Faithful Servant LLC’s newest Newsletter, The Christian Transportation Investor, reached its third year of tracking by MarketWatch’s Hulbert Financial Digest as 2014 closed. Its model portfolios earned top-five ranking for both its one-year and three-year performance on the Hulbert Interactive website. Its one-year gain of 52.0% earned 3rd place among the 190 newsletters tracked at least one year, and its three-year annualized return of 32.2% placed it 5th against the 167 newsletters that age or more. The Wilshire 5000 Stock Index gain Hulbert Interactive cites as a performance benchmark for the market as a whole was 12.7% and 20.3% respectively for the one and three-year periods.

Last Friday night, hundreds participated in the first night of the 21-day Virtual Prayer Meeting sponsored by Church of God prayer ministries.

The idea that turned the nation’s largest Christian retail chain into a giving engine to support widows and orphans now expands to movies. Family Christian Stores’ new sister company, Family Christian Entertainment (FCE), announces the Atlanta shoot, starting Jan. 26, of 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, the 2004 New York Times best-selling book (7 million-plus sold) about Pastor Don Piper’s near-death experience. Kate Bosworth (SUPERMAN RETURNS) and Hayden Christensen (STAR WARS, JUMPER) star. Michael Polish (TWIN FALLS IDAHO, BIG SUR) directs.

Last Sunday morning YWAM Ships Kona reported that their vessel, the Hawaii Aloha was badly damaged in a storm in the Hawaiian Islands, resulting in the loss of 24-year-old crewman Aaron Bremner.

As we come into the new year it is important that we start off with the right foundation if we want to experience God’s fullness. Walking with God doesn’t just happen automatically; the following are seven attitudes and practices we need to walk in:

Sevierville, TN—Parkway Church of God, one of the denomination’s more historic congregations, finalized the purchase of a new church campus located on Dolly Parton Parkway in Sevierville, Tennessee on Tuesday, December 30, 2014. The property is located adjacent to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge Airport and the Tennessee Museum of Aviation.

Music legend Andraé Crouch has died. The Grammy and Dove Award winner passed away on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, at approximately 4:30 PM PST at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in the Los Angeles area. Andraé, 72, was hospitalized on Jan. 3.

Recently, Bishop Glen and Susie Anniskette were asked to minister at an unusual place – a large local distribution company called Fokus in Goiania, Brazil. The invitation came from Marlon Vasconcelos, a local pastor and manager at Fokus. Pastor Marlon asked the Anniskettes to come and lead a devotional for his employees before their work day began. You don’t hear of these types of invitations much in America.

“Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a good route for us, our little ones, and all our substance” (Ezra 8:21).