UCG Houston North Member Site

If you would like to help out with the prison ministry Bible study program please
contact Mr. Servidio or Mr. DeHart. We have lost the services of a few men in recent months and are in need of additional men. If you feel you might be interested or have any questions please donâ€™t hesitate to ask. Thank you!

Jamaica Feast Site

July 26, 2008 at 7:49 am · Filed under FOT, Home Office, News

I visited Jamaica a few weeks ago and sat with the Holiday Inn Sunspreeâ€™s reservations manager to get an idea of the number of members that made reservations at the hotel. Some have made reservations with the hotel, but have not requested a Festival Transfer Application from the Caribbean office. Already it looks as if we will not be able to accommodate all those intending to transfer.

The Holiday Inn has limited meeting space â€” the auditorium can only accommodate 400 people. The Jamaica congregations have 100 people which means that we are only able to have 300 transfers to the site. Currently we are showing 333 officially registered from the U.S. and this does not include others who have made reservations without sending in an application for a transfer.

All who are planning to attend the Festival site in Jamaica, please refer to the directions in the â€œUnited News.â€ If you have not already contacted Kingsley Mather in the Caribbean office about transferring, please do so immediately at
ucgcarib@coralwave.com or by telephone at (242) 324-3169 so we can avoid possible difficulties at the Feast. Already it appears that we will likely need to ask some brethren to make other plans.

We will try to accommodate as many as we can. Those who contacted the office and received a numbered application and are on the United Church of God official room list do not need to contact me.

Thank you for your help.
Kingsley Mather

Name Badge Teen Fund Raiser

July 26, 2008 at 7:48 am · Filed under News, Teens

The Teens would like to express their deep appreciation for the overwhelming response to their name badge fundraiser. The response has been so great, it’s put them in a pleasant predicament, the supplier actually ran out of material. But, this has only caused a minor delay in production in a few of the badges by a week to two weeks. They apologize and will get them to you as soon as they can. Thank you again for all your support.

Good Works Project

July 26, 2008 at 7:44 am · Filed under News

New Project: Church projects in Kenya and Tanzania.
Several congregations in Kenya and Tanzania are in need of funds to provide important resources for members’ worship and health. These include a water well and storage tank beside a church hall to provide drinking water and irrigation for the widows’ and orphans’ vegetable plot. Fencing and a gate for a church grounds, plaster to cover walls of two church buildings, a kitchen facility on another church property to permit holding a Feast on site, chairs and a gas lantern for another church building, repairs to a rental hall in exchange for free rent, and some CD players to play hymns during services.

Needed: $5,400

July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008 at 7:43 am · Filed under Bulletins

July 26, 2008 Houston North Announcement Bulletin

July 19, 2008

July 26, 2008 at 7:42 am · Filed under Bulletins

July 19, 2008 Houston North Announcement Bulletin

Minesterial Services - Jim Franks

July 12, 2008 at 8:02 am · Filed under Home Office

As we approach the summer, we anticipate several changes in pastoral assignments. In the next few days we will be able to announce additional transfers. Below is the list from last month with the addition of Tom and Sarah Kirkpatrick.

Some of you may be unaware, but Tom and Sarah served in the U.S. field ministry prior to his becoming treasurer for the Church in 1998. We hired Tom in 1996 to be the associate pastor in Houston North where I was serving as the pastor. In 1997 traveling with the Council and Ministerial Services took me out of the Houston area for several weeks at a time. In many respects Tom served as the pastor of our largest congregation for the two years he lived in Houston.

Given the needs we have in the ministry, we are happy to have him return to the field as a pastor in Alabama. We know that he has big shoes to fill in the case of Bill Winner. Bill was one of our most effective pastors, and his sudden death this past January is still difficult for all of us. Tom and Sarah should make this move from Milford and assume the pastorate before the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall. In the meantime, David Dobson will continue to pastor the Birmingham and Gadsden congregations.

Names	Current Assignment	New Assignment
Ed and RaeAnn Dowd	New Hire	Phoenix East/Yuma, AZ (assistant pastor)
Bill and Cheryl Jahns	Houston North, TX (associate pastor)	Parkersburg and Morgantown, WV; Athens, OH (pastor)
Shawn and Elizabeth Cortelyou	Canton, Bloomington and Springfield, IL (assistant pastor)	Elkhart/Hammond, IN (associate pastor)
Tom and Sarah Kirkpatrick	Home Office	Birmingham/Gadsden, AL (pastor)

Treasurer’s Update - From Jason Lovelady

July 12, 2008 at 7:57 am · Filed under Home Office

We now have the final results in for Pentecost, and we are pleased to
report an encouraging 5.5 percent increase over last year for a total of
$867,000. In fact, each of the Spring Holy Day offerings this year has been
encouraging. The final results for First Day of Unleavened Bread was a 3.9
percent increase over last year for a total of $856,000, and the final results
for Last Day of Unleavened Bread was a 3.1 percent increase over last
year for a total of $828,000.

As reported earlier, the months of February (9.39 percent increase), March
(8.78 percent increase) and April (6.8 percent increase) were all trending
higher than the 2 percent increase in income that we were experiencing
year to date. The last two months, however, have not been as encouraging.
In the month of May regular mail income was down 4.9 percent compared
to last year; and for the month of June (through June 25) income is down
2.8 percent compared to last year.

While just a month and a half ago, I was confident that we would close the
fiscal year with income $23,500,000 or higher, we will most likely end the
year slightly less than that â€“ somewhere between $23,400,000 and
$23,500,000. Even with the sluggish last two months of the year, we still
expect to end the year with close to a 2 percent increase in income over
last year, and we can be thankful for that.

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