British Report for July 1972

The First of July saw our second show at Reading Town Hall which was a great success. Unfortunately Doris was unable to sing and having sold over six hundred tickets and thousands of programmes we were fortunate to get Jack Korthius to fill the gap at the last moment. Three weeks later we were able to have another successful show at Bournemouth.

On the fourth of July we began a forty-day witnessing condition from our seventeen centres with the condition of doubling our numbers and selling 55,000 booklets and over three hundred principles. In order to give the maximum thrust the Samson team was split up for forty days to work with center members. The importance of this condition being that if we are to really expand then all our centres must be strong. Already this month new members have moved into Liverpool, Cambridge, Dorney, Heading and Thornton Heath. The condition ends on August 12th and will be followed by our First National Conference, starting on 19th August.

Another pleasing feature of our work has been the response of the public to our pamphlets and the encouragement given to us. At this moment our sales campaign is running very well. Our new printing machine has been delivered and now awaits electricity.

This month saw three overseas visitors: Jack Korthius from Los Angeles who inspired the members at the beginning of the month when he was able to speak at our service. Also Zed Robinson, the first negro to accept Principle together with Elke van der Stok were able to inspire members with their testimonies.

The other international feature of note was the holding of the fourth European Conference in Amsterdam which enabled fourteen members of the family to travel to Amsterdam. We were all suitably inspired to fulfill our mission in building a new world centred on Our Father. Already we have been making plans for Samson’s next tour of duty and our next forty-day condition.

By the end of the year we are planning a fourfold increase in members.