The ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) has announced in its 5th Annual State of Giving Report that annual cash charitable giving to ECFA-accredited organizations increased 6.9 percent between 2012 and 2013. It reflects total cash donations of $11.6 billion in 2013, an increase from the previous year’s $10.9 billion.
This weekend, Liquid Church of New Jersey is mobilizing over 700 volunteers and leaders to pitch-in on service projects helping families in need in communities across the state. The four-county effort has been in the planning since August by local volunteer coordinators and leaders in each community. The community service campaign aims to complete all projects in time so that the service agencies involved can serve their disadvantaged clients during Thanksgiving week.
A 90-year-old chef and two ministers are facing criminal charges for feeding hundreds of homeless people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Kerry and Chris Shook, New York Times best-selling authors and pastors at Woodlands Church in Houston, Texas, are challenging church leaders across the United States to schedule a National Be the Message Sunday, during which they will shorten their services and sermons to pack meals for people in Ebola-stricken countries.
A Minnesota-based Christian vocational institution of higher learning is training Christians who feel called to start their own business or ministry. Whether or not these Christians have startup capital, King Solomon Entrepreneurial Project trains these Christians to launch their businesses and ministries with 100% sweat equity–all for the glory of God at the end of the 12 week participation program if they so desire.
After the breakout success of God’s Not Dead, faith-bas ed film studio Pure Flix Entertainment is gearing up to produce a sequel. Pure Flix CEO and managing partner Michael Scott said his studio has a number of projects in the works for next year, including God’s Not Dead 2.
