Tractor-trailer rigs roared overhead. Cigarette smoke wafted in the air as a praise band played drums and electric guitars on a stage set up amid tall concrete columns. On the Sunday (Nov. 18) before Thanksgiving, poor people riding bicycles and pushing old grocery carts lined up—as they do every week—to eat and worship God underneath Interstate 35.
A soft-spoken Baptist minister was arrested in Oakland, California, in 2009 and thrown in jail for holding up a sign outside an abortion clinic that read “God loves you and your baby. Let us help you.” Walter B. Hoye II sat in jail because he stood peacefully outside the Family Planning Specialists abortion clinic offering women another option. BLACK AND PRO-LIFE IN AMERICA tells Hoye’s incredible story of not only sharing the love of Jesus on a sidewalk outside an abortion clinic, and then in jail itself, but how his pro-life beliefs shunned him from the black community.
The Church of God Department of Hispanic Educational Ministries (HEM) in the United States and Canada, or its legal acronym USA HEM, is the unified ecosystem of biblical, ministerial, and theological education of the Church of God for all its constituents in the aforementioned countries.
I traveled to Israel more than 20 years ago. But this month, my wife and I took a 13-day trip there with a group of American friends. I’d already seen the typical tourist sites in Jerusalem, and honestly, I was not looking forward to standing in long lines to see Jesus’ tomb. (Sometimes the Holy Land can feel like a religious version of Disney World—especially on crowded days.)
The World Premiere for GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS will start on Friday, November 30, 2018. The public and news organizations are invited to screen the 132-minute documentary at the premiere site at www.Good-Guys.us/premiere from 8PM – 3AM Eastern (5PM – 12 Midnight Pacific).
Regional superintendent for the Church of God of Eastern Europe and the CIS and president of CIS/ETS Moscow, Tom Rosson, has received an extra appointment—interim vice-president of the European Theological Seminary in Germany.
