{"id":99029,"date":"2026-01-08T06:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=99029"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:06:22","slug":"letter-to-the-brethren-january-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/letter-to-the-brethren-january-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Brethren: January 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Christ:<\/p>\n

Greetings from Grover Beach, California.<\/p>\n

We continue to struggle with malware causing redirects (having site visitors going to something other than our web content, normally selling something) and other issues with our websites.<\/p>\n

Our men in Portugal and Maryland have been fixing these issues as they come up as well as other ones.<\/p>\n

Satan does not want the gospel of the Kingdom of God to reach the world as a witness, which, according to Jesus in Matthew 24:14, will lead to the end.<\/p>\n

Remember that the Apostle Paul wrote:<\/p>\n

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)<\/p>\n

2 … the prince of the power of the air, the spirit … now works in the sons of disobedience, (Ephesians 2:2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, while we are still working on internet matters, this Letter to the Brethren<\/em> was posted at the COGwriter.com website.<\/p>\n

Baptisms Expected in Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Adao de Amorim sent the following from Brazil:<\/p>\n

BOA TARDE PASTOR E PROFETA BOB
\nA PARTIR DO DIA 20 DESTE M\u00caS ESTAREMOS BATIZANDO 12 PESSOAS NA IGREJA CONTINUADA DE DEUS NO BRASIL EM V\u00c1RIOS MUNIC\u00cdPIOS DENTRE ELES EIS PASTORES E EVANGELISTAS PROTESTANTES VOU MANDAR O VIDEO E FOTOS PARA VOC\u00ca VOU VIAJAR MAIS DE 300 KM PARA REALIZAR ESSA OBRA ORE POR NOS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Machine-translated into English as follows:<\/p>\n

GOOD AFTERNOON PASTOR AND PROPHET BOB,
\nSTARTING ON THE 20TH OF THIS MONTH, WE WILL BE BAPTIZING 12 PEOPLE IN THE CONTINUED CHURCH OF GOD IN BRAZIL, IN SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES. AMONG THEM ARE PROTESTANT PASTORS AND EVANGELISTS. I WILL SEND YOU THE VIDEO AND PHOTOS. I WILL BE TRAVELING MORE THAN 300 KM TO CARRY OUT THIS WORK. PLEASE PRAY FOR US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

300 km is about 200 miles.<\/p>\n

In the recommended sermon for this week, \u00a026 Items to Watch in 2026<\/a>, I quoted the following words of Jesus:<\/p>\n

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (Matthew 28:19)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I personally baptized Adao de Amorim last Summer. A larger COG offered to baptize him, but he refused and wanted baptism by a Continuing<\/em> Church of God minister.<\/p>\n

It was my view we would have growth and more baptisms in Brazil after that, and that has started to happen, and more, as Adao de Amorim wrote, are expected this month.<\/p>\n

Remember to pray for the work as well as to pray as Jesus said, “pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Matthew 9:36).<\/p>\n

Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was able to record another sermon using Riverside last Sabbath. The plan is to mainly use that platform for most of my sermons.<\/p>\n

In addition to Riverside automatically putting out subtitles in English, it also has the ability to have people seem to speak well in many languages using some type of AI (artificial intelligence) program–which is something we have started to utilize related to our sermonettes. We are looking into various programs to further assist us with this.<\/p>\n

Once certain matters are fixed regarding our internet hosting platform and sites, we expect to have a lot more audio materials in numerous languages at the Bible News Prophecy International<\/a> radio site.<\/p>\n

Suggested Sabbath <\/strong>Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a suggested Sabbath day service for our scattered brethren and other interested people for the Last Great Day Sabbath service:<\/p>\n