Faith News Network

Recently, Crossroads International Church and the European Theological Seminary, associated with the Church of God, helped the German Youth Board host the Wake Up Youth Conference.

International Youth and Discipleship, along with Pathway Press, announces the 2011 winner of the annual Teacher of the Year award.

Sunday, February 12, 2012, the Church of God will mark a special emphasis on black ministries awareness in conjunction with Black History Month.

For the past 10 years, Operation Compassion, an independent benevolent organization with ties to the Church of God, has been working on a plan to help feed hungry families and help provide them an income at the same time.

A Church of God pastor from Florida is making a 540-mile bike ride across three southeast Asian countries to raise money and awareness for poverty in the region.

People for Care and Learning (PCL), an independent, benevolent organization with origins in the Church of God, has announced a highly ambitious project to build an entire city in the southeast Asian country of Cambodia.

Church of God missionaries Tom and Margaret Tioaquen

 report of surviving a typhoon in the Philippines last month.

Following the tornado outbreak earlier this week in Alabama, Operation Compassion is sending multiple semi-trucks loaded with disaster relief supplies to the Trussville, Clay and Pinson areas.

What educational institution in the Church of God boasts 30,000 students?

A Guatemalan Church of God pastor was murdered a few days ago while on his way to a territorial ministers meeting, apparently by drug traffickers known as “The Zetas,” who control the area near the border with Mexico.

In a day when conferences are being discontinued, the annual FOCUS Children’s Ministries Leadership Conference celebrates the 18th year of continued training.

For more than 50 years the Forward in Faith radio broadcast has been a signature program of the Church of God. Since the late 1940’s, Forward in Faith has blessed hundreds of thousands through the weekly program aired in cities across the United States.

Since its inception, Lee University has required its students to attend on-campus chapel services as part of the overall student experience at the Church of God school. Through the years the basic format of weekly chapel services has remained unchanged, but to keep up with current worship trends across generational lines, Lee University conducts a Sunday night alternative to the traditional chapel, called “U-Church.”

Church of God missionaries Dan and Rose Smith share their experiences of giving at Christmas.

Church of God World Missions has produced a video which outlines the continued - and sometimes urgent - need to support our missionaries.

January 11, 2012–A celebration was held today in recognition of Rev. Charles Hollifield, who retired last month after 44 years of service with the Church of God International Offices.

Church of God General Overseer Dr. Raymond Culpepper will address prayer leaders and pastors at the Praying Church conference. The dates are March 15-16, at the Church at Liberty Square in Cartersville, Georgia.

Of the many areas of ministry in your church, what area is often the most overlooked and under-nourished…. Young Adults. This group has trouble finding a place of ministry, service, and value in almost every congregation. Need some help with ministering to Young Adults? Church of God Youth and Discipleship may have what you have been looking for.

Cleveland, TN– A dedicated Web link for the 2012 Church of God General Assembly will be active on the Church of God Web site starting Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12 noon EST.

David Vega, a Church of God pastor in Miami was the catalyst for a prayer gathering that drew 20,000 to a prayer celebration, despite the threat of rain. Thousands gathered to pray in the under-churched, cosmopolitan city, ripe with Santería - the syncretism of Christianity with elements of African and Caribbean witchcraft.