N.J" ch urch Thoco upie reside in Ba yonne, N.J
Obituaries
MR. AND MRS. RONALD WHITE
CLACKAMAS. are. - Harvey M.Kelt). 71, died July 8. 19XO. in a Portland. a re" hosptial. Dan Fricke, pastorof the Portland west church . conducted
MR. AND MRS. PAUL JENDREK
Jerry , Fi ve years 01 sharing lives has truly been anInteresllng. exc'llng experience. llhank God thaiHe has allo wed us 10 share Ihis phy$ical hIeThank you, Je"~ . lor your panence. love andun<lelsland.ng Have a wondedul day! Joshua andl botn 10\le you very much. Happy ~Hh ann,versar~.
Honey' love. M'lli
KING, Paler and Ca rol (Cooper), 01 New co Mle .AUsl ra lia, boy, Mcill haw B enjamin, Sept, 11, 2e.m., 7 po unds 5 ounces, now 2 boys
SIANIDIS, John and Denice (Barnes), of Br isbane ," us l ral ia. boy, Maff hew Glen , Sepl. 1 1, 6:4fl p.m.,6 poun ds 4 ounces. now 2 boys
SNOWDE N , Jay and Deirdre (Hou"eJ, o r Camd en,Oh ,o. g orl, Tiltany Kay, Aug. 14, 6:28 a m , Bpoun ds 8 ounce", now2g"ls
JO NES. Ronald and Jud ilh (Gel ander), 01 Wauea u,W.S., girl. Sarah EI;.abelh, Aug , 20, 8:2 5 a.m .. 8pou nds 3 ounces, now 5 boys, 1 girl
TINKER, Glen n and Penny (Po llsck ). 01 Soldolna,"laska, girl, Te mp er ll nc e Auro re , Aug. 23, 8po unds 15 ounces. nOW3 girls
WAl. AS. Ed win and Rene (Bohn), 01 Victoria, B,C"boy. Eric Joseph, Aug 21,4 p.m" 7 pounds 4 l>ounces, now 2 boys
WA TTERS, Mark and Judy (Berkowski), 01rc.entc, Onl. boy. Adam Mark, June 28, 636pm.. 7 pounds 5 ounce s, now 2 boys
MR. AND MRS. S. LETWINETZ
MAURSETH, Dayid and Sa ndy (He un). 01 Gran dForks. N D.• girl. Je nny Marie , Sept. 14, 7:42 p.m.,9 pou nds 9 ounc es , now 4 girla
fEAZELL, J . M ic ha el and V,ctoria (Brady), 01Pa88dena,boy,Jo"oryJoaaph,Aug ,6,8pounds4\'0 cuecee. ~rsl Child
WICKEY. Lester and Laanne (Engle) , 01 FortWayna, Ind .• boy, Jason Allen. Aug 23 ,5a,m.• 7pounds 8"" ounces. no w 2 boys
Ve ra Ann Zag,ai and Samuel James Lelw,net.we'll un"e<l ,n mamage Mev 31 on Hudson Bay .Sask The ce'limonv W'l S ::>ffic ,a t ed bv Terrence
fAY, Co hn and Hol on (Ma lthows), of Sydney,Auslralia , girl, Su.annaRUlh,May21,4:57p.m., 7pounds J ouncos, ~ral c hild
YETKA. Robert and Joyce (Rob ena), 01 Wh, ff ,e/ ,Calil. gi rl, Sh awna Lianne, Sept, 7 , 3 ;10 pm .• 7pounds 10 ounces. now 2 gIrls
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CU MMING, Chris and Joan (Koon). 01 Sea ttle.Wash .• gi rl. Jody Krist,n, Aug . 30, 8:57 p.m ., 10pounds 6\00ouncos, now 3 girls
WEl.SHANS, Randy and Rebecca (Beasley), orBirmi ngham, Ala " boy, Roger Edmond, Se pt. I I,10: 55 p.m .. \0 po ..,ds 4 ounces, now 2 boys. 1gorl
CRABTREE, Al "n and Debbie (B lackman). 01Huntsv,lle . Tu .. boy, ~lchaelAlan, Aug. 27.5:35p.m ., 9pounda 2 ounces, now 1 boy, 1 girl
CASE. Alan and De bb.e (La . ear), 01 Paa adena.boy . Dan'el A lan. Aug. 22. 7 po undafl ounces. ~r st
child
WESTFALL, Aod and Wendy , ( Pe ll et ,e r) , ofGra ndePreirie,Alla .,girl,Jennile/Oiane ,Sepl. II,8:45 8.m .. 9 pounds 11 ounces, nOw 1 boy , Igirl
BRAD FOR D. Bi ll and .re eene n e (Whalan). 01Shreveporl. La .. girl. Je annette Lynne . Sept. 10.7:27 a.m. 10 poun ds 2 ounces. now 2 bo ys . 3girla
BERNHARDT, RIchard and ceecr (S Impson), orCh.d....ick s. N.Y.• Qirl . Pam el a Carol. Sept. 13.11:SOa.m,. 8 pounds 'h ounce. now I boy , 1 gir l
MON SON . Leig h and Caro l (Hol m) , 01 Oceans ide,Calif .• girl, Amber Kalrina, Se pt. 5. 4:38 p. m.. 7pounds a o uncee. firsl child
BADOWSKI, Larry and Beverly (Murrey), of Pr inc eGeorge, B,C " boy, Michael Joseph, Aug , 30. 1po unds 1 ounce, first c hild
"eSTEIN, Peler Bnd Chnsta (KroUl. 01 Darmslad!.Wesl Germany, boy , Christian, Aug 30.4:20 a .m .•3 14 kilogram s. /ir sl c h ild
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AL L.EN, RIch ard end M,ch elll (Mell), of Kalispell,Monl. , ,,,,in boy and INI . Justin R,chard andJe U ict Miche le, Sept. 5. 10 :25 a.m. and 10 :26:;:"C~il:t~~~~a 6 ounCtI$ and 5 pounds 6 ounce s.
ATC HLEY , Bill and Sally ( Linton). ot $1PeUlrsb""ll. F la.• boy. Blake Linton, Sep t . 4,6:50a,m .• 9 pounds 3 ounces. no.... 2 boya. 1 girl
HICKMAN, Granl and Carole, 01 SI, Louis , 1.40,boy, Mic hae l Jona lhan, Sap l . 18,9:11 a .m., 8pounda 13 ounces, now 4 boys , 2 gi rls
GASTON, R"chie and Rac hel (KUIpers), ofPasa dena,girl, Ehaabe lh Anne, Sepl 22 ,8p.m.. 7poun ds 12 ounces, ~rSI child
SOOTER, Richard and Patricia (Wilih o ,l e) , 01Kansas City. Mo ,. boy, Joshua William. Se pt. 19,3,01 p,m., 8 pound" 14~ ounces, nOw 21>oys
AICE, Ell is and Vikk i (Ouan.), 01Cocoa, F la.• boy,Dan ie l Elli s , Se pl . 17. 8:Hi a.m.. 8 pounds 5~
ounces, now I bo y, 1 gir l
RO TZ lEN, Ra ym on d and Rhod a (Ca r lso n), o fMinneapol ia, Minn., boy. Roderick Raymond, Sept10, 10:4 9a, m" flpounds 11 ounces, firs l child
HEL TNE. Gregory and Cherie (Repp), 01 Spok ane.Wash .• gir l, Melon ie Rose, Sepl . 17, 2:23 p.m .• apounds Jounces, now 1 boy, 1 g,rl
I"V l li-iOl",.; ·,.Nt<t "_~rI1(11¢Tm",,), <)1 Eden. Prai rie , Minn .. girl, Am y' Jo ,., Se pl . 4, 5:28 p.m .. 7
pounds 1 ounce, first c hi ld
FESTIVAL OF REJOICING - A Church member and infant share amoment after services in Hobart, Australia . (Photo by Stephen Odell)
Monday, Nov. 16. 1981
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(Continued Ir.... _ 141prevailing, 480 brethren here heardsermons centered around preparingfor Christ's return . Richard Ames .Pasadena Ambassador College admissions director. spoke about beingkings, priests and judges; Australian regional director Robert Morton spoke on God's royal priesthood;Jack Croucher, on leadership quali ties; Rodney McQueen, on thefuture of the . Israelites; D'ArcyWatson, on the holy city ; and BrianOrchard, on returning to the gardenof Eden .
The Young Ambassadors filmwas a high point of activities thatincluded a boat trip around LakeTyres , a family picnic on NinetyMile Beach, a dinner and dance . ayouth dance and children's party .Brian Orchard.
MACKAY, Australia - With atheme of enduring to the end, sermons were given on signposts toGod's plan, having vision, encouragement, Psalms, government, being gods, building a spiritual houseand explaining the Last Great Day.Graemme Marshall, Bruce Dean,Reg Wright and David Noller wereprincipal speakers .
Two hundred forty brethren tookpart in family activities thatincluded a beach picnic at CapeHillsborough and a family dancewhere the Young Ambassadors filmwas shown. An over-ses' luncheonand teen picnic capped off a Feast ofsunny days with cool breezes thatkept the trop ical heat away. BruceDean.
MERIMBULA, Australia With temperatures in the low 70s( Fahrenheit), 531 brethren enjoyeda foretaste of the world tomorrowwith sermons by regional director
.: » Robert Morton, on training to bekings and priests , Chris Hunting, onGod's way of life, Richard Ames,Pasadena Ambassador College admissions director, on Church eras,Peter Whitting. on fellowship andRod King.on learning tojudge.
Brethren agreed that Herbert W.Armstrong's messages set thetheme for the Feast.
During a family day all agesenjoyed a pull-for-peace (instead ofa tug-of-war) and shared a barbecue. Sumptuous food was the orderat a dinner dance. Mrs . Lyn Souterand others entertained. Mr . Whit ting was host to senior citizens at hishome. Rod King.
MOUNT GAMBIER, Australia- Sunny days and clear eveningsgraced the Feast at the RegionalArts and Civic Centre, where 325brethren concentrated on PastorGeneral Herbert W. Armstrong'stheme of love and unity. RodneyDeanspoke on God's plan for Israel ;the greatness of God, by David Ausof God; Kerry Gubb, on millennialconversions ; Robert Morton , regional director, on the priesthood ofGod's people;and Jack Croucher,onthe Last Great Day.
Festival activities included boatcruises, tours , dances, a family barbecue, car rally and the YoungAmbassadors film. The over 55s andministers each took part in luncheons and some brethren touredwineries .
YOU members explored caves,went water-skiing, canoed, playedpool at a YMCA night and had acatered barbecue. Feastgoers responded to Mr. Armstrong'sadmonitions to fellowship , and mostwere seated a full two minutesbefore services began. Personalizedtransport was available for theelderly . Kerry Guhh .
MU'A, Tonga - Inside theChurch-owned Tabernacle House,45 brethren cooperated in an uplifting family atmosphere. Outside,sunny skies and cool breezesenhanced a barbecue on the beach .Outdoor sport s included volleyball
and tennis . Youth s and childrenperformed in a ta lent show andenjoyed a dance .
Tolu Ha'angana gave a sermonabout why brethren keepthe feastand today' s conditions , Tevita Fungalei explained family living in theworld tom orrow and He amas iTa'unfo 'ou spoke about preparingfor eternity. Tolu Ha 'angana .
PACIFIC HARBOUR, Fiji One hundred sixty-seven brethrenenjoyed sunny and pleasant 80degree weather here, although rain .heat and humidity is usually the rulefor October. In addition to beachside sports activities , brethren par.ticipated in a talent show, went ontours and attended two dinnerdances .
Sermons centered around God'sgovernment and enduring trial s.Peter Nathan explained the marriage to Christ; Karl Karlov spokeabout rejoicing at the Feast andchild rearing; Epeli Kanaimawidetailed prophecies of Babylon; andRichard Davies talked about Godthe Father. Brethren saw HerbertW . Armstrong's opening-nightfilmed message and a videotape ofhis first day sermon. '
Brethren from the SolomonIslands, Papua New Guinea, Australia. New Zealand, Canad a. Barbados and the United States in anatt itude of oneness and love. KarlKarl ov.
PERTH, Australia - The onlyFeast site in Western Australia wasat Cockburn Civic Centre, where544 brethren assembled for sermonsby regional director Robert Morton, who spoke on the royal priest .hood; Bruce Tyler . on fearing Godand rejoicing and training for eternity ; Ross Death, on Jerusalem the eternal city and handling worry;Richard Ames , from Pasadena. onrulership and the marriage ofChrist; and Lloyd Longley, on childrearing and the New Jerusalem.
Activities included a family picnic, a scenic jet night. river trips , agames-and-sports day, horsebackriding , roller-skating and bowling.Feastgoers took part in a familynight and dance. A child thought tohave rheumatic fever was healed .Bruce Tyler.
PORT MACQUARIE. Australia - Breaking a three-yeardrought, it rained during most of theFeast . A barbecue on the next to lastday was nearly canceled, but afterpraying for good weather , brethrenenjoyed the outing under sunnyskies. Businessmen here commented that the Church must have a"direct line" to heaven.
Stressing the need to increasecontact with God through prayerand Bible study , sermons by regional director Robert Morton, ColinSutcliffe, John Comino, Gary Har vey, Orest Solyma, Russell Coustonand Richard Ames (visiting fromPasadena) focused on the royalpriesthood, seeking counsel, families in the Millennium, the spirit inman , child rear ing and rewards ofthe Church eras .
Once again Feastgoers enthu siastically received the Young Ambassadors film, a Feast tradition afterits second year.
Five hundred brethren attended abeach party with tug-o-war, sandscrambles and sand modeling. Afamily night featured side showstalls, knock- tern-down and golfputt ing, all free of charge . A draw ing competition for children under8, and junior and senior YO Ugroups took place. John Camino .
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand- Attitudes of loveand concern andsunny skies pervaded the 1981 Festival here as 318 brethren enjoyedactivities including a trip on a vintage steamer and stopping for asheep-shearing demonstration . Afamily games afternoon and seniorcitizens' tea also took place.
Feastgoers took part in a dinnerdance. square dance , family eveningand viewed videotapes from Pasadena and the Young Ambassadors
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film.Stirring sermons were given by
Richard Rice , di rector of t heWork's Mail Processing Center inPasadena, who spoke about givingG Jd a good Feast, our awesome destiny and making it into God's Kingdom ; regio nal d irector Pe terNathan spoke abo ut the Bride ofC hrist and the Ne w Jerusalem ;Lyall John ston expl ained God 'sHoly Days, the family and humility;Rex Morgan brough t out lessonsfrom the life of Joseph; Dennis Gordon spoke about physical and spiritual reproduction; and Dennis Richards talked about becoming priest s.Lyall Johnst on.
ROTORUA, New Zealand -
Beautiful weather prevailed formost of tbe Feast as 122 brethrengathered-foTlhe Feast here . Manyexpressed their appreciation for sermons and activities throughout theeight-day period.
Richard Rice,directorofthe MailProcessing Center in Pasadena,spoke on our awcsomedestiny; NewZealand regional director PeterNathan, on the meaningoflife; Gavin Cullen. on marriage; NevilleFraser. on the role of the elderly ; andDon Engle, on the true worshipers .
Activities, focused on familytogetherness, included a senior citizens' outing, ministerial luncheons,free roller-skating (a gift to themembers from the Work here), aYOU Biblestudy and a family afternoon. Don J. Engle .
ASIABAGUIO CITY, Philippines
More than 1,300 brethren assembled at the Baguio Convention Center for the Feast. Pastor GeneralHerbert W. Armstrong's messagesby telephone set the mood for sermons by Jose Raduban, on ourincredible human potent ial, ArthurDocken, on the world tomorrow,Bien Macaraeg Jr ., on God's lawand the Sabbath, Edmond Macaraeg .on aglimpse at godship, Dionisio Catchillar, on steps toward theGod Family and regional directorGuy Ames, on the Philadelphia eraand the Last Great Day.
A lineupof social events includeda senior citizens' social , churchdance , family night, ministerial dinners, a dinner for the 45 overseasvisitors, a widow's luncheon andmarathons and walk-athens.
A one-on-one basketball matchbetween two blind members , JojoPurcil of the Philippines and GarthWardrop of the United States, waswell received . YOU members participated in "Sportsfest '81"; children 2 to 4 took part in a costumeparade ; 5- to 7-year-olds enjoyed achildren 's party ; and 8- to l l-yearolds played Bible bowl.
Christopher Pinelli. 7, son of aManila, Philipp ines. member, wasrushed to the hospital after beingstruck by a hit-and-run driver. Withprospects for the boy's survival dim,Edmond Macaraeg anointed him.Doctors found no broken bcnes andafte r two days Christopher was running and playing again. EdmondMacaraeg.
BENT OTA, Sr i Lanka - Fiftybrethren kept the Feast here at thissite bounded by the Indian Ocean onone side and a river on the oth er .Occasional heavy, overnight rainscooled the air.
A spirit of unit y permeatedthroughout with tremendous loveand concern shown among the
brethren, creating a family-likeatmosphere.
Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong's powerful message on thefirst day went halfway around theworld to this site, with no interruptions. Carlton Green. minister andfood service director of AmbassadorCollege in Pasadena, spoke to thebrethren about overcoming selfishness, the law of God . the yoke ofChrist , the hope of the dead andbeing prepared to pay the price forGod 's Kingdom. Mohan Jayasekera's sermon topics were why wekeep the Feast, lessons from David'slife, turning the hearts of the parents and children to each other, theresponsibility of spiritual Israel andloyalty to God's Church.
Activities centered around thefamily, including, a river cruise,sing-along, a family night with children ente rtaining and a poolsidebarbecue. Mohan Jayasekera.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines Fair and sunny weather greeted 311brethren keeping God's Festivalhere . Preparing for God 's Familywas the theme, as Marcial Billacuradelivered a sermon on learning lessons dur ing the Festival ; regionaldirector Guy Ames , on the significance of God's Holy Days; the cut tureoftheworld tomorrow and family life in God's Church, by PedroMelendez; man's incredible potential , by Mario Dulguime; andArthur Docken, on the events leading to Christ's return .
A videocassette of Herbert W.Armstrong's first day message provided strong meat during the spiritual Feast. Brethren served in thekitchen and dining hall , and helpedbrethren and ministers throughoutthe Festival .
A seniors ' social,children's party,sports and a dance night helpedbrethren fellowship together. Thosebrethren ill dur ing the Festival wereanointed and healed. Marcial L.Billacura.
DON CAR LOS, Philippines Seven hundr ed thirty-six Feast goers here were admonished to fix
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their eyes on God ' s Kingdom .Brethren exhibited a special concern for financially troubled members by accommodating them freeofchargeintheirhomes and insomecases, providing free food.
Pastor General Her bert W . Armstrong's first day message was senton videocassette and was countedthe high poin t of the Festival.Art hur Docken's messages on theworld tomorrow and 100 years intothe Millenn ium were also wellreceived and profitable to the breth ren. Encardi o S . Benitez spoke onthe meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles, healing and God 's Family.Tex Benitez detailed the Millennium .
Several dances and a talent showwere enjoyed by the brethren. YOUmembers decorated and cleaned theFestival hall. Ministers and wivesfellowshipped at several ministerialluncheons. EncardioS. Benite z.
JERUSALEM. tsrael - Morethan 300 brethren from 19countrie sgathered in this city where Christkept the Feast nearly two millenniaago. The majority of the grouparrived at Ben Gurion Airport inLed. Israel, Monday, Oct. 12 afteran overnight flight from New YorkCity and a tour of Athen s, Greece .
The theme of looking forward toand preparing for the Kingdom ofGod was enhanced by tours to biblically historical sites.
Brethren watched Her bert W.Arm strong's opening night messageand on the second day of the Feastheard a tape by intern ational telephone of the pastor general's opening day microwave message. Feastcoordinator Richard Frankel , AIDennis , Dave Johnson , Don Billingsley and Selm er Hegvold spokeon the meaning of the Feast, sacrifices, preparing the world for thesecond resurrection, the analogy oflight , parental responsibilit y to children and overcoming the flesh.
Brethren attended an Israeli andArab song-and-dance fest at theInternationaJ Cultural Center forYouth (ICCY), performed in honorof the Church.
Following the Feast, brethrendeparted for homeorextended toursof the Upper Galilee , Jordan , Egyptand London, England, taking withthem a clear mental picture of whereevents described in the Bible tookplace. Richard Frankel.
NASRAPUR, Indi a - Onehundred thirty-one brethren rejoiced during God's Festival andheard sermons on the meaning ofthe Feasts by Spaulding Kulasingam and Bill Sidn ey. Sermon topicsincluded Church government, Solo-mon's glory, conversion. the Sabbath, tithing, making the Brideready and following God's way.
Herbert W. Armstrong's firstday message was received by telephone from Australia. Feastgoerswatched Mr . Armstrong's telecastMideast: Quest for Peaceand slideshows of Jerusalem, the SolomonIslands and the Ambassador Aud itorium . Three baptism s took place.
Youths enjoyed a dance and gettogether. Many brethren took partin a tour of nearby hills, rivers andvillages. Spaulding Kulas ingam .
PORT DICKSON, Malaysia Stressing that time is short, ColinKelly, John McLean and YongChin Gee exhorted 230 brethrenassembled at Mui Beach Hot elabout our calling, the meaning ofthe Festival , stirring up God' s Spir it, youths in God 's plan, marri agerelationships and education in theworld tomorrow.
The presence of the AmbassadorCollege volunteers working in Thailand lifted the spirit of the brethr en.Overseas visitors were treated toChin ese and Malay dances. MostFeastgoer s participated in a familyevening, fishing compet ition, a getacquainted evening and a barbecu eon the beach . An emotion al farewellcapped off an inspiring Feast ofTabernacles near the Strait of Malacca. Colin Kelly ,
16 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday , Nov. 16,1981
ON THE AIR - Evangelist Dibar Apartian, voice of Le Monde A Venir(French World Tomorrow), is photographed in the Hall of Administrationrad io studio in Pasadena. ....r. Apartian made his 2.000th broadcastbefore the Feast of 'rebemecreaIs'hoto by Michael Snyder]
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Evangelist Joe Tkach repor tedthat international ordinations willbe released later .
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Bible study; Dec. 5, Atlanta. Ga .;Dec. 6. Athens and Gainesville, Ga..combined Bible study; Dec. 8. Copperhill , Tenn.: Dec.9. Chatta nooga,Tenn.
Dec. 10, Rome , Ga.; Dec. II ,Augusta. Ga.; Dec. 12, Columbia.S.C ; Dec. 13. Florence, S.c.; Dec.14, Charleston, S.C .; Dec. IS, Savannah, Oa.: Dec. 16. Macon, Ga.;Dec. 17, Columbus, Ga.: Dec. 19,Montgomery. Ala.
Dec. 23, Tallahassee, Fla.; Dec.24, Moultr ie, Ga.; Dec. 26, Gai nesville and Jacksonville, Fla., combined service; Dec. 28, Orlando,Fla.; Doc. 29, Fort Lauderdale andMiami, Fla., combined service .
'" '" '"PASADEN A - Th e Work's
Mail Process ing Ce nt er ( MPC)here continues to rece ive letters andphone calls acce pting Pastor Gener al Htrbtrt W. Armstrong's chal lenge to show where the Bible saysChristians go to heaven.
Mr . Armstrong ren ewed th echallenge on The World Tomorrowtelecast early in 1981, and morethan 150 letters and phone cal lswere received to date attempting toanswer the challenge, according toRichard Rice, director of M PC.
He noted that nearly one half ofthe responses came from people noton the Work's mailing list.
People usc several scr iptures toassert Chri stian s go to heaven, themost popular ones being the scriptures concerning Enoch and Elijah(II Kings 2:10, the thief on thecross (Luke 23:43) and the tran sfiguration (Matthew 17:2-3) .
The booklets Where are Enochand Elijah and What is the Rewardof the Saved ? are generally sent inanswer to these questions, according to the Work's Personal Correspondence Department. Personswith questions about quotes in thebook of Revelation and other scriptures are answered by personal letters .
The MPC estimates that moreTlaflT;2~plc-bave\Yritten or
phoned to accept Mr . Armstrong' schallenge since he first made it several years ago.
PASADENA - The followingordinations were released by Ministerial Services here .
Ordained preaching elder s in thefall of 1981 were: Jam es Duke , BigSandy; Tom Fitzpatrick , NewYork, N.Y.; Paul Kieffer , Florence.S .C. ; Jim Kissee, Big Sand y; RalphOrr, New Orleans. La.; NorvelPyle. Big Sand y; BernieSehnippert.Las Vegas, Nev.; and l ynn Torrance, Big Sand y.
Ordained local elde rs in theChurch's emp loy were: Ben Faulkner, Pasadena; MikeGreider. Kenosha. Wis .; and Phil Rice, Tul sa.,Okla .
Ordained local church elderswere : Willi am Box. Tuls a, Okla.;Charles Brooks, Evansville, Ind .;Carrol Bryant. Scott Ci ty, Kan.:Elmer Conley , liberal, Kan .; DonConta rdi, Glendale, Calif.; RayCowan.London. Ky.; Norman DesJardins, Portland, Ore.; DennisGentleman , Fairban ks, Alaska;Th omas Grede. West Bend. Wis.
Donald Heber er , S1. louis, Mo.:Lar ry Helscher. G lendale ; JamesHopkins, Columbus, O hio; LeonardJ ame s , Ri ch mond , Va .; EarlKnigh t , Glenda le; Dennis Lindq uis t , Den ver, Co lo .: G eo r gelowes, Albuqu erqu e, N.M.; Mar tin Manu el. Charlotte, N.C.; Donald Mathi e, Wausau , Wis.; Denn isMouland , Flagstaff, Ari z.; VirgiePetcu. S1. Loui s, Mo.; MichaelPi ck ett , An ch or ag e. Al aska;Chalmer Pifer , Champaign, Ill.
Raul Ramos, Brooklyn-Queen s.N.Y.; Everett Rice, Melbourne,
39 ministers ordainedduring 1981 fall season
facilit ies manager for the Church;and Bob Smith. an interior designerfor the Ch ur ch . Mr . Smith isresponsible for the remodeling oftheguest horneonfacultyrow here.and the men 's dormi tory interiors.
Mr. Walker accompanied thegrou p back to Pasadena to preparefor Mr . Armstrong's tr ip to Mexico.
'" '" '"PASADENA - MinisterialServices here released the followingstops on evangelist Gerald Waterhouse's continuing tour .
Dec. I , Gad sden, Ala.; Dec. 2,Anniston, Ala.; Doc. 3, Birmingham and Jasper . Ala., combined
no official French-speaking sites ],we had 2,057 Fren ch- speakingbrethren keeping the Festival in1981 ," he said .
"People now sense a unit y inGod's Church," Mr. Apartian said."Their dedication to God 's Workand His apostle, Mr. Arm strong, isreflected in the Holy Day offerin gs,their att itudes and their earnestlooking forward to being in God 'sKingdom . Trul y this was a remark able Feast of Tabernacles ."
a lunche on in the Faculty DiningRoom . He later addressed a studentassembly, discussing the nature oftru e ed uca t io n and where theworld's institutions have gonewrong.
Accordi ng to the Student Se rvices Office here, several facultymembers and students enjoyed atour of the G~ II jet conducted bycrew members Aaron and MichelleDean. The group received a detailedexplanati on of the plane 's exteriorand interi or , a- well as a look at Mr .Armstr ong's "office in the air."
Mr . Armstrong was accom paniedby evangelist Ellis LaR avia, the
A SPECIAl. BROADCAST OfTHE WORLD TOMORROW.
A special interview and broadcast~osted by Herbert W. Annsfrong
TONIGHT AT9:30 PM ON WOR, CHANNEL 9.
SPECIAL BROADCAST - The above advertisement appeared in NewYork City and Los Angeles, Calif. , area newspapers during the Feast. The
~~:8~~~~r Y~~81~:~f.th~:le.::~:~~::~discussed"eMaaaaiftation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Mr. Armstrong wrote the ad , and BBDO (8atten, Barton, Ourstine & Osborne), theadvertising agency retained by the Work, handled the distribution.
was the first t ime I divided my timebetween two continents," he continued . ,' I spent the first thr ee days inPraz-sur-Arly, France, with 800brethren, and then flew to Hull ,Que ., for the last four days whereanother 800 people were keepingthe Feast."
Nearly 300 brethren kept theFeast in French-speaking Martinique , 270 in Guadeloupe and 31 inHaiti . " Excluding small groups ofbrethren in Africa [where there are
ally double the 1980 response ifpresent trends continue. " The first10 months showed an 84 percentincrease over 1980," Mr . Rice said."The main reason for this increasewas The World Tomorrow program :'
broadcast from the french-speak ing churches in Quebec during theFestival.
"We expect the added broadcasttime to begin a year of growth,"noted the regional director. "Muchmore publicity in magazines willhelp expose the Church and God 'struth to new audiences. and we hopeto resume a French Plain Truthnewsstand program jf_thc:~ doorsopen to us."
BIG SANDY - Ch ancellorHerbert W. Armstrong conducted acampus forum and facult y meetingon the Ambassador College campushere Oct. 28. After arriving in theWork's G-II jet on the colleg e airst rip, Mr . Armstrong was met byDeputy Chancellor Leon Walker ,Deanof Students R.....1dK.lly, andBuck Hammer, director of theBuildings & Grounds Department.Several other faculty members,their wives, students and othersgreeted Mr . Armstrong.
The chancellor conducted aninformal faculty meeting following
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Now into its third decade of continuous broadcasting, Le MonJe AVenir had modest beginnings. Thenan unordained faculty member, Mr .Apartian was working in his officeon the Ambassador College campu shere in 1960 when Pastor GeneralHerbert W. Armstrong dropped bywith a "bombshell!' " Make sixauditi on tapes for Radio Luxembourg in Europe:' he told Mr .Apartian .
" I nearl y panicked, " Mr. Apart ian recalled. " I had no training inbroad cast ing." Radio Luxembourgwas - and still is - one of the mostpowerful stat ions on earth. Anyproduc t the y would accept must beprofessional, he thought.
He had just completed translations of Why Were You Born andbooklets on faith and healing , sothose became the original scripts .No French equival ent exists of Mr .Armstrong 's opening, " Well, greet ings, friends!", but as the evangelistpondered and prayed, he suddenlythought of an old French expres sion, A bon es uendeur Salutl Itbecam e the opening phrase of thenewly commissioned program.
The aud it ion tape s were accept ed, and I.e Monde AVeni,began thundering out on the million-wan Radio luxembourg. l ater, the program aired on Ly- million-wan Radio Europe No. I andstations in Fren ch-speaking Canadaand the Car ibbean . Budget cut stook the program off Rad io Lu xem bourg in 1977, but time "miraculously opened up" on the stati onafter Radio Europe No. I closed itsdoor s to religious programing inMarch , 1981. Th e program now airsboth on short wave and longwavefrequencies,
Mr. Aparti an was honor ed with aplaque commemorating his 2,000th
PASADENA - Pastor GeneralHerbert W. Armstrong's televisionspecial about the assassination ofEgyptian President Anwar Sadatwas the major contributing factor ina record response of more than25,000 telephone calls during theFestival , reported Richard Rice.director of the Mail ProcessingCenter here .
The response was a 273 percentincrease over the 1980 Festival peri od. The World Tomorrow programabout President Sadat (see advertisement below) drew " the largestever Sunday telephone response "Oct. 18. Mr . Rice continued. Henoted that ISOvolunteers from thePas adena Festival si te helpedanswer the many calls on the Work'sWide Area Telephone Service(WATS) lines. "Without them," headded. " it would have been impossible to handle so many calls."
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in French-speaking areasPASADENA - The evangelist
watched the radio engineer countdown the seconds in the Hall ofAdministration studio here, untilthe engineer pointed and said ,"You're on the air ."
The evangelist immediatelyleaned forward and spoke: " A bonentendeur Salut!" ("To those whohave ears, greetings! ") Dibar Aparnen. regional director for God's
• Work in french-Speaking countries , had begun his 2,000th broadcast of u MonJ~ A ventr. theFrench-language World Tomorrow.