Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Christ:
Greetings from Grover Beach, California.
Remember that the Fall Holy Day season will be upon us soon, beginning with the Feast of Trumpets which begins at sunset October 2nd in 2024.
More Languages and Another Book
We have received additional translations of our English language booklet, The Gospel of the Kingdom of God this week. The Bible teaches that “a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb” (Revelation 7:9) comes out of the great tribulation (Revelation 7:14)–having the gospel of the kingdom booklet in over 1500 tongues may be one of the reasons that will happen!
We just received seven translations of our newest book Islamic and Biblical Prophecies for the 21st Century:
We have also asked to get three more translations of the above book as we strive to reach all that we can.
We plan to mail out the English version of Islamic and Biblical Prophecies for the 21st Century to our supporters later this month.
Online Radio Promotion in New Zealand
Richie White and Shirley Gestro sent the following from New Zealand:
Ritchie and I worked on a BNP radio card, business card size, it is also attached. …
The card size is helpful to give out, people can put it in their wallets, as there are people, interested, but they can’t remember the website url when we speak about it.Kind regards,
Shirley
Here is the front and back of the card they ordered last week to distribute:
The cards arrived in New Zealand this week and Shirley sent the following about that:
We received the BNP radio cards (business size), they look great, and of good quality. We distributed them along with the books titled Islamic and Biblical Prophecies for the 21st Century to our subscription list and given to interested individuals.
More on the various media the CCOG uses can be found on the Continuing Church of God Multimedia page.
Feast of Tabernacles DVDs
The Feast of Tabernacles runs from sunset October 16th through the Last Great Day which ends sunset October 24th in 2024.
Once a year we manually make some Feast of Tabernacles related DVDs to send to sites around the world so that some can watch them, whereas leaders can learn from them and then teach what is on them.
Anyway, last week we sent out sets of festival-related DVDs to Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, the Philippines, and Rwanda. Leaders in those areas should receive them later this month if the shipments arrive when we were told.
We also included DVDs related to other holy days.
Malawi and Mozambique
Evangelist Evans Ochieng went to Malawi and Mozambique to preach the good news of the kingdom of God, help with Feast of Tabernacles’ plans, ordain some leaders, and assist the hungry. Pastor Radson Mulozowa sent the following photos and report:
Luka Likhuva receiving his certificate as a deacon from Evans Ochieng
Pastor Evans praying for Luka Likhuva during ordination
John Nkhuleme receiving his certificate as an elder from Evans Ochieng
Greetings from Malawi and Mozambique we are all fine by the grace of God and the trip for Evans was so good and wonderful
He arrived in Lilongwe on Wednesday and we visited Mozambique for the first day. He met brethren from Nasiyaya zone.This zone was for the first time to be visited by Evans. The trip was so long with bad roads but pastor Evans managed to get to the place.
The chief for the area was much excited to see him. He further told the brethren that they will have their own feast of Tabernacle this year, Meaning that we will have two sites in Mozambique namely Nasiyaya and Domasi.
During the visit he ordained brother wyson Jackson as a Deacon to assist Deacon Masenga on the work of Mozambique.
We gave them funds to brethren in Mozambique to buy food for brethren since there is hunger there.
Yesterday we kept Sabbath at njenjete and all the congregation were gathered at one place.
Luka likhuva, ROJASI SAMBANDELE and Jones WASI were ordained.
The meeting went well
Thanks for your support and prayers towards the work in Malawi.
Best regards
Radson
Evangelist Evans Ochieng sent the following report on Monday:
Pastor Dr Bob,
Sorry for the delay not to report. It’s just because of network on where I was staying. The first day I came from Mozambique when I was totally tired because of rough path where we followed by motorcycle. There was no roads to go to eastern part of Mozambique where we were visiting. So it forced us to take motorcycles from the border to that far rough area.The distance was very far because we went beyond 350 miles inside Mozambique with motorcycles. So the trip was very tough and risky.
But we had a wonderful time and study in that part.
Let me first of all give a short story about how I started in Mozambique.
The first time I went in Mozambique to preach the gospel was tough. How? When I started teaching about Sabbath as my first topic, people were laughing at me, saying what does this man saying. People can worship on Saturday? Or what is he saying? They were questioning this because in eastern part of Mozambique, there was nothing like Sabbath. No church was keeping. There was no SDA or any church that’s keeping Sabbath. All people were keeping Sunday. So this was a Big challenge to them and to me. Some two started to listen on what I was talking about and tell the crowd that he is reading them from the bible. And all believe in the bible. So this made them to keep quiet and understand what I was talking about.
After that I gained strength to talk about the kingdom of God also. When they heard that kingdom of is coming on earth and all of them believed that people are going in heaven and will stay in heaven. And now I’m saying that people are not going in heaven but the kingdom of God is coming on earth and the rule of Christ will be on earth. This was also caused another problem.
But still I continued with my teachings.
So that first day, it was a problem in Mozambique but I prayed to God about that work. The next time when I went back in Mozambique I found if so many people have accepted my teachings. The third Trip I baptized 37 people in Mozambique. But due to poor leadership of our leader by then, most people went back and lost plus that our first leader.
But we didn’t stop there. I continued with prayers about Mozambique and choose another leader who also messed up and lost. After that we continued teaching and sacrifice in Mozambique. We prayed and GOD show us to choose Rabson Massenga who is our current representative of Mozambique. This dedicated man plus the effort of Dr Bob, Evans and Molozwa, I was surprised to see the kind of growth which is in Mozambique now. Even though this part of Mozambique is very poor and no good schools, people really fear GOD and because of Sabbath and ordain feast of God plus the massage about the kingdom of God which soon coming, people have repented seriously and following the truth. And to the surprise, till today it’s only people in continuing church of God are the only people who are keeping Sabbath.
This is an area where there’s a lot of problems. People are suffering because schools are few, no clean water, no good roads. It’s hectic.
But my happiness is that God works to where there is weakness to uplifting them up.
This the reason why I sit down with them and we discussed how they can be doing the feast of Tabernacles. Because from that distance to the border where they kept feast of Tabernacles last year is very far. And most of them are just walking on foot from there to the border.
It’s tough situation.
I was happy to meet so many people in Mozambique who are keeping Sabbath and understanding the meaning of God’s ordain feast and about the kingdom of God. These people have totally repented. And now when I’m comparing the growth in Mozambique and malawi, it’s automatic that Mozambique has got many members than malawi. Due restrictions at the border of Malawi and Mozambique, we couldn’t visit all congregations in Mozambique which I will do next time when I go back.
ORDINATION.
As far as concern’s the work in Mozambique, I ordain another deacon called Whyson Jackson as a deacon and John Nakhuleme as an elder. So now we have two deacons in Mozambique. That’s Rabson massenga who is church representative in Mozambique and Whyson Jackson. We also have one elder who is John Nakhuleme.
FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
This year we decided to have two feast sites in Mozambique.
1- Domasi under Rabson Massenga
2- Nasiaya under Whyson Jackson.
The people in Mozambique have grown to an extent that they cannot be in one feast site and again according to the distance, they cannot manage.
WATER
There’s is a total problem of water in this part of Mozambique. People are suffering to fetch water at a very long distance. Again the water is not clean that coursing many diseases due to unclean water.
My request is,after the feast of Tabernacles may be next year I humble begging anybody or the church, that can give support financially to support the church in Mozambique to dig clean water even in only two place, that’s Domasi and Nasiaya to help the brethren around these areas plus the people who lives in these areas.
School.
I also need if the church can start a school in this areas even pre-unint to help the children in the church to get a better education and learn English that will the church in future.
Mattress
It’s also needed to buy mattresses to this new feast site that will help them during the feast of Tabernacles.
With these few remarks I pray that GOD provide the funds to continue church of God to help such situations. I also met two chiefs in Mozambique.
MALAWI
The work in Malawi is also going well. I kept Sabbath in malawi yesterday at Jenjete where I ordained two deacons and one elder.
1 Deacon Luka Likuva who has been along member since we started our mission in malawi. Now he is the host of Njenjete congregation. He has been a great help to Molozwa in MALAWI.
2- Deacon Rojers Sabandere, This is a person who has been working very hard to make our congregations around mwanza to stand after … He has been putting more strength on mwanza, cheleka and Liwuonde to stand strong and learn more truths from the church.
There are some people from USA who have tried to fight CCOG in both Malawi and Mozambique for a long time and still trying but have failed completely because of the good stand for our leaders in Mozambique and malawi. We have strong leaders who knows exactly what we taught them to follow. Not Money lovers who are shaken by ugly congregation who are roaming around to destroy the work but not to teach the truth. The books which were published by Dr Bob and the magazines plus the weekly updates makes the church to remain strong and continue.
Not only that I’ve been taking my time to stay in these two countries to preach the gospel with a lot of prayers to ask our Almighty God to protect His church under the leadership and overseer Dr Bob to keep the church steady and grow.
I also ordained elder Johns Wasi to be an elder in migowi to support the work. This is a serious man who wholeheartedly following the truth.
Evans
I told Molozwa to send ordination pictures
Yes, much is going on. I also told Evans Ochieng that we need to pray for more laborers for the harvest as Jesus said in Matthew 9:37-38 as we are not in a position fund several of the projects he mentioned. For example, I mentioned that providing secular education is not something we have funds for and is not likely to ever be a priority. But we do wish to help the brethren with church, poverty, and the Feast of Tabernacles within our limited means.
That said, let me add that in a campaign this month in Kenya led by Ezekiel Oanda, he reported, also on Monday, that “at least ten people accepted Jesus as their lord and savior.”
Suggested Sabbath Day Services
Here is a suggested Sabbath day service for our scattered brethren and other interested people:
- 2-3 hymns (our songbook, The Bible Hymnal, contains the materials from the 1974 Bible Hymnal from the old WCG with new covers, plus ten additional hymns; there is also some Choral Accompaniment online).
- Opening prayer.
- The suggested sermonette is titled: Gender of the Holy Spirit? Other sermonettes are available at our Prophecy channel on BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/prophecy/
- Announcements (if any; though for many it will be this letter) and one hymn.
- The suggested sermon, which for most who receive this letter via email will be: Papias, Millenarianism, and Allegory. Other sermons are also available at the COGTube channel on BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cogtube/
- Final hymn.
- Closing prayer.
Note: If you have a slow internet connection, you can watch these by starting the video, then below it (and towards the right) look for an outline of a gear–if you click on that, it will allow the YouTube video to be played with lower video quality, but at least it will not stop often–you can select a quality as low as 144p. If your internet connection is still too slow (as my home one is) and/or you prefer audio messages to audio-visuals ones, go to the YouTube link for the message, click on SHOW MORE related to the description. You will then see something that says, “Download MP3.” Below that is a link to an MP3 file. Most computers (and even some mobile telephones) will allow MP3 files to be downloaded and played. This is an option we have made available (but we are also looking into ways to improve that as well)–and, of course, we have written article options. Some people have found that if their internet connections are not fast enough, that they can simply listen to the messages that are found at the Bible News Prophecy online radio channel.
IN CASE YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A ‘LETTER TO THE BRETHREN’ FOR ANY WEEK, REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE MANY SERMON MESSAGES ON THE ContinuingCOG channel AND MANY SERMONETTE MESSAGES ON THE Bible News Prophecy channel. There are also some messages at the CCOGAfrica channel. There are also messages in the Spanish language at the CDLIDDSermones channel.
In case one or more of our video channels are unavailable, down, restricted, or ?, understand that we are on multiple platforms.
For sermons in English:
ContinuingCOG YouTube channel. Dr. Thiel has produced video sermons for this channel.
Also available at BitChute COGTube https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cogtube/
For sermonettes in English:
Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel BibleNewsProphecy https://www.youtube.com/user/BibleNewsProphecy.
Bitchute Prophecy https://www.bitchute.com/channel/prophecy/,
Vimeo at Bible News Prophecy https://vimeo.com/channels/biblenewsprophecy
Brighteon Bible News Prophecy https://www.brighteon.com/channel/ccogbnp.
Rumble https://rumble.com/c/biblenewsprophecy.
DailyMotion https://www.dailymotion.com/dm_e24c8ac0050c5e7445cd5573711869c6/videos
For animations in English:
CCOG Animations YouTube channel.
Also available at BitChute COGAnimations https://www.bitchute.com/channel/coganimations/
Sermons and sermonettes in Spanish:
CDLIDDSermones channel.
African videos:
CCOGAfricaYouTube channel.
Also available at BitChute COGAfrica https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cogafrica/
Audio messages:
Bible News Prophecy radio. This is an audio version of the Bible News Prophecy videos on one of our internet stations as well as our radio broadcasts in English. The BibleNewsProphecy.net website also has information about our international radio presence for Europe, Asia, and North America. That page is also available as a mobile app.
Bible News Prophecy International radio. This has links to our non-English language online radio station as well as materials in multiple languages.
There is also additional information at the Continuing Church of God Multimedia page.
World News Items
Much of the news media has been focused on the debate between the two leading US presidential candidates (see Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate, but . . . ). Yet, they are not the answer the US needs. The US needs national repentance and the coming Kingdom of God.
The European Court of Justice confirmed that two US-based tech firms, Apple and Google, will have to pay billions for taxes and fines respectively (see European Union’s Court of Justice upholds $14.4 billion tax against Apple & $2.7 billion fine against Google–trade war anyone?). While the EU is beginning to throw its weight around, understand that Europe will need to reorganize for biblical prophecies, such as Revelation 17:12-13, to be confirmed. There was a call from another European leader for the EU to reorganize a few days ago (see Call for Europe to unify and reorganize by Mario Draghi).
The Bible speaks of an Arab-dominated alliance that Turkey will be part of in Daniel 11:40-43. This past week, Turkey’s President Erdogan called for an alliance consistent with that prophecy (see Turkey’s Erdogan: Islamic countries should form alliance against ‘Israel’s growing expansionism’).
Events aligning with biblical prophecies are occurring.
Concluding Comments
The prophet Amos was inspired to write the following:
3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey?
Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
5 Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no trap for it?
Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?
6 If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. (Amos 3:3-7)
Brethren, we should have unity and believe that God reveals through “His servants the prophets.”
We continue to go forward to reach people with God’s word, His prophecies, and the good news of the coming kingdom of God.
Sincerely,
Bob Thiel
Pastor and Overseer