Greetings to our Brethren around the world.
Last week (see Letter to the Brethren: August 14, 2025), I listed the ten sermons covering the Book of Daniel. We also now have one sermon in the Spanish language from that series. Here is a link: Daniel 9 – Las 70 semenas.
Now last Sabbath, instead of putting together a regular sermon, I worked on narrating the Behind the Works video for 2025.
One of the reasons for making this is that we send DVD sermons, including that normally a Behind the Work one, to brethren in parts of the world to be shown during the Feast of Tabernacles.
Another reason for this particular one is to show some of what happened with South America and Asia this year, as well as reinforcing teachings we have related to the seven churches of Revelation.
Anyway, because of videoing segments related to the Behind the Works video, the recommended sermon for this week is by James Martenet. It is titled Active Listening. I had asked James Martenet to put together a sermon earlier as I was fairly certain that I would need to skip a couple of weeks doing sermons myself–and, thankfully, he did so.
More in Brazil
Adão de Amorim, our host in Brazil, sent the following photo and email in Portuguese:
Boa tarde aqui são Novos irmãos da Igreja de Deus continuada em outra cidade
Translated into English as:
Good afternoon, here are new brothers of the Continuing Church of God in another city.
Adão de Amorim also emailed the following with a machine translation I did:
Próximo mês queremos Batizar 22 irmãos
Next month we want to baptize 22 brothers
Our presence in Brazil is increasing.
Fake in Canada
We have long warned about various fakes on the internet pretending to be related to the ContinuingChurch of God and/or some of its leadership.
Well, the latest fake we became aware of was from a website in Canada. The website is part of https://mycharityfund.ca. While the mycharityfund.ca is a legitimate company, someone pretended to be the Continuing Church of God there. It listed the late Herb Haddon as a contact along with his last valid address. However, it listed a website in Canada that does not exist, nor has mycharityfund.ca ever given the Continuing Church of God any funds.
Anyway, if you wish to donate to the Continuing Church of God in Canada, send your donations to:
Continuing Church of God
1893 Route 3
Harvey Station, NB Canada
E6K 2P5
Here is a link to the Canadian CCOG donation’s page: https://ccogcanada.ca/donations/
More on donations can be found at the CCOG Donations page.
Radio
We just made a deal, once again, with the Wilkins Radio Network to increase our proclamation work to reach more people.
Wilkins, who broke their original contract with us back on 2023, pleaded with us to come back in 2024 and we began to go on stations there again earlier this year (see Letter to the Brethren: January 16, 2025).
We recently added four more stations from the Wilkins network (see Letter to the Brethren: August 7, 2025). Now we are going with three more:
WWNL AM 1080 & FM 103.9 Pittsburgh, PA, 8:15 – 8:30 am Saturday
KKIM AM 1000 Albuquerque, NM, 7:30 – 7:45 pm Sunday
WWNL AM is a 50,000 watt station–the biggest allowed in the USA. Again, we will be getting the first month free, and were offered an affordable rate to do this.
So, now let’s talk about the use of radio.
Jesus said:
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14)
Being on mass media, including radio, is something that COG leaders have done since no later than the 1930s to help fulfill that.
Radio was used so much to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom and other biblical messages, that after he left CG7, the late Herbert W. Armstrong initially named his group the Radio Church of God.
Herbert W. Armstrong was first invited as a guest to speak on a local radio station in Oregon. The feedback was so good that the station manager encouraged him to have a regular paid program, which Herbert W. Armstrong then agreed to do. In time, he went on additional stations.
Let’s look at some of what he reported about that in his Autobiography:
In September {1933} … the living Christ began opening doors for the MASS-proclaiming of His Gospel. It was then that someone brought to my attention the fact that the local radio station at Eugene, KORE, then the very smallest minimum-power of 100 watts, had a morning devotional program scheduled, but that they were having difficulty getting local ministers to conduct the program. It was free time, carried by the station as a public service sustaining program of 15 minutes, 7:45 to 8:00 a.m.
Immediately I went to the radio station. A woman secretary told me she felt sure they would be glad to have me take the program for a week. I was to call back later for the exact date.
On my second call I was assigned the week of October 9th.
October 9th was surely a great big day in my life — the day of my very first experience before a microphone, ON THE AIR!I took this opportunity very seriously. It was an opportunity to speak to several HUNDRED people at once! I had never spoken to that many before.
I spent the preceding week preparing rather extensive notes and script. I might never again have such an opportunity, so I decided to strike directly at the very heart of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Since the Kingdom of God is based on the promises made to Abraham, I began, on Monday morning’s program with the PROMISES made to Abraham.
Mike-Fright
I had heard a lot about everybody getting mike-fright the very first time on the air. I wondered if I would experience this. It was probably the most exciting adventure of my life.
On Monday morning, I arrived at the radio studio early. The announcer did not come into the studio until ten or fifteen seconds before 7:45.
Mike-fright? Why, I thought to myself, I’m calm and cool as a cucumber!
“Listen!” I said quietly but quickly to the announcer. “I’ve never been on the air before. If you have any instructions, you’d better give them to me in a hurry. We have only 10 seconds!”
He looked at me disdainfully, and a little bored.
“Just stand up there in front of the mike, and start talking as soon as I announce you,” he replied.
About three seconds later he announced me. While he was giving this very brief announcement on the air, I thought, “Well I don’t have any mike-fright. I’m sure glad of that!”
Then, for the first time in my life, I said into the microphone:
“GREETINGS, friends!”But suddenly something had happened! Before those two words were finished, something had hit me like a jolt!
Something had started my heart pounding like a sledge-hammer! I felt myself gasping for breath! During those opening two words, MIKE-FRIGHT had seized me!
I struggled with all my might to control my hard breathing so it would not be audible over the air. It was agony, but I concentrated my mind with all the strength I had on two things — to carefully say the words of my typed script as naturally as I could, and to control my hard breathing so it did not sound.After two or three minutes I was making good progress in gaining control. After some five minutes my breathing had returned to normal, and I was so absorbed in getting this vital message over to the largest audience of my life — even though that audience was invisible — that I forgot all about the mike-fright.
The Surprising Response
The second morning there was no mike-fright. I was beginning to gain assurance, and able to speak a little more naturally.
It must have been about Thursday morning that the announcer told me the station owner, Mr. Frank Hill, wanted to see me in his office later in the morning.
He had received several letters and telephone calls from listeners, requesting copies of my talks. I had offered no literature of any kind. I had invited no mail response.
“This is rather surprising,” said Mr. Hill. “We never had any response of any kind, before, from this morning devotional program. They told me you had not invited any. Yet it has been coming. I listened in on you this morning to see what was causing it. You have an excellent radio voice, and a way of delivering your message that arouses interest and holds an audience.
“Now, Mr. Armstrong,” he continued, “I want to suggest that you work out a regular Sunday morning Church service, condensed into a half hour. I’d like to put that on as a regular sustaining program — free time — but I can’t do that without offering equal time to every church in town. However I will sell you the time at less than bare cost of operation, $2.50 per half hour.”
And THAT suggestion from Mr. Frank Hill is what put the idea of the WORLD TOMORROW program in my mind!
Altogether 14 letters and telephone calls came in to the radio station requesting copies of the messages I had broadcast.
I thanked him, and told him I would see what I could do.But, $2.50 every week! WOW! That was almost as much as my entire salary had been! And I had just previously renounced even that small salary!
Today, $2.50 per half-hour broadcast seems incredibly small.
We have to pay far more than that per minute on stations today! But it seemed like an insurmountable barrier then.
Yet I knew this was GOD’S WORK, not mine. I was only an instrument. God had promised to supply every need.
God had OPENED THE DOOR OF MASS EVANGELISM! I knew He wanted us to walk through that door.
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