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
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