OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD

HWA visits Nepal; Bangladesh;

meets royalty, national officials

Income increase rises,

says Church trea surer

VISIT WITHROYALTV - Nepal's King Biren dra Bir Bikram Shah Dev andQueen Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Shah Devi greet Pastor Gen eral HerbertW. Armstrong at the royal palace in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nov. 15 . Mr.Armstrong first met the king in 1971 when hewas crown princ e. (Ph oto byLarry Omasta)

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con ditions will worsen, but God 'spower and authori ty will final lybrin g peace.. After the banquet end ed, one ofth e gues ts co m me nt ed : " Thatwasn't ju st Mr . Arm str ong talking- he is not th at strong. Th at was amessage from God ."

Friday, Nov . 16, Mr . Arm strongmet with Mr. Pradhan and FattehSi ngh Thoru, minister of edu cat ionand culture, for a luncheon meet ­ing.

During the meetin g th e govern­ment min isters present ed a projec tpr oposal. As c hai r ma n of t heAmbassado r Foundation, Mr . Arm­st ro ng agreed to conside r assisti ngthe Nepal government.

Afte r lunch the group dr ove toth e airport for the flight to Bangla­desh .

Since th e night plan took theG-1I1 over the Himal ayas, a fewflight adju stments wer e made andthe plane flew within 5 miles (8kilometers) of the highest point onea rth: Mt. Everest. It was a remark­able sight.

Return to Bangladesh

T he G -I ll touched down in Dac­ca , Bangladesh, at 3:30 p.rn., whereM r . Armstron g wa s officiall yrec ei ved by A mb assad or Kaz iAnwarul Masud , d irect or general of

. th e agency that coordinates aid andtr ade from Europe and th e Ameri ­cas. Also from the same office wer eSyed S hah Moha mmad Ali andShah Alam . Mr. Alam accompaniedthe gro up throughout Mr. Arm ­strong's visit in Bangladesh.

From the airport's VIP loungethe group was dr iven to the So nar­gaon Hotel. where a booklet outlin­ing the trip itinerar y was prese nted .

S ince 83 perce nt of Bangladesh' sinhabitant s are Moslems (althoughthe state is not officially a Moslemnation) and Friday is the Mos lemholy day , no further act ivit ies werescheduled.

Sabbath, Nov . 17, Abdul MajeedKhan, the Bangladesh mini st er ofedu ca tion , visited Mr. Arm str ong.Mr. Armstrong recalled his 1972visit to Bangladesh after the nationgained independence, and said hewas glad to see impr ovem ent in thewelfare of Banglade sh's people.

The minister explai ned th at Ban­lSee HWA. page 31

abo ut th e 1985 bud get, and is now inthe proces s of prepar ing th e bud getbased on his gu ideli nes.

The budge t process always seem sto be difficult for everyo ne con­cerned. All departments have need sthat they try to fit with in the allot tedsum. How to fit within this amountusually requi res a lot of j uggling ofnumbe rs unti l everything fits best,and with in th e assig ned limitations.

Th e budget team is wrestlin gwith th is problem now; the de part­me nts will be do ing thi s duri ng thenext few days. We hope that theprocess will be accelerated this yearover previous year s by new dep art ­ment al access to th e budg et area inthe mainframe com puter.

From comments made to me , Iknow th at many of you are prayi ngdaily for improved financial condi­tions and also for th ose of us whowork with the financial affair s of theC hurch. For thi s we want to expr essour appreciation and th anks . Th eprayers of God 's servants br ing realresult s when the y are heartfelt andearnest. I hope th at you will contin­ue in your concern and in suchreque sts to God .

introd uced to Mr. Armstrong asthey ar rived at th e hall.

After a buffet dinner. Mr . Arm­strong addressed th e group. Th eC hurc h telev ision crew videotapedthe meeting, and Mr . Armstrongplans to include segments of hisaddress in a World Tom orrow pro­gram.

In his 30-minute talk th e pastor ·general explained the cau se of allhuman trou bles and the ir subse­qu ent solution. Mr. Armstrong toldthe group he did not expect them tobelieve or follow him , but that hisjo b is to declare to them that th eGod who cr eated all hum an ity isgoing to int erven e and set up HisKingdom on this earth.

Co nti nuing his explanation of thetrue Gospe l, Mr . Arm str ong addedthat befo re God int ervenes, human

Evangelis t Leroy Neffis trea­surer of the Worldwide Churcho/ God.

The increase over last Novemberwas 26 .3 percen t, while th e incr easein regul ar co ntr ibut ions for themonth was only 14 perce nt. Th isencourag ing increase is prim aril y aresult of excess personal Fest ivaltith es turned in af'ter or at the end ofthe Feast of T abern acles. Most con­trib uto rs of such funds pro bably donot realize how the y could affect amont h's income so muc h.

A month ago, at the end of Octo­ber , the year -to-da te income was 15percent more th an 1983. Add ingNovember, the incr ease for 1984 isI 5.9 percent. It is hoped that thisslight upward t rend will continue.or even incre ase by the end of theyear .

Th e budget team met with PastorGeneral Herbert W. Arm st ron g

By Leroy NeffPASAD EN A - November was

the best mont h for income, from apercentage point of view, that theC hurch has had for a long time .

Banquet honor

T hat evening th e foreig n ministerwas host to a banquet in Mr . Arm­stro ng's honor at the Oberi e Hotel.

O ne hu ndred lead ing govern­ment ministe rs and educators were

197 I when he was crown prince , andin 197 3 after he had become king.

T he pastor general last met withthe king and quee n at a Los An geles(C a liL) Wor ld Arrairs Councilmeet ing Dec . 15, 1983 (Sec: " Up­date:' WN. Jan . 2).

Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Deanwere escorted into a privat e roomwhere form aliti es were exchanged,and the pastor general presented adiplomatic gift of Steuben crystalcal led Pyram idon .

The cr yst al is a multifacetedpiece rising up off a free -spinningplatform. Although not planned thisway, the group noticed th at the crys­tal st rongly resembles the top ofMt.Everes t, Nepal 's famous landmar k.

After some discussion , the Japa ­nese am bassador to Ne pal and Sen .Sato were invited into th e privatemeet ing.

Mr. Armst rong . was as ked toexp lain the acti vit ies of the Ambas­sador Found at ion . He discussed th eprojec ts of the found ation world ­wide and showed that while God'sintervention alone can solve theworld 's problems, the founda tion iscommitt ed to easing world prob­lems and tensions wher e possible.

The king and queen served teaand cakes . They expressed apprecia­tion for whatever Mr. Arm str ongfelt he could do to assist thedevelop­men t of thei r country. They werealso surprised that Mr . Armstrongwould devote himse lf to so muchtr avel at the augu st age of 92. Afterthe hourl ong meeting th e groupreturned to the hotel.

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fruit edible by man and beast andprovides protect ion against erosion.Th e branch es can be used for bas­ketw eavia g and the trunk for fire­wood .

Gen. Ran a explained how oneNe palese woman dramat ically im­proved her standard of living bydeveloping an orc hard of 7.500 ofthese t rees . The general hoped tohire people who could teach otherN epalese to achieve as this onewoman did .

Many Nepale se famities givebirth to additional children so theycan cultivate more land . Since thisadds to Nepal's popula tion problem ,the government is sett ing up birthcontro l cli nics . Th e governmentprovides classes in animal husband­ry and farming to lessen the need foradditional labor .

N e pal ope ra tes 16 technicalschools that teach general mech an­ics, agricu lture , tailoring (for girls) ,pipe fitt ing and auto repair.

After the disc ussion ended thegro up retur ned to th e Ober ieHotel .

At 4:45 p.m. Mr . Armstrong wasvisited in his hotel suite by Art saTulku , a Tibetan and professor ofancient history at Magadha Univer­sity in Indi a. his wife and son .

Dr . Tulk u helped ar range a t rip toBhut an by evangeli st Herman L.Hoeh, editor of The Plain Truth ;John Halford, a senior writer forTh e Plain Truth; and Leon Sext on,a repr esent at ive of the AmbassadorFounda tion (see "Upda te:' WN ,Nov . 26).

Mr . Arm str ong was invited tomake th e tri p, but dec lined becauseor the high altitude (9.000 ree l) orBhu tan 's capi tal .

Dr. T ulku descr ibed Bhu tan as aliving museum , since it is in nationalinfancy so far as employing modernsc ience and tec hnology . Bhut anesta blished its first school in 1967and is caut iously mer ging into the20th century .

Sin ce Eng lish is being estab­lished as the primary lan gua geth ere, Bhut an officia ls have ex­pr essed an inte re s t in hav in gAmbassado r Co llege students serveas inst ruc tors.

Before leaving, Dr. Tul ku pre­sented Mr . Armstro ng with a woodand ivory plaqu e portraying KingShah Jahan and Q ueen MumtazMah al , who ru led Ind ia in the1600>.The king buil l the Taj Mahalas a mau soleum in memory of thequeen , who died in chi ldbir th inA .D. 1631.

T hur sday, Nov. I S, was a busyday for the pastor general . At 2 p.m.Mr . Ar mstr ong went to mee t withLokend ra Bahadur Ch and , prim emini ster of Nepal.

Because th e dist ance was too farfor Mr. Arm str ong, he elect ed towait in a nearb y room and let Mr .Dean keep th e appoin tme nt with thepri me minister .

Wh en he learned of the sit uation,the prime ministe r walked fro m hisoffice to see Mr. Armst rong wherehe had stopped . During the meet ingthe two discussed prob lems facingNep al and other nati ons.

A royal meeting

At 4 p.m. the group dr ove up tothe royal palace for a meet ing withKing Birendr a and Queen Ais hwar­ya. Mr . Arm strong met the king in

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By Aaron K. DeanKATHMANDU. Nepal - Pas­

tor Ge neral He rber t W. Arms t rongarri ved at the Tribhuvan Ai rpo rt inNepal 's ca pital city Nov. 13 fromHong Kong.

Barriers 10 growlh

A rcliefmapof Nepal was laid outin a bu ilding on the grounds to showthe vast topographic al differ ences ofa count ry with low valleys and thecrests of the Himalaya Mount ains.

Barrie rs to Nepal's development ,the general explained , include thelack of tr anspo rtat ion faci lities. It isdiffi cult to bu ild roads throughmountains towe ring tens of thou­sands of feet in the ai r.

Eight y-one languages are spokenin Nepal , with Nepali being th emost common. Illi ter acy is high ,and there is a strong need for healthand sanitation educat ion, the grouplearned.

Twe nty-fou r perc ent of Nep al' s16 mi llion inhabitant s are less than 5years old , and 40 perc ent are lessth an 14. There are 2,500 birth s inNepa l each day.

T he king and qu een of N epal takean inte rest in th eir peo ple similar tothe inte rest displayed by the kingand queen of T hailand.

Each year, King Bire ndr a sets upa tent city in one of the province s ofNepal. For two to three mon ths hetr avels to various part s of the prov­ince by helicopter. car or on foot tosee the people. He is able to coverNepal every five years.

The group was teld about a treeplanted in the hills that produces

Aaron K. Dean. a pastor-rankmi nister. ls Pastor General Her­bert W. Arms trong's personalaide .

Nepa l. a mountainous countrythe size of North Carolina. bor­der ing Indi a on the south and Tibeton the north, was th e next stop onMr . Arm strong's five-week tour ofth e O rient and Asia. (See " Christ' sApostle in the Ori ent ," WN. Nov.26.)

landing in the C hurch's G-Ill jelat 3:30 p.m., Mr. Armstrong wasmet by Bishwa Pradh an, foreignsecretary of N epal ; Major Ge neralAditya Rana, chi ef of protocol andaide-de-camp to Ne pal's KingBirend ra Bir Bikram Sh ah Dev andQ uee n A ishw ar ya Raj ya Laxm iShah Devi; and other govern mentand c ivic officials. Sen . Eisako Satoof the upper house of th e J apaneseDiet acco mpan ied Mr. Ar mstr ongon th is leg of the trip.

Th at evening Mr. Armstrong andhis entourage were gues ts at thehome of Gen . Ran a. Nepalese cui ­sine was served , but with less hotspices to acco mmoda te the group'sWestern palates .

Al I I a.m. Wed nesday, Nov. 14,Mr . Armstr ong met with Mr . Prad­han, who gave him a cop y ofhis bookNepal: a Peace Z one.

The fore ign mini st er said hewould like to send his son to Ambas­sado r Co llege in Pasadena nextyear .

Afte r lun ch Mr . Ar mst rong wasdrive n to the exhibitio n ground swhere Gen. Ran a ar ra nged a displayof the activi ties of the Nepal SocialS erv ices N ati on al Coo rdi nati ngCom mitt ee (SS NCC).

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Politics off amine in 30African countries communist rule . An estimated 5200to $250 million were spent on thefestivities. The government refu sedto p" mil journalists attending thecelebrati on s to vis it drough t­affected areas.

Aft er the big party was over (atwhich Co l. Men gist u del ivered aseven-hour speec h, but d id not men­tion the famine directly), the gov­ern ment began to go public with theburg eon ing d isaste r. Relief aid wasad mitt ed from th e " imper ialist"West. But her e, too, the Addi s Aba­ba authori ties shrewd ly managedth e oper ati on.

"The sad truth," reported th eNov. II Los Angeles Tim es. "is th atthe famine struck first in rebelli ousTigre and Eritrea, and that the cen­tral government apparently d id notcare whether people there starved todeath or not. It has only been sincetbe famine spread southward, aspeople pushed out of their remotemountain villages in search of foodand the famine has come close to thecapital, that the government hasbeen prompted to make a trul y seri­ous appeal for help .

"So a British Broadcasting Corp.film crew was allowed into the area,

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perceptive than others. Some ar emore willing to give the Gospel aproper hearing.

Notice what Luke wrote aboutthe Berean brethren. " N ow theseJews were more noble than those inThessalonica., for they received theword with all eagerness, examiningthe scriptures dai ly to see if thes ethings were so" (Acts 11:II, RSY ).

Certain groups may be morereceptive to God 's message thanot hers . Europe, as a whole , has notresponded to the Gospel as theChurch wou ld like .

There are a number of reaso ns forthis . History is an impo rtant factor .Europe has enjoyed 1,000 years ofmodern his tory. For instance, mod­ern British history is gener ally reck­oned from A.D . 1066 - the date ofthe Norman conquest. By compari­son, the Un ited States and Com­monwealth nat ions are young .

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Men gistu Haile M ariam and severalrebel armies who are in pitched bat ­t le agai ns t h is co mmunis t ru le .M an y of the starvi ng people areca ug ht in the co ntes ted areas , espe­cia lly in the nor th wher e at leastt hree armed groups ar e fighting thegovernme nt.

For a long ti me th e Marxist cen­t ral govern ment was reluctant to

European DiaryBy John Ross Schroeder

FttStfilmsThank you so very much for such an

uplifting Feast. Beforethe Feast,our sonwas indifferent about keeping God'sHoly Days. Now, after the YOU film[Bdind tile Work - tile Hearts a/rileChildren], his attitude is just so differ­ent. You have made God's Kingdomcome alive for him. He has alwaysbeenblessed with a good understanding, butnow he sayshe really understands.

Name withheld

Peggy E. WhiteFPO.N .Y.

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The film about the Summer Educa­tional Program shown at the Feast ofTabernacles was an eye-opener, I'vebeen a member of the Church for tenyears and have never really understoodwhat the camps were about. I had envi­sioned them much as the world's sum­mer camps, just with Bible study, etc.After all, what could a few weeks in achild's life reallycontribute towards his/her improvement?

Well, I found out, without a doubt, itis planting a seed in thosechildren whichwill matu re to lead them into God'sKingdom eventually.

I thank God for giving you (PastorGeneral Herbert W. Armstrong] thewisdom to see the need of such a pro­gram.

I I-yea r old respondsI've seen your films at the Feast. I

thought they were great. I can under­(See L ETTERS. page 4)

even admit the growing crisis ,which was threatening the lives ofup to one fifth of Ethiopia's 35 mil­lion peop le.

All duri ng Se ptember Co l. Me n­gistu and his staff were busy prepar­ing, not for famine relief, but for the10th-anniversa ry celebration of

LettersTO THE EDITOR

BOREHAMWOOD, England- Jesus Christ commissioned Hisapostles to preach the Gospel on aglobal basis as a warning and a wit­ness . And inevitably a few wouldrepent, become disciples and be ~

added to the worldwide Ch urch(Matthew 28:19) .

Th e Gospel message to everynation is the same. True brethrenrespond in much the same manner.Jesus said: "My sheep hear myvoice , and I know them, and theyfollow me ; and I give them eternallife" (J ohn 10:21-28, Revised St an ­dard Version) .

And yet there are cultural d iffer­ences in continents and nations.Some peoples are more spiritually

Europe and the Gosp el

crops. Na tions suffer ing most fro mthe fami ne - Ethiopia, Mozam­bique, C had and Angola - havebeen embroiled in ci vil war foryea rs .

h is no coincide nce th at in themarch of end-time prophetic even tsfam ines and pesti lences follow, intime seq uence, after " nat ion willrise agai nst nation, and kingdom

aga inst kingdom" (Matthew 24:7,Revised Authorized Version) .

Poli tics first

Ethiopia is probably the worstcase of the link between famine andcivil unrest - a dramatic exampleof politics first .

The famine in the anc ient EastAf rican nat ion is greatly intensifiedbecause of the vario us wars betweenthe central government of Lt. Col.

weRLDWATCHBy Gene H. Hogberg .

sin demands the upper hand , a voicedeep withi n cries out: " Walk awayfrom it all. Pack it in, mate! Escape!Why put up with it? Run away! Youdon't have to take it. Do somethingdrastic." Didn't Satan say that whenhe tempted Christ in Luke 4?

David, overwhelmed by the evil inhis heart, cried out : " Awake! Why doYou sleep, 0 Lord ? Arise! Donot castus off forever . Whydo You hide Yourface, And forget our affliction and ouroppression?" (Psalm 44:23-24. Re­vised Authorized Version) ,

Doesit amazeyou that great menofGod facedthe sallie battles you and Iface today ? The B;l)lcsays: " Beloved,do not think it strange concerning thefiery trial which is to try you, asthough some strange thing happenedto you; but rejoice to the extent thatyou partake of Christ's suffe rings ,that when His glory is revealed, youmay also be glad with exceeding joy"(I Peter4:12-I3,RAY).

T his is not tosay that we experiencespontaneous pleasu re while we aresuffering . " Now no chast ening seemsto bejoyf ul for the present, but griev ­ous ; neverthe less, afte rward it yieldsthe peaceab le fruit of right eousness tothose who have been trai ned by it"(Hebrews 12:11. RAY). We canrejoice ino ur trials.

But how, weask, withal! our woes?We know that God realizes what is

happening to us, that He is not tryingto be mean or cruel and that He has aplan behind the expe rience , a plan forour well-being . We can and sho ulddeliberately thank Him, not for thesuffering itself, but for His faithfulcontrol of it and His blessed purposein allowing it. Remember, God ismerciful.

And what is the purpose behind thesuffering? Suffering produces endur­ance. Enduring faith is necessar y forus (see Matthew 10:22). And endur­ance produ ces character . Indi vidualcharacter is forged on an anvil of pain .It is not mass produced.

Purest gold is produced by heat ,heat carefullyand repeatedly applied .

After exhorting us to rejoice intrial s because the y produce stead fast­ness, Jame s writes, " But let patiencehave her perfect work , t hat ye may beperfect and entire, wanting noth ing"(James 1:4) .

He is talkin gabout character build­ing, hint ing that there is no shortcut toit. Ste adfast faith is itself a road to agoal - the goal of a mature, stable,rounded character. We lack such per­feet character. To build it within us isGod' s goal. His project will continuethroughout our lives,and occasional lywill invoke some pain .

Rejoice - God has molded justthat much more golden character inyour life.

the door . Work harder than ever tostrive for and keepagood mar riage .

The othe r secret struggles in ourpersonal C bristian lives are just ascritical. The inner battles of many inGod 's Church today are stagge ring inintensity and proportion. H undredsare involved in situations too hard tocomprehend.

Like King David, the psalm ist ,whocried out: "Hear my prayer , 0 Lord,give ear to my supplications : in thyfaithf ulness answer me, and in thyrig hteousness . . . For the enemyhath persecu ted my soul; he hathsmitten my lifedown to the grou nd; hehath made me to dwell in darkness, asthose that have been long dead .Therefore is my spirit overwhel medwith in me;my heart with in me isdeso­late" (Psalm 143:1,3-4).

We all have seasons of despai r,accompanied by feelings of failure .Attimes we have all thought of quitting.

Why do we feel like giving up attimes? Mostly because we act as ifGod has turned His back on us. Wedon't doubt His existence or His real­ity, but our prayers seem to go unan­swered . We cr y out for His help , insuch desperation,and Heseems not tohear .

We struggle along , making onemistake after another. We makepromi ses to do better ; we study intoHis Word, we cry and pray, and helpothers anddogood. But wearesooftenleft with an empty, unfulfilled sensa­tion.

The promises of God haunt us. Weclaim those promi ses in what webelieve is honest, childlike faith , buttime after time we fail to receive whatwe ask for , In time of temptati on,downwego!

Doubt creeps in and Satan whis­pers, "Nothing works, docs it? Faithin God doesn't produce any result s. Inspite ofyour tears, praye rs and trust inGod 's Word, nothing really changes.Days, weeks and even years go by andyour prayers, hopes and d reams arest ill unanswered and unfulfilled .Quit! Give up!"

Every member of God 's Churchreaches that crisis point at one time orano ther , And in that moment . whenthe walls seem to be coming apart and

than a century ago about half ofEthiopia had forest cover. No w,only 3 percent of the sur face is cov­ered by fores ts .

Result of wrong policies

Govern me ntal misdi rec tio n playsan equally significant role in Afr i­ca' s mounting food cri sis. Through­out the continent, since politi calindependence, agriculture has beensorel y neglected, often in favor ofill-chosen industrial development .

In addition, leaders coveting thepolitical allegiance of the urbanmasses have found it expedient toclam p price controls on the ruralfood growers, discouraging produc­tion .

As a consequence , farmers haveabandoned the fertile countrysidesand joined the swollen ranks ofurban dwellers . . Most Africannations, once self-sufficient in foodprod uction, have become net foodimpo rte rs .

Grain from abroad feeds abo utone fourth of Africa 's 513 millio npeople - placing additional strainson agricult ure in the deve lopedworld aswell.

Wars and civil unrest further dis­rupt the planting and harvesting of

:J l.l4t ~nuM~By Dexter H. Faulkner

No pain, no gainDriving to work th is morning I saw

a bumper sticker on a car that read," Leave me alone , I'm having acrisis."(laughed, and smiled at the driver as Ipassed him .

Life is full of crises, some big andsome small. Sometimes it seems we'reboxed in by problems.

If you've ever seen Marcel Mar ­ceau do his act , it's easy to believe hereally is in an invisible box.

The great mime , master of bodymovement, runs his hands along eachwall of the unseen structure until youhave a mental image of its exact sizeand shape .' The audience waits withantic ipatio n for him to find the hiddenexit that everyone knows he will even­tuallyfind .

Have you ever felt like you were inMarcel Marceau's invisible box, withone important difference - yoursdidn 't have a door? Sometimes ourproblems canso box us in, there seemsto be noescape.

Th ere are man y who , at thi smoment, are on the vergeofgiving up ,The y can't understand what is hap­pening to them , to their mar riages , totheir jobs , to the ir families . Some ­th ing is missing , and try as they will,they simply cann ot find the key tomake th ings work out right.

How man y hours have been spenttr ying to figure out where things wentwrong ? The magic is gone . Theroman ce is gone . The communicationis gone. In th eir places are arguments,quest ions, suspicions, innuendos,cut­ting remarks.

A brokenhearted member wrote :"Sir, I just can' t believe it' s hap­

pening to me. I was so secure, feelingsorry for all those others who seemedto behaving so many problem s. Neverdid I imagin e our marriage couldcrumble. I was too intell igent , toomuch into giving and sharing. NowI'm a victim of thi s cu rse of divorce .It's a shauering experience,"

I'm convinced Satan is det erminedto break up marr iages in God 'sCh urch. It's a well-p lanned attack oneven the best of marriages . If Sa tancan get the strongest , most adm iredmar riages broke n up, the weaker oneswill be tempted to quit struggling andgive up. Don't let Satan get a foot in

PASAD ENA - In the past sev­eral weeks , famin e in East Afri cabu rst into th e headl ines.

Tel evised news accounts of thesuffering of hundreds of thousan dsof sta rving Ethiopia n peasa ntslaunched an unprecede nted inte rna­tional fam ine reli ef .

Whil e the plight of Eth iopi areceives the most attention, 300thercountries in Africa are affected bydrOUg~tandf: tn-one degree oranother .

_~ grim fact is. there are twobroad famine belt s, one runn ingjustbelow the Sahara. span ning the con­tinent from east to west, togetherwith another band st retching alongthe east coast, from the Horn ofAfrica down almost to the tip of thecontinent. Toge ther, the tworegions are suffe ring the worst farn­inc in African history .

An immediate cause of the multi­ple famines is, na turally, drought.But other more fundamental facto rslie at the root of the crisis. First ofall, there is widespread abuse of theland, specifically deforestation,overgrazing and improper cultiva­tion techniques.

In Ethiopia, deforestati on hasruined much of the country. Less

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Pastor General's Itinerary

NEPAL'S KINO:- Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong meets with KingBirendra Nov. 15 in the royal palace in Kathmandu, Nepal. Mr. Armstronggave the king a diplomatic gift of Steuben crystal called Pyramidon.(Photo by Larry Omasta]

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gladesh operates six universities,2.500 high schools and 42.000 pri­mary schools among 68,000 vil­lages. These schools serve a popula­tion of 100 million .

The literacy rate, he said, is esti­mated at 20 percent, but actuallyrests around the 2 percent level.

Bangladesh also has a populationproblem, and the government isencouraging family planning.

The education minister said thatBangladesh wants to build moreschool buildings of simple construc­tion using corrugated tin walls.

He said that one building con­structed t 10 feet by 20 feet could hedivided into four or five classroomsto serve 250 to 300 students andwould also serve as a communitycenter.

PnctieaJ kno"l<dg.Students must learn to read,

write and do math with an agricul­tural emphasis. He said that if chil­dren tell their parents that they arelearning about geography, poetry orother nonagricultural subjects, theparents will pull the children out ofschool, since the knowledge has nopractical value toward improvingfamily agriculture.

For the parents to encourage

Oct. 30: Leaves Burbank. Calif.,airport. Stops for fuel in ColdBay, Alaska.Oct. 31: Arrives at Narita Air­port outside of Tokyo, Japan.Noy. 1: Addresses more than1,700 upper managers of theJapan Life Co. Receives visitfrom Jordanian AmbassadorSa'ad Batainah. Hasdinner withsome of his Japanese "sons" andthe Jordanian ambassador toJapan and his wife.NOt". 1: Visits Prince Mikasa.Meets with Ambassador ArthurBasnayake of Sri Lanka to dis­cuss Mr . Armstrong's scheduledvisit to Sri Lanka.No,. 3: Conducts informal Biblestudy with his traveling partyand members of the G·III crew.Visits the Israeli Embassy at theinvitation of Ambassador Am­non Ben-Yohanan and his wife.Noy. 4: Meets with AmbassadorBadri P. Shreshtha from Nepal.Receives visit from Tufail K.Haider, charge d'affaires of theBangladesh Embassy in Tokyo .Nev, 5: Leaves for Beijing, Chi­na. Met at Beijing airport by anofficial delegation representingthe Soong Ching Ling (SCl)Foundation and the ChinesePeople 's Association for Friend­ship With Foreign Countries.Attends dinner in the Great Hallof the People.NOl. 6: Attends a dance perfor­mance by the Nationality Songand Dance Troupe. Tours theformer residence of the lateMadame Soong Ching Ling,now SCL foundation headquar­ters, and museum and memorialto her.NOl. 7: Meets with Deng Xiao­ping, the recognized leader ofChina, at the Great Hall of thePeople. Meets with Zhou Erfu ,vice president of the FriendshipAssociation. Is host to a banquetfor the Chinese officials whowere hosts to the group duringtheir stay in Beijing .Noy. 8: Leaves for Shanghai,China. Visits the Soong ChingLing memorial tomb .Noy. 9: - Attends a luncheongiven by Mayor Wang. Goesto Shanghai Children's Palacefor a performance by the Lit­tle Ambassadors FromShanghai.Nov, 10: Conducts Bible studyfor his group and the television

school attendance, children mustlearn animal husbandry. how to readweather reports and other subjectsuseful in developing the familyfarm.

Mr. Armstrong talked aboutImperial Schools and AmbassadorCollege ; and the need to properlytrain our children.

Continuing the discussion, thepastor general talked of world peaceand the problems of mankind.

At the end of the discussion, theeducation minister said, "Even ifyou do not contribute any money toBangladesh, your ideas on worldpeace and your concern for us areworth a billion dollars."

Before leaving , the educationminister asked if Mr . Armstrongwould like to see one of the ruralschools . The pastor general said yes,and a visit was arranged for Sundayafternoon, Nov. 18.

The group returned to the hotelwhere Mr . Armstrong conducted aBible study for six members of histraveling group. It was an inspiringexperience to go through the bookofEphesians with Christ's apostle.

The pastor general pointed outmany items that the Church mayhave overlooked in the past. Ephe­sians is full of verses showing theimportance of our relationship withand our reliance on God . and wherethis world ignores God .

Sunday. Nov . 18. Mr . Armstrong

crew . Attends farewell banquetat the Jing Jiang Club.No,. 11: Attends performanceby the Shanghai AcrobaticTroupe. leaves for Hong Kong.Noy. 12: Rest stop in HongKong.Noy. 13: Arrives in Kathmandu,Nepal. Is a guest in the home ofGen . Aditya Rana, chief of pro--tocol. _No,. 14: Meets with BishwaPradhan, foreign secretary ofNepal . Visits a display of theactivities of the Nepal SocialServices National CoordfnatingCommittee (SSNCC) arrangedby Gen. Rana. Receives visitfrom Artsa Tulku, a professor ofancient history at Magadha Uni­versity in India, his wife andson.Nov. 15: Meets with LckendraBahadur Chand, prime ministerof Nepal. Meets with KingBirendra Bir Bikram Shah Devand Queen Aishwarya RajyaLaxmi Devi Shah nf Nepal. At­tends a banquet conducted byForeign Minister Pradhan, andaddresses the group there.Noy. 16: Meets with Mr . Prad­han and Fatteh Singh Thoru,minister of education and cul­ture . Leaves for Bangladesh. Ismet in Dacca by AmbassadorKazi Anwarul Masud, directorgeneral of the agency that coor­dinates aid and trade fromEurope and the Americas.Noy. 17: Receives visit fromAbdul Majeed Khan, the Ban­gladesh minister of education.Conducts a Bible study for mem ­bers of his traveling group .Noy. 18: Visits Ataur RahmanKhan, prime minister of Bangla­desh. Visits Pan Para Govern­ment School with Akhtari Beg­um, director of primary educa­tion in Bangladesh.Noy. 19: Meets with Janab FaraqChoudhury. assistant to ForeignMinister Humayun RasheedChoudhury. Attends a dinnerconducted by the BangladeshForeign Ministry. Returns atoast and speaks for about 20minutes on the causes of human­ity's problems.Noy. 20: Meets with the presi ­dent and chief martial lawadministrator, Gen. H.M . Er­shad . Meets with Foreign Minis ­ter Humayun Rasheed Choud­hury . Leaves for Sri Lanka .

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and the group called on Ataur Rah­man Khan, prime minister of Ban­gladesh, in his office at the maingovernment building.

Theprin.. ""RIster, 80, toldMr.Armstrong that he was impressedwith tile work the pastor general isdoing throughout the world.

He began a discussion of prob­lems faced by Bangladesh, and Mr .Armstrong explained the primarycause of those troubles, quoting textfrom both the Bible and the Koran,the Moslem holy book.

The houdong meeting endedwith the prime minister asking Mr.Armstrong the secret as to how heremains so active at 92.

Mr. Armstrong replied that inaddition to observing dietary andhealth laws, one must keep his mindactive.

After lunc~ at the hotel the group.was joined by Mrs . Akhtari Begum.director of primary education inBangladesh, for the scheduled visitto arural school.

Flat tireAfter an hour's drive to the vil­

lage of Savar, the group arrived atthe Pan Para Government School by3:15 p.m. The road the group trav­eled on was definitely not designedfor modem transportation, as thegroup traversed crude highways,brick roads, dirt roads and trailswith water on each side.

The government Mercedes thatMr . Armstrong was riding in blew atire before we arrived (see Mr .Armstrong's Nov. 19 member andco-worker letter). The tire wasquickly changed by the governmentpolice escort that accompanied thepastor general.

The school was pathetic by West­ern standards. Child ren met in awood-framed building with raggedpatches of thatched grass serving aswindow panes .

The walls and roof were made ofcorrugated tin, and the floor insidewas reddish clay dif1.J)e group wastold that this earth must be swept upduring the rainy ~n. .

About 370 students aged 6to 13attend the school, which employsfour teachers. The school servesabout 3.000 people of a nearby vil­lage.

One class was reading from usedbooks while another studied third­grade mathematics in another room.About 150 students sat outside onthe grass.

The group learned that the schooloperates in shifts . Mr . Armstrongcommented that even though theschool was a humble start, it was astart. He was moved by the need foreven this humble a school building.

Before leaving, the group learnedthat of Bangladesh's 100 millionpopulation about 10 percent are eli­gible to attend school.

On tbe drive back to the hotel, asMr . Armstrong wrote to brethren inhis co-worker letter, a tree root inthe road caught the muffler on theMercedes in which he was ridingand ripped off the exhaust. Thepolice escort threw the exhaust pipein the back of a truck, and the groupcontinued on.

Ambassador tumed foreign minister

Monday, Nov . 19, Mr . Arm ­strong and the group were driven tothe office of Foreign MinisterHumayun Rasheed Choudhury fora noon appointment.

The foreign minister, sponsor ofMr. Armstrong's visit. has served asthe Bangladesh ambassador to theUnited States. Mr . Armstrong methim in Washington, D.C. (see "Pas­tor General Visits the WhiteHouse," WN. June 4), and enjoyeda good.discussion with him.

It was unfortunate that the for­eign minister was detained in north­ern Bangladesh and could not makethe appointment. In his place thepastor general met with the foreignminister's assistant, Janab FaraqChoudhury. .

Hecordially welcomed Mr . Arm­strong on behalf of the foreign min­ister and talked of the needs of Ban­gladesh . Although he was well

aware of the educational needs ofBangladesh. he said that he hopedthe Ambassador Foundation wouldbe able to make a culturaJ ccntribu­tion . The physical problems, hefeared, could possibly cause the lossof a rich native culturaJ heritage.

To display an example of this cul­turaJ heritage, he arranged a showafter the next night's dinner.

After the group returned to thehotel we noticed that the newspapercarried a 4 by 6 incb photograph ofMr. Armstrong with the Bangla­desh prime minister and an articledescribing the visit.

The article mentioned, "Theprime minister thanked Mr. Arm­strong for his dedication to the pro­motion of world peace and harmonyas well as for greater understandingand cooperation among the variousnations of the world."

Death of. brotherThat afternOOn Mr. Armstrong

worked on bis Nov. 19 co-workerletter. After he finisbed the firstdraft, telexes and phone calls cameto inform the pastor general that hisyounger brother, Dwight, died ofcancer in Washington.

After typing the news at the endof his letter, Mr. Armstrong remin­isced at length about the service theyounger Mr . Armstrong providedto the Church by composing themajority of hymns in the Church'shymnal. He also talked about theyounger Mr . Armstrong's life ingeneral, commenting on his musicalabilities.

That evening at 8 p.m. tbe grouparrived at the state guest houseMeghna for a dinner conducted bythe Bangladesh foreign ministry.The group was taken to a receptionroom where the pastor general wasintroduced to the dozen governmentrepresentatives and their wives.

After a 3D-minute discussion thegroup was taken to the dining room,where we were served soup, vegeta­bles, chicken and dessert .

Secretary Choudhury proposed atoast to Mr . Armstrong, saying thathe had chosen a perfect goal, "towork. for the good of fellowhumans."

Mr . Armstrong returned thetoast and spoke for about 20 minuteson the causes of humanity's prob­lems . He expressed his joy for thematerial accomplishments madetoward improving the people's wel­fare since his 1972 visit, but notedalso the great work that remained.

How peace wiDcome

He talked about the Creator andhow He allowed man to choose forhimself his method of obtainingknowledge . Since the choice wasmade, Mr . Armstrong explained,Gnd has allowed man roughly 6,000years to prove he is incapable ofachieving lasting peace withoutGnd's help.

The pastor general showed howthe Kingdom of God is similar to a

mustard seed in how it will growover tbe entire earth. Only then willthere be peace.

"I am here to give the facts," Mr .Armstrong declared. "I don't repre­sent a religion . It will happen. It isthe truth."

The group walked from the din­ing room to another guest bousecalled Padma. Here the Bangladeshgovernment presented a culturalshow featuring native singing anddancing. The Indian-style dancingwas excellently performed andincluded the dance of the snakecharmer, the jute dance and folksongs performed by the BangladeshPerformance Academy.

Unusual instruments were usedby the band, including instrumentsmade from native woods. Oneinstrument was carved from a driedand lacquered pumpkin shell .

Tuesday, Nov . 20, ·the groupdrove to the presidential office for ameeting with the president andchief martial law administrator,Gen. H.M. Ershad.

Mr. Armstrong presented thepresident with a diplomatic gift ofSteuben crystal entitled Triangles.

During the meeting Mr. Arm ­strong talked of the need for furthereducation and development of thecountry. The pastor general ex­plained the activities of the Ambas­sador Foundation. He said that thefoundation could not establishpeace, but that it was committed tocasing tension and promoting thegeneral welfare of people.

President Ershad thanked Mr .Armstrong and expressed apprecia­tion for the work he is doing andespecially his interest in tbe welfareof Bangladesh.

From the president's office thegroup returned to the foreign minis­ter's office. Mr. Choudbury hadreturned from northern Bangla­desh, and he wanted to meet withthe pastor general before Mr . Arm­strong left the country.

He was delighted that Mr . Arm­strong accepted his invitiation tovisit Bangladesh. The pastor generalexpressed his thanks for thearrangements made by the Bangla­desh government and said that theAmbassador Foundation would dowhat it could to help.

From the foreign minister'soffice the group drove to the airportfor the trip to Sri Lanka.

The group noted one final amus­ing moment while boarding the G­Ill . As we walked up the steps, theMercedes that Mr . Armstrong usedduring his stay - the same one thatlost its muffler and blew a tire ­lost its engine only a few feet awayfrom theG·III . As the pilots startedthe engines for takeoff , we watchedgovernment officials push the carout of the way. We supposed itserved its purpose .

[Mr . Dean'saceountofMr. Arm­strong's trip will conclude in theDec. 24 issue of The WorldwideNews .]

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4 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Dec . 10 , 1984

Final sites report 1984Festival

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Pua4ea ,isitDuring my North American vacation

in June/July I visited Ambassador Col­legeat Pasadena and wasprivilegedto begiven a very impressive tour. The cam­pus and Church complex is as beautifulas I expected from photographs I haveseen in the Church 's publications, and Iam very grateful that I have finally beenable to fulfill an ambition 1 have alwayshad to actually sec Ambassador College.The staff and students I spoke to werevery courteous, friend ly and well­spoken, and this world is very fortunateto havesuch an institution .

C.P. StipichPapatoetoe, New Zealand

Kathy L . YoungHarrison, Ark.

I'm writ ing about Mr . (Dexter)Faulkner's article ("G ive Your ChildAnswers") in the Sept. 24 issue of Th~

w orldw ide News.The article is excellent. My son is 4

(almost 5) and asks questions, whatseems like nonstop, from the time hegetsup in the morning.

At times it isso mucheasier to ask himto quit asking or " I' ll answer you afterwhile." But this article has really helpedand I'm sure it is going to be helpful ininspiring me to bemore paLiel'lt and dili­gent in answering hisquestions.

Thanks again for a wonderful articleand to everyone who has a hand in pre­paring and putting out The Worldwid~

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passed for our Texas brethren specifical­lyin 1983 requiring that our children notonly be excused (or the Holy Days withno penalties, but are to becounted pres­ent dur ing those days.

I've never had any problems gett ingthe kids out of school. I begin prayingabout the situation each year beforeschool is out the previous spring askingGod to cause the kids to be assigned tothe most responsiveteachers. Then I askGod to be working on the minds of theteachers assigned and the schoolofficialsat each school.

Usually about a week before Tru m­pets I write a nice note to the elementar yschoolteacher in addition to the officialpaper. In it I mention mysupport for herand thank her for working with myc hild.This is the first year I've dealt with theintermediate school, and when I went upto the office, they were very courteousand said they wished everyone wouldbring the proper papers.

When I pray about it, I a.sk God to. intervene for the sake of the children so

that they will feel good about the situa­tion - not feel odd, etc. After all, theyhave to go to school and a teacher or kidscould make them miserable for an entireyear. The kids have never had a problemin that area, in the schoolor in the neigh­borhood for that matter.

Marilyn BraleyHouston, Tex.

Donald A. RoachAltadena, Calif.

(Continued from page 21stand things better when you explain it.

Mr. (Herbert W.) Armstrong. I thinkyou look much younger ina baseball cap.I think you can play the piano very well.By the way, we went to Johnson City(Tenn.]. I am sorry about your eyesight.I wish it could get better .

Rebecca RoseCombs. Ky .

LettersTO THE EDITOR

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Feast feedbackI atte nded my first Feast of Taber ­

nacles this year and found it an incredi­ble experience. Perhaps my most vividimpression was formed on the first night,when 1,200 of God's people gatheredunder one roof and began to sing. It wasjust overwhelming. I had a wonderfultime, meeting many people and gettingto know those I already knew better.

The spiritual diet wasthe highlight forme, and I looked forward to it each day.The physical food was also very enjoy­able. I think I would have just aboutvisited as many restaurants during theFeast as I haveduring my whole life!

David TesterWellington, New Zealand

Greetings! We wish to express ourthanks for a very fabulous Feast in Bel­gium. All went well!The messages weretremendous and gave us areas to work onfor the rest of the year until next Feastand beyond.

The area is one of the most beautifulFeast sites we have attended in 16 yearsof attending the Feast. The food wasabsolutelydelicious. We livedlike kings.Thanks for your (evangelist Dibar Apar ­tian. regional director of the Church inFrench-speaking areas) hard work andpreparation and dedication to servingGod's people . ..

Column responseI am writing in regards to the "Just

One More Thing" - ["School and theFeast," Aug. 27].1 enjoyed it very muchas I do all of The WorldwideN~ws/

I am privileged to have two children.One is in intermediate school and one isin elementary school. In Texas a lawwas

giou s education put s the Bib le on apar with Shakespeare and othergreat classical writings. It isnot gen­e ra ll y r e ga rd ed as a divinel yinspired book .

Other historical fact ors co ntrib­u te to di sbelief in Europe . Fo rexample, there is a love-h ate rela­tionship between Br itain and Amer­ica . Oc casi on ally, one hears nega­tive com ments abo ut the rebellionof the Thirteen Co lonies . The Bri t­ish ar e suspicious of American evan­gelica l movements. To them, allA me r ican rel igions are bad . Therear e no exceptions. Many cann otju dge between a true and false mes­sage. The true Gospel also suffers.

Despite the obst acle s, God rai sedup a number of churc hes in Euro pe,and alt ho ug h they are sma ll byAme rican sta nda rds, th ey are a partof the spir it ual Body of C hrist.

Europe desperately needs theG ospel. Th e barriers are en orm ous .On ly God can batter them down .Pra y for th e gr eat commission inEurope.

The members viewed PastorGeneral Herbert W. Armstrong'staped opening-night message andthe Young Am bassadors film .

Sunny, semit ropical weatherwith temperatu res from 75 to 80degrees Fahrenheit (24 to 26degrees Cels ius) accom paniedb re t h ren as they enjoyed t hefacilit ies of the to urist ce nter ,incl uding pools, a children's park,a lake a nd a zoo. Activitiesincl uded a ladies nig ht, an infor­ma l d an ce , basketball, picnicsand a party for children with apuppet show, gifts and refresh­men t s . M us icians from Colom-bia, P uerto R ico an d Venezuela I just retu rned from a fantastic Feastplayed fa! , 8 Jor~ dance. in Hawaii,and must say I've never felt so

A . 1a1eDl.~slIo'l-fealured .dram... ..;...~..fall,.f...,.. , iogle _ ......comedy.-'CQ\o;fuI;4ant:es and music . ., incltkting theofrertOries, wessoenlight-The teen a8'ersdanCc:da lively plena, ening that I felt like I wasa new babe ina P uerto Rican 't rad it ional da nce , Christ. trying to gobble it all up.and Co lom bian brethren presented Sharlyne K.Wh~lera fast-moving polka and t he joropo Duluth, Minn.

dance, characteristic of the people * tr *of t he valleys of Colombia and Ven­ez uela.

Brethren especially enjoyedspend ing time with one another andexperiencing the variety in culture.Visitors ap preciated t he hospitalityof the Colombian brethren. PabloGonzalez and Gladys Nieves .

wars are listed by name. A n epitaphis inscribed in sto ne to honor theirmemory. The cream of Europeanmanhood pe rished in the trenches .Sons of the leadership bore th ebrunt o f the war. This is es peciallytrue of World War l.

People asked: "How could Godallow such an enormous tragedy?Did not such suffering prove there isno per sonal God ?" The clergy hadno convincing answer s . Many inEurope ceased to believe .

Most of the great antireligiousmovements em an ated out of Euro­pe an c u lt ure. Darw in , M a rx,Engels, Russell , Freud - the namesare many . Mainstream Christian itywas discredited by thei r writings .

And yes, thi s anti-Christi an spiritfilte red out to the United State s andthe British Co m mo nwealt h o fN ations , but not to the samedegree.

Man y in these nations st ill havesome regard for the Bible - andbelieve in its basic inspiration.

Not so in Europe. European reli-

Hearts of the Children. A typh oonbattered the central Philippinesbefo re the Feast , and rains fell againthe day after the Last G reat Day .

A mi nisterial dinner was at­tended by Mr. Adair and his wife,Margaret . A family dance night wascom bined .with a variety show fea­tu ring na tive songs and dances .Brethren were also treated to abeach outing, bowling and skatingparties and two luncheon s. Mem­be rs pooled the ir seco nd tithe forothers to take part in the lu ncheon s.

A children's par ty took place onthe grounds of the Goldenfieldscom plex . Several fam ilies tr ea tedwidows and sing les to dinners.Pacifico Z. Mirto.

MELGAR. Colomb ia - For thefirst time Ch urc h members fromCo lom bia , Ecuador, Puerto Ricoand Venezuela spent the eight-dayFeast together. The 396 brethrenstayed in the hotel or family units ofa fami ly vaca t ion center here .

Feas t speakers incl uded PabloGonzalez and Eduardo He rnandezwho spoke on unit y, why brethrenatt end the Feast, prophecy, prepar­ing for t imes ahead, healt hy fami lyrelat ions , child rearing and specialinstructions for ado lescents.

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Govern ments create laws andregulat ions. A pleth ora of age-oldlegislation has conspired to hinderthe Gospel in Eur ope. Many Euro­pean nati ons do not allow th e Gos pe lto be aired over radio and televisio n.Ott en. the printed word is the onlyrecourse .

Another factor is the devastationof two world wars. Much of conti­nental Europe was leveled. EvenEnglandsuffered greatly.

It is fortunate that the UnitedS tate s, Austr alia. Ca nada, NewZealand and South Afr ica esca pedthe enormity of this suffering. True.their soldiers died in batt le. Andthere was great agony in individualfamilies, but nothing like the tot algrief in Europe.

Alm ost eve ry Briti sh haml et has amem ori al near the town square. Sol ­diers who perished in the two great

Europe

Following are the final tworeports for the 1984 Feast ofTabernacles.

BACOLOD. Philippine s ­Three hu nd red five bret hren met inthe Goldenfields minitheater herefor the eight-day Festival .

The theme was the rest oration ofall thi ngs in the world tomorrow andpreparing to be teachers in the Mil -lenn ium. .

In addition to Pastor General Her ­bert W. Armstrong's filmed mes­sages , speakers and topics includedColin Adair, regional di rector of theChurch in Canada, on the restorationof all things and reeducation in theworld tomo rrow; Josc:lito Raduban onGod 's nation -God's Ch urc h and thero le of Elijah; Pacifico Mirto on theshadow and reality of the Feast andvital things to be rest ored in the worldtomorrow ; Rom eo Pustaon preparingto teac h; Cesar Tan on overcomingfami liarity; Berna rdo Casti llon onwh y temporary dwe llings; andGeorge Escara on how to have happymarriages.

Breth ren appreciated Mr . Arm­strong's films , the Young Ambassa­dors film and Behind the Work-the

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under government supervision. Theoffic ials of t he Et hiopia n Rel ief an dRehabilitat ion Commission are wellaware o f the value of three minutesof televi sion footage showing starv­ing chi ldren. As it happened, theresponse probably exceeded theirexpectation s . ..

" M ea nwh ile, visa applica tio nsfrom a large number of journalist shave not been acted upon in Addi sAbaba . . . The print me ­d ia . .. would be much more diffi­cult for t he Eth iopi ans to co nt ro lt han as ing le film crew. The inescap ­ab le conclusion is t hat t he Ethic ­pian s do not want anyone arou ndwho will look too close ly at what isgoi ng on, including what is happen­ing to the relie f supplies sent fromcountr ies of the developed world ."

Politics has hampered wha teverrole the U nited Nations G eneralAssembly cou ld play in A frica 'sgrim plight.

Ac cording to dipl omatic sources.repo rts t he Nov . 12 Daily Tele­graph of Brita in. "the assembly hasbee n un able to ap prove prope r Jan­guag e for a dr af t de clar ati on or reso­luti on bec ause th e Co m m u nis tsIOSIS t that any documen t place theblame fo r the t rouble o n co lo­nialism." An ang ry Briti sh dele gat elambasted wh at he ca lled "ideologi­cal fliQhts of fantasv ."

Internat ional food relief agenciesare also trapped in t he polit icalgame. Ethiopia's Marxist govern­ment, for example, has exerted pres­sure on aid organizations atte mpt ­ing to get aid to d roug ht victims int he province of Eritrea.

A report by David Klin e in theNov . II San Diego , Calif", Unionexp lained the politics of faminerelief :

" A number of private reli ef agen ­cies in the U nited St at es ... have

chosen not to provide an y ass ista nceat all to app rox imately hair of all thestarv ing peop le in Ethiopia. Th athalf lives in Erit rea , a province nowin rebellion aga ins t the pro-S oviet

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centra l gove rnme nt of Eth iopia .. ."When first contacted about t heir

inactivity in Eritrea. agency spokes­people insisted this wasdue ent irely to' logistical problems ' ...

"Dan Co nnell of t he Boston­based aid group G rassroots Interna­tion al , one of the few agencies ac tivein Eritrea relief work . offers an otherexp lanation for the refusal to aidErit rean famine vic tim s: 'T here' s nodoubt in my mind that the Eritreansar e being aban do ned for politicalexpediency.' . . .

"When pressed, some agencyspokespeople concede that t heirorganizations have decided th at thegeopolitical higb seas arou nd Er i­tre a are sim ply too dangerous to benavigated safely. And de spite Et hio­pia' s pr o-Moscow tilt in recentyea rs, ma ny agencies st ill have alarge invest ment in resour ces inEthiopi a, an investment wh ich the yare rel uctan t to jeopardize .

" There are also libe ral agencies likethe American Friends Service Co m­mittee and Oxfam who have so farrefused to help the Eri tr eans for fearof joining in what they feel is Wash­ington's cold war against the SovietUnion and its allies like Et hiopia .

" H umanitarianism. it seems. hashad to learn to ada pt to a highl ypoliti cal world . Indecd. nowad aysthe dollar s and huma n reso urces ofth e internat ional aid communitytr ail afte r the sto rms of politicalconflict . picking up t he hu manwrec kage left behind, and in some

cases also pick ing sides."Re lief o ff icial Dan Connell,

referred to ear lier, reports that 80percent of the starving people live inareas not being reached by centralgove rnment-sponsored re lief opera­tions. Priva te age ncies who say t heyare reaching all the hungry, he says ,are covering up the situatio n.

"The Ethiopian government willnot admit publicly that they have lost

cont rol of the rural areas to therebels ..... adds Mr .Connell. " T igre[province] is being sacrificed and anentire society is being dissolved ."

The rebels have offe red a cease­fire to the government in order toal low in food supplies. But the gov­ernment, editorialized the Nov. 25San Diego Union. " has refu sed, pre ­ferring instead to use food as a weap­on of war ."

Monday, Dec. 10,1984 The WORLDWIDE NEWS

JUST FOR YOUTHA page for kids 5 to 105

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Teen recalls YOO before death A Christmas Tune

SENIOR CRUISE - Adelaide, Australia. YOU members cater 8 mealfor an over-50s group on a houseboat Sept . 7. The group spent fourdays cruising the Murray River in three houseboats manned by YOUmembers who also acted as stewards . (Photo by Andrew Gosling]

Josanne Rodubon. 19.fromManila . Philippines. wrotethis article Sept . /9. She died38 days later on Oct. 27 ofcardiac arrest [ollowing a se­vere asthma attack .

I'm 19. In about a year's timeI'll be out of the YOU . I've been amember for five full years and it ailseemed tooshort . . .

Where have those five yearsgone? Or from a broader sense,where have my teen years gone?All I can rememberare memoriesof my YOU days spent withcomembers. But they were goodyears. Verygood years . . .

I can still remember my firstattendance to a meeting for teen­agers. I was 13 years old then. Ifyou came to lookat me then you'dlet out a hoot of laughter. Youwouldsee thatshy little girlalwaysendeavoring to occupy the lastseat, the one farthest from thespeaker.

But frankly, it brought tinglesdown my spine. I felt so confused.I didn't know who to talk to. Andto make things worse, I couldn'tfigure out what the speaker wastalking about. But how could I,when] wasn'teven listeningatall?I was busy looking at my watch,waiting for the moment when themeeting wouldbedismissed.ThenI could go home and playwith mykid sister .

Two years have passedand I'm15 now. Activities which didn'treceive much attention from mebefore are now very much lookedforward to. We just had a YOUbeach partyyesterday. It was realfun havingto socialize with fellowYOU members.

Next month we'll be havingourregularmeeting andthen the weekafter that we'll havea hike on oneofthe hills in the region.Wouldn'tthat be fun? And to thinkthat twoyears ago I avoided these activi­ties.

Another two yearshave passed.I'm 17 now. Last year I attendedSEP. That was my second chancetoattend. Iamnowlivingata pointin my life which psychologists

referto as the "mostconfusingandunstable" years.

This may be right in someaspects but not all. I can now seethe real picture. Being subjectedto different kindsof temptation, Iknowthat I'm a privilegedhumanbeing. I begin to see the differencebetween teens inside and outsidethe Church. We enjoy activitiessuch as hiking, canoeing, archeryand other clean. fun-filled sportswhereas they prefer their kindwhich may include having sex.taking drugs, going to rock con­certs, makingfoolsof other peopleand the like.

My last two years as a YOUmember brought-great changes inmy perspectiveandoutlook in life.I attended my last SEP this year.I'm now more anxious to attendlectures, meetings and Bible stud­ies thanoutdooractivities. I guessthis is what they call maturing.

As I am now beginning to live

my last year as a member, I canjust bethankfulthat I survivedtheobstacles in teen life. But I shouldnot take all thecredit. I , bymyself.couldn't havemadeit.

Constant guidance from myparentsand elders was very help­ful.The articles in the Youth mag­azine, especially the articles byMr. Herbert W . Armstrong,geared to teach yOUJ;1g people theright way of life. And most of allthe camaraderieamong the YOUmembers.

Andsoonelastword to all YOUmembers: Do not waste time bynot going to activities, attendingmeetings and Bible studies, butlisten to advice of older people ­especially parents - and readevery article in the Youth maga­zine. Make the most of your teenlife. Be as active as possible and,just like me, you'll still be able tocome outof itall andsaythatthosewere indeed very good years.Josanne Raduban.

By Vivian Pettijohn"Deck the halls with boughs of holly. Fa la la la la.Ia la la

In," sang Jeff as he skipped home the four blocks from firstgrade . " 'Tis the season to bejolly. Fala la la la.Ia lala la." Hewas still singing as he noisily entered his house .

"Hi, Jeff," his mother called from the kitchen." Hi, Mom," Jeff answered as he tossed his jacket on the

back of a kitchen chair and hugged her. Then he got somemilk from the refrigerator and poured a glassful.

As Mrs . Winfield placed an apple pie in the oven, sheasked, "What were you singing when you came in?"

"Oh , that!" Jeff answered, smiling. "It's a new song welearned today at school. It's called 'Deck the Halls.' Do youknowit'?"

"Yes, I do," Mother answered thoughtfully. "And I don'tthink. you know what kind of a song it really is. We'll talkabout the words when Daddy gets home ."

After dinner the family gathered in the living room . Dadsaid, "Jeff, do you know what the words to ' Deck the Halls'mean?" Jeff shook his head and his father continued. "Eventhough the song doesn't mention Christmas, it does talkabout yuletide, and that refers to Christmas. So, does Godapprove of the song's message?"

'Tm sorry, Dad," Jeff replied. "1 didn't know. I thoughtthe song wasOK. It has a nice tune, doesn't it'?"

. "Yes, it does," Dad agreed, "and that is one way we gettempted to take part in certain things - without meaning todo wrong. When something sounds or looks good to us, wethink it's OK. But we sometimes learn we are doing some­thing God says not todo. Remember, God says people are notto cut a tree from the forest and deck it with silver and gold.Also, God says we are not to learn the world's pagan ways orbecome part of them. That, you know, includes Christmas!"

"Dad," 8-year-old Rocky offered, "I know a proverh thathelps me when I'm tempted to take part in wrong things suchas pagan holidays."

"Which proverb is that, son?" Dad asked ."Proverhs 1:10," Rocky answered. "You know. You

taught it to me when Istarted in firstgrade. It says, 'My son,if sinnersentice thee, consent thounot.' " .. Four-year-old Kathy tugged at Dad's arm. "Daddy? That

verse said 'My son.' What about daughters? Isn't it meant fordaughters. too'?"

Mother hid a smile behind one hand as Dad answered, "Itsure is for daughters. too - and even for parents! It's foreveryone who really wants to obey God!"

Jeff walked over to Mr . Winfield's chair. "Dad, I'm gladyou and Mom teach us to stay away from temptations. But Ijust thought of something that worries me." Jeffs mouthbrokeintoagrin. "If I'm tempted to hug both of you, to thankyou, is that kind of temptation OK?"

"It sure is, Jef!1" Dad said, giving him a bear hug andreceiving a big one in return."Remember Malachi 4:6? Godwants you to be enticed often hy that temptation!"

The EclipseBy Denice M. Orr

"Hurry up and wash your handsBenjamin," Mama said.

"Oh please , Mama, I don 't likehurrying. I want to play."

" Benjamin. when I tell you to dosomething, it's because I have a rea­son, not to bemean. It's time for lunchand we need to get finished quickly fora special surprise."

Benjaminfelt excited since his momand dad often had fun things in mindwhen they said things like that. Hefinished drying his hands .

During lunch, Benjamin askedwhat the surprise was.

Dad answered , "Well. it's somethingthathappens only once every20 years!"

Benjamin knew it couldn't be theFeast or the bicycle he wanted, but hecouldn't imagine what it was.

" Yes," said mother, "and I thinkit's something special God designed toremind us how little we are."

"What is it?" Benjamin burstout."An almost total eclipse of the sun

will happen at 12:35," answered Dad ."What's an 'eek-Iips'?" asked Ben­

jamin's 3-year-old hrother, Eric."That's when the moon gets in the

way of the sun and blocks out the lightthat is coming to the earth. Let's finishup so we can make a special tool to lookat it with," said Mother.

"I'll get a cardboard box," said Dad ."And I'll get a pin and some whitepaper."

"What will we do with that?" Benja­min inquiredexcitedly."And whycan'twejust lookatitwithouta special toolT'

Dad explained that God made thesun too bright to look at without dam­aging our eyes . " It 's very powerful, tokeep us warmhere on earth." He put ahole through the middle of the box andfocused a little light on the paperheneath hy raising and lowering thebox.

"It's the shape of a ball that needssome air - flaton one side. Is that thesun ?" asked Ben.

They all watched, tracing the sun'schanging shape onto the paperbeneath the box, and noting the timebeneath each tracing. Soon it lookedlike a crescent moon shape. It becamenarrowerwith each drawing.

It was a cloudless day , but the skygrew very dim . The shadows cast bythe leaves of plants made multipleimage s of the eclipse on the ground.The light of the usually bright noon­day sun seemed weak and eerie. Theair cooled a bit. The grass and every­thing around was bathed with thegreenish-yellow reflection of the sun'srays, weakened by the eclipse .

T he family sat quietly, absorbingthis unusual experience together. Asquickly as it had come, the eerie lightreturnedto its normal brightness.

"Wow," exclaimed Benjamin and

Eric. "Let's do it again!" said Eric.Everyone laughed and then Mom

said , "Come on in the house boys. I'llshow you how the moon was cuttingoff the sun's light with some cutouts."

Mom made two round circles. onewhite and one black. She showed theboys how the sun appeared to bechanging shape by sliding the blackcircle slowly over the white one.

Benjamin got to thinking about theeclipse and the other planets he'dheard about, and asked, "But how doesit stay up there while movingaround?"

Dad answered, "You know son,that's a wonderful question. And I'mglad God wrote the answer in the Bihleso I could answer it and show you howpowerful He is. It's in Joh 26:7... . . . He hangs the earth on nothing"(Revised Authorized Version).

"Wow," said Benjamin, "maybesomeday He'll show me how todo that!"

Pastor General in NEASIAN TOUR - Cont inuing his five -week tour of the Orient and As ia , Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong metwith royalty and state officials in Nepal and Bangladesh. He tou red educational facilit ies in both countries andexplained the Gospel of the Kingdom of God at banquets conducted in his honor. In photos beginning upper left .Mr . Arms trong meets with King Birendra of Nepal Nov . 15; Mr . Armstrong and Gen. H.M. Ershad . president andchief martial law ad ministrator of Bangladesh, pa use for a photo Nov . 20 ; and the pastor general and Alaur

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.pal and BangladeshRahman Khan. prime minister of Bang ladesh, converse in the prime minister's office Nov. 18. Center . second fromright. Mr . Armstrong speaks with Bishwa Pradhan. foreign secretary of Nepal, while Sen. Eisako Sate of the upperhouse of the Japanese Diet looks on. Lower left , Mr . Armstrong and Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, foreignminister of Bangladesh and official host for the pastor general's to ur of that coun try, share a light moment Nov .20 . (Photos by Aaro n Dean, Kevi n Dea n and Lar ry Omasls]

8 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Dec. 10, 1984

ACCENT ON THE LOCAL CHURCHBrethren take trips, attend concert, dances

Widow wins volunteer award

Member escapes harm

when hit by automobile

Areas bid good-byes to pastor, member

YOU and YES memb ers fromGLOUCESTER, England, joinedwith Church members Oct. 27 atMinsterworth-on-Severn 10 watchthe Severn Bore, a tidal wave thatrolls along the Severn River , enteringat the Severn Estuary in the BristolChannel.

The tidal wave sweeps up the riverwith so much power that the riverchanges course and flows the oppo­site way . This bore or tidal wave canlast several hours and surge for mile supriver.

After watching this natural won­der, the group attended Sabbath ser­vices at Hartpury Village Hall , andafter sunset YOU and YES member sperformed at a social evening. Adance, with Basil Harris as master ofceremonies , rounded off the event.Audrey Webb .

Youths meetto watchtidal wave

Edmonton brethren.The slide show was shown in the

renovated Phoenix Hall, the site ofthe first Bible study conducted inEdmonton in the fall of 1964.

At special combined Sabbath ser­vices, attended by the EdmontonNorth and South and Westlock ,Alta. , churches, Mr. Pinelli gave asermon describing the Book of Life .He said: " Maybe, just maybe , page68 has been reserved for the Edmon­ton Church of God ." Gordon C.Graham and Douglas Smith .

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ALL IN A DAY'S WORK - After pruning trees Oct. 28, a project thatraised $1 ,000. men from the Devonport, Launceston and Hobart, Aus­tralia, churches enjoy refreshments.

EDMONTON, Alta., brethren re­joiced at the church 's 20th anniver­sary celebrations Oct. 27. Plans forthe festivitie s were in the worksfor more than a year . Several fund ­raising activities made it possible forthe church to fly in Richard Pinelli,the church' s first pastor, and hiswife , Mary . .

The event con sisted of special din­ners, socials, Sabbath services and adance . A slide show depicting thehistory of the Edmonton church in­cluded candid shots of the original

to the challenge and opportunity of a good-bye to Patrick and Marynew area." Mulholand. Mr . Mulholand, who

After the Sabbath, the congrega- has attended the Cardiff church fortion honored the pastor and his tarn- two years . and his wife decided toily with a farewell party that included move to Australia to be near theiran hour of musical selections per- daughter and her family who liveformed by individuals and the choir . there .During the evening the Kackos fam- On behalf of the congregation,ily was presented with a microwave deacon Eric Wood prese nted theoven, assorted dishware and a photo Mulholands with a parting gift offinealbum portraying members, clubs china. Also present were Alan Bales ,and activities. Food , drinks and a a local church elder in the Bristol andcake baked in the form of an open Plymouth, England, churches , hisBible were served later. family and visiting U.S . brethren .

Toledo, now on a circuit with A buffet meal and drinks were or-Findlay, Ohio , will be served, by ganized by the women, and a cakeDavid Fiedler, former pastor of the was baked by Ivy Griffiihs. Im -Appleton, ,Wis. • church. Mr . Fied ..... . promptu entertainment was provided-ler will be ,assisted by David Gil- by members and children from Car-bert III. diff and Bristol.

After the Day of Atonement, Oct. Lloyd Cary III and Robert Har-6, CARDIFF, Wales, brethren bid sanje and Tony De Sartec .

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ter taking second . The evening wascompleted by dancing instruction foradults by Sheila Preston .

Hand-slapping , boot-stompingMIL WAUKEE and WEST BEND,Wis., brethren gathered under an au­tumn moon for a square dance Nov.3 . Surrounded by bales of hay , horseblankets , saddles and a few pumpkins,pastor Eugene Noel called the event.His wife, Jan, helped set the squares.

As the evening progressed, mem­bers, dressed in Western attire , atepopcorn and apples and drank cider.Children parti cip ated in the hokey­pokey and bunny hop dances, andthose who didn 't dance took part inthe cakewalk. The winners of thecakewalk were Eric Orleans, JohnSimchick , Eloyse Dinwiddie andJulie Newhauser.

Minnie Jauch, Robert J . Eccles,Rafael Ramon III and Treva Hud­dleston , Alan Dean, Ron Mclarenand Cindy Knight .

Citing II Corinthians 13:II as hisfarewell verse. George M. Kackos,pastor of the TOLEDO, Ohio,church, ended 6~ years there Oct.27. He was transferred to pastor theGrand Rapids , Mich. , church.

In his final message Mr . Kackosmentioned his rejoicings and regretsduring his tenure . " We ' vethoroughly enjoyed our stay here ,"he said . "But we are looking forward

according te-the n~~spaper.William Vigil , deputy director of

the New Mexico State Agency onAging, representing Governor' To­ney Anaya's office, spoke of thetime and devotion Mrs. Hobbs hasgiven to enhance the quality of lifeof others, according to the DailyPress.

"One person can mak e a differ­ence, and they send out a beautifullight," Elizabeth Rohn, deputyregional director, told The World ­wide News Nov . 27. Mrs. Rohnori­ginated the idea of presentingawards to volunteers last year.

Mrs . Hobb's recognition causedNew Mexico to allocate funds for anew senior citizen's center inReserve to be started this year. Mrs .Hobb's work, her smile and enthu­siasm are a trademark to those livingin her region .

ington and Mount Sterling, Ky.,churches, who gave the Bible study.was called at once.

Mrs. Willhite regained con­sciousness and was able to talk. Shewas taken to a hospital emergencyroom, where tests and X-raysshowed no broken bones. Only a fewstitches were needed.

After anointing her , Mr . Havirstayed with Mrs. Willhite in thehospital until I a.m., when she wasreleased to go home.

Eyewitnesses of - the accidentbelieve that God's protection pre­vented broken bones. Efforts toidentify the car and driver failed asthe car sped away.

soloists was headed by soprano Mal­vina Major and tenor Anthony Ben­fell, and the musical director wasJohn Matheson.

Nov . 4 more than 100 SARA·SOTA, and FORT MYERS, Fla..brethren participated in their sec­ond annual canoe trip that tookthem along II miles of scenicPeace River .

The group piled into more than 50canoes for a day of paddling, observ­ing turtles , snakes and alligators , andpushing canoe s through shallow wa­ters . Midway the group stopped forlunch and a sing-along.

Men from the DEVONPORT,LAUNCESTON and HOBART,Australia, churches spent Sunday,Oct. 28, raising $1 ,000 by pruningyoung pine trees. Roughly everythird tree of more than 6,000 treeshad 10 be pruned to just above headheight. The 18 men worked morethan six hours .

On the Sabbath, Oct. 27, a plaquefrom the Ferrara family, who movedto Canada in 1982, was presented bydeacon Arthur Cliff to Robert De­vine, a local church elder in theNOTTINGHAM, England, church.

After a potluck, organized by Mar­lene Cliff, the evening was devotedto YOU games, arranged by StewartCliff. In the final game of a series ofbasketball games the Young Onesdefeated Hanley's Mixed Mortals.

Jenny Whiteman arranged theBrain of Nottingham , a generalknowledge competition that was wonby Mark Whiteman, with Brian Sal-

senior citizens and others to volun­teer to serve those in need of atten­tion in their particular areas.

Mrs . Hobbs lives in Reserve,N. M ., an isolated area 224 milessouthwest of Albuquerque, and isthe only Church member in thearea. She does volunteer work, trav ­eling in a blue 1960 Ford pickup.

Mrs. Hobbs stops at the homes ofelderly people who are living aloneand need assistance and encourag­ing conversation.

The Silver City, N.M., DailyPress reported Nov . 6 that 57friends and relatives attended theaward ceremony in Glenwood.N .M., including her three children,Roger Hobbs of near Sacramento,Calif., Zelda Killman of OklahomaCity, Okla., and Sue Spurgeon ofReserve.

"Before sitting down 10 dinner,Walter Dickinson, minister of theWorldwide Church of God of Albu­querque, invited the blessing of Godon the meal and the occasion,"

This article is by RandallWilliams , a member whoattends the Lexington. Ky .,church.

This article is by Walter M .Dickinson Jr ., pastor of theAlbuquerque and Santa Fe.N .M .. churches.

ing she was struck by an automobileand thrown onto the hood. The driv­er quickly put the car into reverse,dropping her into the street uncon­scious .

David Havir, pastor of the Lex-

Thirty-two Silver Ambassadorsfrom the BIG SANDY church leftthe Ambassador College campusSept. 23 and headed south to theAlabama-Coushatta Indian Reserva­lion, between Livingston and Wood­ville , Tex . The group traveled on anopen-air bus and saw original stylesof Indian home s, campsites and hunt­ing grounds.

The group observed some tribaldancers in full feather regalia . Thefinal tour was of an Indian dwelling.a co uncil house and several build ­ing s where weaving , beading .arrow-making and traditional foodswere demonstrated . The event wasorganized by James Jackson.

Fifty-two brethren from theWELLINGTON, New Zealand ,church and six relatives and friendsattended a gala opera concert Oct .26 . Performed by the IDO-piece NewZealand Symphony Orchestra. the130-voice Orpheus Choir and 12 so­loists, the concert was presented inthe Michael Fowler Centre in centralWellington.

This complex , which officiallyopened a little more than a year ago,is similar in style to the Sydney, Aus­tralia, Opera House and seats 2,500.

The concert included excerptsfrom Wagner's Die Meistersingervon Nurnberg, Mozart's ldomeneoand Don Giovanni ; Verdi's LaTraviata, Otello and Don Carlos;and a performance of the "TrojanMarch " and the "Royal Hunt andStorm" from Lis Troyens by Berlioz .

The cast of New Zealand vocal

By Randall WilliamsLEXINGTON, Ky. - After

Bihle study Sept. 12, Alma Will­hite , 69, started to cross the street tomeet her ride home . Without warn-

By Walter M. Dickinson Jr.ALBUQUERQUE, N .M. ­

Mattie Hobbs, 71, a member ofGod 's Church since 1970 , receivedan award of merit for service to herfellow citizens Oct. 25 from JohnDeeley . regional director of the U.S .Department of Health and HumanServices in Dallas , Tex.

In making the award presenta­tion , Mr . Daeley said Mrs. Hobbswas emblematic of the kind of lov­ing , thoughtful and giving servicethe President had especially in mindwhen he asked the Agency on Aging10 set up this program, honoringthose who serve and give hope to thehelpless and infirmed on a dailybasis .

A federal initiative by PresidentRonald Reagan in 1981 encourages

Family reunites with relatives

during 1984Festival in China

NEW OFFICE - Pictur ed is the office building that hous es the new SouthAfr ican Regi onal Offic e in Cape Town. The regiona l office moved fromJohannesburg in October.

the church skilled in various facetsof building, but ministers , children ,teens and women, who prepared andserved lunch each week under thesupervision of Mr. and Mrs . How­ard Stei n.

Mrs . Walker . who in 1969 grad­uated from San DiegoState Univer­sity with a major in performance.volunteered to play piano at Sabbathservices a little more than a year lat­er. Since then Mr . Walker wasnamed choir director, with his wifeas accompanist for musical presen­tat ions.

Mr. Walker is also a solo per­former, and his wife teaches pianoand other instrume nts privately.

Mr . and Mrs. walke r and theirtwo sons, Robert, II , and Richard ,14, playa variety of musical instru­ments. Under the tute lage of theirmo t her, t he boys began theirmusical lear ning at age 4.

REUNION IN CHINA - George and Lind a Kuo (uppe r left) and thei r twosons spend time with relat ives and friends during the Feas,t in Nanjing,China. Mrs. Kuo had not seen her relat ives in 35 years. From left: Conwayand Conant Kuo, Mrs. Chen Shih Chow , Jean Yan g, Chen Shih Chow , ChenXi and Che n Shih Hua. [Photo by Susan Thomas }

for choi r and special music practice,as well as recitals and minicon­certs."

Duffield "D uffy" Davis, a build­ing cont ractor in the San Diegochurch, came up with the idea ofbui lding a music studio and bed­room for the Walker family. and hissuggestion was readily approved byevangelist Norman Smit h, churc hpastor.

Regular announcements in theweekly church bulletin kept theproject going from its inceptio n lastMay until its complet ion in ear lySeptember.

"S he wrote the checks:' said Mr.Walker, gestu ring .to his mother,Sofia Walker of San Diego. Mrs.Walker decided to give her childrentheir inheri tance while she can seethem enjoy it.

Those who part icipated in theproject included not only the men of

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Member 's mother donates funds

Brethren construct music studio

Susan Karoska is a membe rwho attends the San Diego,Calif. , church.

Mr. and Mrs. Walker , codirec­tors of special music for the San Die­go and Yuma, Calif., churches, werehosts at a celebra tion part y Sep t. 30at their home in Escondido, Calif.

"It's a real blessing to have a qual­ity setting to give to the Church and,in a limited way, to the communi­ty," said M r. Walker. "What wehave now is a good rehearsal room

By S...n KarnskaSAN DIEGO. Calif. - "It's like

a dream come tru e:' said MargaretWalker, wife ofJ James _Walker.members of the San Diego churc h,about.a music studio built for themby a volunteer work force from theChurch.

the last time Mrs . Kuo saw her rela­t ives until this year .

For the next 20 years, Mrs. Kuolived in Taiwan. She received adegree in English, then moved to theUnited Stat es to attend graduateschool in Columbia, Mo.

Mr. Kuo was born in Taiwan andcame to the United Stat es in 1966.He first heard the World Tomorrowprogram a year later while attendingthe University of South Dakota . Hebecame a Plain Truth subscriberand read many of the booklets,though unawa re of the Ch urch .

George and Unda met in grad­uate school in Columbia and weremarried in Decembe r, 1970. InDecembe r, 1974, they were bap­tized .

Last year while atte nding theFeast in Denmar k, the Kuos heardabout China becoming a Feast sitein 1984, and wrote for an applica­tion.

Because ·Mrs. Kuo had not seenher relatives since age 3, she did notreally remember them .

"Now I feel they are my relativesonce I saw them, " said Mr . Kuo.Talking about their sons, Mrs . Kuosaid: "We are thrilled for them tosee their uncles ."

the ir wives and the younger uncle 'stwo children. She also visited withher mother' s best friend , J ea nYang. a 70-year-old retired musicteacher. Mrs. Yang traveled 36hours by boat down the Chang J iang(Yangtze) River to see Mrs. Kuo,after a 35-year separation.

The relatives came with the Kuosto the performance of the LittleAmbassadors From Shanghai .Many of the performers were thesame children who came to th eUnited S tates on a tour sponsoredby the Ambassador Foundation(WN,May21 and J une 4).

In 1949 Mrs. Kuo left mainlandChina for Taiwan at age 3 with herfather, a senior accountan t for abank run bythe Na tionalist govern­ment of Chiang Kai-shek . That was

Monday, Dec. 10, 1984

BySusan ThomasN AN JI NG. C hi na - f or

George and Linda Kuo of C herryHill, N.J .• and their two sons, Con­way and Conant. the Feast of Taber­naclcs at thi s firs t-time site wasespecially meaningful. For them itwas a family reuni on.

Susan Thoma s. a sophomoreat Big Sandy Ambassador Co/­lege. attended the /984 Feast ojTabernacle s in Nanjing. China .

Mrs . Kuo, born Yung-Ling Liu ,had not seen her relatives since sheleft mainland China with her par­ents in 1949. During the ir t rip totheFeast the Kuos saw some of he r rela­tives several times.

Mrs. Kuo saw two of her uncles,

Clmrch chooses new sitefor South African Office

CAPE TOWN, South Africa ­The new office facility for the SouthAfrican Regional Office officiallyopened here Oct. I, according toJohn White, pastor of the CapeTown church . The new office over­looksTab le Bay and the Green PointLighth ouse built in 1842.

The move from Johannesbur g,South Africa, to the Cape peninsu­la, some 887 miles (I ,430 kilome­ters) away, was init iated by PastorGeneral Herbert W. Armstrong onhis last visit to South Africa in 1982,when he commented on the difficul­ty he had with the high altitude ofJohannesburg.

A formal proposal was made toMr. Armstr ong in November , 1983,and a decision to move the SouthAfrican office was finalized , saidMr.White.

Th e new loca t ion has man yadvantages, includin g being closerto the print ers of The Plain Truth ,Ca pe and Tran svaal Print ers, attheir plant in Cape Town.

The cont rast between Johannes­bur g and Cape Town is immedi atelyapparent. The Church 's form eroffices were in the heart of down­town Johannesburg's concrete jun ­gle, compared to the scenic beautyof the Cape peninsula.

Mariners of the Dutch East India

Co. used the harbor as a wateringsta tion in the 17th cen tury. On thelandward side is Table Mountain.From the Church's fifth floor suite,part of Lion's Head peak may beseen.

Th e office inter ior was con­structed and decorated by Rich ardEllis, Intern ational Real EstateBrokers and Valuer s. Project man­ager Tomm y Lister said he was" very thrilled" to work on such ahigh-class facility. Alread y he hasused the office as a showcase for hisother customers.

The suite was completed so thatsta ff and equ ipment could be tran s­ferred from Johannesburg to CapeTown and have the office operatingbefore the Feast of Tabernacles.Office workers are catching up onthe mail backlogged from the moveand the Festivaldown time , said Mr .White .

Roy McCarth y, South Afri canregional director, said he is excitedabout the move. He and his wife,Ti ne, grew up in Cape Town.

Mr. Whitefeel sthatanew phase inthe Church 's activities in southernAfrica has begun. This move, he said,should givenewopportu nitiestocom­plete the work of the Church, spread­ing out from the mother city of thesouthern African subcontinent .

MUSIC STUDIO DEDICATION - James and Margaret Walker (r ight) of the San Diego, Calif ., chu rch applaudSofia Wa lker (left ), Mr . Walker's moth er , Sept . 30 . Mrs. Walker financed the build ing of a music studio for theco mmunity and God's Church. [Phot o by Susan Karoskaj

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gr.nd<:hildren.you·r••IiMthegr••l••IIWithBllourtove. Erik. Ry.... Ronda. Rou. JerTeI. Dee 0-. Jey .Amyand bIIby.

TOLEDO, Oh io - Henrietta Drouil·lard, 71, died Oct. 2 of kidney failureresulting from canceT.

Mrs.Drouillard wasbaptized in Decem­ber, 1971. She is survived by two sisters,ElsieJackson and Amanda Hubay.

George Kackos , (hen past or of theTo ledo church , conducted th e funeralservices.

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MERIDEN, Conn . - Jos ephineHamblin, 61, died Oct. 4 after a briefillness . She was baptized in Glens Falls,N.Y ., in 1961 with her husband, Ranny ,and has been adeaconess in th e Merid enchu rch since 1919.

Besides her husband, she is survivedby one daughter, Rache l Pollack, also ofthe Meriden church; a son, Edwar d; andseveral gran dchildren .

The funeral was conduc ted by Law­rence Wooldridge, pastor of the Mer i­den church .

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MR. AND MRS. JODIE CHILDRESS

EVANSTON, 111 . - Jodie andLucile Ch ildress celebrated their 5Ot.hwedding anniversary Oct . 6 with a din­neTparty given by their child ren. Breth ·ren , relatives and other fr iends werepresent.

The coup le have two sons, thre edaughters, 12 grandchildren and onegreat-grandchild.

Mrs. Childress was baptized in 1955and is a deaconess in the Chicago , III.,North church.

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Pearl Win­ner Russell, 82,died Oct . 17.She has beena member of the Church since 1973. andserved for seyeral years as the pianist in the

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FredSl.nley, • IocaJdllfrchelder" In the EY....viIle.Ind.• chureh •• ndJ.l" Wright_. unltfld Inmsrriso­Sept. 30 In 51.8etl'Ileh«n. Term. The oeremony•••l*1ormed by JanIe. Fridlh. paater of the Na.tlville.nd~. Tenn... chvrc:tIe •. The but msnw•• FredtickBeiley.pa8lorofItleMldieonYille.Ky .•.nd Ey. n.vlIIeehuldle• . The"",Id,.ofhonor_.o.biWright,4oaugh''''ofthebrlde.

Suzett. c.rol p.,quatt. , d• .,gh, ... of Mr. • nd Mill.Rol. 1IdParq uelle of Mo.inee. Wi• .••nd J.m•• W.

' Ch. ne •• lOll 01 Mr. • nd MIll. Wmi. m Chance ofSI_.rt.town. P•. . w... e united In metTi.g ..... y 27 InB.llimOle . Md, The ce remony ••'l*1onned by Roy[lemlfe81. PlltOl of th. Baltimore chureh . ".!erieHerr... ..i.l ... of lh. bride Id I.th.mllron 01honor. Ind P.u l Sch.elf ed II tile be.1 m.n .The coupl . re.id. InBaltimore.

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MR. AND MRS. TODD WARREN

MR. AND MRS. WOODROW SWAIN

MR. AND MRS. RON COl l YER

Robert S. KuhlM Ind CIavcIia M. Cocoml .. __YIlIlIdIn mlrTi.g. JulY22 . Michael Sw.oertY. pallOI'01 the Ctllc'lgo . Ill., NorIh.n.dNorth_81 churche••performed the outdoor ceremony In Glenview. Ill.TheCO\,p!er ••ldrtlnthe Chic.lgo.,....

MR. AND MRS. ROBER T KUHNE

lHIi... AmofIvey. 4aUQhf... of ..... and ...... a.oro-E.lveyol Gonz u .• • nd Todd Terry Wamm._ol Jellfl W. rr or RllQine . Suk~ .,. p1eaNd 10

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MR. AND MRS. EDWARD MARTELL

GrO<Je ofCurtll, Neb., andM,11t A. Morga n. aonof Mr.and Mr. . Richard Morgan 01 Bulla50 o..P. S.D., Ir.ple.tedlO'nnQU/\Celtlelrmam.:g8A~.12InNontl

PI'he,Neb. Th. cerelllOf\'Y ..... p.tt1onnedby Don.ldHoc_ Jr. , pulor 01 the Nol1h Pllltte and GrI ndI~and. Neb .• churc h,• . MI t Morga n .,. Ihe ~.I

mln .andConnieGlazl ••• maidolhonor. Thlcouplereaid.inJunitlta.Neb

MR. AND MRS. JOHN GILBERT

"'r .•nd Mr. , John M.akrid ollhe Wichlt., K.n .•chu.chlr. ple. eed IOl l'll'lOOnc. lh. m. rri. II. ol lh. lrd'ughter Klthy to Jonl'l Gilbert . eon of Mr. Ind Mr• .Johnny Gilbert. Sept. 29 . 1he eer emo ny . 1.performedbyJuddKirk.pll.loroltheWiehil.ehurch.The eOllplereeide'nWichil• .

MR. AND MRS. MICHAE L IIAMS

JoyceDiloIMHarru,daught... or .... and ....Rlehsn:lHI"... of SII v•..,. 1lI~ and Michllel E~IiIIm •• _of nd .... K..-ttI 1i'Im. of A"""'.P•.• _1lI'I1t1td InmarriegoeOct.1 ontMPI..denIIAmtNI.MdorCollolgrlc.mpue. ns. be . , __• thegroom'. bro~ SII'W•• _ ItIe maid 01 honor ..

P.vla McFd. The groom II. -.lor .1 AmbII dorConeoe.1Ad the brkM Ie. 19&4grHuate eIlIflIoyedbythecollofge.

, Ectw.rd M.rt.1I.nd Sh.ron Luchitz _. united inmarTi.1t" Sep l. 2 ., th. McKinley Auditorium inCanton. OIlio. Ectw. rd I. tne lOll ot Ed .nd Marth .M.rtall ••nd gr.nd_ of Gr.ce DlYi. , .U member.who .ttend aervicn In Akron. OIlio. Sh.ron i. thed.ughtlH' 01 Jen ny LuchItZ, . nd g.a lldd. ugtot... ofFIOI..,c. Gabriel. St.. both mamo... . who .ttendI4lfVlce. in Canlon . The clH'amony."l*1ormed byJohnFoalar.ptI.loroflh.C.nlonch",eh.TheeoupleraeldeinKent.OIlIo .

McBROOM. Keith.net K.y (HIomy1. olQkI.homs City,Okl • .• boy , K..n Andrew . A~. 28 . 1:57 p.m., ..pounds 131' 0Uf\0I1. now2 boy • • 2girl •.

SEMONES.SldlndKirn(F.ulkner).ofL."ingtOll.Ky.•gill. Am.nd. EliU beIh . Oct. 18. 8:11 p.m.• 1 poun.d .2li!ounc ••• SnIlchiid.

MR. AND MRS. MARK MORGAN

MARANVILLE. Cecil .ltd K.ren (S ••ItOe>r.). ofMonInNll. qu... boy. Jo'Ieph Charfea , Nov. 9. 6: 10I .m.• 1 pound. 12 ouncea. no." boy .. ' tir1.

MARKS. R.ymO/ld Jr . In d S.nd'i (Smllh l . ofHlrrllburg, P•.• boy. Raymond Richerd II. Sept. 15.2:1 1• .m.•8pound.3ouncea.lral:chlld.

P1NZlNI. Ned.nd P.m L. (Sit....l, 01 Hayw.rd. Ce lli.•boy. Mieh ••IJOOn. Aug . 29. 1:40 •. m .• 9pound•• 1ral:child.

THORNE. ThonIM Iftd f<Irrt~). ofMlchlgeliCity.kId .• IlIr1.)l.myNlcole.0ct. I8,e •. m.•1poundeeouncea . • 81child .

MAVlS. ...wrenee.1IdJo Ellen (Deity). 01Al'fordtOl1.OhIo . girl. Kef)' Anne . Oct. 29 . 1:53 • .m.• 1 pound. 8OOIlC ••• 1lOW f boy. I girt

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OOETHAlS. 00N1d .nd JW.t (Mea). of Allburn.w•.tl.• girl. Quinn 1<'1""', Oct. 18, 12:« p.m.• 8poundII" ouncea .... child .

ERlCI<SON.MlcMeI.nd Suun (Ctlrf810phent0n). ofW.IIfoma, WIs .• boy.~ MIet\oIM, How. 8. 10:02p.III .•8pound. 8ouncea,hi child.

Angel. M. Grove . d.vghl... of ......nd Mil , Norrl.

She rr. S . Wiclc.• • da ughle r 01 Mr. • nd Mr • . RllpItWiek. 01 Ch.tt.no09" T.nl'l .• • nd Siaye" O.tw."iaon .aonof Ann'IHlIIrrilOnof Lenolr.N.C .• l nd the1.la CoroIeyF. HlIIrrieOll••,. h.ppylOlnno<JllCe theirm.tTitoge July 20 , The ceramony _ . performed byChl rtee Gri<Ier•• mini.l... in ' he Ch.lt.nOOQl. ch urch.TerrlBuch.".nw•• lhem.t.onofhonOl.lInd"'lk.Whita .."'eda'lh.beetm.n.

MR. AND MRS. STEVEN HARRISON

JONES. Gl'"1Ihemud P.I~ (Mlfl.). of Blaxlend .Auatra.Ii'I . girI.RebeIWl Loulae. Sept. 1. 12:5 1p.m .•Spound.t.. -._3glrt•.

DISHAW, ThorM. and KrW1in (VreeI.nd). 01 AnnAtbor. Mleh .. girl. Anns Elluobelh . Aug. 28, 12:32• .m.• 1 pound." oun.ce• •hi chlld.

CARY. Bob and Deborah (0rMdy). or Toronto. Onl.•boy . Stephen Tho,,,... Oct . 8. 2:31 p.m .. 9 pound."ouncee.now2!>oyt;.

......e.BiNIAdTtlJ<ty(Bn.Hn).oI'~.......~1lI,glr1.~MwIe. Sepf .!fl. 2:ZO• .m.• 8 poundlI1oune... no. 2 boys. 2g1r1•.

BUCHANAN. B"org• • nd C.rolyn (K.lI.r). ofFreeport. Beh'lm... glr1.JeWIIfo AM. Sepf. 1.S:f1p,m .• 8pound.1 0UI'lC"._ 1 boy . 2 glr1• •

McNAIR, Bruce .nd Judnh (l elMy), 01 p. ..o.nl.boy. Andr_ FllIntllin. Oct. 20 . 2 • .m.• 8 poundl ..OUIlCH. 6ralch~d.

8R1A. Frank and Jinny (Morgan) , at Plltablll'gtl, Pl.,liIirt, Aoole Charity, Sept. 29, 4:37 ' .m., e pound_ ,.OI/I'Ieel.1lOW2g1r1l .

BOOl...AK. David Ind CIlralinl (Quelette), of Omaha,Neb .. om. Erin l eigh . Oct . 28 , 9;()8 p.m., 8 pound. 6OUI'MaI ,.atetlild.

ENGAGEMENTS

AOAMS. Eddie and Linda. 01 A.,gull., GIl.• boy,Thom ... Oct.22.7~"'~• • _4boy., 1"".

BIRTHS

SMITH. Ron.1d ."d MIl)' (Wood), of Wheel ing.W.YI ., girl, c.therM EIlzebef h. July 1. 10:60 '.m., 1pound. I I ounce.. now ,boy. 2 gIrIa .

SMITH. Cel.net LlIie (Hul'llonl. of Wichlll, Kan.•gill.Atn~ Ralhel. Oet . 26 . 11:12 •. m.• 1 pound. 13ovnce •• lllItchlld.

Mr . • nd MIll. J.me. Oouge:nof Edinburgh. Scotl.nd.If. h.ppy 10 .nnounce lhe enQI.~1 of theird.ug hler Jlcki. to T. WIIlI.m Thom p. o n 01Monlgomery. IN. l'he.edding willt.k. plac . Dec . 23in Scotl.nd. The couple win r• • ide in Nlinoill.

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Jacksonville, N .C., church.Mrs . Ru ssell was born in Carolina

Beach, N.C. She played piano profes­sional ly mos t of her life and co mposedmu sic. inclu ding a composi tion titled" T he Te n Co mman dments."

Mrs. Ru ssell is survived by one sister,lan a W inner Bell, a member in WiI·mingto n: a bro ther, Carl; and a niece.Annie S tallings. who atte nds the Ra­leigh. N.C., church.

Funeral services were conducted Oct.19 by Briscoe Ellett II. pastor of theWil mington and New Bern , N.C.•churc hes.

CANTON. Ohio- Lisa Mae Raber,14, died Oct. 10 in a car accident on thewayto the Feast. She was active in YES,

USA MAE RABERYOU. chee rleed ing, track and volley­ball.

Lisa is survived by her mot he r, MaryWade. who is recovering from head andot her injuries rece ived in the accident; .two younger sisters . Kimberly and Jen ­nifer W ade; her gran dparents, Levi andClara Kuhn s; two aunt s, Elsie Austin

and Mae Kuhns; three cousins, Terry,Brad andMonica Aust in, who atte nd theCa nto n c hurc h; o ne uncl e, Denn isKuhn s. a member who attends theYoungstow n, Ohio. church; her fat her ,Rom an Rabe r; her ste pfat her, GregWade; her ste pgrandpa rents. Les andAudrey Wade; and other uncles, auntsand cousi ns.

Funeral services were conducted Oct.14 by John Foster, pastor of th e Ca ntonchurch,

PO RTLA N D, Ore. - M ar y L.Bragg , 84, d ied here Nov. 3. S he hasbeen a member since 1964 .

Funeral services were cond uct ed Nov.9 by N elson Haas, pastor of th e Port landWest church.

C RES WELL, Ore. - Roon ey Shan­non Pratt, 74, died Nov. 4 inacareceraerher e. He has beena member since 1961 .

M r. Pratt was born in Orego n andlived here his entire life. He and his wife,now deceased , list ened to Pas tor GeneralHerbert W. Arms tro ng's radi o broad­cast since th e ear ly 19405, and attendedthe Salem, Ore., church since 1961 .

He is survived by a broth er, Gordon of

ROONEY PRATTM~Minnvill e , Ore .; a s is ter, Ge riWeath ers of Pr ineville , Or e.; three ch il-

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dr en , Marvin S . of Co ttage Grove, Ore.,Mari lyn Miller, whose: husband, Ron­ald , pastors the Gran d Jun ct ion andM~"er. Colo.• churches, and Arle neSc hnippc rt, whose husband, Bernard.pastors the Las Vegas, Nev . and King­man , Ar iz.• chu rches; and eigh t grand­child ren.

funeral services were conducted Nov .8 in McMinnville by Leona rd Sc hreiber ,pastor of the Eugene, Bend. Rosebur gand Coos Bay, Ore., ~hurches.

OTTA WA, Ont. - Sean S ut herland,3, died Sept. 27, He was in a coma for aweek and a half af ter suffering threeheart ar res ts and massive brain damage.

,tA~"'_..•SEAN sunlERUND

He is surv ived by hiSparen ts. Don andLa urie . memben h4re, and a ' sister,Tanya. '

Sean spen t mostof ~is life in the hospi­tal beca use of a disorjler that appeared.when he was 5Y.1 wee~ old. Accord ing todoct ors, Sea n's neroks disint eg rated,part icul arl y the phren~c nerve in his dia-

phragm. Sean was paralyzed from theneck down. He could move some facemuscles, and was normal mentally.

Sean was one of only two children inNo rth America with this ailment. Somespecu late that the re have been 13 chil­dren afflicted with th is diso rde r, butmost have not survived past birth.

Sean partia lly recovered from hisplight six months afte r bir th. when hegained some movement in his jaw, legs.arms and torso. T he Sut herlands oftenbroug ht Sea n to Sabbath services in aspecial wheelchair with a respirator.

There was no significant imp rove­ment in Sean 's condition in the pasty='.

Fu neral services we re co nd uc tedSept . 30 by John Adams. pastor of theOttawa church .

SANTA MARI A, Cal if. - EvelynG. Bohannon , 65, wife of Jeff B. Bohan­non,died Aug. 20 afte r a short illness.

Mrs. Bohannon was born Doc. 21.1918, and was bapt ized into the C hurchin Se ptember . 1976 . She and her hus­band atte nded services in San Luis O bis­po, Calif.

Mrs. Bohannon iss urvived by her hus­band; two sisters and a brother of Tuc­son, Ariz .; and two stepchildren, CoreneScholl of Central Port, Ore ., and Samuelof Elko, Ne v.

A UCK LAND, N ew Zealand ­Flore nce Everett, 73, a member of God 'sC hurch since 1969, died here Oct . 30 .

M rs. Everett is survived by her hus­band , Jack:; a' son, Roy of Wellington.Ne w Zealand; anda da ughte r. Hazel ofwarmambool, Australia.

Funeral services were cond ucted Nov.2 by John C roucher . pastorofthe Aud :­land, Ne w Plymou tb and wbangarei ,New Zealand, churches.

H AMILTON. On t o - Re beccaLusig nea, 90, died Oc t. 29 of pneuma-

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nia. S he was confined to a hospital bedfor 14 months following a stroke inAugust, 1983 .

Mrs . Lusignea, fondly called "MrsLu e,' bega n atte nding services in Kitc h­ener, Om., and was one of the pioneermembers of the Hamilton ch urch , whichbegan J uly 17, 1971. S he was baptizedJa n. 19, 1969 . by Gary Anrion. now apas to r- rank professor at Pasade naAm bassador College ,

Mrs. l usignea is survived by threedaughters. a son and several grandch ildrenand great-grandchildren . Her daughterFreda Maunder and granddaughter Cat h)'Graf are members who attend the Hamil­ton chu rch. and her grandda ugbter Petri ­cia Roberts is a member who atte nds theSt. Ca tbarines. Ont., cburch.

A gravesi de service was conductedOct . 30 by Anthony W asHkoff. pastor ofthe Hamilton and SI. Catharineschu rches .

DAYTO N, O hio - S teven E. Per­kins. 37.and his wife. Brend a F., 29. diedOct. 6 when the ir car was struck head-onby anot he r car in Kentucky.

T he coup le were en rout e to JekyllIsland , Ga. , to att end the Feast ofTaber ­nacles.

Mr . Perkin s has been a member ofGod's C hurc h for 10 years, and ' Mrs .Perkin s for nine years.

Mr s. Perkins is survived by her par­en ts. Ead and Bett y Barnhart, members;a sister and brother-i n-law; a niece; anephew; and a gran dmother and grand­fath er .

Mr. Perki ns is survived by his mother;a brot her and sister-in-law, Leroy andNorma. members; a sister-in- law, PatsyPerkins, alsoa member, two otber broth­ers; a sister; and several nieces andneph ­ews.

Funeral services were conducted inDayton by Michael Blackwell. ass istantpasto r of the Dayton A.M. and P.M .churches.

AMBASSADOR ACTIVITIES

UP, UP AND AWAY - Pas adena freshman Timothy Pebworth (left) and senior Emily Raynes take part in afilm at th e Screen Tes t Comedy Theatre at Univer sal Stud ios Nov . 7 dur ing educational field day . [Photo byFord Burden]

FAMILY ATMOSPHERE

•'~ERV~~~S DA!!Cf-, -; " . ,

PASADENA~:'i:iiir F.';i1Y -rGathers to Give Thanks " wasthe theme tor the 1984Thanksgiving Ball here Sundayevening, Nov . 18.

The dance. presented bythe senior class under the di ­rection of Raynard Eddings,senior class president. tookplace in the student center.

Arr iving guests passed amailbox and climbed stairs tothe north door of the studentcenter, which was decorated8S a front por ch . Decorationsin the student ce nter includeda sitti ng room with a fireplace ,rocking chairs. grandfathercl ock. a brass coatrack andkn ickknacks. A double liv ingroom was furnishe d w ith book·shelves. couches and a tel ev i­sion showing a vid eotape of aLos Angeles Rams ve. Chi ca­go Bears football game . A longdining room table was deco­rated with brass c andlesticksand candelabra and a horn ofplenty filled with fruit and nuts .A slide show with a Thanksgiv­ing theme was shown through­out the evening.

A back por ch was set up onthe student center patio. Itwas complete with a porchswing , a doghouse, a scare­crow. hay , pumpkin s and twolive turk ey s.

"I felt that the family atmo ­sphere tha t perv aded the stu­den t c ente r prov ided a neces­sary warmth, which cont ribut­ed to the succ ess of the eve­ning :' sai d Mr. Eddin gs.

Dance music was providedby the Amba ssador Colle geDance Band under the dire c­t ion of Ross Jutsum, dire ct orof Mus ic Services for Pasa ­dena Amba ss ador College.Several voc al soloists werefeatured.

Refreshments included veg ­etable pla tes, frui t kabobs,

cookies , finger sandwichesand miniature apple, pumpkinand mincemeat pies .

After the entertainment por ­tion of the evening, DeputyChanc ellor Raymond McN airannounced Jim Little, fromPrince George. B.C.• as fresh­man c lass president for the1984-85 academic year.

Mr . Little was surprisedwhen his name was an­nounced . "It caught me totallyoff guard, so I didn't say muchof anything," he said . He add ­ed that he is thankful for therespons ibility and plan s toserv e the c lass to the best ofhis abil ity.

DANCE THEME FEATURESCOLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES

BIG SANDY - " Opportuni·ti es" wa s the theme of theThank sgiv ing Ball . Nov . 18 ,present ed by the soph omorec lass, according to EugeneKubik , student body pre sident.

The theme focused on theopportunities available to stu ­dents at Ambassador College.Decorations included four th e-

matic shells displaying someof these opportunities .

The first sh ell featured cot ­lege life in general. The sec­ond showed the opportunitiesava ilable through Youth Op ­portunities United (YOU) andthe Summer Educational Pro­gram (SEP) , and featured apainting of Pasto'iGeneralHerbert W. Armstrong with theslogan " The heart s of the chil ·dren " placed under it, and re ­freshments such as peanutbutter and jelly sandw iches.

The third shell focu sed onthe annual Colo rado ski tr ipand incl uded a backdrop ofskiers co ming down a moun ­tai n and refreshment s such asa mountain-shaped cake andmarshmall ows to dip in choco ­late .

The fo urth she ll featuredthe Jeru salem arch aeologi caldig and was set up like an ex­cavat ion site with re fresh ­ment s such as pyramid­shaped cak es and baklava. Atthree of the shells con tinuou ssl ide show s wer e shown.

Dance music was providedby the Ambassador Co llege

Danc e Band . dir ected bysophomore Mike Belloni, andby a group cons isting of Rand yDuke . Vern on Parks, MartinYale and Mike Peine.

" This was one of the live ­liest dan ces I've been to, "said Mr . Kubik. " The studentswere encouraged to dan cewith oth ers besides th eirdates, and a good tone wasset throughout the evening."

STUDENTS VISITUNIVERSAL STUDIOS

PASADENA - Aboul630Ambas sador Coll ege stu­dents, faculty members andfamily members board edbuses and vans Nov , 7 to trav­el t o Universal St udios , thesite of this year's educationalfield day, according to DanielReyer, student body vicepresid ent.

When they ar rived , the stu­dents toured the ba ck 'o t ofmovi e sets and sound sta gesand stopped at a sound stageto see a presentation on howspecia l effec ts are created inmovies.

After the tour , the studentswent to South Wedd inQton .Park , wh'ere they ate a picniclunch provided by the collegeFood Service Department .

After lunch the group re ­turned to the studios to attendseveral live shows. At ascreen-test theater, a group ofstudents part icipated in a film­ing session and then the stu­dents watched the results.

Between the shows, stu­dents visi ted shops, and sat inand talked to K.I.T.T., theblack Trans Am auto mobilefrom the televis ion seriesKnight Rider.

The day's ac tivities wer eorgan ized by Mr . Reye r. "I feltthe day wa s educat ional , butalso enjo yable," he sa id .

YOUNG AMBASSADORSGIVE PERFORMANCES

BIG SANDY - Th. BigSandy Yo ung Ambas sadors,begun this year under the di ­rection of Russell Duke, hadtheir debut perf ormances inBig Sandy Nov . 10, 11 and 12.

Saturday, Nov . 12, thegroup performed special mu­sic for the Big Sandy congre­gation. They had performedspe ci al music on the Fea st ofTrumpets, Sept. 27 , in Nacog ­doches, Tex ., and Nov . 3 inTyler. Tex ., according to Mr .Duke.

Sunday , Nov . t 1, the groupprovid ed entert ainment fo r th eSilve r Amba ssadors, a groupof about 70 senio r ci ti zensfrom the Big Sandy church, inthe field house .

Monday, Nov 12. the Yo ungAmbassadors part ic ipated inthe annual Pec an Fest ival inBig Sandy .

" The program is going verywell ," sa id Mr . Duke. "The stu ­dents are working hard to giv esomething to the communityand to the Church. They areperf orming well ."

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Gakuin University Symph ony Bandperformed in t he A mbassadorAuditorium Thursday morning,Nov. 29, in a student forum andagain that evenin g in a publi c con­cert, aecord ing to evangelist FJlis LaR.,i•• a vice pre sid ent of th eAmbassador Found ation .

Makoto Fujita. executive dir ec­tor for the International Center atthe university and facul ty sponsorforttleband, servesas Past or Gener­

e~~a1 Herbert W.~·AnmiiOOi s-inter -

'Pi eter in Japan :Mr~ Anuslrollg and the Ambas­

sador Foundation asked Mr . Fuji tato bring tbeband lathe Ambassador

~ Auditorium, said Mr . La Ravia.The hand, formed in 1954, cele­

brates its 30th anniv ersary this year .It has won 16 gold medal s and foursilver medal s in nationwide bandmusic competitions in Japan . andhas performed in South Kor ea.Singapore and Canada. Th is was theband's firs t appearance in th eUnited States, acco rding to the uni­versity .

Th e band members are not musicmajor s, and the universit y does nothave a music department. T he con­du ctor is a stude nt.

OREGONKECH , sasem - 22 , 6:30 p .m., Sun.

PENM$n"ANtAWPGH. PIttsburgh - S3, 9 :30 a .m.• Sal

ish Reader's Digest and one in theN orwegia n ed iti on bro ug ht thePlain Trut h subsc ript ion list tomore th an 18,000 . It is expected toapproach 20,000 by the Janu aryissue .

The Engli sh-l ang uage Pl a inTru th subscri ptio n list in Sca ndi­na vi a re m ained fai rl y s t a b lethr oughout 1984, with new addi­tions from advertisem ent s replen­ish ing losses from renewals. Sub­scri pt ions dropped slightly from theNovember-December. 1983. level.Thi s was expect ed becau se th eC hurch directed more funds intobu ild ing th e Norwegia n-languageedi tion. Den Enk le So nnhn, in itsfirs t yea r. Com bining English andNorwegian files, at the end of Oc to­ber, the re were 30.0 31 subscribersin Scandinavia. up 138.8 percentfrom Oct ober last year.

Thi s growth in Plain Truth ci rcu­lat ion is adding to th e co-worker list ,wh ich is up 26. 1 percen t from1983.

Pacific

T he Auck land , New Ze aland,Regional Office repor ted that Th eWorld Tomorrow is on th e ai r on anew television st at ion in Tong a. Th efirst programs were aired free ofc harge .

TENNESSEEWTVC, Chathnooga - 9 . t2 ;3O p.m.•Sun.

MISS OURIKOOE , Joplin -: 12, e a .m., Sun.

TEXASKTVT , Dallas - 11, 7 a.m.• Sun. (a tlactiveDec . 30) .

The following s ta tions a n­nounced t ime ch an ges for Th eWorld To morrow.

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United Kina:domand Ireland

Y ear- t o-d a temail in com ethrou gh October was up 9.2 per­cent. conti nuing a gradual upwardt rend . October income was up 31.2perce nt. while Holy Day offeringsfor 1984 were 32 perce nt higherthan 1983 .

Plain Truth circulat ion for th eNovember- Dece mber issue stood atan all-t ime high of 157,000, justabove the end-of-year targe t of150,000 . The increas ed circul ati onis ca using a steady increase in mail.which at the end of October was up45.5 perce nt over last year. GoodNew s circulation is up 16.7 percent,and the co-workerl ist is up 10.7 per­cc I t over 1983.

SOUTH CAROLINAWHNS, Gree nvi lle - 21, to a.m., Sun .

JAPANESE BAND - The Kwansei Gakuin University Symphony Band performs at a student asse mbly in theAmbassador Auditori um Nov. 29 . (See " Update," this page .) [Photo by Nathan Faulkner)

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PENNSYLVANIAWDAU , SCra.nton - 22 . noon, Sun.

MINNESOTAKCMT, Alell:andrta - 7.9:30 a.m.•Sun.

The WORLDWIDE NEWS

PASADENA - Ca rn Ca ther­wood , regi on a l direct or of th eC hurch in Italian-speakin g areas,met with nine people during an Oct.20 to 25 counseling tour of Italy.

Oct. 19, the day afte r the Feast ofTabern acles, Mr. Ca therwood bap­tized a new member into God 'sC hurch. Th is was the first C hurc hof God bapti smal ce rem ony to beconducted in modern times in Italyin the Italian language. Previousbapt isms were conducted byvisitingEnglish-speaki ng minister s using anint er pre ter.

T hi rteen membe rs of God ' sC hurch are perm anent residents ofItaly. Four members, from theUnited Stat es, Gu yana, T anzaniaand Zambia, ar e there on a tem po­rary basis.

C irculat ion of La Pura Verita.th e Italian-language edit ion of Th ePlain Tru th. topped the 56.000

GEORGIAWGXA , Macon - 24, 11;30 • .m., Sun.

MOST-REQUESTED BOOKLE TS - These seve n booklets have each been requested by more than one millionpeople in the United States. (See " Updale," l his pag~ .) (Photo by Warren Watson) .

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FLORIOAWCJ B, Gainanllia - 20 . 7 a .m., Sun.WJHG, Panema Ctty - 7,7;30 a.m., Sun.

approved for 1985 with no increasein cost.

PASADENA - Th e followingU.S . television stations now air Th eWorld Tom orrow , according toDa,id Hulme,director ofmediapur­chasing.

Listed by state ar e th e sta tions'cal l letters, locations, channel num ­bers and tim es when th e WorldTomorrow program is aired.

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SaI~Hle Program Ne twon. (SPN) - 10:30a .m., Central Stan dard Time (CST) , Tues .UfaUme C.bIe Natwork - 10:30 p.m.,Eaatem Standard Time (ESn. Sat . (eltee­live Dec . 15).

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PASADENA - Seven of PastorGeneral Herbert W. Armstrong'sbooklets have been requested bymore than one million people in theUnited States, according to evange­list Richard Rice, director of theChurch's Mail Processing Center(MPC) .

T hes e foundati on al bookletscove ring major doctrines haveenabled hundred s of thousands tobetter unde rstand the Bible andGod ' s plan, acco rding to Mr.Rice.

The booklet s are The UnitedStates and Britain in Prophecy.3 ,667,734; Why Were YouBorn?, 1.917 ,J54; The SevenLaws of Success. 1,902.172; TheWonderful World Tomorrow ­What It Will Be Like . 1,705,860;The Book of Revelation Un­veiled at Last l, 1,594,188; DoesGod Exist?, 1,486,557; and ThePlain Truth AbDUl Christmas.1,180,8 10.

The seven booklets account formore than one fourth o f thealmost 50 milli on book lets dis­t r ibut ed in th e U nit ed Statessince the beg inn ing of thi s era- ofGod 's C hurch.

PASADENA - David Hulme,d ir ect or of medi a purch asin g,announced th at renewal contract sfor air ing th e World Tomorrowtele vision program on Radio-Tele­vision Lu xem bour g (R TL ) in 1985were mad e at littl e o r no cos tincrease.

Mr . Hul me added that RTL-TVapproved a second time slot onTh ursday evenings for the progr amwith Fre nch subt itles.

l.e M ondea Venir. the 15-mi nuteFrench-lang uage radio program byevangelist Dibar Apartian, will con­tinue on Radio Sud , broadcastin gfrom Toulouse. France, and And er ­ra.

Tele Monte-Carlo offered to con­tinue the television program's 11:30p.m. slot with additional coveragein to M arseille , Fr an ce ' s maj orsouthern city .

Renewal of th e Italian-subt itledWorld Tomorrow, which originatesin Milan ,l taly, on the Italian serviceof Tel e Mon te- Carlo, has been

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Q UIL CENE, Wash . - funeralservices for Dwight Leslie Arm­strong, 80, who died of cancer Nov .17, were conducted Nov . 23 byRichard Parker, pastor of theAuburn and Bremerton, Wash .,churches.

Mr. Armstrong is the youngerbroth er of Pastor General HerbertW. Armstrong. The pastor generalwas unable to attend becausebe~ .in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Evangelists Dibar Aparti.... Her­man L. H..... Roderick Meredithand Joseph 11uIcb Sr. and RaIpbHelge., Church attorney, attendedthe fune ral . The young er Mr . Arm­st rong's twin sister, M.ry Edmund­son o f Portland, Ore ., a lsoatt ended .

The 40 in att endance joined insinging the hymn Mr . Armstrongcomposed from Psalm 141, " HearMy C ry, Eternal One," as herequested during his final hours .

"Mr. Parker . . . conveyed to melater how very much encouragedMr . Dwight Arm str ong was by allthe lette rs he received from many ofGod 's peo ple," said Mr. Tkach." Mr. Parker said Mr . Ar mstrongwas deeply moved and encouragedduring his last weeks, knowing howmuch his hymn s are appreciated bythe members ."