While Easter service for Catholics and some Christians take place at the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem, services for Protestants are held at the Garden Tomb, the place revered by many as the site where Jesus died and rose from the dead.

Tens of thousands of churches, and literally tens of millions of Christians in the U.S., have a committed belief in the importance of standing with Israel and blessing the Jewish people.

MIDDLE EAST — Thank God for all those who have traveled with me from year to year to minister to those in a very difficult part of the world.

Churches of God in the country continue to struggle to recover in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake earlier this year.

Howard Dayton, Cofounder of Crown Financial Ministries announces the formation of a new financial ministry. Compass–Finances God’s Way (www.compass1.org) was launched earlier this month.

Enoch Joel, my son, is a four year old World Missions donor. He recognizes the missionary we support, missionaries to South America – Rick and Janice Waldrop, by the magnet on our refrigerator. He calls them “Missionberries.”

Tulsa, OK – The 50th anniversary of Dennis Bennett’s announcement of his Charismatic experience to his Episcopal congregation in Van Nuys, California, believed to be the initiation point for the Charismatic movement, is April 3, 2010.

POLAND — National Bishop Wojtek Wloch shares, “Our goal as the Church of God in Poland is to become not just another registered church, but a strong church planting movement reaching the lost throughout the country.”

A recent survey finds that pastors still place a high value on seminary training.