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3 Wesley White recommends a positive approach to complainers 4 Pastor Dianne McDonnell battles the GCI/WCG’s ‘new truth’ 5 Ken Westby ponders changeableness TheJournal 30 THE JOURNAL inadvertently published private correspondence as a Feast News of the Churches of God report; read the right one in this issue Issue No. 135 (Vol. XIII, No. 3) Founded 1997 May 31, 2009 Churchwide discipleship Tabernacles ’09 theme for UCG elders listings begin By Mac Overton By Dixon Cartwright lives and serves in Australia. eginning with this issue lders of the United Church of For the three council spots open to THE JOURNAL lists contact God an International Associa- U.S.-serving elders, fellow elders de- information, locations and tion, meeting for the 15th time cided not to select nominees and for- B E dates of the Feast of Tabernacles as a body (if you count the founding mer council members Gary Antion of 2009. conference in Indianapolis, Ind., in Batavia, Ohio, incumbent Richard If your information is not in 1995), convened May 3-4, 2009, in Pinelli, also of Batavia; Jim Franks of this issue’s listing (see page 24), Cincinnati, Ohio. Milford, Ohio; During this year’s conference 345 and Doug Hor- you’re invited to send it to THE elders, most present at the meeting chak of Plano, JOURNAL at P.O. Box 1020, Big location but others participating by Texas. The el- Sandy, Texas 75755, U.S.A., or phone or Internet, elected four men to ders elected new [email protected]. Or fax it to sit for new terms on the 12-man gov- council mem- (903) 636-9097. erning council of elders. bers Mr. Ashley Be sure to include the name of The voters chose Scott Ashley and and Mr. Rhodes the city nearest the Feast site, the Melvin Rhodes as the two new coun- and reelected name of a person to contact, the cil members and returned Richard Mr. Thompson. name of the sponsoring ministry Thompson and William Eddington to The current or individual and the dates. their seats on the council. council configu- It is best to include nine days Roy Holladay, The elders by secret ballot voted new UCG council ration: Scott in the date. for or against the candidates and bal- chairman Ashley, Arvada, For example, many obser- loted as well for or against the yearly Colo; Bob Be- vances this year will be Oct. 2- strategic and operation plans and the rendt (international), Edmonton, Alta., MUSIC IN EAST TEXAS—Ross Jutsum, the composer and musician whose 10. The Feast is eight full days, 2009-10 budget. Canada; Aaron Dean, Gladewater, hymns appear in many Church of God songbooks, plays in Big Sandy, Texas, in counting the last day, but falls on All three measures passed. Texas; William Eddington (interna- April during a performance at the Church of God Big Sandy. For an interview with nine days or partial days on the tional), Melbourne, Australia; Roy Mr. Jutsum, see the article beginning on this page. See another photo of Mr. Gregorian calendar. Four new terms Holladay (who became council chair- Jutsum on page 28 of this issue of THE JOURNAL. [JOURNAL photo] The voting came after the nomina- man shortly after the conference), tion process, in which elders chose Cleveland, Tenn.; Paul Kieffer (inter- nine of their fellow ministers to par- national), Troisdorf, Germany; Clyde ticipate in the election to fill the four Kilough (president of the church), open council seats. Cincinnati; Victor Kubik, Indian- Music man’s circuit takes him out of town For the vacant international posi- apolis, Ind.; Darris McNeely, Green- tion, the elders declined to select Da- wood, Ind.; Melvin Rhodes, Lansing, for more than 40 weekend gigs every year vid Baker (who serves as a church Mich.; Richard Thompson, Eustis, Fla.; employee in Africa, even though he is and Robin Webber, Romoland, Calif. By Dixon Cartwright Madre, Calif., plays and sings every In Big Sandy Dr. Jutsum’s presen- a resident of Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) and After the conference, whose IG SANDY, Texas—Every- week for Christian fellowships and tations had him singing while simulta- selected William Eddington, who See UNITED CHURCH OF GOD, page 25 body’s heard of Ross Jutsum. other gatherings to inspire Christians neously caressing the 88 weighted keys BAt least you’ve heard of him if of many stripes in their efforts to wor- of the CGBS’s Yamaha Clavinova. you’re in the WCG/GCI or one of the ship God and Jesus. The audience could sing along splits. Chances are he wrote at least a One-man show thanks to the accompanying Power- few songs in your group’s hymnal. Point text on the large screen over- Ian Boyne still going strong Dr. Jutsum (he has a doctorate in Dr. Jutsum stopped off in Big head. music arts from the University of Sandy the Sabbath of April 18, 2009, In his Sabbath presentation, and in North Texas) was musical even from to participate in church services of the an interview the next day with this after 22 years in the media his youth. independent Church of God Big reporter and CGBS pastor and JOUR- He no longer travels around the Sandy and present a community con- This article, about regional pastor Up and over NAL columnist Dave Havir, Dr. Jutsum Ian Boyne of the Church of God In- country with WCG pastor general cert, a one-man show, in the church’s Mr. Boyne’s own self-confidence explained how he got here from ternational, is reprinted by permission Herbert W. Armstrong, the WCG building on Saturday evening. where he was back in 1997. has propelled him over many obsta- founder having died 23 years ago. But Then Dr. Jutsum, who performs from the Jamaica Observer of May 18, That was the last year of Ambassa- 2009 (see jamaicaobserver.com). cles. In the early years he had a dif- the native Australian and naturalized his own and others’ songs and even ficult manager to work with, but he citizen of the U.S.A. (he has held dual takes requests during his concerts, dor University, when many members By Jean Lowrie-Chin persevered. citizenship since 2004) still makes was off to do something similar the of the COG splits last heard from him. INGSTON, Jamaica—I re- Along the way he had to appeal to music in more ways than one. next day in a Baptist church in near- But first he began at the beginning. member the intense teenager a JBC chairman to save the pro- The 55-year-old resident of Sierra by Gladewater. See DR. HOEH ADVISED, page 28 seriously engaging my se- gram, and then later to Lascelles K Chin, the second person he had in- niors at the Daily News and com- terviewed, for sponsorship. menting, “That Photo by Christine Bell guy is bright!” “[Businessman] Las Chin told me The youngster he believed in me, and he remains a Q&A lets elders sound UCG elder reports on was Ian Boyne, sponsor. [Investor] Michael Lee- and at the age Chin, Aubyn Hill with NCB [Na- off, ask the hard ones recent general conference of 18 he was tional Commercial Bank], Robert interviewing Levy of Jamaica Broilers [a group of By Dixon Cartwright By Dixon Cartwright the likes of Rex agriculture-related companies] and he question-and-answer session during the IG SANDY, Texas—In May 2009 Ellis Stewart Nettleford, Earl Moore of Guardian Life [an in- United Church of God’s general conference of of Big Sandy, a longtime Church of God mem- Peter Abra- surance company] have also been of elders in early May 2009 gave the several hun- ber and current member and elder of the United crucial help as sponsors.” T B hams and John dred men in the audience the Church of God, attended the UCG’s annual general Thus, by dint of perseverance, Maxwell for Ian Boyne chance to ask questions. conference of elders for the umpteenth time. cover stories Profile is now in its 22nd year and Some of their queries, direct- Mr. Stewart, 77, came away in the paper’s Xaymaca magazine. widely acknowledged as “the inspi- ed to the 12-man council of from the meetings in Cincinnati, Mr. Boyne had always been fasci- ration hour” by its audience. elders, were pointed and appar- Ohio, encouraged and confident nated by clinical psychology and as Positive audience ently difficult to answer. that the church is doing a good a journalist at the then Jamaica Elder Bill Bradford of Bris- job of accomplishing its purpose, Broadcasting Corp. (JBC) in 1987 We are continuously reminded bane, Australia, acting as moder- which he sees, naturally enough, proposed to marry both disciplines that bad news sells, so shouldn’t this ator, announced that oral ques- as fulfilling the Great Commis- in the creation of Profile, televised long-running program trumpeting tions from the audience would sion of Matthew 28:19 to make on Sunday afternoons. nothing but positive news be losing follow previously submitted disciples. “I thought maybe I could use the listenership? Bob Dick written queries. Several interviews in this media to help us to have greater con- The latest Don Anderson media “The council, under the direc- newspaper with Mr. Stewart, fidence in ourselves,” he says. survey (March 2009) has exploded tion of our moderator and chairman, Mr. Bob Dick, Ellis Stewart who lives here with his wife of “Countries like Japan and other this myth. will answer the questions or apportion the questions 55 years, Pat, have touched on Asian states which had been viewed In fact, Ian Boyne’s Profile has out to the members on the panel according to his own matters pertaining to the UCG.