Author: Daniel Russo

Daniel Russo is a lifelong New Yorker and currently resides in Albany, New York. He currently works as the Manager of Business Operations at Parent to Parent of NYS. He previously worked at the Empire Center for Public Policy managing their operations. Daniel obtained an undergraduate degree in American History from the State University of New York at Albany in 2013. He then received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy in 2017. He is a second generation member of the Church of God and was baptized in 2009. While he enjoys traveling and meeting brethren in various groups, his home congregation of 25+ years is an independent Westchester, New York congregation. Daniel founded the Church of God Network in October 2018 after developing the initial concept during the 2017 Feast of Tabernacles.
05 Apr 2022

CGN Networking Trip – East Texas

  CGN Board Member Chantelle West enjoys time fellowshipping with brethren from multiple different COG groups in East Texas! Thank you to all who made the event possible. Events like these are such a powerful way to build community in the Church of God.

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31 Mar 2022

New COG Fellowship Events grantee announced!

We are excited to announce our next COG Fellowship Events grantee: Leah Keim Leah, with the help of Hillary and Joe Egert and other brethren, will be hosting an informational/fellowship event for the local community on Sunday, April 3rd at Papa Bear’s Italian Restaurant in Canton, Ohio. The event will have two primary goals: 1) […]

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29 Mar 2022

New Educational & Business Development Grantee: Bupe Sakala

We’re excited to announce the next recipient of the Educational & Business Development grant program: Bupe Sakala. She is a member of the Living Church of God in Zambia. Bupe is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in accounting. She is one semester away from graduation and plans to use her grant to finish her Bachelor’s! […]

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09 Feb 2022

New businesses added to COG Marketplace

Last week, we added 19 new businesses to the COG Marketplace! COG Marketplace is a place where members of the Church of God community can come together and support the small businesses of our fellow brethren. The marketplace consists of a regularly maintained list of COG member owned businesses. All business information listed on the […]

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02 Feb 2022

New Resources added to COG Resource Center

We have added more resources to our COG Resource Center! CGN’s website has well over 400 resources from around the Church of God including children’s books, COG dating sites, music resources and more. Check out these and the many others we have listed! As a reminder, visitors can search across every page of every website […]

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25 Jan 2022

CGN Welcomes Two New Data Managers!

Please join us in welcoming Gordon Wallace and David Klett to our team! They will be volunteering their time and skills to assist CGN as data managers. Gordon and David will be helping with upkeep of the Congregation Map and Resource Center as well as other data projects. They are excited to help build community […]

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21 Jan 2022

Congregation Map Updated

We’ve added new congregations and updated existing ones on our congregation map! Check out the 1,600+ congregations from 130+ organizations listed. See who is in your area! If you know of congregations that aren’t on our map and should be, let us know! If the congregations aren’t listed publicly online, we only ask that permission […]

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