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Denver Colorado









The City in Brief

Founded: 1858 (incorporated, 1861)
Head Official: Mayor John W. Hickenlooper (D) (since 2003)
City Population
1980: 493,: 467,: 554, estimate: 557,748
Percent change, 1990–2000: 18.6%
U.S. rank in 1980: 24th
U.S. rank in 1990: 26th
U.S. rank in 2000: 31st
Metropolitan Area Population (PMSA)
1980: 1,429,: 1,622,: 2,109,282
Percent change, 1990–2000: 29.9%
U.S. rank in 1980: 21st (PMSA)
U.S. rank in 1990: 22nd (MSA)
U.S. rank in 2000: 19th (MSA)
Area: 153 square miles (2000)
Elevation: 5,332 feet above sea level
Average Annual Temperature: 50.0° F
Average Annual Precipitation: 15.81 inches
Major Economic Sectors: Communications, utilities, transportation
Unemployment Rate: 5.6% (January 2005)
Per Capita Income: $24,)
2002 FBI Crime Index Total: 32,132

Major Colleges and Universities: University of Denver, Metropolitan State University, University of Colorado at Denver

Daily Newspapers: The Denver Post; Rocky Mountain News

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Denver is situated in the high plains at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, which protect the city from severe winter weather. These mountains, reaching higher than 14,000 feet, are the dominant feature of the area. The South Platte River bisects the city, and many creeks, small lakes, and reservoirs grace the metropolitan area. Denver's climate is semiarid and relatively mild, with more sunny days than either Miami, Florida or San Diego, California. Although visitors must make some adjustment to the high altitude, they find that the area's low humidity makes even the highest and lowest temperatures seem less extreme.

Area: 153 square miles (2000)
Elevation: 5,332 feet above sea level
Average Temperatures: January, 30.1° F; August 72.0° F; annual average, 50.0° F
Average Annual Precipitation: 15.81 inches

The Getty Center
Los Angeles

Still Life with Apples - Paul Cezanne

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Towards a New Museum (1998), Victoria Newhouse
Richard Meier: Detailsicon (1997), Werner Blaser
Making Architecture: The Getty Center
(1997), Harold M. Williams, Ada Louise Huxtable
How to Be Rich (1996), J. Paul Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections:
A Museum for the New Century
(1998), J. Paul Getty Museum, John Walsh

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Building the Getty, (1997), Richard Meier

The Getty Center is a superb experience for the visitor, both for its architecture and for its collections. CV's first visit to the Getty in the late 1970's at its Malibu location left such a poor impression that we did not return for twenty years. What a difference twenty years and a billion dollars can make!
Funded with an endowment from the J. Paul Getty (read O-I-L) estate, the once small museum in its ersatz Roman villa has metamorphosed into a multifaceted institution involved in conservation, education, and research, as well as collecting great art, particularly painting, antiquities, photography, and decorative arts.
The Getty Center opened its new 110 acre campus on December 16, 1997 and attracted one million visitors during its first six months. The architect for the new center is Richard Meier, an American master of the modernist style. (We remember Meier's building for Atlanta's High Museum of Art in particular for its airy, open, light quality.) At the Getty, Meier had the rare architectural opportunity to design a whole complex of buildings in a contained environment. What he has done is not new or particularly innovative, but it is an impeccably controlled culmination of his dignified style.
When you visit, plan a couple of hours just for walking about the campus. Absorb the views of (and from) the site from different vantage points - different levels and varying locations. Every look you take will find a vista composed perfectly of line, space, volume, color, and texture. From the broad sweep to the smallest detail, every element of the architecture is right. It is an architecture of luxury, the rare situation where budgets did not constrain. CV believes it to be one of the transcendent aesthetic experiences of our time.
Take a break with lunch in the fine restaurant (advance reservation highly recommended). Then choose which area of the galleries is of most interest to you. This becomes a full day. There is more to see than can be taken in in one visit. Be selective so you don't become visually sated; save the rest for a future visit.
We chose the painting galleries. My, how well the Getty has collected in the last twenty years! If not exhaustive or in depth for any particular period or school, there are still enough masterpieces to pleasure the most discriminating eye. From Correggio to Rubens to Cezanne, the range is wide and the quality is fine.
Much publicity has focused on the crowds and the difficulty of a visit to the Getty. With a little forethought, you can have a smooth and comfortable day. First, if you can, go on a weekday, when there are fewer visitors. Second, go early in the day. Advance reservations for parking are booked well into the future. Instead of driving there, park your car somewhere along the route of the Santa Monica Blue Bus (#14). The bus takes you right to the Getty front entrance. No advance reservations are required for entry and there is no admission charge. Finally, do call ahead to the restaurant to reserve a table for lunch: . It is a superior experience to the cafe and will cap off a memorable day.
- Arthur Lazere



Final Curtain WCG Pasadena California


The Hall of Administration, 300 W. Green St. in Pasadena, CA, the location of Worldwide Church of God offices from 1969 to April 21, 2006.


May-June 2006

New church addresses

The Worldwide Church of God offices moved from Pasadena, CA, to Glendora, CA, shortly before this issue went to press. We'll post some pictures on our website. Here is the new church office building, viewed from the southeast:

Effective immediately, our mailing address will be:

Worldwide Church of God

P.O. Box 5005

Glendora, CA

The street address (needed for UPS or FedEx deliveries) is 2011 E. Financial Way, Glendora, CA . The phone number for the automated switchboard is . The toll-free number continues to be .

Holy places or holy faces

By John Halford

Our church headquarters finally moved from the location that had been home base for nearly 60 years. It is rather sad in some ways, although most of the people I know who work at HQ were ready to move. Those acres of California that used to be Ambassador College will always have a special significance particularly to those of us who went to college there.

Some people felt it was terribly wrong to sell what they considered a holy place. Although the church campus may have a traditional and a nostalgic significance, it was not a holy place. Neither is the new church office building, or any building we may occupy temporarily.

We can dedicate such buildings to God, and ask him to use them for holy purposes. But that is not the same as making them holy. Only God can do that, and he made it quite plain what he considers holy.

What is God sign that a place is holy? In the Old Testament, God consecrated (or made holy) the Tabernacle in the wilderness and later the Temple in Jerusalem. In both cases, when they were dedicated, fire came down from heaven. It was a sign that God was moving in (Leviticus 14:19-20; 1 Kings 8:10-11).

But after Jesus death and resurrection, everything changed. It was time for a new holy place. So on the day of Pentecost, the fire bypassed the temple, and landed instead in the upper room of an ordinary house. But it did not stop there. The house was not to be the new holy place. The fire divided, and individual tongues of flame rested on the heads of the first church members gathered there.

The meaning was clear to those who understood. No longer was a building to be the holy place people were. Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? wrote Paul to the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 3:16-17).

Buildings come and go, and eventually crumble. But God dwells in and with the people he has called to eternal life. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit (Eph 2:22).


May/June 2006 Vol. 1, No. 1

Circulation 13,000

Together: Worldwide Church of God News is published six times a year, copyright 2006 Worldwide Church of God. All rights reserved. Subscriptions are sent automatically to contributing members of the Worldwide Church of God who live in the United States.

Executive Editor
Mike Feazell

Editor
Mike Morrison

Senior Editor
Paul Kroll
____________
Published by the
Worldwide Church of God

President
Joseph Tkach

Superintendent of U.S. Ministers

Dan Rogers
Superintendent of Missions

Randal Dick

We gratefully accept contributions to help meet our publication costs. If you would like to support this ministry, send your tax-deductible donation to Worldwide Church of God, P.O. Box 5005, Glendora, CA .

Notice: We cannot be responsible for the return of unsolicited articles and photographs.

Postmaster: Please send address changes and Form 3579 to Together, P.O. Box 5005, Glendora, CA .

Unless noted otherwise, scriptures are quoted from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

The Hall of Administration, 300 W. Green St. in Pasadena, CA, the location of Worldwide Church of God offices from 1969 to April 21, 2006.
May-June 2006
New church addresses

The Worldwide Church of God offices moved from Pasadena, CA, to Glendora, CA, shortly before this issue went to press. We'll post some pictures on our website. Here is the new church office building, viewed from the southeast:

Effective immediately, our mailing address will be:
Worldwide Church of God
P.O. Box 5005
Glendora, CA

The street address (needed for UPS or FedEx deliveries) is 2011 E. Financial Way, Glendora, CA . The phone number for the automated switchboard is . The toll-free number continues to be .

Holy places or holy faces
By John Halford

Together: Worldwide Church of God News is published six times a year, copyright 2006 Worldwide Church of God. All rights reserved. Subscriptions are sent automatically to contributing members of the Worldwide Church of God who live in the United States.

Executive Editor
Mike Feazell

Editor
Mike Morrison
Senior Editor
Paul Kroll
____________
Published by the
Worldwide Church of God

President
Joseph Tkach
Superintendent of U.S. Ministers
Dan Rogers
Superintendent of Missions
Randal Dick

We gratefully accept contributions to help meet our publication costs. If you would like to support this ministry, send your tax-deductible donation to Worldwide Church of God, P.O. Box 5005, Glendora, CA .

Notice: We cannot be responsible for the return of unsolicited articles and photographs.

Postmaster: Please send address changes and Form 3579 to Together, P.O. Box 5005, Glendora, CA .

Unless noted otherwise, scriptures are quoted from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
















Holy places or holy faces