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Members of the Church of God Doctrine and Polity (D&P) Committee have released a paper entitled, “Speaking in Tongues: The Initial Evidence of Holy Spirit Baptism.”

Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko and his team of former street children from Mariupol Ukraine have a big vision. A world without orphans. In 2011, they began a ride across the former Soviet Union to dispel myths preventing families from adopting children who needed families. This started a movement to go global, and since that first ride, they have crossed Europe and Asia and have seen over 200 children be placed into forever families! They only lack North America to complete this journey around the world.

The destruction brought to the island nation of Tortola by Hurricane Maria last fall was of such devastation that it is difficult to understand without actually being there. The reports coming from Tortola spoke of utter destruction; no one knew what to do or where to start. Government buildings and communications where destroyed, local charities, agencies and churches were destroyed, everywhere people turned to for help and assistance were destroyed. Literally, there was nowhere go and no one to turn to for help!

Rev. Paul F. Henson, a Church of God pastor, state overseer and popular minister of the gospel around the world, passed away on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at his home in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Cleveland, TN—April 25, 2018–The International Executive Council of the Church of God began their regularly scheduled April session Tuesday at the International Offices Leadership and Communications Center.

Church World Missions has been informed by Field Director Otoniel Collins, Superintendent Pedro Guardado, and the national overseer of the Church of God in Nicaragua Bishop Adolfo Sequeira López of the civil unrest disrupting the Central American country of Nicaragua.