Starting school. A new sibling arrives. The first day of soccer. For children, these are big changes in their life. First-time author Lisa Titus guided her daughter, Jaleesa through these changes. The book, “Jellybean,” is three uplifting stories about how a young child adapts with the loving support of her parents.

“Every day almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes,” reports The Lancet, the world’s leading independent general medical journal. The Moju Project Website was created to help curtail the hunger epidemic that is taking the life of one child every five seconds.

By J. Lee Grady

Foreclosure. Eviction. Bailouts. We’re hearing those terms a lot these days, and not just in the newspaper’s business section.

The Chaplains Commission has made available tens of thousands of camouflage bandanas, with the Psalms 91 scripture written on each one, to Church of God Chaplains and their ministry to the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Chaplains Commission has made available tens of thousands of camouflage bandanas, with the Psalms 91 scripture written on each one, to Church of God Chaplains and their ministry to the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The following testimony by Alexis McClellan, Louisville, KY, about the power of God’s witness through this bandana ministry and how it affected her military son and her family, was received at the Chaplains Commission last week. It is a powerful witness of ministry “outside the gates” and how the little things we do become so awesome in the Hands of our Creator God. “…I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these…you did for me.”

Sundance Channel has scheduled a Christmas week premiere for Paul Davids’ documentary Jesus in India, which examines controversial theories and legends that place a traveling Jesus Christ in India. Written, directed and produced by Davids, the film will debut as part of the Channel’s regular Monday DOCday programming on Monday, December 22nd at 9:00pm et/pt.

Associated Press – COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Focus on the Family says it has eliminated more than 200 positions, the largest staff cuts in the evangelical Christian group’s 31-year history.

By Michelle Malkin – Syndicated Columnist

Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a heterosexual-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable “right” to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh?

Operation Compassion recently received a $2 million grant from World Emergency Relief for water purification units. This grant was provided as a national grant to assist rural areas in areas where the water has been polluted by industry, natural disasters or build up of silt and debris. In particular, the areas of Appalachia and the Indian Reservations of the west will be prominent recipients of these units.