I love to use the phrase “Go to God, He can solve all your problems.” I don't necessarily mean he's going to snap his fingers and it's done, but our Indwelling Spirit will always show us the Right Way to go about things.

Pato tells the people at some of his shows, to “turn off the iPhone, the iPad, the iThis and the iThat and tune into the Father”. Once you do that even for 5 minutes or an hour, you'll realize that everything is gonna be all right. The more I go to God, the more I realize the bigger picture, how things work, how they will work out, how I can make things change for myself or my environment, community etc, by realizing situations of plans a, b and c and acting upon them. So I say “Go to God” because the more you go to God, the more you'll realize you're not alone and He will bring you that Inner Peace and Assurance.

"But the greatest of all methods of problem solving I have learned from Jesus, your Master. I refer to that which he so consistently practices, and which he has so faithfully taught you, the isolation of worshipful meditation. In this habit of Jesus’ going off so frequently by himself to commune with the Father in heaven is to be found the technique, not only of gathering strength and wisdom for the ordinary conflicts of living, but also of appropriating the energy for the solution of the higher problems of a moral and spiritual nature." Paper 160:1.10

The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth

Those who have seen The Light have the responsibility and the great privilege to share it. Why hide your truth because of fear, shame or foolish pride? A world without "Light-Bearers" is a world in darkness. 

A path has no meaning unless you walk it. Your truth will die quickly unless you talk it. As we take a moment to reflect and remember the life our Master lived, we see how He walked the walk and talked the talk. In following His awesome example we can and will make this world a better place. 

I pray that we all find the courage to be truly Spirit-Led as we continue forward on our Journey. 

By Ministers Pato Banton & Antoinette “Roots Dawtah” Hall

1. Through the vehicle of Positive Reggae Music, tour across the USA & other countries Spread the Good News about the Fatherhood of God & the Family of Mankind, while planting the seeds of Advanced Truth on stage, and through all available media channels, like Facebook, Youtube, iTunes, etc. 

“Fans-Friends-Family”  https://www.facebook.com/MinisterPatoBanton 

2. Make The Urantia Book and The Words Of Christ visible & available at our concerts. As well as introducing these beautiful teachings to a new generation of sincere Truth Seekers while encouraging them to create regular study groups and new circles of fraternity.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMp_KOeIBc8

https://www.reverbnation.com/patobantonandthenowgeneration/album/96168-the-words-of-christ-box-set (Free Download)

3. Through Prayer Circles (before or after our concerts) bring our fans of diverse religious beliefs together in Spiritual Unity, while at the same time encouraging and enabling spiritual motivation and regeneration. Openly (public service) and discretely (secret service) minister to the real needs of our brothers and sisters through Loving Service whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV-SIGFOfIo&spfreload=10

4. Host Global Urantia Gatherings in the UK, Africa,  Japan, Taiwan, Korea and the USA to expand the “readership” & encourage the “leadership” in those regions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRS2CilI3vQ&t=50s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ys1rAKNiM&t=239s 

5. Host a weekly Urantia Study Group every Monday at 6pm PST at our home in Lake Elsinore, California and also make this study session available to people worldwide through the ZOOM video conferencing tool. You can join us here: https://zoom.us/j/481726366 

6. Establish a Global Network of Ministers for Christ Michael with the hope of inspiring a new generation of Spiritual Teachers who will continue the work our Master originally desired to implement 2000 years ago, while at the same time establishing a support network of Ministry designed to provide the ministerial needs and services of the people within our local communities.

7. EDUCATION: 

a) School Outreach to inspire young people and children of all ages through music and motivational speaking. 

b) Creative Curriculum and specific educational courses for new readers to enable and assist them in demonstrating their growing understanding of The Urantia Book. So far we have completed the following online courses:

Course 1. Ambassadors for Our Father’s Kingdom ~ Completed

Course 2. Followers Of Christ Michael ~ Completed. 

Course 3. A Journey Into Spiritual Growth ~ Completed.   

Course 4. Followers Of Christ Michael II ~ Completed.   

c) Provide Ongoing Support for “New Readers” of The Urantia Book 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Urantia101/ 

d) Progressive Families is a free counseling service that is provided to young people and their parents to resolve personal conflicts and issues arising in the home. The main goal is to inspire each member of the family to become more personally responsible for their role in creating a progressive and peaceful home environment and to help them bring more Spirituality & Teamwork into their Home Life . 

For updates on our Spiritual Mission, future events and to become a part of Our Spiritual Family, please join us here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/MinisterPatoBanton/ 

To Donate to our growing global outreach efforts please go here:
https://www.paypal.me/MinisterPatoBanton

Or send a check directly to: Edentia Inc.
16738 Lakeshore Drive #H120 

Lake Elsinore, CA 92530

(Tax Receipts available upon request)

( Pato Banton is an Ordained Minister for Christ Michael, Certified Counselor, Under Shepherd and BrotherFriend to ALL. If you ever need personal support or spiritual guidance, you can message him on Facebook, email: ministerpatobanton@gmail.com, or you can text or call him directly at 001-323-877-6502 and all his “personal” services are free! )

Spiritual Family 1 God

New Wineskins ● By Dave Kantor

Over the years there have been a number of conversations within the readership about starting a church or trying to start a Urantia religion of some sort. Groups in Oklahoma City, Boulder, Marin County, and other places actually formed church-like communities that served local readers for a while and then disappeared. On several occasions a considerable amount of money was spent on these projects.

This article contends that a distinctly Urantia religion has been evolving since the publication of the book in 1955. It is not only alive and well but is thriving and experiencing rapid growth. Urantia religion has been largely unrecognized because we're all subjectively immersed in it.

Let's go back to the point where the ship was still moored to the dock.

How we got The Fellowship

According to Bill Sadler, the revelators suggested that some sort of social organization be created for readers of the book. They specifically suggested something simple and were clear that they did not want to see a competing sect or denomination emerge. They said it would be a good idea to have something just to occupy the social space, to prevent someone else from doing it.

At the time—the 1950s—the most respectable social institution was the church. Local churches were the social hubs of most communities and even cities. If you didn't go to church on Sunday, there was something suspicious about you. In many places it was difficult to conduct business if you were not associated with a church. So the Sadlers set about researching social structures and came up with a model based on that of the Presbyterian church.

When the Sadlers presented their plan to the revelators they were told, "Well, if that's the best you can do, go ahead with it." The organizational structure of the Fellowship today was thus derived from a church model highly respected in the 1950s.

But not to despair! As the ship began to pull away from the dock the initial elements of what would become a radical new form of religious institution began to fall into place. As limited as it was, the Fellowship constitution provided a sufficient foundation enabling the readership to begin coalescing around a structure which would evolve into a 21st century networked religion.

The first nodes in the network were Societies in Chicago, Oklahoma City, and Los Angeles. In the 1950s the links between the nodes were tenuous—personal visits, written letters sent by mail, phone calls, and face-to-face meetings at occasional conferences. Each of these nodes spawned local subnetworks made up of regional study groups and served as local communication hubs.

Over the following two decades additional Society nodes began to appear along with the first nodes to develop outside of North America. The 1980s saw increasing struggles between a networked religion beginning to reach out to the world and the central node in Chicago struggling to maintain proprietary control over a growing readership increasingly motivated to share the revelation with the world.

Primary Elements of Urantia Religion

At this point we can already see the two primary elements of Urantia religion:

• 1. An evangelical drive to share the revelation with the world—service and outreach.
• 2. A desire to gather with other readers to study and share the exploration of the book—expanding the fellowship of God-knowing kingdom believers.

Urantia religion is unique in that its core religious elements are derived from a desire to socialize personal spiritual experience, rather than being based on specific beliefs, doctrines, rituals, or anything else that characterizes religion in the larger culture.

By the 1990s the sheltered bays of established tradition began to recede into the horizon as the copyright was put into the public domain concomittant with the spread of the Internet and the growing number of translations being published. The Internet provided the basis for a grass-roots movement to spring up simultaneously from many parts of the world—another unprecedented development in the history of religion.

The Urantia movement is the first major religious movement to be spawned in the age of the Internet. And just as Guttenburg's printing press drove the transformation of European civilization by making Bibles, tracts, and books available to an increasingly literate population, so is the Internet driving an unprecedented global social transformation, providing a vehicle through which the fifth epochal revelation is beginning to enhance spiritual perspectives in virtually every country on the planet.

In the early decades of the Internet the text of the book spread into every part of the world which had connections to the Internet. But as the 21st century got underway it was the development of social media that became the key element driving both revelation dissemination and the rapid growth of Urantia religion. Readers found themselves wanting to be involved in spreading the revelation and sharing its content; the Internet provided an ideal means for them to do so.

The Internet and social media provide the technological foundation for Urantia religion. Recall the two primary elements of Urantia religion identified earlier – dissemination and study. Urantia religion has become highly networked. There are now thousands of nodes in the network with more appearing almost daily. Each node catalyzes the sharing of information, communication between individuals, sharing within groups, and the building of diverse social communities.

The social media domain is seeing the emergence of new Urantia institutions whose structures have been designed to exploit Internet technologies. Urantia University, Perfecting Horizons Institute, Cosmic Citizen, Symmetry of Soul, Urantia Book Films, Truthbook, UrantiaNow, Square Circles, online Skype study groups—these are just a few of the reader-initiated expressions of Urantia religion.

Social media is also providing a basis for the emergence of online ministries which extend Urantia religion's dissemination thrust. Pato's "Followers of Christ Michael" study group, ministries being developed by Richard Stinson and Dave Jesusonian, God's Gumshoe, Dick Bain's service to Christians, Bill Rocap's Urantia group—along with dozens of other readers hosting online groups whose membership numbers in the thousands—these constitute the most vital nodes in networked Urantia religion, a religion that is spreading globally, rapidly. Social media is the environment to which new readers are drawn when they want to find out more about The Urantia Book.

What is networked religion?

One of the foremost researchers in this newly emerging field is Dr. Heidi Campbell of Texas A&M University. She comments that, "Central to the idea of networked religion is that religious practice emerges within a distinctive social sphere constructed of networked interactions. Networked religious communities function quite differently than traditional religious institutions and structures. Rather than operating as tightly bounded social structures, they function as loose social networks with varying levels of religious affiliation and commitment.

"The study of online religious community shows that, rather than living in a single static religious community, people in contemporary society increasingly live in religious social networks that are emergent, varying in depth, fluid, and highly personalized. The Internet challenges the role that religion traditionally has played in the process of socialization into an accepted religious belief and community."

Dr. Campbell lists five characteristics of networked religion in her article, Understanding the Relationship between Religion Online and Offline in a Networked Society, published in the March 2012 issue of Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The article expands these five elements. A copy is available via the link at the bottom of this document. I urge you to read it.

Characteristics of Networked Religion

• 1. Convergent Practice
  • —Personalized blending of information and rituals.
  • —Internet serves as a spiritual hub allowing people to assemble and personalize religious behavior and belief.
  • —Tension: Offering guidance and instruction to people who draw spiritual wisdom and practices from multiple sources and traditions.
• 2. Multi-site Reality
  • —Online and offline religious activities inform and shape each other.
  • —Tension: Offline contexts increasingly no longer serve as primary source for spiritual connections and knowledge.
• 3. Networked Community
  • —Loosely-bounded social networks.
• 4. Storied Identity
  • —Fluid and dynamic identity construction.
  • —Identity is constructed and performed online, encouraging malleable self-presentations.
  • —Tension: Religious identity becomes flexible and highly personalized, impacting wider understandings of what it means to be Christian.
• 5. Shifting Authority
  • —Simultaneous individual empowerment and challenge of traditional authority as bloggers, content creators, webmasters, and group administrators replace clergy on the front lines of religious development.

This, as I see it, is the current state of Urantia religion—a religion which has evolved around the dissemination of the revelation and the development of reader communities.

The Urantia Book is part of a much greater social transformation taking place in the world that is being driven by a rapid sequence of technological changes profoundly impacting human communications and modes of interaction, both of which are intimately tied to Urantia religion.

Urantia religion is a robust expression of a new religious phenomena—networked religion. It is a collective expression of countless readers mobilized by an epochal revelation, led by the Spirit of Truth. Urantia religion not only is alive and well, but is thriving and experiencing explosive growth completely outside the domain of traditional institutional structures. It is far more healthy and viable as an organic product of evolution than anything we could design or fabricate from our limited experience, idealism, and zeal.

The concept of networked religion presents a radically new paradigm which must be understood and embraced if we're to optimize our ability to propagate the revelation and foster emerging Urantia religion.

Highly Recommended:

• Dr. Heidi Campbell's article, Understanding the Relationship between Religion Online and Offline in a Networked Society
• What do we do Now? Examples and background on how the locus of dissemination has shifted from Urantia institutions to the networked readership

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She said to him in the final scenes, "love is the strongest force in the universe it can take down governments." He hesitated to give the pearl to the alien race because he said he was a soldier first and it wasn't for him to decide.

It was the ultimate power he held in his hands that would give a whole race the power to rebuild their original peaceful planet. She said that it was no one but they who had to make that decision to hand over ultimate creative power in a gesture of love and trust.

She said that if he cannot then make a decision from love, she had to end their relationship. He said after a thoughtful pause, that he would trust her and gave the pearl to them. In Him was also the Soul of the Princess of this race, but in the end it was his HUMAn Choice to make the decision trusting Love universal love as the right way. It was.

The movie mimicked the Urantia Book in so many ways. But Eden my son said he  never saw a better movie that showed the equality between  a Man a Woman as this example of their's was.  The Male and Female combination of a loving relationship is one of the strongest in the universe......forever.  Amen

Director Wandira Ramathan

Article by Keren Carter

To friends and family and to the international community:-  I would like to introduce you all to one of our UGANDA Orphanages, MYDA - an organzation directed by Wandira Ramathan.  We have been working with MYDA for some months now, providing basic needs such as water, food, shirts, and a few other items too such as a mattress for their little disabled child.  Paul Kemp,, of Nova Scotia, saw what we were doing here and has very kindly set up this Web Page to invite the International Community who have been wanting to help out at Grass Roots level, but have been unsure as to know where to start. 

My desire was to feed and clothe needy orphans, and for 100% of  our donations to reach the children.  And would this be too much to ask?  I really didn't think so.  So I decided to contact Wandira myself.  And this is exactly what we have achieved.  I am looking at another monthly food donation of NZD100.00 to feed 42 children.  Here is the breakdown.  Posh (Corn Maize) 100kgs NZD47.00, Beans 40kgs is NZD44.00 -total NZD91.00 plus the fee that I have to allow for is $5.00, the rest is exchange rate variations to NZD100.00 and with this amount, we always seem to have enough.   

Sometimes we have enough to buy onions and tomatos.  Wandira provides them with shelter, milk and when it's not too dry vegetables.  The currency in Uganda is UGX or Ugandan Shillings.  Wandira always sends me photos of the purchases with the children and he also sends me receipts.  WANDIRA, it has been a real pleasure to work with you young man, taking care of these little ones.  I herein invite our Human Race family to share in our joy.  MOM (MY ORPHAN MINISTRY) is now going public because together we can achieve great things. 

Please Share.  THANK YOU.

In the love of truth and in the creation of Beauty the Father and the Son are equal except that the Son appears to devote himself more to the realization of the exclusively spiritual beauty of universal values. 6:2.7

Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty. 0:1.17 http://www.urantiabook.org/newbook/papers/p000.htm

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