Franchise opportunities with a spiritual mission have been rare, if not non-existent up until now. But a groundbreaking franchise offering is now available for the person who yearns to combine a passion for their faith with an entrepreneurial endeavor.
The Five Love Languages, Heaven Is for Real for Kids and Real Marriage are among the No. 1 titles on the Jan. 22 New York Times best-seller lists for sales the week ending Jan. 7.
Rich Wilkerson has 2020 Vision—the name of his goal to reach 100,000 souls for Christ before 2020 by planting satellite campuses of Trinity Church across South Florida.
The 2012 Church & Clergy Tax Guide by nonprofit tax expert, Richard Hammar, J.D., LL.M., CPA, releases this month.
Former NFL player and current pastor Derwin Gray spoke in Monday’s convocation at Liberty University about “God’s dream” to see salvation for the world and unity in the church amongst different nationalities and races.
“The 24th Annual Assembly of the Church of God has been recorded on the pages of history as the greatest and best in the history of the church. It is in the past, but its memories and influence will never end.” –Nora Chambers
The Ohio Christian Alliance commends Congressional members serving on the House Committee on Natural Resources, who supported H.R. 2070, The WWII Memorial Prayer Act of 2011.
Crossroad Bible Institute (CBI) announces the opening of new satellite campuses in South Africa and Guatemala.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday afternoon delayed its final decision on who would take control of the Crystal Cathedral campus. The delay came after Chapman University upped the ante with a new bid on the property.
A recent study conducted by the Barna Group provides explanations as to why young American Christians are leaving the church. Reasons include a general idea that the church is overprotective, and that Christianity is too exclusive.
Church of God in Christ’s presiding bishop, Charles Blake, instated Charles Patterson Sr. this fall to pastor historic Pentecostal Temple Institutional Church.
This fall Charles Patterson Sr. took over the reigns of historic Pentecostal Temple Institutional Church after his father, the late J.O. Patterson Jr. passed away this summer. The 34-year-old has already hit the ground running and has seen attendance double since he began pastoring the Memphis, Tenn., church.
Bethany and Matthew Sytsema’s newborn baby has yet to understand the meaning of “home sweet home.” That is because the Sytsema family along with hundreds of other Manville, NJ households still do not have homes to live in since the carnage brought by the recent Hurricane Irene. The entire Lost Valley section of the 2.5 square mile township in Somerset County was completely flooded by the recent natural weather disaster.
Support groups exist for people struggling with all sorts of things—from mainstream issues like divorce and cancer to offbeat items like caffeine and hoarding—but many are shocked by a new community created by atheists.
The dust has settled, so to speak, on See You at the Pole (SYATP). Millions of students gathered at their schools’ flagpole to pray—including 25 students from the Illinois School of the Visually Impaired (ISVI), in Jacksonville, Ill.
Freedom From Chains launched a website (www.FreedomFromChains.org) to help orphans, widows, and the poor. The website highlights orphan sponsorship, native missionary sponsorship, and compassion ministries in the 1040 window.
On October 1, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona, the memberships of CrossGlobal Link (formerly IFMA) and The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA) agreed to merge, forming a body representative of 35,000 evangelical missionaries deployed in every country by more than 190 agencies and churches.
Several weekends a month the Rev. Eric Foley, co-founder of Seoul USA and sought-after expert on North Korean underground Christianity, speaks at conferences about persecuted Christians. The main question audiences ask: How can we pray for the North Korean underground church?
The city of Portsmouth, Va. has received nearly $50 million in HOPE VI federal grants to redevelop a blighted community and create affordable home ownership opportunities for its citizens.
The film Divided, a documentary on the problems of segregated youth ministry has been thrust into the national media, according to Scott Brown, Director of the National Center of Family-Integrated Churches (NCFIC).
Churches on this year’s Outreach 100 lists of the Largest and Fastest-Growing Churches in America are pursuing many of the same growth strategies and values, including worship locations at multiple sites, breaking into smaller groups throughout the week, and serving their local communities. The lists appear in Outreach magazine’s 2011 Outreach 100 Special Issue, published Sept. 15, 2011.
