With each New Year comes new rules, new regulations and new contribution limits for local church congregations and ministers. The Church of God Benefits Board, the denomination’s administrator of the Ministers’ Retirement Plan and the Church Loan Fund, Inc., offer free educational manuals, which have been updated to take into consideration all relevant changes for 2019.

In an open letter to the president, national leaders, joined by other leaders in the prolife movement, urge the commander in chief to declare that abortion of human babies is a national crisis. They are urging the people of America to join in advancing this message.

GFA (Gospel for Asia, www.gfa.org) has issued an urgent prayer appeal on behalf of one of its field-partner workers who was abducted at gunpoint in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

There are around 500,000 South Sudanese refugees in Uganda who have fled from war and famine. Dispersed throughout several camps are Christians, Muslims, and people who normally would not be living in close proximity. Among them are South Sudan Church of God leaders and pastors.

For many who feel they go one step forward in the Lord and then two steps backward, be encouraged. I sense the Lord saying, “I count the one foot forward and two steps backward as forward progress.”

The Church didn’t begin as a political or social movement, or even as a new religion. Rather, it began in the miracle-working, compassionate power of Jesus Christ. This is spiritual power—God’s power—to change the lives of human beings, the power to heal sickness and disease. In his new book, The Power of Christ in YOUR Life, Warren R. Angel, a longtime minister, says Christ’s power is real and still working today through the lives of believers because God loves all people everywhere.

Church of God General Overseer Dr. Tim Hill is featured on the cover of the Winter 2019 issue of Charisma Leader (formerly Ministry Today). The article reflects the title of Hill’s most recent book, Life at the Speed of Favor, which was just released by Charisma.

When I first became a Christian back in 1970, lots of people were talking about the return of Jesus Christ. The top-selling book of that entire decade was The Late Great Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsey, which spoke in depth about Bible prophecy and the signs of the times.

Christian broadcaster FEBC (Far East Broadcasting Company, www.febc.org) has launched a year-long initiative to distribute a record number of its free “missionary radios” to unreached people groups, most of whom have never heard the name of Jesus.