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Assistant General Overseer David Griffis, right, presents a check to Heartland Region Overseer M. Darrell Rice while General Overseer Mark Williams looks on.

David Griffis, first assistant general overseer of the Church of God, and Director of the Division of Care, participated with the delegation to Oklahoma to present two checks to assist with disaster relief. Griffis was accompanied by General Overseer Mark L. Williams. Together the two church leaders met with local pastors, relief workers and families displaced by the tornado that ripped through the heart of Oklahoma.

An American tradition finds a new home and a new purpose; orphan children sell their own possessions to send aid to the victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes. On any given Saturday morning in America, there is a ritual throughout the land from early spring until almost winter, of families and neighbors hosting yard sales. This week, orphan children in Guatemala saw the devastation in Oklahoma and decided to bring this tradition of yard sales to Guatemala and use it to benefit the victims through Operation Compassion.

Subsplash Consulting, a Seattle based technology company is transforming how churches communicate with their congregants and the general public by designing affordable mobile apps that can be easily downloaded on iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Android devices.

The future of the central Assemblies of God church in Tehran hangs in the balance, following the arrest of one of its pastors last week.

Our comprehensive movie reviews at Movieguide, the definitive family guide to movies and entertainment, not only tell parents the amount of foul language, sex, nudity, alcohol use, smoking and drug use occurring in movies like the reboot of Superman and Iron Man 3, they also tell them the level of violence the movie has.