Come November 1999 we will enter our seventh year since we launched the CETF journal in New Zealand and Australia. Vanguard was first published in Britain in October 1996. We shared distribution of the two papers shortly after and have progressively formed more solid links between the ministries since then. Quite recently a number of things surfaced which indicated that changes were afoot and a more permanent association needed to be established.

Editorship: Vanguard, since its inception has been edited in Britain by Siam Bhayro, a young man who has a passion for TRUTH and for GOD'S WORD. Siam graduated with a First Class honours degree in Hebrew from University College London in 1997 — for which he was awarded the Faculty of Arts medal. He is now in the final year of his Ph.D. He is married to Lisa who is a science teacher. His anonymity is no longer necessary nor, for that matter, desirable. Nothing will change in this regard apart from his name being known. Philip Powell and Siam Bhayro will continue to act as joint-editors of both CETF and VANGUARD.

New Addresses:

• The UK CETF Office will move closer to where Siam and his family live and will now be the same as for Vanguard previously viz: PO Box LB1475, EGHAM W1A 9LB, UK. Phone/fax +44 (0)1379 388456.

• In Australia there will be no change.

• In New Zealand the new address will be: CWM C/- Lawrie Cornish
PO Box 15 159, Miriamar, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND

• New Web Site: Our new address is http://www.christian-witness.org

Please visit. We are developing a section to help former Roman Catholics and those presently seeking for the truth of the Gospel. There are many other helpful things published on the site, including archives of past CETF's and VANGUARDS. Those qualified and available to help in preparing articles for the web site please email us at info@christian-witness.org

Finance: I have frequently said: "That which God commissions He enables." He has never let us down; neither with volunteers nor with money. There have been occasions when we have been tested and have had to defer publishing due to cash flow. Much more could be done if there were a release of funds to help. All too often, in the work of God, too much is done by too few. But we are grateful. We do not complain. Below you'll see a statement of accounts for the NZ and OZ operation. A similar statement was published previously for the UK. Each country is financially autonomous.

Preaching Tours: The Lord called me to PREACH and TEACH the Gospel. There is a ready acceptance of the public pulpit expression of this calling and increasing opportunity for it. However ministry tours usually result in a huge build up of paper work and some delay with our publishing programme. So I've realised that I must minimise my involvement in the admin of CWM and obtain a state of the art laptop computer so that I can write articles as I travel as well as communicate efficiently with my editorial colleagues. The NZ address changes will partly facilitate this. Please pray about the computer purchase. The sort I need is not cheap as I must be able to access all my research and data files as I travel so require a machine that will duplicate everything on my office machine or replace it.

Signs of Change: We recently advertised David Wilkerson's "The Reproach of the Solemn Assembly" along with CETF and VANGUARD in a national Christian newspaper. The first respondent wrote—"About time someone spoke out." Since then many more have asked for the free material. Some even sent donations. These are encouraging signs. I sense that the latest "gold fever" that has hit the Church is making people wake up to all the nonsense. Even "fools' gold" serves some purpose! God grant that these encouraging signs will continue.

Initially UK covered printing costs for VANGUARD "down-under". That no longer applies and has not done so for much of the period under review. So, as you will see from the following, there is an accumulating short fall, which we felt should be brought to the attention of our readers.

Printing in NZ and Australia has been produced at cost. In both countries our printers support CWM so the amounts charged are true cost figures. At times there has been no charge. A similar position applies in UK. The Australian printers also do all the typesetting and layout work free. Apart from these generous gestures CWM would not have been able to continue its work and ministry. Thank you in the Name of the Lord.

AUGUST 1998 to JULY 1999

Our major costs relate to printing and postage and are shown below. Extra administration costs e.g. phone, fax, email, stationery, photocopying, equipment maintenance, printer cartridges etc are not shown. If everything were taken into account CWM would show $15,000-$20,000 shortfall on these costs against donations in each country. We commend this situation to your urgent prayer.

NEW ZEALAND:
1904 Names & Addresses in NZ
241 Other Countries excluding UK
Total Printing $11,600
Total Postage $ 8,600

Sub-costs- $20,200
Donations $ 7,300
Shortfall - $12,900

AUSTRALIA:
2023 Names and Addresses in OZ
Total Printing $6,400
Total Postage $5,800

Sub-costs- $12,200
Donations $4,400
Shortfall - $7,800

Appeared in Volume 5.2 September 1999