News & Updates

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,…

Please read the following request for prayers from the Legacy Institute: Dear Brethren and Fellow Laborers, This is an urgent prayer request for our Myanmar (Burma) brethren and the Church of God compound. Two days ago, a bridge was bombed and only motorcycles can get by. This is a strategic road. We will be careful…

The following is an update received from the United Church of God: On December 1st, there was a major disturbance in the village of UCG members, Manik & Rita Balaam. Manik writes: “The Land Office sent the final Land Title Transfer Certificates of the Church and Graveyard to the village headman that he may give…

Acapulco was hit hard by Hurricane Otis last month, catching them off guard with its fierce 165-mile-an-hour winds, damaging buildings and flooding roads. Please keep our brethren in your prayers as many have been seriously affected. To lend a hand, our Within Your Gates program is contributing $1,000. Let’s stand together in this time of…

Better late than never! We wanted to announce a recent awardee of an Ephesians 4 grant: UCG & the Father’s Call These two groups received an Ephesians 4 grant in 2022 as well and continue to do amazing work in the Bay Area of California! This year, they used their grant funds to subsidize a combined…

Help us congratulate our newest recipient of the COG Development Program: Getrude Nkrumah Getrude is from Kumasi, Ghana and is a member of Church of God, A Worldwide Association. She is using her grant funds to help start a beautician shop and hopes to train other Church members who are interested in building related skills….

The weekend of August 4th through 6th was one of the most encouraging weekends in recent memory! Three separate cross-organizational fellowship events occurred simultaneously! Even more promising was the fact that all three were openly promoted. One was in Oregon, one was in upstate New York, and the third was the Ephesians 4 Project grantee…

There is nothing quite like face-to-face fellowship between brethren. Facilitating this kind of connection across Church of God organizations is one of the biggest tools we have to help build community within the Body of Christ. The Ephesians 4 Project does this very thing by awarding micro-grants to individuals and Church congregations to help sponsor…

We are thrilled to announce our next recipient of the COG Development Program: Diamonique Brown Diamonique is from Kingston, Jamaica and is a member of Church of God, International. She is using her grant funds to help pay the fees to begin her education at the University of Toronto! Diamonique is entering a new and…

Church of God Network’s Within Your Gates program is designed to help marshal the resources and manpower of THE ENTIRE Church of God to come to the aid of brethren (and local communities) in times of need. The program has two functions: 1) to keep the Church of God at large informed as to the…