UCG: Income Down, Godly Housewives and UCG's 'Essence'

Some UCG Conference highlights:

UCG is in the process of budgeting a 40% decrease in income.  Partly because of the tremendous loss of money from the UCG and COGaWA debacle and a failed economy.

UCG is still trying to decide to what to do with it's women.  10 years ago they produced a document that pertained to the 'needs' of women in UCG in order for them "... to be effective wives, mothers and homemakers."

God forbid if any woman in UCG might have the ability to teach or lead something!

They also decided that they need some kind of communication between elder's wives.

Um, hello.....it's 2011 and your kids have better communication with their friends than your women do?

This is such an important matter that they had to draft a proposal:

After some discussion on the matter, Mr. John Elliott proposed and Mr. Scott Ashley seconded the following proposal:
Whereas, the Council of Elders desires to establish a means for elders' wives to communicate among themselves,
Now therefore, it is hereby resolved that, Ministerial and Member Services is to develop a means for online networking and communication for elders' wives of UCGIA.
The Council approved unanimously this proposal.

Do they not realize how incredibly stupid this makes them look? 10 years after a proposal nothing has happened, and close to 20 years after breaking away to form the most perfect COG on earth, they still have not done anything!  It should be quite obvious to the women of UCG that you are a low priority.  Men rule, you are only there to submissive wives and crafty Martha Stewart homemakers.

They have also decided that they need to determine what the ministers/UCG's essential 'essence' is.  They've decided that they have 'godly relationships'.  As much as I want to I will not go there..............

Critical Essence:
The Council concluded a very informative and spirited discussion regarding our critical essence based on the research provided by the Northlich company. Based on a desire to be crystal clear with how the Council sees the essence of our personality, our way of life and of what our message is about, the Council felt that it would be more precise to add the distinguishing and clarifying word "godly" to the statement of our critical essence.

Mr. McNeely proposed, Mr. Seiglie seconded, and the Council adopted "godly relationships" as our critical essence.

UCG will no longer 'match' 403B contributions by ministers and elders.  They do not have the income to do that any longer.

Council Secretary Gerald Seelig took the floor to submit to the Council the appropriate documentation to empower the President and the Administration to withdraw the 403B thrift matching plan,

Joplin Devastation

Pictures of Joplin Missouri tornado.  Absolutely amazing to see.  Sadly we will soon be subjected to a rash of COG ministers claiming this is a sign of the end times or God spanking these people because they are not Sabbath keeping LCG members.

Check out this article for a lot of other pictures: Daily Mail: Joplin Tornado

Click on pictures to enlarge for a realization to the magnitude of the damage done.

The Entire Earth Will Now Be Destroyed on October 21st, 2011

Failed prophet Harold Camping now says that the earth will be totally destroyed on October 21st, 2011.  What really happened on May 21st was an 'invisible spiritual judgement day'.

His new theory is that God decided to spare humanity horrible pain and death through five months of tribulation and now will instead, just kill everyone in one swift move on October 21st.  One minute you will be here, the next you will be fried to a crisp.  Of course, he and 3% of the world's population will be in heaven playing harps on a fluffy white cloud.

This entire episode with Camping should be a reminder to Armstrongites of the same lies that came down from Herbert Armstrong and Rod Meredith in the late 1960's when they predicted that the end times would start in the 1972 and the millennium would start in 1975.  It should also remind Armstrongites that they are all a product of the failed prophecies of William Miller who told the same lie in the 1844.

Armstrongism is currently filled with numerous liars and false prophets.  Rod Meredith, Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, and numerous others.  When will people stop listening to these liars?