Usually mail flow slows down during the summer months. However, mail for both of the months of July and August has held up well this year. In fact, the mail count for the month of August (as of the 28th) is about 4% higher than it was last year at this time. Combined mail receipts for both the Pasadena and Tucson offices now stand at 137,123 letters through August 28.
There is no one single item which is bringing in the strong mail. A number of our mailings are doing well:
A letter to PLAIN TRUTH subscribers which offered the booklets "What Do You Mean — Born Again?", "What Will You Be Like In The Resurrection?", "What Do You Mean Conversion?" and "You Need God's Holy Spirit."
PT subscription renewals.
Responses to the "Literature Catalog" (which offers 19 pieces of our most popular literature to new subscribers).
Cards from newsstand displays are also coming in.
All in all, it adds up to a steady mail picture for us during August. We hope mail volume will continue at this good rate during the coming months also.
Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
MAIL COMMENTS
Thousands of letters over the past few months have related appreciation and a sense of excitement for the positive changes taking place in the Church as Mr. Armstrong moves to prepare the Church for Christ's return.
Many brethren are experiencing a strengthening of their faith and rejuvenation of their spirit as they rediscover the ''truth'' of the Bible and regain a "first love" once more. Following are a few typical letters.
Mail Processing Center
Appreciation for Getting Us Back On the Track
I praise you to God each day for your zeal and dedication. I usually don't comment when I send in my checks, but I particularly wanted to this time. Thanks for doing a truly magnificent job. Please continue to admonish and correct us, for Christ is coming soon, and we seem to lack the power to clean up our act on OE own. Yet we must. So spare the pablum and feed us the hard truth we need so badly, as you have always done.
David G. Huffman (New Orleans, LA)
My husband and I want to take the opportunity to thank you with all of our hearts for all the love and concern that you have for the Church We feel that you are like a father to us, lovingly leading us in the way we should go, instructing us and expounding to us the things that God wants us to learn.
It must, at times, seem very discouraging to you when you view the condition of the Church in the U.S. But we want you to know that many, many brethren are becoming stronger in the faith by watching your strong and loyal example.
God indeed is on His throne:!! And through your efforts He will set His Church back on track. Thanks a million! What more can we say? Hang in there! Fight the good fight! Keep on swinging like you have for all these years, through trials and troubles.
Mr. & Mrs. David Harris (Pasadena, CA)
Be assured we are behind you in prayer and our support. Where would we be without you? Because of your sacrifices and faithfulness to God and His truth throughout your life, God was able to call us. Because of your dogged determination, I can have hope in Christ. For this, I thank you.
Linda C. Holley (Akron, OH)
I feel so much better spiritually and physically now that you are getting God's Church back on the track. I don't fail to thank God for you and pray that He will continue to strengthen you physically and spiritually.
"The articles in The GOOD NEWS and PLAIN TRUTH are so interesting now — like old times. I can hardly put them down until I have devoured everyone of them.
Mrs. Margaret Gipson (Dawson, TX)
Thank you so very much for letting God use you to set the Church and College back on the right track. Every article you write is like a breath of fresh air; like wine poured on an infected wound, stinging, yet cleaning and healing at the same time.
We've been in the Church 19 years and just floated along with the times, becoming more and more confused the past 10 years as everything we thought we knew and understood was shot through with holes. Now the basic truths are renewed and the truth is simple and beautiful as it was in the beginning. Thank you again and again.
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Shallenbeyer (Mishawaka, IN)
We are behind you and the Work loo%! So are all of the brethren whom we know. We have been excited about how strong your sermons have come out for our need to prepare ourselves as the bride of Christ for His return. Keep up the good work!
Michael Osborne (Brandon, MS)
I believe this is the end time and that we all need more time on our knees before God. Thank God for the correction He gives through you. God's will is to make His Church ready for Christ's return. God help us to see that and be fervent and diligent in trying to draw closer to His power.
Hasadore Hall Jr. (Lexington KY)
Your article in the recent GOOD NEWS carried a tremendously powerful impact to me personally ("Now Christ Moves Swiftly to Make Church Ready"). Somehow God, through that article, made me feel my own responsibility to get the spots and wrinkles and blemishes out of me, in a way I had never understood before."
Thank you very much for more blessings than I can count — but especially for that article and your letters."
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