Herbert W Armstrong

August 14 through 22 found Mr. Stan Bass and Business Manager Bryan Weeks in England for talks with Messrs. David Gunn, Jerry van de Wende and Tony Lodge about the printing and mailing of the Caribbean edition of "The Plain Truth."

On the way back to San Juan, Messrs. Bass and Weeks stopped in Barbados. While there, Mr. Bass was able to meet with and obtain the permission of the Barbados Postmaster General for local mailing of "The Plain Truth." In addition to that, we are now able to secure a mailing permit. This means that the magazines will not have to be franked. They can be picked up at Customs and taken directly to the Post Office for mailing. Mr. Simpson has received assurances from the Central Bank that there will be no problem in paying for the magazines as long as the documentation is in order.

Good news from Bermuda, where we are already mailing about 7,000 magazines to parts of the Caribbean and to Central and South America. We now have permission to use a mailing permit, eliminating the need to lug the magazines up to the office for franking.

For some time now, we had been wondering whether Mr. Paul Brown would get an extension of his H-3 Work Permit. We are happy to report that he has been given an eight-month extension. This means that he can stay until April, 1986.

On the first Sunday in September the World Tomorrow began to be seen on both channels of the Trinidad and Tobago Television System. When Channel 2/13 broadcast the World Tomorrow, we received 56 responses, more than twice the number received on the other channel 9/14. On the second Sunday, there were 114 responses from the new channel!

We were recently notified by WSJU, which is the television station in San Juan over which we air the program, that we would have to accept a change of time for the broadcast. We went from 8:00 a.m. Sunday to 7:00 a.m. the same morning. This earlier time seems to be far less popular. Instead of the 70 calls or so which we usually receive each month, this month we received only 31. We are hoping to improve our time when we can. One benefit, which is perhaps somewhat hidden, is that we may now be reaching a completely different audience.

Over all, television in the Caribbean has been successful. There are several small markets which are not responding as we would hope, but we have had very good responses considering the minuscule size of the markets. So far we have received 5,833 responses from our nine television stations.

— Joseph Tkach, Church Administration