UPDATE FROM MAIL PROCESSING
Multiple Thousands Request TRUE CHURCH Booklet
WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH? has become the second-most requested booklet in the U.S. this year. Through last week, 359,018 copies have been sent out. The only booklet sent to more readers was THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN IN PROPHECY.
If these requests are an indication of the depth of interest our readers and viewers are showing in the Church, we may see a heavy upsurge in visit requests in the months ahead. A number of letters show that many of these people are more than "just curious" about the identity and location of God's Church. Some mention that they have been actively seeking the true Church for quite a long time. Others found this knowledge new and startling.
Several have written to us describing the booklet's impact on their lives. We have already received a few visit requests as a result. Following are some of the letters we've received:
I just read your booklet called WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH? and I found it totally astounding. If what you're saying is true, then this whole nation has been deceived greatly. And I need to make a total rearrangement of my life and how I live. It's unbelievable and leaves me in a state of shock.
D.D. (Petersburg, VA)It used to be that when our clock radio went off on Sunday mornings, your program was on. That is how I became acquainted with your ministry. I was very much interested in what you had to say.
I had come to a point where I vomited everything I had been spoon-fed about religion, and set out to find my own answers. I looked in all the wrong places — this world's places. I feel like I've been treading water, trying to keep my head above it all, but not finding anything solid to stand on. That is, until I just read your booklet WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH? It was like a lifesaver being thrown to me.
Our families, church members, neighbors and friends all hold to traditional Christian values and I realize what it could mean going off in another direction. But God has brought me this far and will give me the courage to do what is right and true. I wish to have a minister of the Worldwide Church of God call on me.
M.F. (Bryant, IN)We just finished reading WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH? Mr. Armstrong, we've been listening to and reading your material over the past several months — always checking out what you say and every so often listening to another man preach, as a comparison. We finally believe you are a man from God. Why we never heard you before I don't know, unless the time wasn't right.
Never have I heard a man speak the way you do, and I gave up ever expecting to hear one years ago. We want to thank you for bringing understanding and hope to this miserable world.
N.O. (Durango, CO)We are praying always for you. Also, in our opinion, the booklet WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH? is some of the best writing you've ever done. Thank you for your tireless efforts in Christ's service.
Mr. & Mrs. W.M. (Stevens, PA)I have of late become a subscriber to The PLAIN TRUTH. After reading the article "Where Is The True Church?" and others, you have my interest piqued. As you have said, this is a very different view from what I am used to.
I have so many questions about this I could not put them all in a letter. My wife and I are both in our twenties and do not have much of a background in any church. There seems to be so many people today telling so many "truths" it makes it hard to tell what really is true. I have just requested your Bible course in hopes of gaining understanding. I would also like to request anything else that may be of help to us. Thank you for your time and for your help.
B.G. (Russellville, KY)
— Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
