Letters

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #167 – April 13, 2024

Letter from Giorgio (April 1, 2024) I’m looking for a congregation. Good morning, I am a baptized Christian, I saw your website and I believe that we share the same doctrines, I live in Italy and I wanted to ask if you have a congregation in my country. Thank you.   Response: We are primarily a newsletter. So, no we don’t have any congregations in Italy, but we will send you our newsletter and you can use that as a study guide. Laura Lee

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #166 – April 6, 2024

Letter from Elijah Osiemo (March 22, 2024) Dear Brethren, Receive our Christian greetings from Kenya in the gracious name of our beloved Holy one the Lord Jesus Christ from whom we are forgiven and saved. We are greatly blessed and feel privileged to know you through your website, learnt about your faith and your desire to serve God.   We are an independent fellowship church group in Kenya desiring to be heed in your church ministry.   We are without any ministry cover and also we not under any mission, ministry or church organization.   We request for your prayers for God’s provision of Bibles in our local language (Ekegusii).​​   We pray that through God’s Holy spirit at work, that you will appreciate our interests and desire that we might find a definite spiritual partnership with your Church ministry.   May God richly bless you as we look forward to your response.   In His service, Elijah Osiemo   Editor’s Note: We are primarily a newsletter. Our newsletter is sent weekly, so perhaps you can use that as part of your Bible Study. We do not collect any money from anyone so we would not have the funds to send Bibles to you, but perhaps others reading this would like to do that for you. Laura Lee

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #164 – March 23, 2024

Letter from William P. Goff (March 8, 2024) Greetings Brethren,   The orphans are now back in school, thanks to your support (Both financial and prayers). We reached the school fundraiser goal and thank those of you who contributed. The orphans who are in school are progressing quite well. So, we closed the “school fee” fundraiser.   But we also started a new fundraiser. Sad to say, we lost two more members to starvation. (A widow, and an 11-year-old boy of Daniel’s group.) Times continue to be tough amongst our impoverished brethren, and we need a little help to bury the two deceased.   The link is: In Their Afflictions., organized by William P Goff   I titled it “In Their Affliction” from (James 1:27) Our widows and orphans have many afflictions and continue to need our help.   Thank You. Bill Goff

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #160 – February 24, 2024

Letter from Sarah McBride (February 15, 2024) Hello from England, Just to let you know how happy I am that you are still including articles by James on your site. I hope that they are an interest and help to all who read them.   Thanks, from Sarah   Hi Sarah, We are happy to print James McBride’s articles when we have them. We are getting low on them so if you have more just send them over and I will sort through them. We loved James and he had contact with us and our newsletter almost since the beginning back in 2001. We sure do miss him.   Thank you Sarah, we love you to, what a great letter, Laura

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #157 – February 3, 2024
Letter from William P. Goff (January 20, 2024) Donor Letter and Prayer Request   Thank you, Laura, this was wonderful of you to post this. Bill

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #156 – January 27, 2024

Letter from Kasuba Manad (January 12, 2024) Dearest Saints of our Lord Jesus Christ, Warmest Christian greetings to each one of you, your beloved families and all the dear brethren at your Church in the Precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Myself, my beloved families, the Orphans under my care and all the dear brethren at our Home Churches we all greet each one of you with so much Christian love!   Thank you so much for your kind response towards my request. I am waiting to start receiving your wonderful newsletter. Please feel free to pass my name and my email address to people or Ministries you know can start sending me free materials for free distribution to unsaved people.   I will continue to pray for you, your beloved families, all the dear brethren at your Church and God’s work you are faithfully doing. Please continue to pray for me, my beloved families, all the dear at our Church and God’s work I am doing here.   It is really encouraging to hear from you soon again,  SHALOM, SHALOM,  ELDER KASUBA MANAD

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #154 – January 13, 2024
Letter from Gregory Diaz (January 4, 2024) Hi Laura,   Here is another article. I believe this is the shortest one I have written. I am not sure. There is more that I could have written but I wanted to keep it reasonably short.   Thank you very much for your website.   Greg

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #141 – October 14, 2023

Letter from William P. Goff (August 18, 2023) Greetings Brethren,   Hope your Sabbath is going on well.   Again, we want to thank all of you who have been assisting our impoverished brethren. (Some of you have been doing so for a long time) You continue to make a big impact on their lives. Especially to the many orphans and widows you have been caring for, and for a long time.   You often hear me mention (Matthew 9:37-38) How the harvest is great, but the laborers are few, and to pray the Lord of the harvest for more laborers (servants – workers). So, this is not necessarily for those who have already been helping and serving, but for others who “hopefully” will join hands with us in helping, because the need has grown, and become more dire. I often try to show the conditions that our brethren are enduring over there, but I think Nehemiah can elaborate much better being I am back in the States, and he is there.   I received the following letter from Nehemiah today, concerning the current conditions of our Kenyan brethren:   Shalom Donors.   Dear Donors and supporters,   First let me say, from the widows and children under their care, we are thankful for the good work you are doing to them. I’m writing on their behalf. They always kneel to pray for you to have good health, good, protected life from the Lord for your good works to us. And also, the Lord to open doors for you as you continue helping.   We help them the best we can with the donations we receive, but due to the high cost of living food is becoming very expensive. Some now do without meals. I witnessed a case where some brethren take hot water mixed with sugar and tea leaves as their dinner. Some faint due to starvation and rushed to hospital and it’s discovered that it’s due to starvation.   Some widows and widowers are living with their grand children whose parents died of many different types of disease and many deaths from starvation. I witness people begging from the homes of Matara, Milkah Daniel and others; they sit in their homes during lunchtime and dinner time. The food is not enough for these widows and widowers and their grandchildren and yet there are beggars standing at their doors when the little available food is cooked. Others are growing weaker and weaker each day.   There is a case I witness in some families these orphans living with their grandparents walking naked and bare footed. The widows and widowers can’t manage to provide mosquito nets and bedding to these poor, vulnerable, dejected, disadvantaged, suffering children living with them. We are told to do good to all, but especially to those of the household of faith. These brethren of ours are “full” of faith, but their bellies are empty. May the good God of Hosts touch, move and open doors so wide for you so as to be enabled to continue to help or support where you can.   We need His Kingdom to come more than anything, but for now we need others to join hands with us and help our suffering brethren. If you have Internet, please check our website. The donation reaches our brethren, (no one here on payroll or extravagant living) We have been documenting our impoverished brethren condition, and the wonderful help some have been giving them for years, is on our “Update Page”   www.khofh.org   Sorry for the report but that’s the situation we are going through may the Lord God bless you abundantly.   Nesh.”   Nehemiah is our eldest orphan, and he (along with Haron, the orphanage administrator) has been ministering to our impoverished brethren for a long time. They are both very humble servants, serving in God’s church. They (we) also need your prayers for God’s guidance and protection (Life in Kenya is very dangerous) especially now when we live in a world that calls good bad, and bad good.   If you can help our suffering brethren, please do so. And if you can pass this on to others, that would be wonderful, the need is dire over there.   Bill Goff   Website:  www.khofh.org   E-mail: goffb50@aol.com   Phone: 843-447-0140 (Call anytime night or day, our brethren need our help.)     Letter from William P. Goff (August 26, 2023) Greetings and Happy Sabbath,   I just wanted to thank you all for continuing to assist the widows and orphans, we were able to get some food to all of them, and we were also able to pay the school fees for all 20 of the orphans living at Sengera House. (God continues to provide.).   Let us continue to pray for God’s guidance and direction. His Spirit needs to be leading all of us. So let us continue to pray for humility, and wisdom. We need to be good stewards, doing all things that are pleasing in His sight.   We are surely living in the end times. Prophesy is being fulfilled right in front of our eyes. Whether we see it or not depends on whether we have “eyes to see” and “ears to hear”. This world is transitioning in governments and powers, and Scripture is quite clear concerning the evil that is ahead. But this is not a time to fear, this is a time to be thankful because our Lord is soon to return, and only His coming Kingdom can end all the suffering that is transpiring all around this world.   My admonition for all of us is this: If there was ever a time to draw closer to our Creator, and walk in all of HIs ways, it is now. He tells us He is returning to a glorious church, one without spot or wrinkle. Does that describe us? Has He developed in us His Holy Righteous Character? Let’s hope so because that is why  He put His Holy Spirit in us  in the first place.(Ephesians 5:27)    Bill Goff.   http://www.khofh.org goffb50@aol.com   843-447-0140     Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (September 6, 2023) Thanks.

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #133 – August 19, 2023
Letter from Rafael (August 5, 2023) Greetings   Thanks very much, very interesting articles and info that I have known about for some time. I find that not everyone in the Church of God readily accepts stepping out of the box, I can understand that it’s nice and cozy inside.   Rafael Algorri

The “New” Church of God Messenger – Issue #132 – August 12, 2023

Letter from William P. Goff (July 29, 2023) Greetings Brethren,   I received the following letter from Nehemiah today, he’s asking me to pass it on to others. :   “Shalom Brethren, it’s my hope and trust you are doing well over there. I’m writing to let you know some of the challenges we are facing in our different groups of worship.   Being a time of high cost living in our country where prices of commodities has gone high. In most of our groups the number of church attendees is reducing each week due to starvation.   After church services in some groups like Rigo, Rongo and boarder group and others I hear such and such in the community passed on due to starvation. Some of ours even while in church they faint, when rushed to hospital it’s discovered it from hunger. It has become a major problem to us. I happened to visit some in their homes, what i saw made me shed tears. Some take hot water mixed with tea leaves and sugar as their dinner once in a day. We do thank the donations that come in, but the need is so great.   I humbly request others to join hands with us in praying and supporting these desperate people, even if it means for them to be provided one meal in a day it can help greatly. They will appreciate so much.   In Nehemiah’s Daily Bread ministry, I’m trying to teach these children who come to the gate during meal time. The food meant for known orphans is shared among other needy children. The number is adding each day. But it’s a big opportunity for me to get time and share the word of God with them.   I request if they can be provided one meal each more so in the evenings (dinner). Be blessed hoping others will join hands with us and help.   With kind regards. Nehemiah.”   Brethren, I know that many of you have been helping our impoverished Brethren for a long time. My hope is that others will hear of the need, and also join in with us to help. If possible, please let others know of the dire need.   Bill Goff.   Website: http://www.khofh.org E-mail: goffb50@aol.com Phone: 843-447-0140