Worship Leader Magazine is excited to announce a special partnership with the next Harvest America held on March 6, 2016 at the AT&T Stadium in Texas. Along with the usual high-quality Worship Leader content, the March/April 2016 Harvest America issue will also offer a deeper engagement with the heart and vision of Greg Laurie and his overall mission to proclaim the gospel across the nation and impact a world in desperate need of the hope of Jesus Christ.

In a live streaming event during the 2016 Purdue University Symposium, a historic Old Testament scroll will be displayed for the first time, and a portion of the Hebrew text will be read. The scroll, measuring about ninety-two feet long, was a gift donated to Ratio Christi Campus Apologetics Alliance for the purpose of illustrating the reliability of these writings of antiquity.

The Bible says the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We wrote about this in the January issue of Charisma in which we covered both fasting and health.

To assist the local church in their children’s ministry, Church of God Youth and Discipleship has some exciting plans for the coming months. To recognize children’s workers who have served long term in children’s ministry, a Shepherd’s Cup award is presented annually at the 22nd annual FOCUS Children’s Ministry Conference, convening in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 3-5. The award had been presented to an elite group of deserving children’s ministry leaders.

Frontline Ministries, Inc., and the Exodus Mandate Project announced today the selection of Edward Gamble as the recipient of the 2015 Dr. Robert Dreyfus Courageous Christian Leadership Award.

Do you have your word for 2016 yet? Has God specifically spoken to you a word of direction, of purpose and of challenge for the coming year?

This past Sunday I asked my worship team a question: “How can we better connect with our congregation in 2016?”

Dr. R. Lamar Vest, Dr. Bryan Cutshall, and Bill Isaacs have partnered to create a one-day training experience for pastors and local church leaders called “The Healthy Church,” and the first of several such conferences recently took place in Illinois, according to a report by State Administrative Bishop Dennis Page.

I have been writing on trends in churches for two decades. I certainly don’t have a perfect record with my predictions, but my overall record is pretty good.