How did America become great and why have we now lost that former greatness? What will it take to restore that greatness? What will it take to- "make America great again?" The same for God's church. The purpose of this sermon is to address the answers to those questions from the perspectives of both physical Israel and spiritual Israel and from the perspective of Amos 8:11-12, which prophesies "a famine of hearing the words of the LORD".

Steven Shafer

Elder, United Church of God

Steve Shafer was born and raised in Seattle. He graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1959 and later graduated from Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas in 1967, receiving a degree in Theology. He has been an ordained Elder of the Church of God for 34 years and has pastored congregations in Michigan and Washington State. He and his wife Evelyn have been married for over 48 years and have three children and ten grandchildren.