Herbert W Armstrong

The German Work needs some help in a very important matter. We need about 20 to 30 more brethren to attend the Feast of Tabernacles at Karlsbad, in Czechoslovakia. This is necessary to assure our being able to continue to have a "real" Feast behind the Iron Curtain for our brethren in East Germany, Poland and Yugoslavia.

Last year God gave us favor with the Czech government and they permitted us to hold the Feast with their full approval at the beautiful health spa at Karlsbad. This year they want us back but they want a minimum of 120 attending and we are still between 20 and 30 short of that goal. The Czechs do not feel it is worth their while if we are only 85 as last year. They, of course, are interested in the foreign exchange our people from the West bring.

Many of those attending Karlsbad last year, especially families with children, have expressed their desire to return again this year. It is a very lovely Feast site.

First class accommodations including breakfast and one warm main meal costs $23.50 per person, per day (children 3 to 12: $19.50), and second class is only $16.00 (children $12.00). Babies under 3 are free.

We provide a professional-quality, simultaneous translation of all services into English.

If anyone in your congregation could attend at Karlsbad and help keep this door to the Iron Curtain open for our brethren there, we can assure a memorable and blessed Feast experience.

Please contact the Bonn office of Ambassador College, POPPELSDORFER ALLEE 53, 5300 BONN, TEST GERMANY by air mail or telegram. The phone number is Bonn 218061.

Burma

Saw Lay Beh, our leader in Burma, recently reported in a letter the following unusual situation that arose on a recent visiting tour he made to the northern Chin Hills district of Burma. We include it for your interest.

"On my recent trip to the Chin Hills, while at a village where several members live, I was asked by a member's father (who is a Catholic pastor there) to speak to the villagers — Catholics and Baptists — who gathered on the occasion of the building of a tomb for the son of Mr. Tum Kio who died a year ago. Then with the help of our assistant, Mr. Thomas Hoe, as interpreter (I spoke in English) to about 150 old and young, for about a half hour on the origin of Satan and the purposes of Christ's first coming and his second coming.

They listened attentively and they were very amazed and astonished with the TRUTH they were never taught or fed — and as it is, their church leaders themselves are totally ignorant of — the living truth that we have wonderfully got from God through His apostle, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong! Their pastor listening from a little distant spot (might be he would feel ashamed if he came near and listened openly), later said that he had never heard of this kind of truth before, though he graduated, with first position, from their Bible School. Yes, they at least heard a small part of the truth, and I do not know how many will react to the truth they had heard, but our great commission from our Lord Jesus Christ is to preach the gospel to the world as a witness! As I could have inferred from what I have experienced each trip to the Chin Hills, prospect for future gospel work in the Chin Hills State, especially, is very good and encouraging."

Compiled by Rod Matthews, International Office