Cleveland, TN–A Previous Notice was emailed on May 1 to all ordained bishops in the Church of God calling for an amendment to the bylaws to raise the current number of elected members of the International Executive Council (EXC) from 18 to 24.

This Thursday, May 3, 2018, will be the 35th annual National Day of Prayer. Liberty Counsel representatives are attending several of the events this week in Washington D.C. There are more than 35,000 organized events on Thursday, and several million people are expected to participate in small towns, cities, and state capitals across America.

It began at Sunday at 6:00 p.m. with the reading of Genesis 1:1 and for the next 90 continuous hours, every word of the Bible is read aloud without commentary. It culminates at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, with the reading of the final chapter of the book of Revelation.

Members of the Church of God Doctrine and Polity (D&P) Committee have released a paper entitled, “Speaking in Tongues: The Initial Evidence of Holy Spirit Baptism.”

From Assembly bills that are trying to silence the voice of truth to legislation that limits parental rights and seeks to promote perverted sex education, we are at the crossroads: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Isa. 5:20a).

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has urged the country’s president to step down in the wake of a massacre at a church last week.

Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko and his team of former street children from Mariupol Ukraine have a big vision. A world without orphans. In 2011, they began a ride across the former Soviet Union to dispel myths preventing families from adopting children who needed families. This started a movement to go global, and since that first ride, they have crossed Europe and Asia and have seen over 200 children be placed into forever families! They only lack North America to complete this journey around the world.

For the sixth year in a row, Australia is calling the nations of the world to join with them to pray and fast for four days for the United States of America, from 30 April – 3 May 2018.

In 2009, well-known magician and outspoken atheist Penn Jillette made a YouTube clip about a businessman who gave him a Bible, praising the man’s evangelistic effort. It was so remarkable that several prominent ministries such as Focus on the Family and Answers in Genesis wrote about it. According to the Baptist Press, on the clip the famous atheist spoke about a man who approached him after a performance: