Last January, Mark Williams, general overseer of the Church of God, led the way in a 21-day Virtual Prayer Initiative that connected leaders, pastors and the laity across the nation in a two-hour nightly prayer call.

sparkhouse, a division of Augsburg Fortress, is pleased to announce its new children’s trade imprint, Sparkhouse Family. The imprint’s launch list will release on August 4, 2015, and it will include three illustrated Bibles, six picture books, and eight DVDs containing animated videos.

Fargo School District No. 1 is under fire for unconstitutional discrimination against pro-life students at two high schools. Superintendent Jeff Schatz has received a demand letter from the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based public interest law firm, on behalf of students Brigid O’Keefe of Fargo North High School, Katie McPherson of Davies High School, and Students for Life of America. The letter charges that the district has violated the First Amendment rights of pro-life students at the schools by denying them permission to form high school pro-life clubs.

After developing the exciting FREE Switch and match game, available on ITUNES, IPAD and ANDROID devices, Sebastian formed a partnership with the 2nd Chance at Life Partnership (SCAL), a national non-profit program of the NGF organization. His goal: Spread God’s word to 1 Billion people worldwide.

Approximately ten years ago, a Chattanooga, Tenn. dentist approached Operation Compassion with an idea to help Orphanage Emmanuel in Comayaguela, Honduras. The vision was to send raw wheat to the orphanage, teach them to mill it and use the flour to bake goods in support of the more than 600 children housed there. A partnership was born and Dr. Don Reynolds and Operation Compassion have been sending wheat ever since.

President Obama turned both personal and preachy Tuesday (April 7) during his annual Easter Prayer Breakfast, which he has hosted at the White House six times since he was elected.

By Thom Rainer

Nine out of 10. That’s a lot.

Nine out of 10 churches in America have an average worship attendance of less than 350. And that percentage has not changed significantly for many years. Yet the unchurched pool of persons is increasing in most communities. There are people yet to be reached.

Kansas became the first state to ban a common second trimester abortion procedure when Governor Sam Brownback, a Republican, on Tuesday signed into a law an act to halt what lawmakers said are “dismemberment abortions.”

Robert Madu will be the Friday evening speaker at the Ministerial Internship Program (MIP) Commissioning Celebration on May 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the North Cleveland Church of God.