Cleveland, TN–Lee University’s most anticipated event of the year will begin this Friday, Nov. 2. Thousands of students, alumni, faculty, and staff will gather on campus for a Homecoming weekend of fun and new memories, as well as a Centennial Celebration to commemorate Lee’s history and legacy.
The Department of Hispanic Educational Ministries, or its legal acronym USA HEM, is the unified ecosystem of biblical, ministerial, and theological education of the Church of God for all its constituents in the United States and Canada. Its priority mission is to prepare servant leaders, which it has been carrying out with more than 98 percent effectiveness of many leaders, ministers, and pastors in various ministries of the local church around the world. As a result, hundreds of pastors, church planters, biblical and discipleship teachers, evangelists, and others have gone out to work on Christ’s mission, “from the bench to the field.”
This Sunday, October 28, 2018 is Retired Ministers and Widows Appreciation Day in the Church of God.
Members of the Mennonite Church USA and the Church of God (Cleveland, TN) recently met in Elkhart, IN for their second ecumenical dialogue, 29 September-1 October 2018. Through the presentation and discussion of papers, worship, and fellowship, the team members pursued mutual understanding of each other’s history and theology, sought greater common witness to the gospel, and considered concrete ways that they can share their sense of togetherness in the one body of Christ with other members of their churches.
Dr. Lamar Vest was honored with the Spirit of Azusa Award for his life-long leadership of the Pentecostal Movement. The presentation took place at the conclusion of the 13th Annual Azusa Lecture sponsored by the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center on October 23 in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Cleveland, TN–The Dixon Pentecostal Research Center opened a new Church of God Heritage Exhibit on Monday, October 22. “Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Century of Church of God Education” traces the history of education in the Church of God from the January 1, 1918, establishment of Bible Training School, now Lee University, to today’s 35,000 students in 236 certified educational institutions around the world.
