Hundreds of Spanish-speaking members of the Church of God in the USA are gearing up to celebrate the XVII National Hispanic Congress, Thursday, August 3 through Saturday, August 5, 2017, in Ontario, Calif. The gathering will take place at the Ontario DoubleTree hotel.
During the 1970s, the Church of God asked the state of Mississippi to provide shoes for the Home for Children (Smoky Mountain Children’s Home) in Sevierville, Tenn. A faithful member of Mississippi’s Grenada Church of God, Bernice Jackson, had a burden for this particular ministry and began to collect money for the project. She affectionately called it her Shoe Box Ministry.
Beginning in September, the Church of God Women’s Ministries department will hold a series of one-night rallies across the country, entitled Faith Fire Freedom Celebrations.
In 2016, Lee University’s annual Missions Week promoted the Liberia Sustainable Freedom Project. Well-prepared Lee University students committed to continuing service to the Church of God Phebe Grey Orphanage in Paynesville, Liberia.
Sri Lanka recently experienced immense flooding from a heavy southwest monsoon that began mid-May 2017. The situation worsened at the arrival of the precursor system to Cyclone Mora, causing more flooding and landslides. The floods affected 15 districts, killed at least 208 people and left an additional 78 people unaccounted for … 698,289 people were affected, with 11,056 homes partially damaged and another 2,093 completely destroyed.
Cleveland, TN–Speakers have been finalized and the schedule has been developed for the 2017 Church of God National Jail and Prison Ministry Leaders and Pastors Conference to be conducted on Friday, October 6 on the campus of the Church of God International Offices in Cleveland, Tennessee.
