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***** END OF YEAR MESSAGE ***** Fellow Urantians, brothers and sisters!

I bring you warm greetings wherever you are and congratulate you upon coming to an end of this year, which has been a very difficult one for many of us. I thank God for the gift of life. It is not something to take for granted, that those of us who are alive today have that opportunity. I send deepest condolences and sympathies to all members who have lost loved ones this year and pray that those who are sick will have a quick and full recovery.

As we come to the end of the year, my message will focus on three issues: 1. A MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE Let me take this opportunity to send deep gratitude to all brothers who continue to support the FER ASCENDERS Fellowship community Kaliro Urantia Book ministry. As we all know, at the start of the year, we had continuous lockdowns. Many of our brothers lost jobs, got sick, ran short of food and other difficulties, like failure to pay rents. As I write this, we still have hundreds of our members in different places across the country who are facing difficulties getting what to eat and shelter. There are several other comrades who have lost limbs in this period/ year while many others are limping. I want to salute EVERYONE who has made any form of sacrifice in order to support us in such difficulties and advance the teachings of Christ and love of God. Our brothers and sisters in the Europe, Asia, USA, Canada, and the rest of the world, I THANK YOU. Thank you for knocking on doors, speaking out, organising fundraisings, and supporting the missionaries with logistics and other related support. Thank you all for the tireless efforts.

Even after lockdowns and many of us proved so weak and disappointing, many of you could have felt discouraged. But I am thankful to all of you who have not given up on us. I want to thank, in a special way, all our brothers outside Uganda who continue to support our missionary projects in different ways. The individuals, the artists who have been raising voices to inspire thousands, the international spiritual family network which has continued to shine a light of hope to all missionaries and all those who have contributed in one way or another, THANK YOU. I thank the millions of people in the UB Family who send us prayers and messages of encouragement. THANK YOU

2. THE PROGRESS OF FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY. Many people might be wondering how the true gospel is possible in outreach in FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA stands. Let me use this message to once again affirm to all our BROTHERS AND SISTERS that the outreach of the New Revelations is in the favor of the people of Urantia family. All members of the Urantia Family have given what they can to support the ministry. Yes, who have many difficulties as Ugandans and has continued to move through such hardships. But we still stand strong as we used to be. Our greatest achievement so far, has been standing sttong even when there are reasons to give up. The whole world now knows that Uganda has got this gift of the new revelations. This is so important.

Secondly, the members of FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA are now more awakened and ready to work together to create a joint effort towards the progress and outreach of the UB knowledge. I am proud in seeing the growth and development of FER ASCENDERS Fellowship community from a group to an organization of 740 members, young and old much more interested in the outreach of the true message. Establishment of an organization registered as Urantia Book Fellowship and based on the outreach of the true gospel is not and has never been easy anywhere in Uganda. And those who have managed to do it earlier have registered as savings, development association but thank God that we shall be the first to register as an organization based on the outreach of the true gospel. I thank everyone who has contributed to the achievements registered this year.

We may not have gotten our ultimate goal yet, but I want to assure everyone that we are on the right trajectory. If each one of us makes a commitment to do twice as much as we have done this year in this effort, we shall all be amazed at what we shall achieve. I say all this, well knowing that God is on our side.

3. UNITY/ TEAM WORK. After the first step towards the establishment of FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA and calls for help we have raised as individuals, group and family; these have been calls for food help, rents, medical, clothing and ministerial requirements, I read with dismay several comments on social media about same issues. While most are sponsored or posted by people with a clearly destructive agenda, others are posted by people with genuine intentions, but who clearly do not have the full picture. Some people made it a point to accusing us leaders, arguing that perhaps if we are united we would be able to help ourselves out of such dilemma.

First of all, WE are really Many and loving but all Cannot speak at the same time. We are many but we all have special disability each of us with a point to seek for help. We have tried to set up different projects like; The giving hand, Jesus’5000 FARM AND Gifts to our Father’s Orphanage. All these have not gotten funds to support and have not yielded good.

Away from that, I wish to remind all Urantia Family members that the FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA is an organization established to outreach the teachings of the UB to the most local communities and to marginalized group of people especially those who are ignored like; the blind, crippled and Many others in the best way found appropriate. We teach them the love and will of God as expressed by Jesus in Part IV of the UB.

When we formed the FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA, we brought together all members who had received the UBs in their groups with all shades of opinion. This is because in our principle we believe that all Urantia Book readers will need to come together and forge a way forward towards a New Urantia. The challenge has always been the dishonesty in some cases and inconsistency in other cases. Some actors have clearly placed personal interest ahead of the general interests. There are many lessons we have learnt in trying to forge this unity, most of which we do not make public, because giving certain details can easily lead to further mistrust and suspicion. For a certain period of time before the creation of FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA , we sat in several meetings with local leaders, UB group leaders and comrades within different formations. Our view was that we needed to tackle all our challenges with a single hand, strong hands so that we would then scatter our energies across the country in trying to promote UB knowledge all over. As we were starting up, we requested every hand available for help but of our brothers who contacted, were not happy with what we decided to start they were strong pillars and part of some churches.

Some of these people were UB members, but felt that if we had registered UB based organization, we would take over their space in UB family. You can imagine! While we are busy fighting to create a strong base for the UB knowledge outreach, some actors were very comfortable with their positions! As everyone can see, this is information that we normally get and decide to keep with ourselves, but I thought it is important to share it so that the people of UB family understand the dynamics at play, and place the most trust in the rightful people.

No one else has potential to speak about such since many have kept on saying all is well. Of course not all actors within the Family have this negative attitude. There are very many decent, clear-headed individuals whose objective is to see the progress of the UB in Uganda. With all these setbacks, we have not given up on unity, but our view remains that the most important unity will have to come from the people of the UB family, and not just individuals. Of course, we continue to engage with all Ugandans, be it political leaders or not, on the urgent need to deliver ourselves from the crisis and enslavement which we face. This coming year, we must make a conscious decision to work together as comrades because the alternative would be to resign ourselves to a terrible fate which we don’t wish to. In the coming year, each one of us should simply double his or her effort while trusting in God. I wish to report to you that we have progressed and our family has expanded to 740 members and we are in the registration process. Happy New Year to you all. God bless you. GUMPI ANDREW COHEN. DIRECTOR FER ASCENDERS FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY UGANDA @ KALIRO