Vic Kubik Wants Your Input On What UCG Can Do To Reinvent Its Self

Here's a suggestion....just saying.

Pastoral Development Program

We completed a most wonderful session of the Pastoral Development Program yesterday. We are impressed with the caliber, zeal and character of the 32 men and women who came from around the world. We look forward to their continued service to our congregations.

We continually refine our presentations to offer the most relevant material needed to do the work of the ministry in speaking, doctrine, counseling, integrity, time management, administration and much more. We believe that we have provided effective tools and guidance for those who came to learn and interact with us and with one another.

In the almost two weeks of the program, we were able to spend a lot of personal time with our new ministers and ministerial candidates. We appreciated having two long-time pastors, Randy D’Alessandro and Vince Szymkowiak, provide healthy reinforcement and a positive spirit to the program. I recorded podcasts with three of the attendees that will be available online in the coming weeks.

On the last day of the program, in the question and answer session, we discussed the next 25 years of the United Church of God and what we could do reinvent ourselves to become more effective and relevant. If you have any thoughts about these subjects, please write me directly at victor_kubik@ucg.org .

See:  Update from the President

EXCLUSIVE: David C. Pack's Land Grab with the Widow's Mite

Let's enjoy a quick read of the booklet The Real Truth according to the Medina County Auditor! https://www.medinacountyauditor.org/property-search.htm 

RCG members have been giving "common" for years. This was to allow the church to "give the gospel to the poor." But did that happen?

Look at the many millions the Restored Church of God has spent to purchase their 100+ acres. Then there is the many more millions they have spent on buildings. How much more would tax valuation data be missing in money spent to build gardens, barns, buildings, houses, paths, roads, ponds, horses, etc.. 

Will this insanity ever stop? 

from an RCG source

Got Sabbath? Not Here...Just 67 Days of Total Darkness

See: Barrow Alaska Winter

This presents an issue for Sabbath-keeping organizations around the world.  Like the Seventh Day Adventists, some COG ministers say that people who live in these regions should keep the sabbath at "Jerusalem time", proving once again how they pick and choose how to interpret scriptures. Scriptures meant for specific people for a specific time and region.

A person in a Facebook group of ex-SDA had another version on how to keep sabbath:

We have the same situation in northern Norway. The way it is handled by adventists is to keep sabbath from noon Friday until noon Saturday during wintertime without sunrises, and from midnight Friday night until midnight Saturday night in the summertime without sunsets. Serious sabbathkeepers will leave work before noon on Fridays those weeks during the winter, a real challenge as far as work is concerned.