Recently, Crossroads International Church and the European Theological Seminary, associated with the Church of God, helped the German Youth Board host the Wake Up Youth Conference.

The Heiban Bible College, a pastor training school constructed and dedicated by Samaritan’s Purse in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, was bombed by the Sudanese Air Force on Wednesday afternoon. Two buildings were destroyed.

International Youth and Discipleship, along with Pathway Press, announces the 2011 winner of the annual Teacher of the Year award.

The couple who was honored last year as the Longest Married Couple in the United States by Worldwide Marriage Encounter has been featured in a two page article in the new JC Penney magazine. Marshall & Winnie Kuykendall of Lordsburg, New Mexico will be married 83 years on Valentine’s Day.

As President Obama and much of official Washington, D.C. gather on Thursday for the 59th National Prayer Breakfast, religious voices aligned with “Occupy DC” are hosting their own rival “People’s Prayer Breakfast.”

Under the theme, “Commemorating the Past – Envisioning the Future,” the North American (U.S.A. and Canada) missions bicentennial is being celebrated in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts on February 6, 2012.

National Marriage Week USA (www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org) is growing fast in just its third year, posting thousands of marriage classes across the nation and building collaborative efforts for one week a year — February 7-14 — to strengthen marriages, reduce divorce, and increase the marriage rate, which curtails poverty, benefits children, and builds financial stability for our nation and for individuals.

Franchise opportunities with a spiritual mission have been rare, if not non-existent up until now. But a groundbreaking franchise offering is now available for the person who yearns to combine a passion for their faith with an entrepreneurial endeavor.

Do you want the real power of the Holy Spirit? Then don’t pretend by pushing people to the floor when you pray.