Giants fans flocked to downtown San Francisco Friday. They converged to celebrate their team’s third Major League Baseball World Series title in five years, an unlikely championship run that was capped by a storybook 3-2 game-seven win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday. Adorned in orange and black (not for Halloween but because those are the Giants’ colors), the crowd cheered series MVP Madison Bumgarner, slugger Pablo Sandoval, Wednesday’s winning pitcher, Jeremy Affeldt, and the entire team.

Over the course of the past several months, Operation Compassion has been in discussion with many Church of God and governmental leaders in Mexico and Central America about launching a network involving multiple non-profit agencies, country presidents, city mayors, and approximately 6,000 churches. This network will serve more than one million orphaned and underserved children living in the region.

Cleveland, TN–Sixty pastors and church leaders from Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky were the first U.S. personnel to get training recently from two South African pastors to prepare them for participation in the African Firewall initiative. The meeting took place at the North Cleveland Church of God.

I desire to reach people of every persuasion…liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, churched and unchurched…with the message of God’s love extended to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. I avoid speaking out on political issues because God’s love extends to people of every political persuasion. But there are times when a political issue is also a moral and spiritual issue. And I am compelled to take a stand.

Kerry and Chris Shook, New York Times best-selling authors and pastors at Woodlands Church in Houston, Texas, are challenging church leaders across the United States to schedule a National Be the Message Sunday, during which they will shorten their services and sermons to pack meals for people in Ebola-stricken countries.

The pro-life amendment to the state constitution, called a “modest” proposal by some observers, would allow the Tennessee State Legislature to consider laws regulating abortion within the state—legislative action currently barred by a decision of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Join with Church of God Prayer Ministries in this collaborative effort with Church of God World Missions, to intercede for unreached peoples of the world.

School Board members are waiting to learn whether or not prayer will be permitted in monthly meetings.

Trinity Grace Press announces the forthcoming release of “Failing at Fatherhood: a book for the imperfect father” by Jack Barr of King, North Carolina. The release is scheduled for November 10th.