“An Evangelical Manifesto” was unveiled earlier today during a press conference at the National Press Club, calling for reaffirmation of identity, reformation of behavior and repositioning in public life among Evangelicals.

By Dr. Robert Crick, Director, Chaplains Commission

Church of God Chaplain, Peter Shoars, a Commissioned Officer in the Virginia Defense Force, conducts volunteer military chaplaincy ministries at Walter Reed Medical Center.

Chaplaincy training

The Church of God Chaplains Commission will be offering its Community Service Chaplaincy Basic Training Seminar on June 2-6, 2008. The seminar will be held at the Church of God Theological Seminary. This is the chaplaincy training course that has been offered over the past 15 years and attended by more than 6,000 pastors, ministers, and church workers. It is designed for practical ministry outside the church in the local community – in hospitals, jails and prisons, law enforcement agencies, nursing homes, hospice associations, rescue missions, and countless other settings.

If you are interested in serving your community as a chaplain, this is the training seminar that will equip you for an effective ministry outside the church. It is designed specifically for practical, hands-on, care-giving ministry – and it is for anyone interested – both pastors and lay workers from any denomination or faith group. This is a full five days of training – it is like going to school – the goal is to train and equip. Some of the topics include: the history and theology of chaplaincy, ethics, prayer in the public forum, grief counseling, suicide, Critical Incident Stress, confidentiality, death notifications, clergy/client privilege, sensitivity and diversity, legal issues, profile of emergency services workers, women in chaplaincy, correctional chaplaincy, law enforcement chaplaincy, institutional chaplaincy and many other relevant subjects.

There is a biblical mandate to go out “beyond the gates” of the church to reach a lost and hurting world for Christ. This seminar can prepare you for the challenge of ministry outside the church and out where the people are.

If you are interested in this week of outstanding training, please feel free to contact the Chaplains Commission: 423-478-7033 / 7706 or e-mail: trainingcc@bellsouth.net.

“It is powerful; it’s rooted in a missional, gospel-centered view of the Christian reality,” says Mickey Klink, New Testament professor at Talbot School of Theology. Film critic Darrel Mason of Hollywood Jesus agrees. “What Would Jesus Buy? has a message that needs to be spoken to a world that is out of control,” he says.

By Steve Strang

A great revival took place in Wales in 1904. Sadly there is little to show today for the effects of that revival. Two years later the Pentecost revival started at Azusa Street in Los Angeles. The black church where it started actually closed around 1930. But the revival it generated continues to include more than 400 million people around the world today.

For many years, Sunday mornings were known as the most divided hour in America due to race. Today, it’s still divided, but often by music and worship styles as congregations seek to reach an audience whose tastes for music and tech savvy presentations create new challenges for today’s church leaders.

PHILIPPINES — The Doctor of Ministry in Christian Spirituality at ASCM is a three-year program. Because it only requires students to meet together once a year in June, people from across Asia and the entire globe can participate.

By Grant McClung

In 2001 some 45,000 Christians gathered in Cape Town, South Africa for a unified prayer service for the nations. There the vision for the annual “Global Day of Prayer” was born (see www.globaldayofprayer.com).

How often have you observed young men and women, who’ve grown up in the church, go off to colleges and universities and have lost their faith? What are churches and parents not doing to prepare young people for the spiritual challenges of the academic world and the realities of the marketplace?