Each day around the world, children are exposed to numerous diseases because they are walking, running and playing barefooted. It only takes one scrape or cut to allow bacteria to enter the bloodstream creating a perfect storm of ill health among the most vulnerable -children.

Some have declared that Alabama is on “high alert” because of Operation Save America coming to Montgomery. No person has anything to fear from gentle Christians, moms, dads, and children who follow the “Prince of Peace” and seek to be true peace makers. We condemn all violence and sign a pledge against it. We seek to overcome evil by doing good. Sadly, the greatest violence is what is happening in the womb against innocent children made in the image of God. God designed the womb to be the safest place for a developing child to flourish. Since Roe vs. Wade, however, many mother’s wombs have become tombs instead.

I often ask, “How many can say like Jeremiah, ‘His word was in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not’ (20:9)?”

When Lifetime rolled out Preach, a new docuseries, in June, I was more than a little skeptical. Core Media Group produced the series, which followed four women who call themselves prophetesses.

Church of God World Missions Director Tim Hill and Assistant Director John Childers are happy to announce another ‘Year of the Missionary’ disbursement to Church of God Career Missionaries.

This fall, North Park University’s School of Business and Nonprofit Management will offer an online seven-week graduate course in collaboration with Christianity Today’s Church Law & Tax Team. The class is two graduate credit hours and will start this fall, lasting seven weeks. Topics are designed specifically for the professional development of church leaders and church business administrators and will include:
• volunteer management
• finances
• fundraising
• strategic planning
• risk management
• government regulations
• legal and tax issues
• pastoral/staff compensation and benefits
• servant leadership

iDisciple and Rick Warren Ministries have partnered to launch “Daily Hope with Rick Warren” to further the mission of bringing a message of hope through the scriptures that addresses our greatest needs — to learn, love and live the Word in all of life’s circumstances.

Every Christ-follower can have a deeper and more abiding relationship with God, according to a new television series called “The Presence.”

Church of God Women’s Discipleship is gearing up for the first international Church of God women’s conference in six years. Infusion…Energize Your Soul, will be held October 2-4, 2015 in Atlanta.