COGWA Is Looking Into Building An Auditorium And Education Center

 

The greatest Church of God to ever exist in human history that is based out of a little itty-bitty storefront in Grover Beach, CA just got its delicate little toes stepped on again.

Church of God a Worldwide Ass. is now looking to find ways to build another mini-me auditorium and campus. More useless things to bleed the pockets dry of church members. Poor Bob, all he's got to show for his efforts is a leaking storefront on a side street in Grover Beach, CA.

COGWA had this to say:

I don’t have any news on the potential for adding an auditorium and education center on our current property. We are still waiting on five different contractors for bids on the actual costs. Originally, when we secured the services of Alliance Architects, we were given an estimated amount for the cost of construction, which was easily affordable and would not put the Church in any financial difficulty. We now need to confirm those numbers before we can decide whether or not to move forward. Hopefully, we will have an answer before the end of January. Thank you for your support and for your prayers that God will guide us in these important decisions.

Gerald Flurry built his mini-me auditorium and started a little concert series, Dave Pack tried to build an Auditorium and Student Center for the amazing university he was going to build. It flopped, just like his television studios did. Now, all the most amazing COG in human history has to offer is a little leaking storefront where God has no longer placed his protection.

With no way of adequately training his so-called ministers, he has to rely upon Seventh Day Adventists, Church of God Seventh Day trained ministers, and a few witch doctors to do his work.

All of these splinter groups imagine they are doing mighty works in line with how Herbert Armstrong did it. Herbert Armstrong had a charisma that absolutely NONE of these splinter group leaders do. No COG splinter group has ever and will NEVER reach the same scale that the Mother Church did in the 60's-late 80's. It hasn't happened and will never happen. 

COGWA: Says "we have reached a crisis in ministerial leadership"

 

COGWA likes to pride itself as the best of the COG movements as they try to fly under the radar most of them. The problem is, that its higher-up leadership is from the same corrupt group that apostatized from the mother church when they knew they were getting terminated or fired in 1995 and needed to maintain their income level and thus helped start the United Church of God. Then a few years later they pitched another hissyfit in another direct act of rebellion against Church government and took a huge percentage of UCG ministers and members with them to form Church of God a Worldwide Ass.

Here we are now, close to 30 years since the main apostasy, and all of those initial loyal ministers and elders are aging out and or dying off. The younger men being raised up have no real theological education other than church-produced books and articles. Hardly any of them have a real degree in theology outside the COG empire. 

They have now reached a crisis in that they have fewer and fewer men to serve and no way to educate them in theology, real counseling skills, or biblical hermeneutics and eschatology.

It is our view that outside the U.S., we have reached a crisis in ministerial leadership. Our church attendance is around 12,000, and it is divided evenly between the U.S. and areas outside the U.S. But when it comes to ministerial leadership, 75 percent of all elders reside in the U.S., and 25 percent reside outside the U.S. That means 25 percent of our ministers are caring for 50 percent of our members. This has become increasingly more difficult in the past several years with the deaths of four pastors, three of whom served outside the United States. The three international pastors were Manuel Quijano, from Peru, who died in June 2017; Norman Julag-ay, from the Philippines, who died in February 2018; and Eriz Dizon, also from the Philippines, who died suddenly the day after Pentecost in 2022. The fourth pastor, who worked in the U.S., was Todd Carey, who died in May 2017. Replacing these men was a major challenge for the Church.

Not only that, but COGWA is having to deal with over 50% of their ministers not trained by an Ambassador education (if that were actually worth something when it comes to theology), they now need to resort to little mini sessions in trying to educate their leadership.

The purpose of the PDP (Pastoral Development Program) is to upgrade the education and development of our current pastors. To date, we have 45 pastors and associate pastors in the U.S. Along with their wives, they will come to the McKinney office for four days of training during 2024. With almost half of our pastors having no Ambassador College training, we believe that these classes are essential for improving our service to the brethren. Our current plan is to hold three sessions of these classes in March, June and July respectively. Each session will consist of approximately 30 ministers and wives.

Not that the so-called training from Ambassador College was a legitimate thorough training in the Bible, but at least those that took classes there had some exposure to the Bible, even though most of it was still insular coming out of booklets and/or sermons by Herbert Armstrong and a few other so-called evangelists. 

We are witnessing the death knells of Armstrongism in its slow painful downward spiral.

COGWA Maps Out Its Youth Program With One Glaring Obstacle

 

From a female COGWA member:

COGWA recently had a conference of MEN who lead their youth camps. They discussed the following:

What struck me was that the women are stuck on the sidelines in the photo above, their voices silenced by the men who know all. This is how we are always treated in the church. We are shoved to the sidelines and silenced. God forbide it any of us had an opinion that was better than the men in charge. One thing I have to hand to Grace Communion is that women have an equal say in their denomination and are not shoved aside like we are.