Former WCG Member Becomes First Black Woman Appointed As A Cantor

 

Jenni Asher expects to graduate from the

Academy for Jewish Religion California next spring. (Photo/Arjun Ramesh)

"As a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music in the late 2000s, Jenni Asher lived across the street from the city’s Central Synagogue. She was not Jewish at the time, but she was feeling angst over the direction that her spiritual home, the Worldwide Church of God, was headed. So after church services, which were held on Saturdays, she sat in on Shabbat services at the grand Orthodox shul.

“It was really quite the introduction to Judaism, looking back at it,” she told J. in an interview this month. “I started learning Hebrew there.” 

 

Today, the accomplished violinist is a cantorial soloist and a student at the non-denominational Academy for Jewish Religion California (AJRCA) in Los Angeles. When she graduates next year, she will become the first Black American woman ordained as a cantor — and one of only two Black cantors in the country, according to the other one, Cantor David Fair."

"Asher grew up in Pasadena in a religiously devout and music-loving family. Her mother took her to the symphony at age 4 and asked her which instrument she wanted to play. She chose the violin. Her father, a singer, played all kinds of music in their home. 

 

“My dad instilled a love of jazz in me and exposed me to a whole bunch of music I wouldn’t have otherwise heard,” she said."

"As members of the Worldwide Church of God, which was later renamed Grace Communion International, Asher and her family observed the Sabbath on Saturday, avoided pork and shellfish and celebrated versions of Jewish holidays. 

 

“I was brought up to think that I understood the Torah,” she said. “We appreciated the Jews because they could speak Hebrew and read the Bible in the original language.” 

 

She eventually came to realize how much she didn’t know and decided to convert through American Jewish University. She converted again in the Sephardic Orthodox tradition in order to be able to fully participate at the synagogues favored by her husband, who has Egyptian Jewish and Mexican heritage."

Read the entre article here: L.A. musician Jenni Asher studying to be first ordained Black woman cantor

 

Crackpot Prophet Says: "All Churches of God's are NOT alike or close enough to for a Philadelphian Christian to be a supporter of" But, mine is...ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

 

The sun is shining gloriously in California right now after many days of storms, tornadoes, and blizzard conditions. Yet, in the Five Cities area of California, someone is NOT happy and is continuing to be his little bitchy self.

The Great Bwana to Africa and the occasional 100 Caucasians sent out his weekly letter to his faithful in Africa expounding upon how incredibly superfantabulous his little group is. It really frosts his delicate homeopathic butt that all the Church of God groups REFUSE to follow him and/or give him money. 

Even though God himself dreamed him up as the foundations of the world were being swirled into being during the Big Bang, the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel has been widely cast aside as irrelevant and silly by those in the COG and the world around him.

That bitterness boils over everyone in a while when he says silly stuff like this:

Sadly, we see that the Bible prophesies that most true Christians in the end times will NOT follow proper biblical church governance (Revelation 3:14-19). Because of that, most real end time Christians have major misunderstandings of end time prophecies. Those who will not repent to be Philadelphian Christians are not promised to be protected from the coming “hour of trial” that Jesus promised He would give the Philadelphian Christians protection from (Revelation 3:7-13). 

 

All Churches of God (COGs) are NOT alike or close enough to for a Philadelphian Christian to be a supporter of.

Consider also, that unless they got the restored truth from, or after it was announced by, the Continuing Church of God, the other COGs do not know why God created anything nor what God’s purpose for each individual be in His kingdom. According to Jesus, truth was to be restored before He returned (Matthew 17:11).

Pinocchio himself never told as many lies as the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel does. 

Be On Guard Brethren! Satan Now Impersonating Bob Thiel On Facebook!!! The End Time Persecution Intensifies!

 

I guess we should have seen this coming, especially since God removed his favor from the home office of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God the other day when Satan was allowed to destroy the office roof and cause rain leaks.

Now Satan is impersonating God's greatest gift to the world since Jesus walked this earth. The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Theil is being impersonated on Facebook. Oh, what shall we do?????

As reported before, I received several messages from contacts on Facebook who suspected that friend requests that they received which supposedly came from me in December 2023.

While I normally receive Facebook friend requests multiple times per week, I have not sent out any Facebook friend requests myself to anyone for over a decade. Generally speaking, I try to avoid Facebook, and only try to be to it the minimum time possible-which I sometimes need to do for some church matters.

Well, now someone is pretending to be me again on Facebook and is associated with an orphanage ministry in Kenya.

When I learned this connection on today, I sent the orphanage ministry the following message on its contact form:

Someone is sending out fake Facebook posts supposedly from me, Bob Thiel, with a link to your ministry. If you are doing this, please cease and desist. If it is not you, but you know of someone doing this, please tell them to stop bearing false witness.

Well, Great Bwana Bob Mzungu...if you piss off the witch doctors, trouble brews...Just say'in. 

Although we in the CCOG do support numerous orphans (consistent with James 1:27), this Facebook push to the one promoted was not from me. Now, one easy way anyone can prove that this is not me is if one clicks on the link in the post, one ends up at the page of that orphanage ministry, which has numerous crosses.

Notice how the Great Bwana says he supports orphans, not orphanages. He supports orphans only IF and ONLY IF they are part of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God. God forbid if he actually supported orphanages in Africa like Bill Goff does.

Then the Great Bwana shows how disgusting and dismissive he really is! Crosses really frost his delicate butt. How appalling that someone used a cross alongside his name.

Since I and those truly in the Churches of God do not use crosses as a religious symbol, that will show anyone with that knowledge that this was not me.

As many of you are aware, we have warned about the emergence of deepfakes for some time now. Back in 2021, the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) even put out a related video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel: Lies and Deepfakes. (hyperlinks deliberately removed)

Last March, I was presented with what I considered to be a “deepfake” computer-conversation related to another CCOG leader (Evans Ochieng) that I was able to determine could not have happened as it was presented to myself and others. Sadly, however, some preferred to believe that lie.

The Bible warns against:

15 … idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. (Revelation 22:15)

Jesus once said to some near Him:

44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.  (John 8:44-45)

Whoever is pretending to be me has the devil as his/her father.

Oh, Great Bwana Bob Mzungu, even Satan doesn't have the time to waste worrying about you. Like the rest of the Churches of God, he has better things to do than worry about you. 

Many use a variety of techniques to try to deceive.

The Apostle Paul warned:

1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: … 13 … evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:1,13)

Yes, the emergence of various fakes is a sign of the last days.

It is sad that some wish to try to deceive others that way and other ways.

The Apostle Paul also warned end-time Christians, “not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, … Let no one deceive you by any means” (2 Thessalonians 2:2,3).

That includes trying not to be deceived by “deepfakes and phony computer requests.”

Yes brethren, I believe that deepfakes will get worse consistent with the prophecies in 2 Timothy 3:13 and 2 Thessalonians 2.

Be on guard.

One very important lesson we have all learned about the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu. Life is tough being the world's greatest prophet! 

 

Church of God International Canada Despises Super Bowl Jesus Ad

Canadian CGI Ministers Attack the Super Bowl "He Gets Us" Advertisement!

In Episode 71 of Keeping Watch (on the Rumble platform), two ministers and one deacon from the Canadian Church of God International attacked the Jesus Super Bowl ad on their weekly program. Pastors Adrian Davis and Murray Palmatier, accompanied by Deacon Jan Kowalczyk, said that the ad which depicted people washing the feet of sinners was heretical and should be rejected by true Christians. What was wrong with the ad? They didn't like the message: "Jesus didn't teach hate. He washed feet. He gets us. All of Us. Love thy neighbor."

Mr. Palmatier and Mr. Davis said that there were too many doctrinal errors to list in the thirty second ad, and they cautioned CGI members not to get caught up in the "emotionalism" of the ad! "What about us getting him?" Pastor Murray demanded. "How many times did Christ wash feet in the Bible?" he continued. "And whose feet did he wash?" Pastor Davis added. The answers, of course, are: one occasion, and he washed the feet of his disciples. "In every other case, it was his feet being washed by devotees," Pastor Palmatier pointed out. They went on to remind their audience that this ad appeared during the "Taylor Swift Super Bowl." In other words, the audience was huge - men and women watching. "These people hate Christ," Pastor Davis added, and he went on to say that the ad was full of "Marxist" ideas.

For me, the ad reflected the "Love thy neighbor" theme very clearly. When I was watching it, I was reminded of Christ's statement that he came here to serve, NOT to be served (Matthew 20:28 and Mark 10:45). Indeed, Christ's aim was to sacrifice himself so that our sins could be wiped away, and we could be reconciled to Almighty God. I also thought of a passage from the first epistle of John: "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." (I John 4:7-12, ESV). So, I'm thinking that it's Davis, Palmatier, and Kowalczyk who don't get Jesus and are promulgating heretical notions. The truth is that Armstrongites have always been uncomfortable with the concept of LOVE!

Lonnie Hendrix