6.1.2 The board The board has 7 regular members and 7 deputy members. The average age for the regular members is 59 years and for the deputy members it is 46 years. There is no woman on the board. Of the regular members there are: 4 pastors, 1 general manager, 3 engineers, 1 real estate agent, 1 Church singer, 1 publishing house manager, 1 factory owner, 1 civil servant.
6.2 The Newspaper Dagen Ltd. (Here called the Dagen.) This autumn the Dagen is 28 years old. This company owns three subsidiary companies, the IBRA Radio, the Christian Book Ring (DKB), and the Lewi Pethrus Publishing House Ltd. These enterprises have the same board. I will return to the IBRA Radio in another connection. On the other hand I shall not examine the DKB which was formed in 1969, and the Lewi Pethrus Publishing House Ltd. which was taken over by the Dagen in the New Year of 1970 from the LP Foundation, which in its turn had been bought by Lewi Pethrus one or two years earlier. 6.2.1 Silence – an efficient weapon Already in the 30's Pethrus brought up the question of ‛a daily newspaper.‛ At that time the Pentecostal Movement had entered ‛a new era.‛ The ‛scandalizing reports‛ were eroding. The movement had been more accepted. The results of the work fostered respect. Pethrus therefore feared that it ‛should be a comparatively silent era concerning our work.‛ Newspapers which had previously persecuted the Pentecostal Movement would ‛certainly give no evidence of presenting positive news about our work to make it of current interest.‛ From having been a movement which ‛had been in focus from the beginning,‛ it would ‛disappear from the horizon of the public‛. This would also mean that ‛chances for fruitful work would diminish rapidly‛. ‛No weapon is more efficient against a movement than silence.‛ The first time this debate was limited to the board of the
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