Dear Friends,

This month has been an interesting one for us. Our churches in Africa have been consolidating. As you are aware the WCG split in 1994 over its doctrinal changes. Many people who did not accept the changes were disfellowshipped, and the lackeys of the system carried on, and blindly accepted the errors and the introduction of Trinitarianism.

This month, former members and officers of WCG in Nigeria approached us to allow them to join us. They asked for nothing other than assistance in the translation of the papers into the various Nigerian local languages, and their placement on our web site. Over the last few months, they have been downloading the papers and the Sabbath-keeping pastors have been using the papers in sermons there. They have recognised the truth and value of the CCG materials. Their reports to us have been of interest regarding the collapse of the leaders of the system there that followed the errors.

As they are of a Church of God practising valid baptism at the time of the split in 1994, they are recognised by CCG. We also recognise their appointments. They have gone through serious trials over the last fourteen years, and have even suffered arson in their persecution. Fortunately, no one has been killed.

Many people in such parts of the world are poor and suffer much in their living conditions. We get requests all the time from those “trawling” the churches for an easy life. Very few are genuine. We treat all with kindness and fairness. The requirements to tithe and support the work are only really understood by the truly called. We would like you to pray for the work in Africa, and that these people can be used for the service of God wherever they are placed.

In East Africa, we are now ready to go forward with the Kiswahili work and the churches there have to be visited and properly directed. To that end, we will be sending a local minister to visit the work in Mwanza, Musoma, Shinyanga and Kigoma, and then go on to the new churches in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Congo, if at all possible. Burundi and the Congo have been war zones in recent times, and Uganda had an outbreak of Ebola fever there recently. Please pray for the safety of our ministry there.

Pray for the welfare of the brethren throughout the developing countries in Africa, and in Asia and South America.

For those of you that did not receive the audios direct, the Chinese and Indo/Malay versions of El Shaddai are being placed on the web, and we have approved the production of a Philippino version of the song. We will advise you when that is on the web. The Chinese version is very effective and done to violins. The Indo/Malay is also impressive. It is all worth a listen.

Over the last two years we have produced nearly 40 new works, with a number yet to be released, and 30 Children’s Bible Study papers translated into three languages with 10 more to go plus many quizzes. We have also had the Children’s work translated and read in Malay and in Mandarin-Chinese. The audios are being placed on the web on a progressive basis.

As we requested, please pray for the work and the ministry in these different areas.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General