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United News: May 2004

United News

May 2004

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God Seeks for You!

by David Johnson

Henry Stanley's expedition to find David Livingstone in the uncharted interior of Africa is the stuff of legends. Our loving God seeks us with far greater tenacity.

First Education Conference Refines Efforts

by Doug Johnson

Updated 8 years ago

Twenty individuals representing elements of the four modules of education established in 1996 and other major educational efforts of the United Church of God met at the home office for three days March 21 to 23 to review and discuss coordination of the Church's efforts in education.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done Thousands Serve at Church Services

by Richard Pinelli

Updated 8 years ago

Last year in United News we ran an article on "Many Hands Light Up Local Congregations." In that article we expressed our thanks for the thousands of brethren who have stepped forward to help establish a place where we can all meet and be taught God's holy truths.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done Camp Volunteers Serve Teens, Save Half Million Dollars

by Larry Greider

Updated 8 years ago

Right now many teens are looking forward to a new season of camp.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done Volunteers at the Feast Make the Church Look and Sound Good

by Charles Melear

Updated 8 years ago

City officials and convention and visitors bureaus around the country are always amazed that the Church can administer the Feast of Tabernacles so efficiently and at such low cost.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done President Says Thank You

by United News

Updated 8 years ago

Roy Holladay, president of UCGIA, said, "In Ephesians 4:16 we read that 'the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.' From everything that we can observe, the brethren in the United Church of God are working very hard to fulfill this scripture.

Treasure Digest: "Keep Playing!"

by John Fox

The story has been told of a mother who, wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, took him to a concert by the famous Polish pianist, Jan Paderewski.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: ABC Spells Service

by Terry Hayes

Updated 8 years ago

The ABC Service Committee was set up in 2002 to help the students learn to better serve their congregations and communities.

Treasure Digest: Be Ready to Give an Answer: Why Don't You Practice Speaking in Tongues?

by United News

What many churches call "speaking in tongues" today is nothing like what the Bible records in the books of Acts and Corinthians.

Treasure Digest: Don't Use Euphemisms!

by Erik Jones

Have you ever done something that negatively affected someone else, but you didn't even know it?

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Eau Claire and St. Paul Mail Nearly 200,000 Tapes

by Gary Black

Updated 8 years ago

Since 2001 brethren in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and St. Paul, Minnesota, congregations have been volunteering to help with the Bible Study Course graduate tape program.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Flexible Members Distribute GNs and Brochures

by John LaBissoniere

Updated 8 years ago

Our special thanks to all the brethren involved in The Good News magazine and brochure distribution programs.

Treasure Digest: Joy Is the Best Choice

by Karen Halvorsen

Ever get the blues and wonder why you can't quite shake them? Or do you ever think your trials are going to overcome you?

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Many Helped Thanks to Good Works Program

by Tom Kirkpatrick

Updated 8 years ago

We have recently been reminded again of the generosity of many of God's people, who have volunteered their time and efforts to UCG's Good Works program.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Members Help Reach World From the Home Office

by Connie Seelig

Updated 10 years ago

Church member volunteers perform a vital service for the home office each year.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: More Than 60 Volunteers Put Good News on Television

by Steve Nutzman

Updated 8 years ago

The Good News public-access television program would not exist but for the dedicated efforts of dozens of volunteers in the United Church of God.

Treasure Digest: Pentecost and the Church: One Spirit and One Body

by United News

At Passover we all ate of one bread, the living bread, Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51). Pentecost continues and amplifies the theme of unity. "When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place" (Acts 2:1).

Treasure Digest: Pursuing Peace: The Unity of the Spirit

by Roy Holladay

Most people don't realize that waging peace is more challenging than waging war!

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Radio Monitors Keep Track of Airing Problems

by John LaBissoniere

Updated 10 years ago

We wish to thank our Good News radio program monitors for their weekly service in monitoring our program on 15 stations in various U.S. cities.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: The True Meaning of Family

by Terry Hoffman

Updated 8 years ago

I've never seen the gifts of caring, service and love more poignantly demonstrated than at the 2003 Lexington Family Weekend.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Unsung Heroine: A Passion for Serving

by Jana Kunde

Updated 8 years ago

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to tell you all about one of the most hardworking servant leaders that I know, my mother, Cheryl Kunde.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: VCM Produced by Volunteer Staff

by Lorelei Nettles

Updated 8 years ago

Virtually the whole staff of Virtual Christian Magazine (found on the Web at www.vcmagazine.org) is made up of volunteers, except for a few paid employees who work on it part-time.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Volunteer Tells the Story of the Development of the Zambian Mailing Office

by Derrick Pringle

Updated 8 years ago

The following is pulled from a sermonette Derrick Pringle gave to the Mumbwa, Zambia, congregation on the first day of Unleavened Bread. Mumbwa is where the largest group in Zambia meets, around 60. Derrick and Cherry Pringle volunteer to run the Zambian mailing office.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Volunteers Turn Sermons Into Type

by United News

Updated 8 years ago

The United Church of God provides a service that puts sermons in transcript form for those who are deaf and for prisoners who cannot receive tapes.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Wally Pate, Tomorrow's Unsung Hero

by Howard Davis

Updated 8 years ago

Sometimes in the last two years, Wally Pate's eyes would water when I asked him about a Tomorrow program we were working on.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done: Youth Corps Volunteers Serve Internationally

by Joel Meeker

Updated 8 years ago

In 2003 volunteers from the United Youth Corps program served on two international projects, one in Ghana (West Africa) and the other in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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