Greetings from Charlotte,
Longtime elder Mr. Jim Arnaldo died April 13 at the age of 92. He served for a time in New Brunswick, Canada, but mostly in the New England states. He was known by many and was presented with a Pastor Emeritus award last year. We received good news on Monday that the Thai visa applications for our three Thailand-bound Living Education students have been approved after being previously turned down. This is a great relief to our Thai Foundation and to our students. Feast of Tabernacles registration opens this Sunday at noon, Eastern time. Please see the announcement below. We are to do all things decently and in order, so please do not make housing arrangements until informed to do so, as this can create problems with housing establishments and violates the law of outgoing concern for others. Dr. Scott Winnail traveled last week to visit congregations in France and Belgium. I recorded a telecast this week titled “Will God Heal Me?” and offered the booklet Does God Heal Today?
—Gerald E. Weston
Church Administration
Tomorrow’s World Presentations
Last week, we held five initial presentations, three follow-up presentations, and one online presentation. These presentations drew a total of 40 in-person guests. This week, we will hold initial presentations in Fargo, North Dakota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Truro, England, United Kingdom, as well as follow-up events in Dothan and Montgomery, Alabama; Reno, Nevada; and Roseville, California. We will also hold one “Presentation Series” event in Rice Lake, Minnesota. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support for the Tomorrow’s World Presentations.
Holy Day Package Recipients: Disposing of Old FedEx Shipping Labels
If you have any remaining FedEx shipping labels from a Holy Day package, please dispose of them. This should be the standard practice after each Holy Day if a label was not used. They are not prepaid, so this will not incur any cost to the Church. However, using them at a later date can lead to many complications and expenses that are otherwise avoided. If there is a need for a new shipping label, you can contact Headquarters and easily be sent a replacement.
2026 Living for Tomorrow Event
Sign up now for this year’s L4T! We’ll be back at the Blowing Rock Conference Center in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, near Grandfather Mountain. This event will begin on Friday evening, May 29, and conclude at noon on Sunday, May 31. If you’re a young adult, aged 18–30, you don’t want to miss this opportunity to meet other young adults who want to learn more about living a successful, godly life. We expect to have approximately 40 people together for the weekend, which will include Sabbath services, learning activities, and fun! The cost is $144, which covers all accommodations and meals for the weekend. To register and pay, just use this link: https://bit.ly/L4T-2026. If you have any questions, contact Mr. Jonathan McNair at [email protected].
Second Passover—Repeat Announcement
The Second Passover this year is on Friday, May 1, which means that it will be observed on Thursday evening, April 30, shortly after sunset. This Passover is for those baptized members who were unable to take the first Passover due to unavoidable circumstances, as instructed in Numbers 9:1–14. If you have any questions, please contact your pastor.
Feast of Tabernacles
Transfer Requests for the Feast
If you request to transfer out of your assigned site, please be prepared to be on a waitlist, especially if you are requesting to transfer to a site with limited capacity. We try very hard to accommodate the higher-priority transfer requests first. These include health, financial, service, and family considerations. While spending the Feast with longtime and close friends is a wonderful blessing, we cannot weigh these requests as highly as those previously listed. Please consider attending your assigned site at least once every three years.
Feast Webpages Now Live—Repeat Announcement
The 2026 Festival site webpages are now live! All LCG brethren and Feast guests can access the Feast site write-ups at https://fot2026.lcg.org.
Feast Registration April 26— Repeat Announcement
The 2026 Feast of Tabernacles general registration is quickly approaching! General registration is scheduled for April 26 at 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time, USA). Please take the time to log in to your MyLCG account before then to make sure you know your PIN and password. If you do not have Internet access and need help getting Feast information, contact your local congregation’s Festival Advisor. If you don’t know who your Festival Advisor is, please contact your local Pastor.
Note to Festival Advisors: Please print out and distribute to brethren who need them the site descriptions and registration forms in preparation for Feast registration. You can find these documents by going to https://cogl.org, signing in to your MyLCG account, and clicking the “Registration” button under the “Feast of Tabernacles” banner. Log in to the registration system using your MyLCG credentials, then click the “Advisor Access” link. Alternatively, you can go directly to the Feast registration system at https://fotreg.cogl.org/, log in using your MyLCG credentials, and click the “Advisor Access” link.
Festival Registration Problems: Status May Need to Be Updated—Repeat Announcement
Attention Pastors: One of the most common technical difficulties people have in registering for the Feast occurs when their status has not been updated in the Church’s files. For example, those listed as a “Coworker” or “Subscriber” in the Headquarters database will not be able to register. Only those listed as a “Prospective Member” or “Member” can register for the Feast. Please look over your area’s member lists and let us know if anyone’s status needs to be changed. This could especially apply to those who have recently started attending with us. We need the pastor’s notification to change anyone’s status, so please send U.S. status updates to [email protected], or, if outside the U.S., to your Regional Office.
If You Have Questions About the Feast
Knowing who to ask when you have questions about the Feast can be helpful. In general, you should first ask your local Festival Advisor any questions that you may have pertaining to the Feast. If he cannot help, then you should contact the Festival Coordinator. Any questions that he cannot answer can of course be directed to Headquarters at [email protected]. Please note that for U.S. Festival sites, the transfer approval process is handled at Headquarters; any questions regarding transfers to U.S. Festival sites should be directed to the Festival email.
Living Youth Program
LYC Texas 2026
Camp is coming soon! All campers should have received their acceptance packet some time ago, and staff packets have been sent out this week. Please review the information packet that was included in your acceptance email carefully, as it contains a number of important instructions. There is also a lot of other helpful information in the packet. If you have any questions about any of the paperwork, please contact Mrs. Jenny Penman by email at [email protected] or phone at 704-708-2283. If you need to cancel your application, please do so online at http://camp.livingyouth.org or by emailing Mrs. Penman. If you have questions about camp operations, just send a note to Mr. Jonathan McNair at [email protected].
Living Youth Adventure Camp—Repeat Announcement
We will be hiking and kayaking through the beautiful wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains. Registration closes May 1 for both campers and staff. Slots are filling quickly, so if you are thinking about joining us, please register now. Visit https://camp.livingyouth.org for more information and to register.
Living Youth Pre-Teen Camps—Repeat Announcement
Summer is just around the corner and Pre-Teen Camp registration is open for the Missouri, Texas, and West Virginia Pre-Teen Camps! If you have children ages 8–12, be sure to fill out the application for the camp that best fits your needs. You can apply by visiting https://camp.livingyouth.org. There you will also find the dates and locations of the camps. Applying now greatly helps the planning process! We look forward to seeing you at camp!
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Satan’s Deceptive Devices: God raised up His Church to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (Mark 16:15), to warn the world of a coming judgment (Matthew 24:1–22), and to prepare a people to reign with Jesus Christ (Luke 1:17). Throughout history, Satan has attempted to disrupt the work of the Church by using misguided individuals to cause division and spread rumors and false doctrines (1 Corinthians 1:10–13; Galatians 1:6–9). Satan’s goal has not changed. We are in a spiritual war with a cunning adversary (Ephesians 6:10–20), and he is still using the same devices (2 Corinthians 2:11). This is why the Apostle Paul urged the early Church to be “perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 1:10) and to “hold the traditions which you were taught” (2 Thessalonians 2:15). Peter warned that we must be alert and able to recognize and resist Satan’s efforts to thwart the Work of God with his deceptive devices—and that we must avoid becoming instruments in Satan’s hands (1 Peter 5:6–9).
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail
News and Prophecy
Can Humanity Accomplish Anything It Desires? Last month, Jeff Bezos hosted Amazon’s yearly “MARS” conference (Euronews, March 26, 2026), aiming to bring together scientists and firms working on space-related projects. One presentation was given by a start-up company researching rocket engine design. This team of British scientists “has achieved what they say is the first-ever plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket engine—a huge step that could one day make trips across the solar system, and to Mars, much faster.”
Scientists have sought sustainable nuclear fusion for over a century, and many think that the cold environment in which spacecraft operate could help them overcome longstanding challenges. “The team successfully created plasma—an intensely hot, electrically charged state of matter, often described as the fourth state of matter—using electric and magnetic fields inside its experimental and early prototype ‘Sunbird fusion exhaust system’.” A functioning engine of this type could deliver 1,000 times the thrust of a conventional rocket engine and reach speeds 20 times that of the recent Artemis II spacecraft—potentially cutting the journey from Earth to Mars from a few months to a few weeks!
God created us with incredible creative and problem-solving capacity. If humans cooperate with one another and are given enough time, “nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them” (Genesis 11:6). Yet history teaches us the consequences of man’s ambition and creativity apart from God’s laws, instruction, and loving guidance. Jesus warned that “unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved” (Matthew 24:22). Thankfully, those days will be shortened by Jesus Christ’s return. You can learn more by reading or listening to Armageddon and Beyond.
Reading Time Is Quality Time: When parents, grandparents, and others read to children, it helps them develop beyond just learning to read. According to neuropsychologist Laura Phillips, “Just exposure to words is the single most important thing that you can do to help build the language pathways in your child’s brain…. Reading and exposure to words helps kids maximize their language and cognitive capacity” (Child Mind Institute, December 12, 2025). Studies have found that children whose parents read to them daily may enter kindergarten having heard, potentially, more than a million words more than a child whose parents did not. Further, “the more words that are in a child’s language world, the more words they will learn, and the stronger their language skills are when they reach kindergarten, the more prepared they are to be able to read, and the better they read, the more likely they will graduate from high school” (PBS.org, June 24, 2014).
Reading to children promotes their cognitive development, enhances their preparation for academic success, increases their ability to concentrate, and teaches them discipline (All For Kids, March 11, 2025). Cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand; it is “the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood” (HealthOfChildren.com).
On several occasions, Jesus challenged His audience with questions starting with “Have you not read” (Matthew 12:3, 5; 19:4; 22:31). If you are looking to answer in the affirmative, you can start reading to your children from the Bible and supplementing your study with the Tomorrow’s World Bible Study Course. —Scott Winnail and Richard Franz