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

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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.

FINALLY! A COG Prophet Reveals The Hidden Mysteries Of The Bible!

Be ready to be amazed! Be ready to understand revealed hidden knowledge that no one has understood for almost 6,000 years! Be ready to understand the mysteries that have been deliberately kept from you!

Various COG leaders today think they are God's mouthpiece for revealed knowledge to the church and the world. In spite of the fact that every single one of them has dreamed up scenarios that even the Bible never imagined, they keep chugging along, spitting out one idiotic prophecy or teaching after another.

But the most amazing thing today, towards the end of the year 2019, we now have access to all the secret messages and hidden mysteries of the Bible through our one and only doubly blessed, self-appointed, and dreamy Bob Thiel!  Where would we all be without him?

Flurry, Pack, Weinland, and all the other COG prophets pale in comparison to God's highly favored prophet and Overseer, Bob Thiel. He and he alone is the true messenger of God sent to restore hidden knowledge and unlock the mysteries. Never mind the fact that hundreds of millions of Christians through the centuries have understood grace, faith and the kingdom of God. Untold numbers gave their lives for that understanding, but for some reason, only those in the Church of God have never grasped those meanings.

God’s plan is a mystery to most. Notice something that the Apostle Paul  wrote about that: 

²⁵ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began ²⁶ but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith —  ²⁷ to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. (Romans 16:25-27) 

The Bible tells of the mystery which has been kept secret since the world began. The Bible also points to the mystery of the kingdom of God (Mark 4:11), the mystery of grace (Ephesians 3:1-5), the mystery of faith (1 Timothy 3:5), the mystery of the marriage relationship (Ephesians 5:32), mystery of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:7), the mystery of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:51-54), the mystery of God both of the Father and Christ (Colossians 2:2), and even Mystery Babylon the Great (Revelation 17:5). 

Brethren, we are doing a work that helps manifest the prophetic scriptures and reveals various mysteries kept secret since the world began. 

Sincerely,

Bob Thiel 

Pastor and Overseer

Living Church of God: More Turmoil In The Kingdom

One thing for sure if you are an employee of the Living Church of God and work at the glorious Headquarters of God's only work on the face of the earth today, you can rest assured that your job is NEVER secure, even if they slobberingly praised you in articles and member letters.

The latest to get shuffled, demoted and "promoted" is Scott Winnail.  Once the glorious successor to Michael Germano, Living University's exiled former President, Winnial has had his wings clipped again.  After Living Univerity's failed attempt to be accredited, Germano was sent packing and Winnail was put over the new and improved Living Education program.

Winnail has now been removed from Living Education's programs and as a speaker on the Tomorrow's World Now program.  Winnail's new job is now overseeing the local Charlotte congregation of the Living Church of God, always a hotbed of problems.  Plus, Charlotte's local pastor is suffering from health issues from lymphoma.

We have put on hold doing any more TWNow programs at this time. Dr. Scott Winnail moderated and coordinated the program, but we have moved him to the day-to-day responsibilities of serving the Charlotte congregation. Our pastor, Mr. John Strain, was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and will be “out of service” for an expected six months. Please remember him and his family in your prayers. This change does not allow time for Dr. Winnail’s role with TWNow or for the on-site Living Education program. 

A pretty convenient excuse to remove Winnail from his other jobs.

One thing for sure about the Living Church of God, it is still a complete mess.

from an LCG source