Sevierville, TN–The Smoky Mountain Children’s Home (SMCH) has been commemorating their centennial this year with plans to celebrate during a signature event in December.

After three successful educational sessions this year, Worship Summit Live is back in time for houses of worship to acquire critical technical training for a busy upcoming holiday worship season. On Wed, Nov. 18, 2020, the Worship Summit Live 4 virtual event will host church production and technology experts who will demonstrate the best methods to safely produce engaging worship celebrations for virtual congregations. Attendees can view technical sessions at Worship Summit Live for free, as well as access a separate networking and collaboration meeting via Zoom for only $5.

Around 375 million children worldwide — including nearly one-in-six children in the U.S. — live in crushing poverty, says a new report coinciding with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct. 17.

From October 4-9, 2020, a tent meeting took place on the same site as a historic Church of God revival in 1908. The following is a testimony of the week’s gathering by Dr. David Roebuck, director of the Pentecostal Research Center and a member of the Church of God Historical Commission:

Churches have been on lockdown for months. COVID-19 forced us to go virtual, and the pandemic has turned pastors into awkward television evangelists who preach to empty auditoriums using smartphones.

The national board of directors of the Personhood Alliance announced today its official position on vaccine ethics (www.personhood.org/vaccines). This announcement comes at a critical time, as vaccine development and other treatments for COVID-19 race forward and as new laws make it more difficult to claim moral and religious exemptions for vaccines that are produced or tested using the remains of aborted human beings.

Many Church of God congregations across the nation took advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) program during the COVID-19 pandemic. After substantial delays, lenders across the country are now accepting forgiveness applications for these loans obtained through the CARES Act.

In her opening statement during Monday morning’s hearing over her nomination to the Supreme Court, Chicago Judge Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers she believes “in the power of prayer.”

“The struggles that teens encounter today leaves marks on their soul nearly permanently, marks of emotional hurt that cannot be erased. With time the hurt begins to decrease, but it’s still there lingering in the back of the person’s mind. How do we heal this pain of the teens throughout the world, is the real question, that answer I don’t know? However, the pain has been sent to make us stronger, and to Love one another better! — Anonymous TeenTyme Essay Winner