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November - December 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel

Craig White
BSA Board Member

Craig White currently holds a Project Manager position. His educational qualifications include: MA in Political Science; Graduate Diploma in Education; BA in Urban and Regional Studies plus numerous other smaller studies.

His uncle told him about the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) and some of its teachings when he was quite young (about 8 years of age) - he never joined but had an interest. He forgot about that until late 1972 when his mother brought home a Plain Truth from a news agency and he experienced a spiritual awakening. There was no Church of God in his home town but he was able to attend the occasional Bible Study held by a WCG minister. In 1976 the first WCG was established in his town and he attended regularly until the WCG went into error.

He organized the first Friends of the Sabbath conference to be held outside of the USA in 1996. Hundreds attended with representation from about 10 groups. Three conferences and a seminar were held in 1997. In addition he set up the Bible Sabbath Association (BSA) in Australia. The Seventh Day Adventists' (SDA) Avondale College has graciously accepted quite a bit of material, published by various Churches of God, for their Ellen G. White Research Center, from Friends of the Sabbath. This friendship resulted in an article by him finding its way into publication in their Signs of the Times magazine.

In 1995 he encouraged cooperation and visiting between members of Churches of God and brought together a pastor of the United Church of God, an International Association, (UCG) and the Church of God (International) elder at a social event for their first ever meeting.

In the following year he arranged for Church of God, Seventh Day pastor, Dr. Richard Cress, to visit the UCG and he spoke at church services (he was on a holiday from the USA). Later that year he arranged for a minister from the Seventh Day Baptists (SDB) who had family connections to the WCG to give a brief presentation at church services. In 1997 he arranged for dinner and a meeting between a UCG pastor and an overseas visiting minister from Church of God (International) and later with a visiting minister from the Global Church of God.

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November - December 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel