Friday, December 22, 2017

UCG Members Prefer Annual Christmas Party Over Attending Feast Sites



Vic Kubik made a telling remark the other day on the UCG web page about their Winter Family Weekend.
One of the biggest weeks of the year for us here in Cincinnati begins Friday evening with the annual Winter Family Weekend. It is the largest gathering of United Church of God members in one place. It will be larger than any Feast site.
The theme this year is “In the world, but not of the world” based on Jesus Christ’s final prayer for His disciples in John 17.
This year, we have 300 more players registered for basketball and volleyball with about a dozen more teams. All available rooms at the Great Wolf Lodge were immediately sold out. 
Did you catch the comment above?  Their Christmas weekend gathers more people together than any of their Feast sites are capable of doing.

It seems it is more important for members to play and have fun than it is to sit and listen to one
butt-numbing sermon after another at a Feast site.

UCG members will be walking by all the lights, great smelling baked items and wonderful food with ear plugs in because after all, they are in the world but not of the world.

See brochure here


You and I both know that many UCG members will be humming along to Christmas carols, eating Christmas candy and cookies and soaking up the holiday ambience of all the beautiful Christmas decorations and lights.

Merry Christmas UCG! Merry Christmas!



11 comments:

Lake of Fire Church of God said...

Kubik said, "It is the largest gathering of United Church of God members in one place. It will be larger than any Feast site."

MY COMMENT - An unintentional gaffe in COG land is when an Armstrongite minister accidentally tells the truth.

Richard

Allen C. Dexter said...

That so-called "Feast" was a yearly ordeal I got tremendously tired of. I don't even know what became of all those "notes" I took out of automaton duty. I used to buy discounted year books to take them in, but you know, I don't recall ever going back and reviewing them. With all the repetition year after year, who could forget them. I'm not surprised that members prefer a time of real vacation, at least to a point. I'm sure they still have to endure a lot of bullshit. But, at least, the pace probably slows down a bit and it seems more like a real party. If I want to save for a "vacation," I can think of far better ways to spend it. Hawaii beckons again. It was on my first trip there (I've been there twice) that I discovered what I'd been missing out on by following those stupid goat herder dreamed up prohibitions on sea foods.







Anonymous said...

Not to rain on your parade, but it's really simple, logistically.

How many UCG Feast sites are there in the US every year--20 or 30? And they are well spread out across the country. Many to choose from.
By contrast, how many WFW sites are there--1 or 2? So if people want to go to that, they don't have as many choices, and the numbers in each WFW site will be larger than in a Feast site.

If the same total numbers attended each...
10,000 people divided by 20 FOT sites = 500 per site.
10,000 people divided by 2 WFW sites = 5,000 per site.

You get the idea. Simple math.

nck said...

Ooh boy.

I have an ancient parchment here by an Irish 700 AD monk.

In it he adresses the continental Germanic tribes as he is on a mission to baptize them all.

He summons them to gather at the solstice and promises that it will be a larger assembly than any of the others since it is their custom to gather anyways.

(just kidding)
But I would wager a bitcoin that such document must lying hidden be in some library like skt gallen (gailen) or something.

Nck

Anonymous said...

nothing new there: indeed, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God...

like any other animals, we prefer the pleasures afforded us by the fives senses rather than the disciplines what would lead us to eternal life...

R.L. said...

Don't forget several (not all) UCG congregations will watch today's Sabbath service from Cincinnati on webcasts. That adds to the "attendance."

Retired Prof said...

Anonymous at 3:58 AM said...

"like any other animals, we prefer the pleasures afforded us by the fives senses rather than the disciplines what would lead us to eternal life..."

Right, anon. That's because the five senses and the fears and appetites associated with them are what kept our ancestors from dying before they reproduced. Individuals who let the abstract notion of pleasing a god or the god's emissary trick them into the sacrifice of flying a plane into a battleship or skyscraper, strapping explosives onto their bodies and detonating them in a public place, or (among the COGs) turning down medical help are pruning defective elements from the gene pool.

Since we invented agriculture, human beings have enjoyed surpluses that permit is to perform such sacrifices without threatening our survival as a species. That is why the impulse to deny our five senses for abstract reasons has persisted alongside our primal fears and appetites. The resulting conflicts help make our species the most interesting apes on the planet.

Anonymous said...

The front cover photo is bizarre. The shadow of the yellow lady's coat looks like a christmas tree to me.

Anonymous said...

yeah, and given our superior intelligence we then elect a devil like donald trump according to Daniel 11:21; ur point is moot...

at the end of the day we are under influence of invisible forces that fulfill the Scriptures...

and btw i used to work at a old folks home in sun city arizona, and there were all kinds of retired people residing there that were once in their right mind, scientists, politicians, professors...all kinds...

Anonymous said...

Though I sometimes read some thoughtful comments here this site has increasingly become not much more than a rerun of The Jerry Springer show. Not very much religous conversation just a harboring of bad feelings to any that one can find an action or word to condemn. Sad.

Anonymous said...

The cold reality of the truth sits not well with deceivers who view courage to share it with snooty disdain.