United News: May 2004

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Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

Sometimes in the last two years, Wally Pate's eyes would water when I asked him about a Tomorrow program we were working on.
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Most people don't realize that waging peace is more challenging than waging war!

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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

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...
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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...

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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.

First Education Conference Refines Efforts

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...
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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...

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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

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

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...
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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

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.

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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 Camp Volunteers Serve Teens, Save Half Million Dollars

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

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

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 Volunteers at the Feast Make the Church Look and Sound Good

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

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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

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 President Says Thank You

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...

Volunteers Vital in Getting God's Work Done

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

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