Letter to the Brethren: September 12, 2024

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