February 15, 2018 - Barbados Celebrates 50th Anniversary

On this week’s In Accord please join COGWA President Jim Franks for the 50th anniversary of the Church of God congregation in Barbados. It was on Feb. 3, 1968, that Herbert Armstrong started the first congregation of the Worldwide Church of God on the island of Barbados with 111 in attendance. The congregation grew to over 400 in the 1980s. Today there are 87 members in the Church of God, a Worldwide Association, and 17 of this group were in attendance at the first service in 1968. On Saturday night after the Sabbath, there was a formal dinner, entertainment and the presentation of certificates to the 17 members who were part of the original congregation 50 years ago.