I write this from a beach house overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where friend wife and I are staying with some long-time friends after four days of hard committee work on the International Congress on World Evangelization. This congress will convene in 1974, with 3,000 participants from around the world. Dates and location will be set in a few weeks.
Speaking of hard work: the efforts of our circulation manager and our advertising manager continue to get results. Henry De-Weerd tells me we now have our highest paid circulation ever—160,000. In the next year and a half we’ll be shooting for 200,000. And this year’s advertising income will be the highest in our history, says Charles Wright. Kudos to both these men and to their staffs. Rising costs, including disheartening postal increases, plague all magazines. We hope to meet them through larger circulation and advertising revenues, and to be spared the necessity of raising subscription rates. However, we still will need some gifts from friends to balance our budget.
Our newsman Ed Plowman spent much of the summer in Europe and will soon bring readers up to date on the Jesus movement there. I’ll be covering the World Council of Churches mission meetings in Bangkok at year’s end.
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