January 2, 2011: During the year 2010 the "Gute Nachrichten" website had 230,714 visitors, a new annual record. The number of visitors has increased fourfold since 2006. The tally for December 2010 was 23,899 visitors.

January 7, 2011: The local income of the Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] increased by 1.1 percent during the year 2010 in comparison to the previous year. A strong second half of the year offset a slow start to the church's income in January and February 2010.

January 11, 2011: For the year 2010 the Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] distributed a total of 57,790 publications in the German language, an 11.2 percent increase over the previous year. The booklets requested most often were "Nach dem Tode – was dann?" ["What happens after death?], "Jesus Christus: Die wahre Geschichte" ["Jesus Christ: The true story"] and the reprint "Das Geheimnis Ihrer Existenz" ["What is your destiny?"].

January 16, 2011: The January-February issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7530 readers in 17 European countries. This is another new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 1.5 percent increase over the last issue and a 12 percent increase over the January-February 2010 issue. The circulation goal for 2011 is 8000 subscribers by the end of the year.

January 21, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] prints the booklet "Glaubenssätze der Vereinten Kirche Gottes" ["Fundamental Beliefs"]. UCOG contributed funds to help pay the cost of printing the new booklet, which is the 22nd booklet to be printed by the Vereinte Kirche Gottes. Read more »

February 3, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] completes a test of live interactive internet Bible studies using Skype. Two sessions on successive days showed that the medium can be used for regular interactive online Bible studies. 20 people using 16 connections participated in the test.

February 13, 2011: United Christian Outreach Germany announces a special fundraiser to provide $1000 as festival assistance for airfare, visa and lodging expenses for Mnazakan Poghossjan to attend this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany. Mr. Poghassjan is the only member of the United Church of God in Armenia.

February 23, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducted it first regular live interactive internet Bible study using Skype, following a successful test phase two weeks earlier. 23 people in five countries participated via 18 Skype connections. The subject was decisions made by consensus in the early New Testament church.

February 28, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] distributes a set of guidelines for participation in interactive group Bible studies. The guidelines were based on 14 years of experience in the Darmstadt local congregation and were reviewed and approved by church elders at their meeting in Mannheim on January 24, 2011.

March 6, 2011: The "Gute Nachrichten" website set new records for the months of January and February. In January a record total of 27,414 people visited the website, and in February another new record of 27,572 visitors (985 per day) was set.

March 14, 2011: The March-April issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7530 readers in 17 European countries. Circulation for the March-April issue remains unchanged from January's record level and is a 6.9 percent increase over the March-April 2010 issue. The circulation goal for 2011 is 8000 subscribers by the end of the year.

March 23, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducted its second regular live interactive internet Bible study using Skype, following a successful test phase in February. The subject was the apostle Peter's role in the New Testament church.

March 30, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints the booklet "Nach dem Tode – was dann?" ["What happens after death?"], for the second time since its original printing in 1998. This booklet is featured in Google and Yahoo advertizing and is the most requested booklet distributed by the Vereinte Kirche Gottes.

April 7, 2011: The "Gute Nachrichten" website set another new record for the month of March. 29,182 unique visitors were counted on the website in March (941 per day).

April 13, 2011: Today's live interactive Bible Study via Skype was a pre-Passover quiz on various historical and symbolic aspects of the Passover service, with 18 people in 4 countries participating.

April 18, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] considers changing the printer for its German-language publications. An offer from a printer near the Dutch-German border could mean as much as a 1000 € savings for each issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine.

April 26, 2011: Statistics for the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the German-language region have been finalized. 112 people met at six locations to keep the Passover. On the first day of Unleavened Bread, 141 people attended services in five locations: Dormagen (40), Ebnath (18), Moosdorf in Austria (14), Schriesheim (24) and Winterthur in Switzerland (41). The offering was 8871 €, which was 16.8% higher than last year's offering. On the last day of Unleavened Bread, 124 people attended services in five locations: Dormagen (37), Hamburg (17), Munich (19), Schriesheim (29) and Winterthur in Switzerland (22). The offering (7914 €) was 14.9% higher than in 2010.

May 3, 2011: 2 years after introducing a dot matrix labeling code for subscribers of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine in Germany the German postal service declared the "Gute Nachrichten" subscription list to be 98.81% accurate, qualifying it for the lowest electronic address correction rate. The dot matrix labeling code is mandatory for the electronic address correction service.

May 14, 2011: The May-June issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7410 readers in 17 European countries. Circulation for the May-June issue is a 4 percent increase over the May-June 2010 issue, but slightly lower than the March issue as a result of a subscriber renewal. The circulation goal for 2011 is 8000 subscribers by the end of the year.

May 21, 2011: United Christian Outreach Germany's special fundraiser to provide $1000 as festival assistance for Mnazakan Poghossjan to attend this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany has reached 50 percent of its goal.

May 30, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints the booklet "Die Bibel – Wahrheit oder Legende" ["Is the Bible true?"] for the second time since its original printing in 2000. This booklet is featured in Google and Yahoo advertizing. Since 2001 the Vereinte Kirche Gottes has spent $350,000 from its own funds on printing costs to produce its literature.

June 5, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] announces that United Church of God president Dennis Luker will be a guest speaker at this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany. Mr. Luker will give the sermon on the Sabbath and also meet with the Vereinte Kirche Gottes National Council during the feast.

June 13, 2011: Statistics for the Feast of Pentecost have been finalized. 159 people met in five locations in the German-language region: 63 people met in Arnheim (Netherlands) for a combined service of the Dutch and Dormagen congregations. The other locations were Hamburg (18), Munich (15), Schriesheim (33) and Winterthur in Switzerland (30). The offering in the German-language region was 8503 €, a 22 percent decrease in comparison to last year's record offering. The offering for the 3 spring Holy Days (Unleavened Bread, Pentecost) was 0.6 percent more than last year.

June 21, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints lesson 4 of its 12 lesson Bible Study Course. The first printing of lessons 1-4 is nearly exhausted. Lesson 4 is the first publication to be printed as a test of a new printing company located near the Dutch-German border. The UCG-Germany National Council determined that the print quality of the lesson meets our standards.

June 29, 2011: United Christian Outreach Germany's fundraiser to provide $1000 for airfare and visa expenses for United Church of God member Mnazakan Poghossjan to attend this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany is now fully funded. Mr. Poghassjan speaks fluent German and is the only member of the United Church of God in Armenia. He is currently unemployed. Without additional financial assistance, he would not be able to attend the Feast.

July 4, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reports that its regular income for the first six months of the year was 4.3 percent higher than during the same period last year. June was especially noteworthy with an increase of 76.3 percent over June 2010, which was a weak month for income. The offering for the 3 spring Holy Days (Unleavened Bread, Pentecost) was 0.6 percent more than last year.

July 12, 2011: The July-August issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7227 readers in 17 European countries, a one percent increase over the July-August 2010 issue. Subscription renewals conducted in April and June resulted in a slight decrease in circulation for the current issue. The circulation goal for 2011 is 8000 subscribers by the end of the year.

July 20, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] prints the booklet "Gibt es wirklich den Teufel?" ["Is there really a devil?"]. UCOG contributed funds to help pay the cost of printing the new booklet. The Vereinte Kirche Gottes now has 23 booklets in print, as well as the entire 12 lesson Bible Study Course. The booklet was printed by a new printing company located near the Dutch-German border.

July 27, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] announces the dates for three "Kingdom of God" seminars to be held in the fall: October 29 in Dormagen (near Cologne), November 5 in Mörfelden-Walldorf (near Frankfurt) and November 12 in Hamburg, Germany. The seminars are part of the worldwide series being conducted by the United Church of God. Additional seminars in Munich and Winterthur (Switzerland) will be held at a later date.

August 7, 2011: For the fourth consecutive year, children from Germany and Switzerland traveled to the United Kingdom to participate in the summer camp hosted near Manchester by the United Church of God-British Isles. A better flight schedule allowed the seven youth to arrive on July 29 and stay for the entire camp period.

August 15, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints lesson 2 of its 12 lesson Bible Study Course. The lesson was updated with the new German spelling rules. UCG-Germany has now printed four publications using a new printing company located near the Dutch-German border. The new printer offered a price reduction of approximately 20 percent compared to our previous printing expense.

August 22, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] introduces an internet-based simultaneous translation via Skype for visitors at church services who do not speak German. Using multiple Skype accounts, the service (in German) is relayed to an off-site translator who translates simultaneously into English. The translation is relayed via Skype back to the hall, and non-German speakers in attendance at the service listen with headphones to the translation via an internet connection.

August 29, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] plans to reprint the article series "Archaeology and the Bible" as an internet PDF publication. The original series of articles was published in the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine from 1998 to early 2005. The articles will be typeset using reformed German spelling rules. Publication is tentatively scheduled for December 2012.

September 6, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reports that its regular income for the first eight months of the year was 6.3 percent higher than during the same period last year.

September 12, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints the booklet "Lebendiger Glauben" ["You Can Have Living Faith"], making it the 13th German-language booklet to be reprinted since 1998.

September 19, 2011: The September-October issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7327 readers in 17 European countries, a 1.5 percent increase over the September-October 2010 issue. The new issue has a full page ad for the "Kingdom of God" seminars to be held at the end of October and beginning of November in Dormagen, Mörfelden and Hamburg.

September 29, 2011: 138 people met at five locations in the German-language region for church services today on the Feast of Trumpets. In Dormagen the attendance was 36 (this year there was no combined service with UCG-Holland). 28 people met in Schriesheim (near Heidelberg), and 40 were in attendance in Winterthur, Switzerland. In Munich the attendance was 22. 12 people attended the afternoon service in Hamburg.

October 7, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] announces a revised renewal system for "Gute Nachrichten" subscribers. Renewal numbers will now be directly tied to circulation goals instead of being determined without considering circulation targets. The new policy takes effect immediately.

October 20, 2011: 228 people from 11 countries meet in Schluchsee in the southern Black Forest to observe the biblical Feast of Tabernacles. Read more »

October 27, 2011: The offering statistics for the Feast of Tabernacles and Last Great Day in the German-language region have been finalized. The offering on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles was 11,269 €, 2.3 percent more than last year. The offering (9854 €) on the Last Great Day was 20 percent lower in comparison to 2010. The total offering on the seven annual Holy Days in 2011 was 3.5 percent less than last year.

November 5, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints lesson 3 of its 12 lesson Bible Study Course. The first printing of lessons 1-4 is nearly exhausted, and lessons 1-4 needed to be updated with the new German spelling rules. UCG-Germany also printed this lesson using a new printing company located near the Dutch-German border in Bocholt.

November 12, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] completes it third "Kingdom of God" Bible seminar conducted after the Feast of Tabernacles. The three seminars were held on successive Sabbaths in Dormagen, Mörfelden and Hamburg. Read more »

November 17, 2011: The November-December issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7474 readers in 17 European countries, a 1 percent increase over the November-December 2010 issue. The November-December issue marks the completion of 15 years of publishing the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine.

November 24, 2011: After several successful trial printings, the Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] announces a change in its printing arrangements. As of January 1, 2012 the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine and all booklets will be printed by D + L Printpartner GmbH in Bocholt, Germany.

December 6, 2011: To test audio streaming software as a possible replacement for using Skype, the Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] conducts it first Bible study via internet streaming. 33 connections were registered during the hour long test, and participants gave positive ratings for the audio quality and stability of the transmission.

December 13, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints lesson 1 of its 12 lesson Bible Study Course. With lesson 1 now completed, lessons 1-4 have all been reprinted after having been updated with the new German spelling rules. UCG-Germany also printed this lesson using D + L Printpartners, the new printer located near the Dutch-German border in Bocholt.

December 20, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] offered 540 German subscribers of "Intern" [German "United News"] a sermon CD. 43 readers ordered the CD, an eight percent response.

December 31, 2011: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] spent $30,970 on printing costs for public proclamation in 2011, bringing the total spent since 2000 to $363,000. These printing costs were paid with local funds without any subsidy for public proclamation from the United Church of God in Cincinnati, Ohio.