The Church of God Evangel remains the official Church of God magazine, founded more than 100 years ago.

By David Roebuck

When General Overseer A.J. Tomlinson recorded the minutes to the fourth General Assembly in 1909, he reported, “Some more thoughts advanced about a church paper but the Assembly came to no conclusion.” Encompassed within those words was a dream that would be fulfilled the next year in the birth of the Church of God Evangel.

There are 1.2 billion children and youth between the ages of 4 and 14 years around the world. Church of God Youth and Discipleship understand and are doing all they can to reach and teach this vast population group. We must indeed train the next generation.

Pastor Ken Andrews and son Austin to lead new venture combining their pastoral skills and Christian faith with the power of what they learned as contestants onThe Biggest Loser to change lives within the Christian community.

The D-Day Landing Prayer Act took center stage on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday. Sen. Rob Portman and Sen. Joseph Lieberman jointly read the bill, along with the entire prayer President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prayed with the nation the morning of the D-Day landing.

Jesus said, “Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.” That’s the heart behind the Least of These, the Seed Company’s latest Bible translation initiative.

DUBLIN, Ireland — On May 5-7, 2012, Ireland launched its first Church of God Irish Chaplains Commission/Irish National Conference, “Maximize Your Call.” The Community Service Chaplaincy (CSC) was attended by 103 delegates representing over 10 denominations across Ireland, all graduating successfully. This is the first time (outside the predominant Catholic church) that Evangelicals/Charismatics/Pentecostals had an opportunity to embrace chaplaincy ministry “outside the gates” of the traditional church in communities across Ireland.

The Seed Company, the world’s fastest-growing Bible translation organization, today announced the Least of These initiative, designed to translate the Word of God for the world’s most marginalized people. Of the more than 2,000 languages still without any Scripture, 1,240 have 10,000 or fewer speakers. Most live in remote or inhospitable regions; all are without God’s Word in their language.

KENYA — How amazing that I have the privilege to do what I love to do, encouraged by so many wonderful people around the world. As I sat on a rope swing on our family farm in South Dakota in the 40s, who would have imagined that I would travel the globe one day?

The Bible tells men to treat their wives as equals. But in a machismo culture, this is easier said than done.