Herbert W Armstrong

WN Feast Wrap-up: From the Feast reports streaming into "The Worldwide News" we can already tell, again, 1985's Feast was "the best Feast ever." Our staff is working feverishly to process the stacks of copy and thousands of photographs sent to us from around the world. Festival reports and photographs will be featured in the Nov. 4 issue.

February PT: Copy is also coming in for the February "Plain Truth." We will run chapter 3, "Mystery of Civilization," of Mr. Armstrong's new book "Mystery of the Ages." We will also run part 2 of Mr. Armstrong's booklet "The Bible — Superstition or Authority?...and Can You Prove It?" That will conclude that booklet, which is good because Mr. Armstrong's new booklet "Are We in the Last Days?" is scheduled for March.

Booklets: All of Mr. Armstrong's new and revised booklets will be sent automatically to Church members. Please be sure to encourage the brethren to read this new material. Even though the title may be the same, if the text is significantly revised a new copy will be sent out.

Coming in the PT: In our planning session for the February issue, we discussed several other articles that will run in the first few months of 1986. Mr. Ronald Kelly toured some steel plants in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area just before the Feast, taking photographs and gathering information for an article on the smokestack industries. Mr. John Ross Schroeder is doing research in Britain for Mr. Kelly's article.

Also discussed was an article on Britain's Queen Mother. It will be 50 years next year since the abdication crisis in Britain.

Youth 85 Stats In the "Youth" magazine, we are gearing up for our sixth year. Those who were 13 years old when they received their first issue of "Youth 81" will be about 18 when January's "Youth 86" reaches them. Added to those first subscribers are more than 200,000 other subscribers, including more than 60,000 libraries.

Survey: A "most admired person" or "hero" survey in the August issue generated more than 500 responses from teens around the world. So far the most admired by "Youth 85" readers are God, Jesus Christ, their parents and Mr. Armstrong.

We thought you might enjoy several comments from our readers in response to the survey:

"I chose Mr. Armstrong as my No. 1 hero because of all he has done for me. I belong to YOU and, besides all the guidance and fun activities provided there, the ministers Mr. Armstrong trained in Ambassador College are teaching my family and me how to live the way God says to. This causes so many blessings that I can't even begin to list them. What I am trying to say is that he is a great hero of mine."
15-year-old
British Columbia

"The three people I look up to the most — the people I admire, my 'heroes ' — are very simple:

"First, my father. I would like to become more like my father because he is understanding, he is brave and because he is a very hard worker.

"Second, my mother. Why? Because she is so easy to love, to talk to, she listens to everything I have to say, to all my ideas.

"Third, is Mr. Armstrong himself. He is so full of energy in spite of his age. He is outgoing and interested in everything and everyone. He's unique!!

"If somehow I could combine my 'heroes ' into my own character I think I would be a pleasant person to know simply because my 'heroes' are very pleasant people to know!"
15-year-old
Texas

YES Mailing Policy: Because of the high cost of mailing sets of Youth Bible Lessons to international church pastors, we are making a change in our mailing policy.

Pastors' sets will be inserted into envelopes and labeled, but will not be metered at Postal Services. They will be included in the regular bulk shipment of students' lessons to international areas.

We are asking the Regional Offices to distribute these sets to pastors in their respective areas. This will ensure a more timely arrival of lessons to the pastors and children and save a considerable amount in postage costs overall.

This new procedure will be in effect with the mailing of Lesson 2.

— Dexter Faulkner, Editorial Services