{"id":5569,"date":"2010-12-07T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2010-12-08T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:24:49","slug":"ucg-more-resignations-and-a-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/ucg-more-resignations-and-a-new-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"UCG: More Resignations and a New Council Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/556.gif\" alt=\"Laodicea\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ancient Laodicea<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCG reported the following today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chairman Melvin Rhodes announces that Victor Kubik is now on the Council of  Elders. David Treybig, Michael Blackwell and David Baker resign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then a little later it announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>Council of Elders currently  has 10 members. Discussion will  take place on process for two additional elected  appointments to  secure full 12.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will likely make several more announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Changes keep happening at UCG.<\/p>\n<p>Some in UCG are wondering if it will survive.\u00a0 There is little point in publicly commenting on whether or not it should.<\/p>\n<p>Any interested in supporting the remnant of the Philadelphia era of the COG should prayerfully check out LCG.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/church_governance.htm\">Polycarp, Herbert W. Armstrong, and Roderick C. Meredith on Church Government<\/a> What form of governance did the early church have? Was it hierarchical?         Which form of governance would one expect to have in the            Philadelphia       remnant? The people decide and\/or committee    forms,         odd dictatorships,  or   the same type that the    Philadelphia era         itself      had?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/unity.htm\">Unity: Which COG for You?<\/a> Why so many groups? Why is there lack of unity in the Churches of God?        Has it always been this way? What can\/should be done about it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/ucg.htm\">Differences between the           Living Church of God and United Church of God<\/a> This article    provides          quotes information from the two      largest groups which    had their         origins      in WCG as well as      commentary.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/ylcg.htm\">There are Many COGs: Why        Support the Living Church of God?<\/a> This is an article for those  who          wish to more easily sort out      the different COGs. It really   should   be    a          MUST READ     for  current and former WCG\/GCI   members or  any        interested        in     supporting the faithful   church. It also   explains a         lot   of  what   the   COGs   are all   about.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/work.htm\">Should the Church Still Try    to Place its Top Priority on Proclaiming the Gospel or Did   Herbert           W.     Armstrong Change that Priority for the Work?<\/a> Some   say   the       Church     should mainly feed the flock now as   that is   what   Herbert  W.       Armstrong    reportedly said.  Is that   what  he  said?    Is that  what    the    Bible says?   What did <a href=\"\/paul.htm\">Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"\/herbertwarmstrong.htm\">Herbert W. Armstrong<\/a> expect from evangelists?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/laodiceachurch.htm\">The Laodicean  Church Era <\/a>has been predominant circa 1986 A.D. to present. These are non-Philadelphians who mainly descended from the old WCG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Laodicea COGwriter UCG reported the following today: Chairman Melvin Rhodes announces that Victor Kubik is now on the Council of Elders. David Treybig, Michael Blackwell and David Baker resign. Then a little later it announced: Council of Elders currently has 10 members. Discussion will take place on process for two additional elected appointments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}