May 18, 2021

Dear Consociates,

We are pleased to invite you to take part in a special event we will be hosting this year for all Consociates of The Community throughout the world.

Next year – 2022 – we will hold a full, in-person Convocation during the time of Pentecost, which we celebrate each year on June 6th. This year – 2021 – we have created a virtual program that will begin on Sunday, June 6th, to commemorate the spiritual heritage of Pentecost.

In the early Church that originated out of the Essene communities, Pentecost was a time of regeneration and revitalization for the Community that signified the annual renewal of the Covenant. In a similar state of gratitude, peace and love, we will be able to participate together in the Divine Service on June 6, 2021, at one with God and the cosmos. The Book of God’s Revelation records the importance of this date in the Sacred Calendar of the Second Advent Church: In 1982 Revelations were received atop the Temple Mount on Divine Law and on the building of the Shrine of God’s Waters.

It is always important to reconnect with the Center, with others from around the world, and with our Prophecies and Teachings. And so we welcome this event as an important moment to connect, reconnect, and fuse together all members of Cosolargy International. In this era of an emerging new dimension of Consciousness, there is a power in the Liturgics and the Liturgy we perform in Community, aligned with the spiritual Forces of Light, to serve as an antidote to the influence of Dark Powers.

You can take part in this year’s conference by:

* visiting the Cosolargy Forum page on Facebook on June 6th to watch the “State of The Community” presentation live or by visiting the page at your convenience later to watch the recorded version and to see further announcements on the conference.
* attending the Zoom conference hosted in North America on June 12th at 2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time.
* sending in questions for discussion that you may have on the “State of The Community” presentation or on concepts of Cosolargy which you would like to hear more about.

Below please find the schedule for our virtual conference:

June 6

Sunrise Divine Service
Breakfast at the Sanctuary
“State of The Community” address by Bishop Gene at the Monastery Gardens

June 12
Zoom meeting at 2:00 PM PDT

Prerecorded videos from our Center in Northern Nevada:
Sanctuary tour
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Sanctuary guest suite
Gene Savoy, Sr. Heritage Museum
Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center

Live Q&A on “State of The Community” address

Live Q&A on Cosolargy concepts

Prerecorded “Hello from Japan” with Bishop Yukinori and video footage of a sunrise service, the Center in Japan, and members of the Japanese Community

Prerecorded video of property in Mexico & live greeting from Humberto Garcia

Live greetings from international Consociates participating in the Zoom meeting

If you are not already registered on the Cosolargy Forum, go to the Facebook page and request to join the group before June 6th. You will receive notification from the forum administrator, Harold Boulette, when you are registered.

To take part in the live Zoom conference on June 12th, click on the link to the meeting which you will receive by email shortly before the conference is scheduled to begin.

Your active participation has a profound meaning beyond words. Your presence will enhance the forces that have activated and motivated our Community for many decades. We look forward to seeing you!

Yours, most sincerely,

Reverend Francine Petrovich
Conference Coordinator

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The second part will be a live Zoom session on June 12th at 2:00 PM (PDT). The session will include several pre-recorded videos. At this time, the list of planned video presentations includes:

• A photographic tour of Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary.
• A tour of the newly repaired Cathedral Church of the Americas.
• A tour of the Sanctuary guest suite that is under remodel.
• A visit to the Gene Savoy, Sr. Museum.
• A video about our Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center.
• A video from our Communuty in Japan.
• A tour of our property on the Gulf of California in Baja California.

You will be able to submit questions on the State of The Community address and on the concepts of Cosolargy that staff members can address during the live Zoom session. If you wish to submit a question, just reply to this email, or use the contact form on the Cosolargy website.

If you haven’t already, please let us know if you will be able to attend the live Zoom session on June 12th at 2:00 PM (PDT), so that we can send you the links for the Zoom session.

If you have never used zoom, click here to view a video on how to join a Zoom session.

And last, click here to practice joining a zoom meeting.

Francine Petrovich

Convocation Coordinator

Will you attend this seminar? Yes Select No Select Maybe Select

Due to the ongoing COVID restrictions, we cannot hold a normal Convocation this year, so we are doing a short virtual one instead.

This conference will consist of prerecorded videos broadcast over the Facebook Cosolargy Forum on June 6th, which you can watch at your convenience, and additional recorded videos plus one or two live broadcasts using Zoom on June 12th. You will be able to submit questions that staff members can address during the live Zoom session. Subjects will include a State of the Church message, a tour of the Cathedral and the repairs being done to it, a visit to the Gene Savoy, Sr. Museum, and more. We will send out another message soon with details. Please let us know if you will be able to attend this event on June 12th at 2:00 PM (PDST), so that we can help personalize your experience.

If you have never used zoom, click here to view a video on how to join a Zoom session.

Click here for another one.

And last, click here to practice joining a zoom meeting.

Francine Petrovich

Convocation Coordinator

In May 2019 Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. and Reno Community members Noriko and Robert Roy traveled to Japan to visit members of the staff at the Community Center in Kurume, Fukuoka and Bishop Yukinori Matsushita at his Tokyo office. In September a follow-up training seminar was held at the Center in Reno, Nevada. The seminar grew from being for Japan Community members only to a global training seminar. This interview tells how it happened.

Communique Editor: What prompted the May trip to Japan initially? Why did you go at this time?

Gene: Well, the regular schedule is to go every two years. A small group from Reno generally goes every other May. This trip was already planned. Yuki and I talked about it while he was here in Reno during the 2018 Convocation. It was just time for me to go again.

Communique Editor: What was different about the trip this year compared to previous years?

Gene: Well, Noriko, as our intermediary between us here in the United States and the Community in Japan, started finding out there were some organizational problems people were having in Japan, and it was based on her concern that the trip turned into something like a reorganizing visit to delve into what their procedures were. And for me to help with this, it was necessary for me to meet with each member of the core group individually, one on one, to get a better understanding of who they are and what their talents are.

Communique Editor: What became the real purpose of the trip? What was the theme of the presentations you delivered?

Gene: Well, the trip followed a scheduled agenda during the first week when we were at the Center in Kurume, Fukuoka. The main two components, basically, were, first, my one-on-one interviews with every single one of the core group (Keiko Inoue, Eriko Ueno, Shoko Ohba, Yaeno Sanada, Miyuki Okayama, Koshu Kawahara) plus a select number of other people (Junko Yamamori, Yukako Kawaii, and Hiroko Soejima). Then, second, was the workshop, which was going through all of the materials that I took with me that dealt with the inquiry and enrollment process. And we had a General conversation about precepting. The final thing was another set of private meetings with the group in Tokyo.

Communique Editor: Because you did these presentations, and all of this extensive activity, how did that affect the attendance for our convocation in September?

Gene: Oh, I think it increased the number of people coming because of the promise of an operations seminar. The trip to Japan was phase one. Phase two was the training, the actual training, in September, and then, possibly, a followup trip sometime within the next six months after September. So it may be that some of us will be going back again in the Spring.

Communique Editor: What was the focus of the seminar?

Gene: Having a seminar to actually train people to do what we do here at the Center in Reno is, I think, very significant. We have never before authorized preceptors outside of the Reno Center. We’ve got recorded, on video and in transcripts, all of the components from handling inquiries to precepting students. So we now have a template of how we do these things.

Communique Editor: And so what are the expectations after the training that will be given during the Convocation this year?

Gene: That the staff at the Center in Kurume will basically run Cosolargy International in Japan the way we run things here in Reno, the way we use our systems and procedures, for the most part. It also became very clear that because they do no precepting, they lose a lot of students at a pretty rapid rate. That affects finances, which means that they struggle, and the core people are putting extra money in to keep things afloat.

Communique Editor: Any other developments you are looking forward to?

Gene: The September training seminar during Convocation was originally planned to be just for our Japanese staff members. But we had Paul Young from Australia, and Humberto Garcia from Mexico, and Shawn Smith from Africa who took part in the seminar. They will each be acting as some of our representatives around the world. So it has really become a much grander concept, I think. Truly international. This operations seminar is a new thing. We have never done this before, and it grew out of the trip to Japan, and has now expanded into something different again. It could be the beginning of future training seminars.

Communique Editor: That sounds great. Has anything like this ever been done before?

Gene: The training seminar was the first of its kind in our history. It originated with the trip to Japan. It was going to be just for Japanese, but the idea for the Convocation, in my mind, just expanded. This is the largest convocation we have had, I would say, in a couple of decades. So the training seminar grew from just focusing on the community in Japan to include also Mexico, Australia, and Africa.

Communique Editor: Who took part in the training seminar?

Gene: We have had an established center in Japan for ten years, and that is where the majority of the attendees came from. We are also preparing to create a center that will be in Mexico in the near future. And so we also had in attendance Humberto Garcia, a recently retired professor of physics who has been translating the Academy materials into Spanish over the past couple of years. He hopes to relocate there to our property in Southern Baja within the year. The idea is eventually to have him living on the property in Baja. We did something very similar when we acquired the Sanctuary property. We’ve bought all of this property, and now we have to assign somebody to be there to put down roots. Paul Young is now our official representative of Cosolargy in Australia. And he too was present for training. So was Shawn Smith from Cameroon, Africa.

Communique Editor: How are Community members reacting to this special training seminar? Are they excited?

Gene: I am not even sure that many of the Community members here in the Reno saw this seminar as being significant. They’re not in the meetings where people are struggling in Japan. The Community members in Japan are going through the same thing that we are: How to retain students? How do we better interact with them? How do we answer their questions as they go through the changes that people go through as they apply the System?

Communique Editor: Also, a lot of the people in Reno expected that we would be starting churches. That was the original plan, and now it looks like it is going to be centers of a different kind, not outright churches.

Gene: At least for now. Who knows how those things will work in the future, and even how the Community in Japan is expanding. Because now there is a group in Tokyo.

2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Community in 1959. It also marks the 60th observance of The Child Jamil’s physical birth on March 16, 1959 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Bishop Gene Savoy, Jr. had this to say about the anniversary, “We know from our studies that after receiving three omens in 1948, 1955 and finally in 1956, The Man – Gene Savoy, Sr. – also known in our Community as the First Apostle and Prophet, journeyed to Peru to begin his ministry in 1957. Later that year, in October after a grave illness, he experienced a visitation from an Angelic Being who announced the coming of the Wondrous Child into the world. My father later would realize that the Angelic Being was none other than Jamil himself in angelic form. Nevertheless, while The Man’s ministry began in 1957, the Community was founded with the birth of The Child in 1959. The full story is recounted in Jamil: Child of Light.”

On Saturday, March 16, Bishop Savoy read from The Prophecies of Jamil: Prophecy on the Golden Age of Light and the Nation of Nations. The Candle of Remembrance was also lit during the Communion of Fellowship Service on that day.

Additional celebrations and observances will be held throughout the year, specifically during this year’s Annual Convocation (September 3rd-8th, 2019), which will include readings of the 25th, 26th and 27th Sayings of Jamil — never before published . Discussion of these Sayings will be recorded and compiled in order to help complete the seventh and final volume of The Secret Sayings of Jamil , which is planned to be published later this year.

Humberto Garcia receives Second-Degree ordination at the hand of Bishop gene Savoy Jr. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

During the 2018 Convocation in Reno, Nevada five Consociates received ordination at the hand of Bishop Gene Savoy Jr.

Community members congratulating new ordinands Michele Grief and Crystal White. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

Receiving First-Degree Ordination on September 5, 2018 in the Bishop’s Chambers at the Apostolic Chancellery were Crystal White and Marilyn Taylor. Crystal enrolled in the Academy in July 2014 and entered the Sacred College in September 2017. Marilyn enrolled in the Academy in December 2017 and entered the Sacred College in February 2018.

Marilyn Taylor and Crystal White with Bishop Gene Savoy Jr PHOTO CREDIT: Stephan Fuelling

Receiving Second-Degree Ordination on September 9, 2018 at the open-air Cathedral Church of the Americas were Humberto Garcia, Radheka Patel Savoy, and Michele Grief.

(from left to right) Newly ordained Deacons Humberto Garcia, Noriko Roy, Radheka Patel Savoy, and Michele Grief. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

Humberto received First-Degree Ordination in September 2012 and entered the Sacred College in March 2014. Noriko received First-Degree Ordination in May 2016 and entered the Sacred College in December 2017. Radheka received First-Degree Ordination in September 2017 and entered the Sacred College in March 2018. Michele received First-Degree Ordination in September 2016 and entered the Sacred College in December 2016.

Newly ordained deacons pose with Bishop gene Savoy Jr PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

Presenter: Rev. Canon Robert Petrovich
Location: Chapel of the Holy Child / 643 Ralston Street / Reno, NV
When: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 6 and Friday, September 7.
Price: Suggested donation of $20

A spoken performance of the 42 Odes of Solomon that presents the first modern coherent interpretation of these extraordinary songs of spiritual triumph from the messianic age, with commentary that leads you through the sequence of the messianic drama and process of spiritual regeneration the ancient poet laid out in the poems.

The premiere performance of this new translation of the Odes, the most recent publication of the Jamilian University Press.

The book Living the Life of Light: A Drama of Ascension will be available for sale and signing by the author.

For More Information
See the
September Show Event Schedule
@COSOLARGY.ORG

Discover, Awaken, and Experience
Early Christianity

When

Saturday, September 8, 2018
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Where

Chapel of the Holy Child
643 Ralston Street
Reno, NV 89503

$85/Ticket

Call us at [775] 786.7432
to purchase tickets or
use our online portal.

For More Information
See the
September Show Event Schedule
@COSOLARGY.ORG