News & Updates

We’re excited to announce another cross-group fellowship event funded by our Ephesians 4 Project: the 2024 California Summer BBQ. This event is now on its second year! We hope this becomes an annual tradition! It’s so encouraging to see brethren coming together to fellowship across Church of God organizations. Here’s a wonderful comment from James…

Congratulations to our newest Ephesians 4 Project Grantee: Dusti Howell (Soto Ministries) Dusti Howell, and Soto Ministries, will be using the grant funds to help fund their 4th Annual “In Him” Men’s Retreat next February in Harriet, Arkansas. The retreat will include brethren from a variety of Church of God organizations and be a great…

Happy 3 year anniversary to our Ephesians 4 Project! Thank you to all the brethren who’ve put together cross-organizational fellowship events over the past three years. Stay tuned for more fellowship events this coming year! Multiple new grant applications are already being evaluated! Here are some of the Ephesians 4 Project grantees over its first…

Within Your Gates is our program aimed at inspiring good works by providing grants for service projects led by members of the Church of God. Whether you’re a member or a minister, we encourage projects benefiting Church brethren or the local community. Our most recent Within Your Gates grantee is Brian Hoselton of the United…

Help us congratulate our newest COG Development Program grantee: Francisco Solórzano Francisco is a member of the United Church of God in Guatemala who decided to start a new volunteer program to teach English as a second language to young people in local COG congregations in his country. During the pandemic, when distance learning began…

Last weekend on Sunday, March 31st, a group of seven Church of God brethren gathered in Lakeview, Ohio to helped some of the residents with cleanup efforts after the area was hit on the evening March 14th with an F3 tornado. The project was led by Mary Miller – CGN’s Within Your Gates Outreach Coordinator….

We’re excited to announce that the COG Development Program awarded two grants this quarter. One recipient preferred to not be listed publicly. However, the other grantee is: Tadeos Magova Tadeos is a baptized member of the Living Church of God and was baptized in the year 2000. He and his wife live in Zimbabwe. Tadeos…

Back in July of 2020, CGN awarded a COG Development grant to Sharon Darizo. Sharon Darizo is a member of the United Church of God and lives in Nairobi, Kenya. She used her grant to complete her bachelors degree in Business Administration. Once she finished her studies, she planned on starting an apparel business of her…

Happy 3 year anniversary to our Within Your Gates program! Within Your Gates is a program designed to encourage good works by providing grants to help fund service projects led by members of the Church of God! Grantees can be members or ministers and projects can involve service toward Church of God brethren or members…

Happy 4 year anniversary to our COG Development program! The program’s purpose is to help brethren in developing countries start successful, profitable and sustainable businesses, or obtain training or education for jobs that will provide a reliable source of income. This is done through micro grants that will help pay for the training or education,…