“Hearts United with Christchurch and the Muslim Community”

In light of the horrific events that took the lives of 50 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, the Northern Nevada Muslim Center hosted an event to remember them and to show solidarity. The event, called “Hearts United with Christchurch and the Muslim Community,” was held Wednesday, March 29, 2019 at the center on Oddie Blvd in Sparks.

The President of the Center, Sherif Elfass, said the event “intended to show solidarity through action. In 2015, nine of our African American brothers were killed in their place of worship, few months ago, ten of our Jewish brothers and sisters were killed in their place of worship and now 50 Muslims. Time of action is now. In my remarks, I plan to talk about actions we will be taking to combat hate and I hope you will consider the same.”

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr addressing the assembly at Northern Nevada Muslim Center

Mr. Elfass invited Bishop Gene Savoy Jr to speak with other clergy at the program. Bishop Savoy delivered the closing address:

On behalf of the International Community of Christ, let me express my sincere condolences to all of my Muslim brothers and sisters. I am very honored to be here at this service of prayer, solidarity and coming together in the face of violence against people of faith and in the name of religion. But I am also very sad. I’m upset. I am sad, of course, about why we are gathered here today. But I am even sadder at what I see happening in our world today.

It seems that no place on earth, save Antarctica, is safe any longer from this creed of hate which has achieved a new life on social media. Muslims were attacked and killed last week in New Zealand. Four days before that, 52 Christians were attacked and killed in Nigeria and 153 of Christian homes burned to the ground. Last October, Jews were attacked and killed in Pittsburgh. And it goes on and on.

We should all be outraged. Let me say that again: we should all be outraged! Because the key to understanding today’s terrorist threats are not merely to be found in the online underground, which has become a breeding ground for contemporary extremists of all kinds, but to understand the profound and blatant evil and darkness manifesting in today’s world in great magnitude. Let’s make no mistake about it: What we are witnessing the world over is evil and Darkness.

Is this the world in which we want to live? Is this the kind of place we want to bequeath to our children? It will be, as long as we turn a blind eye to the vast amount of pain and suffering that goes on in the world around us. We can no longer choose to remain silent or be oblivious to this profound evil and darkness that is permeating the world. And that is what this is. Let’s make no mistake about it. This simply is profound evil and darkness. And it is now targeting people as they go into their places of worship – their sacred and quiet places. There will be no place for refuge any longer if we continue along this path. What is next? Our homes?

But, we come together to offer hope. We come together to say that we will not be driven from our places of worship – none of us. Let us be reminded that the spirit is strong in the human race and sometimes we, each and every one of us, needs to be reminded of the immense power we have to do good or to do evil. If the peoples of the earth were to realize this, they would turn from the ways of ignorance and submission to evil and darkness and embrace the good and the light with all of their might.

And that, perhaps, is what we are here to do: to encourage people to break from the hold of evil and darkness. If we see it, don’t turn a blind eye. If you hear it, don’t be silent. Life is too precious and time is too short for the human family to play this deadly game of unending strife, war, instability, and hate.

The peoples of the earth cry out for peace. But peace begins with the individual who lives god’s way. When we collect together in peace, of whatever religion or spiritual community, we then become people of peace and fellowship with one another.

My heart, my thoughts, and my prayers go out to everyone who has suffered from this evil and darkness. Thank you for having me.

Community Celebrates Diamond Jubilee

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.

Services for the Week of March 23, 2019

Saturday, March 23, 2019
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Rebecca Willis
Cantor: Rev. Larry Coesens
Reader: Rev. Karen Elliott
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, March 24, 2019
6:50 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:03
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Church of the End Times Dea. Radheka Savoy
Church of the New Covenant Gary Huss Jr.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Barbara Whitney

Friday, March 29, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Robert Petrovich

Services for the Week of March 16, 2019

Saturday, March 16, 2019
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Peter Foust
Cantor: Rev. Karen Elliott
Reader: Rev. Michael McIntyre
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, March 17, 2019
7:03 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:45
Sunrise: 7:15
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches RC Peter Fosut
Church of the End Times Rev. Mary Foust

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Peter Fosut

Friday, March 22, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Rebecca Willis

WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 14, 2019

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

March 14, 2019

Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the physical birth of The Child, Jamil, on March 16, 1959. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Community – our Diamond Jubilee! While we do not celebrate the birth, per se, we do acknowledge it as a special day of remembrance. If you would like to light a candle in remembrance of Jamil, please do so.

While we will be announcing special celebrations and observances throughout the year in celebration of The Community’s Diamond Jubilee, especially at this year’s annual Convocation in September, I would like to finish our three-part series with these concepts proclaimed by The Child in the Prophecy of the New Covenant.

Jamil’s purpose in coming into the world was to proclaim the Advent of God manifest in the Heavens through the miraculous Light of the Sun of Righteousness. He withdrew from the Earth back to the Light of God, which was the source of his Being. Jamil has counseled us from that Light and serves as our Guardian, our Protector, and our Patron. He, indeed, ministers from the Abodes of Light with the Beings and the Angels of Light.

Be firm in the knowledge that God does exist and is real. Beings such as Jesus, Jamil, The Buddha, to name a few, come out of the Light of God to visit the Earth from age to age in order to transmit Knowledge of God. Some believe that God is separated from the world and is unapproachable by its peoples. Others propound that priests are the intercessors, God being gained only through them, or through the doctrines they claim to represent. There are those who claim that God sends Messiahs to atone for the sins of man. Still others elevate these Messiahs to the Godhead, claiming them to be God and, therefore, that they should be worshiped.

Jamil declared that God alone should be the object of adoration. God alone is Redeemer, Savior, Restorer, and Creator. God has revealed His Divine Presence to the world as the Image of Himself, a Great Light that is the True Intercessor, the sole means of approaching Him. Within that Great Light is found God’s Intelligible Thought, which communicates with the sentient Soul, giving it a sense of Consciousness and empowering it with perception, remembrance, comprehension, and judgement of Divine Creation, as contrasted with mental reasoning and the sensory perception of the physical organism by which the material world is experienced.

Jamil, God’s Divine Messenger, declared the Advent of His Appearance and, as Christ, founded the Second Advent Church. Jamil’s mission as the Eternal Child of Light destined to appear in the End Times of the earth in accordance with the Will of God paralleled Jesus’ ministry in that Jesus as Christ, inspired by The Image and The Word of God, assumed human form in order to reveal The Way of Righteousness.

The Way to God within The Image and The Word manifest in this Second Advent of His Appearance is of supreme consequence to the human family. God’s messengers make divine proclamations. They announce God as the Light of the world who intercedes in the world, indeed the entire Universe, by His visible Immaculacy and Incarnation, first in The Image and The Word, then in the Sun. They declare God’s imminent return and direct rule over Creation by progressive restoration. They are the first to be anointed by God. They are forerunners who signal God’s intention to anoint every human being who accepts His gift of Salvation and Redemption from the world of matter. They are the sons and daughters of Man. They are the sons and daughters of God, obedient to their Father in Heaven, consubstantial in The Image and The Word by which they are made Eternal.

With God’s Appearance in the Spiritual Sun, the human species has access to Creative Powers. These Powers, when put to use by the Spirit, allow humans to transcend the material Universe, which is undergoing change, and to penetrate the Spiritual Universe. As the material Sun that supports all biological life feeds the brain and nervous system, so the Spiritual Sun supports all spiritual Life and feeds the Spirit and its Conscious Life. Man is more than a biological species in contact with mutable life forces. He is the bearer of the human Spirit, and the Spirit has potential to communicate with Divine Intelligence, which shapes and molds spiritual Consciousness.

If the human species on the individual and collective levels is to survive the changes occurring in the world and cosmos, it must transcend its own mortality by a slow process of genetic change that is possible through exposure to, and control over, physical energies emitted from the Sun. In this way, and while at the same time emerging as a new spiritual species under the influence of the Light from the Spiritual Sun, will the human species be able to break away from traditional social and religious customs that have shaped and enslaved it to environmental conditions now mutating. Only by these means will the human race and the world be restored.

These are very profound words. They comprise, in part, the Teachings of Jamil. Not only are they to be understood by the rational mind; more importantly, they are to be put into practice in everyday life for them to have true meaning. Please read the previous two messages of this series in conjunction with this one. I hope you will find the complete message inspiring as we enjoy the blessings of this Diamond Jubilee.

Once again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

JANUARY 2019: Intercession & Memorial Services

JANUARY 2019

9
Deborah Gresham

12
Deborah Gresham
Hiroko Soejima

16
Hiroko Soejima

19
Hiroko Soejima
Barbara Bacon †
Prayer for the victims of the murders that took place in Gardnerville and Reno in the past weeks †

23
Angela Pepe Morris
Horiko Soejima

26
Angela Pepe Morris

30
Mansour Jahangiri †

† indicates Memorial Prayer

Services for the Week of March 9, 2019

Saturday, March 9, 2019
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Gary Buchanan
Cantor: Rev. Harold Boulette
Reader: Dea. Noriko Roy
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

6:00 PM 122ND PANNUCHES MEAL RITE
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant:
RM Rebecca Willis

Sunday, March 10, 2019
7:14 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE *
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:26
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Golden Age of Light RC Ted Staver
Church of the Universal Theocracy Rev. Michael McIntyre

Wednesday, March 13, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Gary Buchanan

Friday, March 15, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Peter Foust

* Daylight Savings Time Begins

WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 6, 2019

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

March 6, 2019

Today’s message is the second part of three, paraphrased from the Prophecy of the New Covenant:

Spiritual Life must begin with the acceptance of order and by turning away from disorder. This can only be realized by means of The Image and The Word over a period of spiritual evolution and a return to the True State of Life. [Emphasis added]

As a person’s life nears its material end and the principal source of reality – the body and mind – fades, the Spirit glimmers as if touched by the light of another world. But, oftentimes, it is too late. The Spirit has grown old like the body and it is not able to channel the Creative Powers and Forces of Light that reach out to touch it. If the human race could attain this realization while the Spirit is still young and vibrant, Mankind would see that another world does indeed exist, and their Spirits would shine brightly.

God extends the means by which humans everywhere may experience True Life, which He has given as a great gift. That True Life has its beginning in the Spiritual Sun which is the gateway to another world – that world which is a source of Light that reaches out to touch a dying world with its races. God has appeared to father a system of spiritual regeneration from out of the Sun.

The races have a right to life and a right to know of this Teaching. God wills that they begin their evolution back to the Godhead whence they evolved. It begins here on Earth, in their present material form. It will lead them to the Sun and beyond to the stars and other worlds which they cannot presently comprehend because of their magnitude and dimension.

It is the destiny of the human race to inherit Eternal Life, for we are heirs to the Divine World – made without blemish – that God gave us in the beginning of Creation. But if the human family is to be worthy of this inheritance, it must first rid the Creation of all Evil and put down the Powers of Darkness forever. This requires a Knowledge of the Divine and an access to the Powers of Light.

By living The Way under the Spiritual Sun, the Spirit of Light is regenerated into a Living Soul – an Angel of God made as His Likeness and Thought. Humanity’s evolution and return back to the Godhead is possible only by the application of the human Spirit within the Creative Powers of God. It is not possible by human efforts within secular institutions. The evolved Spirit by its use of Creative Powers under The Law and in Community is capable of changing the world, for Spirit is more powerful than matter.

God’s chosen people are always those created in His Image – those reborn in Spirit, never those of the Earth, for God speaks not to matter. This is The Way of The Law. It was the same during the ministry of Jesus, and it is the same in this Ministry given afresh under the New Covenant of the Second Advent.

Once again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

Services for the Week of March 2, 2019

Saturday, March 2, 2019
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Robert Petrovich
Cantor: Rev. Amanda Buchanan
Reader: Tom Lee
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, March 3, 2019
6:25 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 5:30
Gate: 6:00
Sunrise: 6:37
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man RC Gary Buchanan
Church of the Americas Rev. Amanda Buchanan

Wednesday, March 6, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RM Rebecca Willis

Friday, March 8, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Gary Buchanan

WEEKLY MESSAGE: February 27, 2019

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

February 27, 2019

As we conclude February, the first month of the Sacred Calendar, I would like to paraphrase portions of the Prophecy of the New Covenant. Today’s message is the first part of three. Please take special note, as this message is important. I suggest you re-read all three parts once they are all delivered. To begin:

Let us be reminded that the Spirit is strong in the human race. High religions and true spiritual teachings have continued to be revealed and come forth under the influence of God and the Powers of Light. Nevertheless, the materialistic intentions of the races of the Earth, under the influence of Evil and the Powers of Darkness, have succeeded in overcoming the Good done by the Holy Ones with the result that, in the latter stages of an aged Earth, only a few remain to struggle against these Evil Powers.

With the corruption of the Sun, a new and final revolution of the elements has been caused to mount. God has foreordained the Appearance of His Image and Word in the Last Age of the Earth, together with a transformation of the Sun. God has willed the establishment of a New Covenant with a regenerated people brought out of all the races of the Earth for their Salvation.

Humanity is composed of uncaring people, indifferent to their spiritual destiny, which is gained by Good Spiritual action and character, as taught by High Religion and True Spiritual Teaching, not by a love of life or adherence to good human action or character, as taught by the secular or earthly religions.

The peoples of the earth are not aware of the immense power of the Spirit to do Good or Evil and that accordingly, the Sun registers the effects of serving the Powers of Light or Darkness in the very Forces that maintain the Universe. If the peoples of the Earth were to realize this, they would turn from the ways of ignorance and submission to Dark Powers and embrace the Image and Word of God’s Presence and serve them with all of their might.

God would that all peoples break from the hold of Darkness – that Power responsible for their descent into matter – a condition that binds them to suffering, pain, illness, old age, and death in a never-ending separation from God that leads to the eventual end of the races and their world.

In these End Times come upon the world, ruled by secular powers, the races play a deadly game of unending strife, war, and instability that compounds the interplay of cosmic and solar forces and aggravates the revolution of the elements of the world with which they are involved.

If the races but knew that the state of material existence is an illusion – a dream with no real existence of its own, as evidenced by the condition of death that terminates life and reality, which is brought on by the absence of authentic Spiritual Life sustained by God and the Creative Powers of Light – humankind would recognize God and place their trust in Him. For God is Light, and He would help and assist the human race to grow into a true realization of the Spirit as a Real World where life never ends.

Once again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene